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• 22 Feb 2015

  1:00 pm EST 

  to 20 May 2015

  4:01 am EDT 

  NSF funding opportunity: BIGDATA program

  Category: General

  NSF Program: Critical Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Foundations and Applications of Big Data Science & Engineering (BIGDATA) Full Proposal Deadline Date: May 20, 2015 Please see http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504767 for details and links to additional...

• 18 May 2015

  1:00 pm EDT 

  to 22 May 2015

  4:00 pm EDT 

  The National Academy of Sciences Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education at the University of Georgia-Athens

  Category: Workshop

  The Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Academies invite college and university faculty and instructional staff to develop teaching skills at five-day workshops to transform the undergraduate classroom. The Summer Institutes on Undergraduate Education model the scientific teaching...

• 28 May 2015

  4:00 pm EDT 

  to 28 May 2015

  9:00 pm EDT 

  Integrating Quantitative Reasoning in Biology Education: Making the Science More Authentic and the Learning More Robust

  Category: Workshop

  Integrating Quantitative Reasoning in Biology Education: Making the Science More Authentic and the Learning More Robust Thursday, May 28 at 10:00 am-12:00 pm and 1:00 pm-3:00 pm Louis Gross, University of Tennessee - Knoxville Sam Donovan, University of Pittsburgh Join us for an...

• 28 May 2015

  5:00 pm EDT 

  to 29 May 2015

  8:00 pm EDT 

  Undergraduate Bioinformatics Information Conference

  Category: Seminar

  Russell Schwartz from Carnegie Mellon University and the International Society for Computational Biology Education Committee is the keynote speaker. Students can attend and present their work. There will be short talks on pedagogical techniques and examples, workshop time to discuss with...

• 29 May 2015

  3:45 pm EDT 

  to 29 May 2015

  5:15 pm EDT 

  Teaching quantitative approaches in biology: What is the need; where do we stand; and, how can we move forward?

  Category: Presentation

  CONCURRENT SESSION Teaching quantitative approaches in biology: What is the need; where do we stand; and, how can we move forward? These talks will address three complementary aspects of the undergraduate quantitative biology education landscape. Dr. Lou Gross will introduce the national...

• 29 May 2015

  8:30 pm EDT 

  to 29 May 2015

  10:00 pm EDT 

  Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) Project

  Category: General

  DISSEMINATION STATION Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) Project Sam Donovan, University of Pittsburgh The Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) Project is an NSF funded effort to promote the use of quantitative approaches across...