Events: 2015/01
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- 01 Jan 2015
- 1:00 pm EST
- to 01 Jan 2015
- 1:01 pm EST
Dr. Megan Faliero Receives NABT Biotech Award
Category: In the News
Introducing students to the numerous career pathways available in biology is always a challenge. This was certainly true for Dr. Megan Faliero, who found her science-loving AP and honors students turning almost exclusively to pre-med and pre-vet programs in college. However, after attending a...
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- 04 Jan 2015
- 12:30 am EST
- to 07 Jan 2015
- 11:00 pm EST
Category: Meeting
QUBES Related Events: Title: QUBES: Bringing improved quantitative education to more undergraduates and faculty Speaker: DorothyBelle Poli Date & Time: Wednesday, January 7, 9:30 am Website: https://qubeshub.hubzero.org/events/details/16 Title: Morphospaces, Adaptive and Epigenetic...
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- 07 Jan 2015
- 12:00 am EST
- to 07 Jan 2015
- 2:30 am EST
TALX Teaching and Learning Workshop
Category: Workshop
The TALX (Teaching and Learning: X) workshop series provides an annual forum for current and future faculty to engage in hands-on activities and share innovation. As part of a “Quantitative Biology” educational theme for the WPB meeting, this year’s TALX is an extension of the symposium “Leading...
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- 07 Jan 2015
- 1:30 am EST
- to 07 Jan 2015
- 2:30 am EST
Category: Workshop
Quantitative biology is a focus area for educational reform specifically mentioned in the national document “Vision & Change”. Modern, real-world science requires biologists to be fluent in mathematical reasoning and skills. As a way to help connect the vast world of biologists to...
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- 07 Jan 2015
- 2:30 pm EST
- to 07 Jan 2015
- 2:45 pm EST
Category: Meeting
Vision and Change stressed the importance of quantitative skills for the future of science in the United States. In response to this plea, biologists and mathematicians came together to discuss quantitative education, and QUBES (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis) was...
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- 07 Jan 2015
- 8:45 pm EST
- to 07 Jan 2015
- 9:45 pm EST
Category: Meeting
Morphospaces, Adaptive and Epigenetic Landscapes, Phylogenetic Networks, and n-Dimensional Niches are imaginary worlds constructed upon the basis of theoretical models or the mathematical analysis of multivariate data. Their power often lies not only in aesthetics and the improvement of our...
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- 14 Jan 2015
- 1:00 pm EST
- to 14 Jan 2015
- 10:00 pm EST
Category: In the News
Intel to Increase Workforce Diversity. Intel has announced that it will spend $300 million over the next three years in efforts to increase the diversity of its workforce. Funds will go toward engineering scholarships and support for historically black colleges and universities. Intel's goal is...
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- 17 Jan 2015
- 1:00 pm EST
- to 17 Jan 2015
- 10:00 pm EST
Category: Workshop
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- 17 Jan 2015
- 1:00 pm EST
- to 06 Mar 2015
- 5:00 am EST
American Fisheries Society Internship Opportunity for HS Students
Category: General
The American Fisheries Society (AFS) is now accepting applications for its high school internship program in fisheries science, the Hutton Junior Fisheries Biology Program. The Hutton Program is an internship and mentoring program that provides high school juniors and seniors exciting, hands-on...
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- 19 Jan 2015
- 1:00 pm EST
- to 30 Apr 2015
- 9:00 pm EDT
Radford University Faculty Mentoring Network
Category: Faculty Mentoring Network
This group is for faculty at Radford University that participated in a pilot QUBES faculty mentoring network. The purposes of the network are two-fold: to find ways in a variety of courses (introductory biology, math for biologists, stats for biologists) to improve our instruction of...