Nov 2018

1. Join us for the next webinar in the fall InTeGrate Series: Supporting All Students Through Active Learning

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   29 Nov 2018

   2:18 pm

   Elia Crisucci

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   Join us for the next webinar in the fall InTeGrate Series: Supporting All Students Through Active Learning Friday, December 7, 2018 11:00 am PT | 12:00 pm MT | 1:00 pm CT | 2:00 pm ET Learn more and register here. Presenters: Kaatje Kraft (Whatcom Community College), Catherine Riihimaki...

2. Reflections on the QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop - a future faculty perspective (final post in the series).

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   21 Nov 2018

   3:48 pm

   Elia Crisucci

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   Four highly motivated future faculty volunteers attended the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer workshop.  Over the past few months, they have been sharing their experience with the QUBES Community in a series of blog posts (see posts from Lillian Senn, Mark Slabodnick, and Jenny Hazlehurst)....

3. Serenity Now! FMN - Keep calm and do science with real data in the classroom

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   15 Nov 2018

   5:30 pm

   Drew LaMar

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   Serenity Now! Keep calm and do science with real data in the classroom QUBES Spring 2019 FMN Are you interested in developing student’s data science skills in your biology course? Apply now to join us for a Spring 2019 Serenity Now! QUBES Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN). Participants...

4. Bring Bioinformatics to Your Biology Classroom- A Spring 2019 NIBLSE Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN)

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   15 Nov 2018

   4:49 pm

   Deborah Rook

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   Bring Bioinformatics to Your Biology Classroom  Using bioinformatics strategies to solve biology problems in introductory courses If you are a biologist, you and your students need bioinformatics!  We can help you get what you need with relatively little pain. This faculty mentoring...

5. Make Teaching with R in Undergraduate Biology Less Excruciating (Make TRUBLE)

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   15 Nov 2018

   8:37 am

   Nicole Chodkowski

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   This Faculty Mentoring Network is intended for undergraduate biology instructors with prior R programming experience who are interested in learning ways to teach with R effectively to students with little to no programming experience. Participants will focus on developing, implementing, and...

6. Biology Students Math Attitudes and Anxiety Program (BIOMAAP): a QUBES Faculty Mentoring Network

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   15 Nov 2018

   8:36 am

   Nicole Chodkowski

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   Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education Synthesis (QUBES) is pleased to offer a unique networking and professional development opportunity from January– June 2019 for faculty interested in alleviating math anxiety in undergraduate biology students. Quantitative skills are essential for...

7. R for DBER FMN

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   15 Nov 2018

   8:30 am

   Nicole Chodkowski

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   Are you interested in learning R to be able to apply it to your education-based research? Apply now to join us for the Spring 2019 QUBES Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN).   Participants in this FMN will focus on learning how to use R, including the basics of how to get started in R,...

8. NEON Data Education Fellows Faculty Mentoring Network- Spring 2019

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   15 Nov 2018

   8:28 am

   Nicole Chodkowski

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   The National Ecological Observatory Network (https://www.neonscience.org/) and the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis project (QUBES) are pleased to offer networking and professional development opportunities through this Faculty Mentoring Network for faculty interested in...

9. ESA Data Explorers FMN

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   13 Nov 2018

   10:59 pm

   Nicole Chodkowski

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   This Spring 2019, the Ecological Society of America (ESA; esa.org) and Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis project (QUBES; qubeshub.org) are pleased to offer a unique networking and professional development opportunity.   Are you a community college or lower-division...

10. Encourage a Rising Early-Career Scientist to apply to the ASM Young Ambassador Program

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    13 Nov 2018

    5:37 pm

    Elia Crisucci

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    As a leader in your field, The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is looking to you for recommendation for early-career scientists to join the US Young Ambassador program. Since you work directly with some outstanding early-career scientists, we need your recommendation today, to ensure...

11. Make the Case: Using Case Studies to Increase Quantitative Biology Skills (Spring 2019 FMN)

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    13 Nov 2018

    11:09 am

    Deborah Rook

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    Are you interested in adopting case studies that address quantitative reasoning skills? Apply now to join us for the Make the Case: Using Case Studies to Increase Quantitative Biology Skills Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN).   Biology is undergoing a data revolution. Advances in field,...

12. NSF Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE) program

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    12 Nov 2018

    5:10 pm

    Elia Crisucci

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    Message from Mark Pauley, a program director for the Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE) program (NSF 18-510) at the National Science Foundation.  Briefly, the RCN-UBE program supports the formation of networks of educators, researchers, and other...