2016

1. How machine learning taught us that your grade school teacher was right when he/she said "SIT STILL!"....

   Entry #350

   17 Nov 2016

   9:10 am

   Jeremy M Wojdak

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   Repost: Check out this fascinating article (from Alan Brown in Nautilus) about machine learning, and what it is teaching us about how humans learn.  Teaching Me Softly Machine learning is teaching us the secret to teaching.

2. Mathematical/Statistical ecology postdoctoral position

   Entry #346

   31 Oct 2016

   12:42 pm

   Jeremy M Wojdak

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   Postdoctoral position in quantitative/community ecology   Description: We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher in quantitative ecology to support a collaborative project involving investigators Mike McCoy at East Carolina University (http://mikemccoylab.weebly.com/), James...

3. Spotlight on the InTeGrate Faculty Mentoring Network: “InTeGrate-ing” geoscience concepts in biology

   Entry #322

   22 Aug 2016

   4:22 pm

   Alison N Hale

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   InTeGrate is an NSF-funded program that “supports the teaching of geoscience in the context of societal issues, both within geoscience courses and across the undergraduate curriculum.” To help biology faculty use these materials, InTeGrate partnered with QUBES to run a faculty...

4. repost - blog about iDigBio bringing the biodiversity to the National Academies Summer Institute on Quantitative Biology

   Entry #312

   11 Jul 2016

   5:08 pm

   Alison N Hale

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   Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) recently participated in the 2016 National Academies Special Topics Summer Institute on Quantitative Biology. Members of the iDigBio team were super productive and used the workshop to their full advantage! The team recruited participants for their...

5. Meeting Report: Math, Biology, and Big Data

   Entry #304

   06 Jun 2016

   10:02 am

   Madison J. Newton

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   The Spring Conference of the Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America (NES/MAA) was held June 3-4 at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. The Mathematical Association of America is a Partner of QUBES and its Special Interest Group, BIO SIGMAA, was one of our...

6. Solving for X and other mathematical mysteries

   Entry #292

   25 Apr 2016

   1:20 pm

   Kristin Jenkins

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   Why do we solve for "x"?  Terry Moore knows, and tells us in this collection of short excerpts of TED talks, and interviews with the speakers all about MATH on the NPR TED Radio Hour!  Including... How much potential energy did Yoda expend raising Luke's x-wing out...

7. repost- Blog about "education research denialism" among STEM faculty

   Entry #283

   05 Apr 2016

   11:46 am

   Jeremy M Wojdak

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   Terry McGlynn, author of the blog Small Pond Science, recently posted a provocative essay about STEM faculty who deny the empirical, scientific evidence found via educational research, and likens that mindset (and the motivations that produce it) to that employed by climate change deniers,...

8. Spotlight on the DryadLab Faculty Mentoring Network

   Entry #278

   18 Mar 2016

   11:37 am

   Alison N Hale

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   Dryadlab is a collection of free, openly-licensed, high quality educational modules designed to engage students in scientific inquiry using real data. DryadLab is a project of the Dryad Digital Repository, which makes a wide variety of research data underlying scientific and medical...

9. Math for everyone?

   Entry #275

   03 Mar 2016

   1:29 pm

   Kristin Jenkins

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   Andrew Hacker has a new book out, "The Math Myth And Other STEM Delusions" which is provoking conversation.  His argument is that the basic goal for math education should be quantitative literacy (or numeracy) rather than more formal mastery of algebra and beyond....

10. Biology Scholars - Teaching with Data. Announcing Two New Faculty Mentoring Networks

    Entry #273

    28 Feb 2016

    8:12 pm

    Sam S Donovan

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    We are pleased to announce that QUBES is partnering with the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Biology Scholars to offer a new hybrid program called Biology Scholars - Teaching with Data.  Over the last 10 years more than 270 faculty have participated in the highly effective ASM...

11. An Introduction to Faculty Mentoring Networks

    Entry #266

    18 Feb 2016

    3:52 pm

    Sam S Donovan

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    A Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN) is a group of faculty who work together to learn about and implement some quantitative biology teaching materials or approach. Here are a couple of quick examples: The InTeGrate FMN is a group of nine faculty who are meeting online during the Spring...

12. Hmmmm, something seems different...

    Entry #235

    15 Jan 2016

    12:00 am

    Drew LaMar

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    Welcome to 2.0!  You might be saying "Wait, didn't QUBES 1.0 just launch in October??"  Well, yes, we did, but this isn't QUBES 2.0 - it's HubZero 2.0.  HubZero is the content management system (CMS) underlying QUBES Hub, and is a "powerful, open source...