![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090506061013im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field UW Tackles Neglected Realm of Training for Science Professors
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November 27, 2008
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U.S. science and engineering students emerge from graduate school exquisitely trained to carry out research. Yet when it comes to the other major activity they'll engage in as professors--teaching--they're usually left to their own devices. That's now beginning to change, thanks to work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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