Dr. Mike Wolyniak has joined a pair of national committees charged with developing ways that teachers from all varieties of educational institutions can share their resources and innovations for teaching biology and develop coursework tailored to their specific needs.  The first is called CourseSource and is a joint effort between the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the biological professional societies, including the American Society for Cell Biology and the Genetics Society of America, to develop a series of learning objectives that can be built into courses that rely less on lectures and more on discussion and activities.  The second initiative is called CUREnet and focuses on CURES, or Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences.  This site, when complete, will allow teachers with research-based classroom projects to network with others and build collaborations to make research experiences more accessible to undergraduates.  Both sites will come online later in the year and will rely on the experiences of institutions like Hampden-Sydney that have been actively experimenting with the ideas of incorporating research-like experiences into coursework.