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The CONNECT network will advance undergraduate biology education by creating a new community of practice that is committed to the true integration of biology curriculum with entrepreneurship curriculum. While undergraduate biology students may be aware of entrepreneurship as a career option, they are often not formally introduced to or trained in this pathway until graduate school or later. As leaders in academia and industry, CONNECT members will share best practices and leverage existing curricula within both biology and entrepreneurship to deliver an integrated experience at an earlier stage in the education pipeline. By building this network with and for BIPOC women at the undergraduate, faculty, and entrepreneur stages, this incubator proposal is poised to transform the undergraduate biology experience for underserved students across member institutions. The incubator proposal will create leaders in the field of biosciences entrepreneurship, in particular by actively promoting participation of groups underrepresented in biology.

Ways to learn more:

• View CONNECT's introduction slides.
• Check out CONNECT's resource on Entrepreneurs in Biosciences.
• Check out CONNECT's resource on Entrepreneurship Graduate School Programs.
• Check out CONNECT's resource for Undergraduate Biology Educators.

Ways to get involved:

• We held our first CONNECTion event this month and our participants shared valuable perspectives with us. Your feedback is crucial in helping us shape this network for the better. Now we would like to invite you to take the next step and become an implementer in the CONNECT network. By joining our first cohort of implementers and needs assessors, you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact in the field of undergraduate biology education. We have a $1,000 stipend for the first 30 selected undergraduate biology educators that can join us.

If you are interest and want to learn more, join this group or email Katherine Campbell.

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