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    IQS 2.0: A Modularized Integrated Math and Science Course
    Part of the 2015 SMB Minisymposium: Topics in Biomathematics Education

    Keywords: coursefirst-year

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    Factor Structure Assessment of the Students Support Needs Scale-Augmented for African-American STEM Students
    Poster on the impact of a performance pyramid-based peer-led learning community on course knowledge at a Historically Black University. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute.

    Keywords: modelingSTEM education2021 BIOMEfactor structure

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    Using Online Materials/Videos to Enrich Linear Algebra for Scientists
    Part of the 2015 SMB Minisymposium: Topics in Biomathematics Education

    Keywords: courselinear algebrabiology majors

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    Use of Peerwise and Twitter in Open Pedagogy
    This presentation will demonstrate the use of two open tools (Peerwise and Twitter) to engage students in creating and discussing course content.

    Keywords: twitterOER

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    Open science, open data, open source projects for undergraduate research experiences
    Resource from the 2015 BioQUEST Summer Workshop
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    Genome Hunters: A Quantitative Biology Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE)
    Poster outlining the process of designing, implementing, and assessing a new quantitative biology CURE course series. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute.

    Keywords: quantitative biologycourse-based undergraduate research experienceCURE2021 BIOME

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    HHMI SEA-PHAGES and GENES: Course-based UREs Designed for All
    The HHMI Science Education Alliance (SEA) program supports a community of faculty members and institutions embed research as a fundamental component of early undergraduate science curricula.

    Keywords: course-based research experiences (CUREs)SEA-PHAGES

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    CC-CURE Report Out from the BIOME 2020 Institute
    This resource includes a collection of videos describing some of the outcomes from the Interdisciplinary and Cross Course CURE working group.

    Keywords: course-based undergraduate research experience

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    Comparing Primary and Secondary Forest in a Preserve in Plano Texas: A Forest Ecology Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) for Non-Majors and Lower-Level Majors
    An activity that can be conducted as an online or field exercise in which students develop and test their hypotheses about how forest stand characteristics differ between two forest types.

    Keywords: forest ecologyecologycourse-based undergraduate research experienceUsing Excel

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    Using Online Materials/Videos to Enrich Linear Algebra for Scientists
    Abstract for a talk given on an experiment using MIT’s open courseware linear algebra videos to teach a linear algebra course without prerequisites that targeted biology majors.

    Keywords: videoslinear algebraopen coursewareCamtasia

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    Adapting InTeGrate Materials for Online Courses
    As part of my second mentoring of the InTeGrate FMN for QUBES, I chose to focus on my conversion of several resources to an online course format.
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    Inclusive STEM Teaching Project Working Group- BIOME 2022
    After the BIOME 2022, a group got together to take the Inclusive STEM Teaching Project course and have weekly discussions during the course.

    Keywords: Inclusive teachingBIOME 2022

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    Ethics in Synthetic Biology
    This collection of five activities provide students with an introduction to thinking about ethical concerns in human genome synthesis, gene editing, metabolic engineering, and synthetic genomes.

    Keywords: biostatisticsstatistical analysisavian malariaSummer Workshop 2018

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    Scientist Spotlights: Integrating Themes of Diversity and Inclusion with Course Content
    The Scientist Spotlights Initiative empowers middle/high school, college, and university science educators to implement inclusive curricula that help ALL students see themselves in science.

    Keywords: communitydiversityinclusivity

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    Understanding COVID-19 Biology to Design a Vaccine - Ethics supplement
    The adaptation to Understanding COVID-19 Biology to Design a Vaccine entails two ethics supplements. The first supplement addresses the use of off-label drugs in the pandemic (or other situation)....

    Keywords: bioethicsBLASTprotein structure modelingmolecular visualization and analysisethicsCOVID19PDB

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    Modeling the lac Operon to Understand the Regulation of Gene Expression in Prokaryotes
    This resource is a recitation activity designed for an introductory biology course in which students explore a lac operon simulation (https://qubeshub.org/resources/phetlacoperon).

    Keywords: simulationLac Operon

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    Should we synthesize a human genome?
    Two articles introducing the Human Genome Project-Write and asking questions about the ethics of the project.

    Keywords: biostatisticsstatistical analysisavian malariaSummer Workshop 2018

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    Calling Bullshit DCS 105 Bates College Data Visualization Activity Slides
    This is a slide deck containing all in-class data visualization activity slides for the course DCS 105 - Calling Bullshit at Bates College.

    Keywords: datadata visualizationhands-onbatescalling bullDCS 105

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    Bird watching: An easy way to get students collecting real biological data
    Poster on ways to implement citizen science-based bird watching into education. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute.

    Keywords: citizen sciencebirdsquantitative analysisdata collection2021 BIOMEbird watching

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    CUREnet: The Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience Network
    CUREnet connects people, programs, and networks working to make undergraduate research more accessible.

    Keywords: undergraduate researchcourse-based undergraduate research experienceCUREnet

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