HHMI Biointeractive Faculty Mentoring Network

Category: Faculty Mentoring Network

BioInteractive offers free, engaging multimedia resources on a variety of science topics. In this group, participants will work in collaborative groups to adapt existing BioInteractive materials that focus on quantitative skills, have rich data sets, and are paired with primary literature for use...

SimBio Faculty Mentoring Network

Category: Faculty Mentoring Network

SimBio invites applications for a Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN) focused on using SimBio’s SimUText Ecology™ as a platform to incorporate more active learning into ecology classrooms. Because students typically complete SimBio chapters before class instructors can focus class time on...

2016 Fall Into Phenology!

Category: General

Celebrate the beauty of autumn by observing plants in your community with our Fall into Phenology campaign. During September and October take a moment and make an observation of plants as the seasons change. Are your plants flowering, fruiting, changing leaf color? Tell us! Participating is easy...

Math attitudes and anxiety in undergraduate Biology students

Category: Faculty Mentoring Network

QUBES is pleased to offer a unique networking and professional development opportunity from September – December 2016 for faculty interested in alleviating math anxiety in undergraduate biology students.  This mentoring network will familiarize faculty with background on how math...

2016 ASM M(icro)OOCs: Improving Microbiology Students' Quantitative Skills

Category: Workshop

The fall 2016 ASM M(icro)OOCs Course is a four-part webinar series, sponsored by ASM and QUBES focuses on increasing quantitative biology in undergraduate education. Each of the four 60-minute sessions will address common issues around teaching quantitative skills and reasoning, ranging from...