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

Entry #312: 11 Jul 2016; 5:08 pm; 0 comments

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 upcoming Faculty Mentoring Network on QUBES Hub, explored how the statistical software package R could be used to analyze museum collection data, and even joined a working group to develop a biodiversity case study that incorporates an introduction to basic stats for undergraduates.

Molly Phillips blogged all about iDigBio team's experience - if you want to see what you missed at the Summer Institute, check out the full blog post here.

Above: Day one poster session at the Summer Institute

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Alison N Hale

I received my Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2012 for my work on the disruption of native plant-mycorrhizal mutualisms during allelopathic plant invasion. After completing a research postdoc in 2014, I joined the QUBES team in 2015. As a QUBES postdoc, I facilitated several faculty mentoring networks, mentored a team of undergraduates, taught a variety of classes at the University of Pittsburgh, and played a role in planning assessment work to evaluate the outcomes of QUBES faculty development work. In 2017, I accepted a position as Project Manager of Science and Research at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, where I assisted with the day-to-day management of projects and grants across 10 museum departments.

After an extended maternity leave, my passion for education brought me back to QUBES where I am currently filling in for the Director of Community Engagement, Elia Crisucci (on maternity leave).

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