Incorporating more quantitative reasoning into introductory biology courses

Category: Faculty Mentoring Network

This faculty mentoring network will provide participants with a strategy to incorporate more quantitative reasoning skills into their introductory bio classroom. We will work together to find ways to increase quantitative skills in your existing curriculum and help your students use these skills...

Grounding your Biology: InTeGrating Geology and Biology

Category: Faculty Mentoring Network

Participants in this faculty mentoring network will adopt data-driven interdisciplinary modules that address sustainability and climate change for their courses. We will work together in an online community and during a one-day kick-off meeting preceding the National Association of Biology...

B2 Scholars: Creating a culture of transformation within the two-year college biology community

Category: Faculty Mentoring Network

B2 Scholars are biologists and biology educators at two-year colleges who demonstrate a strong commitment to advancing their teaching practices by developing their individual scholarship in such areas as teaching, research, grant writing, and assessment. The B2 Scholars also engage with...

Scaling Up – Bringing research data into undergraduate classrooms: a QUBES Faculty Mentoring Network Spring 2016

Category: Faculty Mentoring Network

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) and QUBES are pleased to offer a unique networking and professional development opportunity  from January – May 2016 for faculty interested in bringing research data into undergraduate classrooms. Faculty will implement selected  Teaching Issues in Ecology...

ESA Data Discovery Faculty Mentoring Network

Category: Faculty Mentoring Network

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) and QUBES are pleased to offer a second networking and professional development opportunity from January to May 2016 for faculty interested in bringing research data into undergraduate classrooms.  Faculty will implement selected Teaching Issues in...

DryadLab - Using real data to engage students in scientific inquiry

Category: Faculty Mentoring Network

Join us for an online network that will be focused on testing hands-on, data-driven modules in the undergraduate classroom. Registration:  Closed Contact:  Samantha Swauger

Teaching quantitative biology with agent-based models and NetLogo

Category: Faculty Mentoring Network

This faculty mentoring network will provide participants with a basic introduction to teaching agent-based modeling with NetLogo. The goal is to increase faculty awareness of how NetLogo-based activities can be used to build student understanding of the modeling process and complex biology...

Analyzing Images to learn Mathematics and Statistics (AIMS)

Category: Faculty Mentoring Network

This faculty mentoring network will provide participants with a basic introduction to image analysis and using image analysis and interesting biological contexts to motivate student learning of mathematics and statistics.  Registration: Closed for Spring 2016. Contact: Jeremy Wojdak