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...

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...

2016 Summer Solstice Snapshot

Category: General

Project BudBurst is seeking plant observations from across the country during June and July! Celebrate summer and contribute valuable data to a national plant phenology database by observing plants in your community during Project BudBurst's Summer Solstice Snapshot campaign.

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...

Teaching Individual/Agent-based Modeling

Category: Workshop

Applications are being accepted until April 8 The course is designed primarily for college professors and instructors who want to add individual-based modeling to their teaching and research skills. Individual-based (or "agent-based") models (IBMs, ABMs) are a popular new...

2016 Earth Educators' Rendezvous

Category: General

Design your own professional development opportunity at the second annual Earth Educators' Rendezvous in Madison, WI. Events will include workshops, oral and poster sessions, plenary talks, and working groups. Capitalize on experience from your colleagues at a variety of workshops, present...