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1. New FMN for Life Science Instructors - Application deadline July 30!

   Entry #374

   17 Jul 2017

   2:33 pm

   Carrie Diaz Eaton

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   Announcing a new peer faculty development network for instructors of life science kicking off in August! This QUBES FMN will be completely virtual (no conference attendance required) and absolutely free. This peer development network will work with each other as well as applied...

2. Life Discovery Conference Travel Awards and a new fall 2017 FMN

   Entry #369

   14 Jun 2017

   11:37 am

   Gabriela Hamerlinck

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   The Ecological Society of America and its partners are pleased to announce the Life Discovery Conference Travel Awards of up to about $1,000 are available for faculty to participate in the 4th Life Discovery – Doing Science Education conference (LDC; Oct. 19-21, 2017). The goal of the...

3. New Faculty Mentoring Network Opportunity - Computational Genomics

   Entry #367

   09 Jun 2017

   8:06 am

   Jeremy M Wojdak

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   Calling all QUBES-folk that teach computation, bioinformatics, or genomics! These fields often require students to learn biological concepts, computational concepts, and software all simultaneously, and students often progress at really difference rates.  Using standard didactic...

4. Research at the interface of mathematics and life and environmental science

   Entry #368

   09 Jun 2017

   6:04 am

   Carrie Diaz Eaton

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   In the last couple of weeks, I have been traveling to workshops and conferences, experiencing the landscape of research at the interface of mathematics and life and environmental science. I see the research front moving with much progress - even more so as it synthesizes with other disciplines....

5. New QUBES Research

   Entry #365

   30 May 2017

   12:16 pm

   Gabriela Hamerlinck

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   The Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) project is beginning a research project that may be of interest to you regarding how participation in a unique long-term online model of professional development (PD) impacts the adoption of scholarly approaches to teaching....

6. Using DataCamp to help teach data science in a biostatistics class

   Entry #363

   09 May 2017

   6:32 am

   Drew LaMar

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   A large part of science can be described as the process, through observation and measurement, of extracting information from the world in the form of data.  Even with in-silico models, we construct analytic information through mathematical analysis, or record "measurements" on...

7. What’s this Summer Workshop All About?

   Entry #362

   17 Apr 2017

   1:00 pm

   Kristin Jenkins

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   If you haven’t been to our Summer Workshop, you may be wondering what’s so special about this one.  The Summer Workshop is an annual event to bring together a community of biology faculty for a week of exploring new tools and good pedagogies for teaching biology. This focus on...

8. The importance of mentoring

   Entry #361

   07 Apr 2017

   12:00 am

   Carrie Diaz Eaton

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   Part of my job in teaching is the actual classroom stuff.  But for many of us, that is only a part of our interaction with students. Mentoring is something we may have experienced through our career, but rarely are we formally trained in it. When SREB (Southern Regional Education Board)...

9. A partnership with SIAM and COMAP and a guest post on the BIG Network

   Entry #360

   23 Mar 2017

   1:47 pm

   Carrie Diaz Eaton

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   QUBES has some great news!  We partnering with SIAM, NCTM, COMAP and MAA in their effort to help faculty better teach mathematical modeling, encapsulated here in the GAIMME report (link).  We hope these efforts creating a joint Modeling Hub will help teachers K - 16 feel more...

10. 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.

11. 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...

12. 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...

13. 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...

14. 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...

15. 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...

16. 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,...

17. 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...

18. 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....

19. 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...

20. 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...