The Research Corporation for Science Advancement has funded three new collaborative projects emerging from discussions on reimagining higher education at the 2021 Cottrell Scholar Conference, one of which being Professor Rory Waterman of the University of Vermont. The Cottrell Scholars are nation-wide astronomers, biochemists, chemists, and physicists with more than 500 teacher-scholars in the U.S., Canada, and Germany. The $25,000 award will allow for improvement within undergraduate and graduate-level science education, as well as racial and gender inequities. “When there is promotion within this group, it’s a massive network with great reach.” Said Professor Waterman. “The most immediate and exciting outcome of the project is how we can help promote faculty involvement in initiatives that the scientific societies and identity groups have already started and need.”