K-12

Congratulations to the 2013 winners and thank you all for participating. Happy DNA Day! Over 6,000 essays were written for this year’s contest, and ASHG received record-breaking entries from teachers in 47 states and 15 foreign countries, including Iran, Egypt, Afghanistan, Lithuania, and Nigeria. Asking students to discuss the impacts of the discovery of the... Read More

Congratulations to the 2012 winners and thank you all for participating. Happy DNA Day! Over 6,000 essays were written for this year’s contest, and ASHG received record-breaking entries from teachers in 47 states and 15 foreign countries, including Iran, Egypt, Afghanistan, Lithuania, and Nigeria. Asking students to discuss the impacts of the discovery of the... Read More

ASHG supports the teaching of evolution in public schools, and is disappointed by Tennessee’s enactment of a bill that weakens K-12 science instruction. House Bill 38, which became law in April 2012, undermined the teaching of evolution and several other scientific topics that form the basis of public scientific literacy. Related: ASHG Statement on Tennessee... Read More

PRESS RELEASE Media Contact: ASHG Press Office press@ashg.org 301-634-7307 Most States Fail to Keep Pace with Modern Genetics in Their Science Curricula BETHESDA, MD – September 1, 2011 – A new study by the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), the country’s leading genetics scientific society, found that more than 85 percent of states have... Read More

PRESS RELEASE Tuesday, August 16, 2011 Media Contact: ASHG Press Office 301-634-7346 press@ashg.org ASHG GERP Grant Award Will Provide Funding to Produce Digital Version of an Educational Game on Genetics Ethics BETHESDA, MD – August 16, 2011 – Maurice Godfrey, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical... Read More