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NIBLSE: Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education

The long-term goal of this project is to establish bioinformatics as an essential component of undergraduate life sciences curricula nationwide.

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Collaborative Workshop; Minneapolis, MN

Faculty from seven institutions, including two community colleges, two undergraduate colleges, a MS-granting university, and two PhD-granting universities will participate in a workshop to share and develop ideas regarding the use of genome annotation as a tool to involve undergraduate biology students in meaningful research.

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Animated Discussions: Biologists and Visual Artists Foster Learning through Animations

This RCN-UBE project will bring together animation teams to discuss multiple aspects of animation in biological education and to see if there is potential for a large-scale collaborative network.

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VABCN: Visual Analytics in Biology Curriculum Network

This project establishes the Visual Analytics in Biology Curriculum Network (VABCN)--an international network of multidisciplinary researchers, educators and students who are developing approaches for incorporating visual analytics into biology undergraduate education. Visual analytics is defined as the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces.

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Planning a Research Network on Assessing Learning Technologies in Undergraduate Biology Education

This project will plan a research collaboration network to explore and share strategies used in assessing the effectiveness on student learning of technology interfaces between faculty and students in undergraduate biology education.

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Open Science: An education network in Ethnobiology to coordinate the development of a new culture in the undergraduate science classroom

The Botanical Research Institute of Texas will develop an interdisciplinary network of scientists and other professionals to explore the use of emergent web-based technologies to facilitate continual exchange of educational techniques, materials, and experiences in ethnobiology.

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PECOP: Growing a Physiology Education Community of Practice

This incubator project is establishing the Physiology Educators Community of Practice (PECOP) which centers primarily on undergraduate education, but encompasses multiple teaching levels (K-12, grad/professional), including international and novice educators. 

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Biology Teaching Assistant Project (BioTAP 2.0): Advancing Research, Synthesizing Evidence

The project is building a sustainable collaborative network to support, synthesize, and disseminate biology Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Teaching Professional Development (TPD) research results and to advocate for community TPD standards with the potential to increase the effectiveness of GTA TPD nationwide.

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The Case Study and PBL Network

This project supports the development of a Research Coordination Network for Undergraduate Biology Education centered on expanding the use of and knowledge about two effective teaching approaches: case studies and problem based learning (PBL).

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QUBES: An online networking hub for collaboration, discovery, and synthesis in quantitative biology curricula

The purpose of this RCN-UBE incubator project is to create a central online hub for biologists and mathematicians to collaborate to improve students' understanding of quantitative reasoning.

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CUREnet: Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences Network

This project will create a network of people and programs that are creating course-based undergraduate research experiences (CURE) in biology as a means of helping students understand core concepts in biology, develop core scientific competencies, and become active, contributing members of the scientific community.

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Enhancing Data Discovery and Usability for Inquiry in Biology Education

This RCN-UBE project will bring together two communities critical in expanding student access to authentic science experiences: managers of data repositories and education specialists. Representatives from at least 15 organizations will participate in a two-day workshop to discuss strategies for enhancing data discovery and usability, to propose standards for data sharing, and to make recommendations for incorporating authentic data in inquiry-based teaching in biology.

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GCAT-SEEK: The Genome Consortium for Active Undergraduate Research and Teaching Using Next-Generation Sequencing

GCAT-SEEK aims to generate and use massively parallel sequencing data associated with the research interests of network members as the catalyst for producing innovative and broadly disseminated educational modules that offer authentic research experiences to students.

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Northwest Biosciences Consortium (NWBC): Implementation of Vision and Change in the Introductory Biology Curriculum

We are creating a series of learning outcomes and customizable modules that can be incorporated into any first-year or introductory biology sequence that reflects our commitment to scientific literacy for majors and non-majors alike.

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Rocky Mountain Sustainability and Science Network: Enhancing undergraduate student learning of biological concepts

The Rocky Mountain Sustainability and Science Network (RMSSN) will combine real-world careers and biological education using field experiences to address critical issues for the sustainability and ecological integrity of public lands.

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Promoting Concept Driven Teaching Strategies in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology through Concept Assessments

A network will be created to develop, test, and distribute assessment tools specific to the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology. These tools will be used to evaluate prior knowledge of students entering biochemistry and molecular biology classes from various backgrounds.

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iCLUB: Interdisciplinary Communication Laboratory for Undergraduate Biology

A major goal of the network is the participation of this community of faculty, along with research collaborators from other disciplines such as mathematics, in Communication Labs led by experts in biology, and in interdisciplinary communication and communication arts.

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FDN-UB: Faculty Development Network for Undergraduate Biology

This RCN-UBE network project seeks to advance the professional development of undergraduate biology faculty to improve teaching and learning of biology consistent with changes in undergraduate biology education that are called for in the Vision and Change report.

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ACE Bio: Assessment of Competence in Experimental Design in Biology

This RCN-UBE project seeks to create a network of educational specialists (who study how students learn) and scientists (who are active researchers) to develop assessment tools that directly measure what students learn about experimental design in biology through undergraduate research and classroom experiences.

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EREN: Ecological Research as Education Network

EREN Mission

To create a model for collaborative ecological research that generates high-quality, publishable data involving undergraduate students and faculty at primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs).

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