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    ROSE Network - The Research on STEM Education Network: Improving Research Inclusivity through a Grassroots Culture of Scientific Teaching (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    ROSE provides professional development and networking opportunities for CC and HBCU faculty.

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    BioGraphI - Biologists and Graph Interpretation: Professional development for an online curriculum to foster data literacy and value diverse identities (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    Biologists and Graph Interpretation (BioGraphI) is an RCN of faculty who work collaboratively to increase student persistence in biology through improving representation of diverse scientists in...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Simulating Cortical Rotation, Axis Induction, and Experimental Embryology in Amphibian Embryos Using Clay Models
    The study of development requires learners to understand spatially complex concepts like embryo anatomy. Embryo anatomy is dynamic over time, and it is often manipulated by researchers in...

    Keywords: developmentXenopusfertilizationEmbryologyinductionSymmetry breakingOrganizerCortical rotationPatterning

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    The Developmental Origins of Mythology: A Pandemic-Inspired Innovative Developmental Biology Laboratory Exercise
    From an experiential, hands-on perspective, the Developmental Biology Laboratory is easily amenable to a wide range of undergraduate-friendly experiments. Thus, pivoting to a virtual laboratory...

    Keywords: gastrulationaxis formationlimb developmentchimeramidline

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    Using Collaborative Projects to Promote Active Learning of Microbial Skin Diseases and Their Impact on Everyday Lives
    One of the most daunting aspects of introductory clinical microbiology is learning details about a vast number of different microbial diseases that can infect humans. Each of these diseases has...

    Keywords: infectious diseasecollaborationpathogenesisTreatment of diseasesReal-life Microbiology

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    Defining and Understanding Pathogenic Disease: An Engaging Activity that Connects Students' Lived Experiences with their Academic Studies
    Contagious diseases are unavoidable realities of life. Thus, understanding pathogens and their respective diseases is important in many biological subfields including evolution, ecology, health...

    Keywords: infectious diseasePathogenspathogenic disease

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    2017-David_Morin-Oscillations
    So needless to say, an understanding of oscillations is required for an understanding of waves.

    Keywords: dampingfrequency responseresonanceoscillationbeatsunderdampingharmonic oscillatorsover dampingcritical damping

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    2014-Wrona-EtAl-Two-compartment model as a teaching tool for cholesterol homeostasis
    To investigate cholesterol transport in the circulatory system, we have previously developed a two-compartment mathematical model. Here, we show how this model can be used as a teaching tool for...

    Keywords: metabolic syndromecompartment modelcholesterolhigh blood cholesterol

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    2015-Wrona-EtAl-Two-compartment model as a teaching tool for cholesterol homeostasis
    To investigate cholesterol transport in the circulatory system, we have previously developed a two-compartment mathematical model. Here, we show how this model can be used as a teaching tool for...

    Keywords: metabolic syndromecholesterolhigh blood cholesterolcholesterol homeostasis

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    2014-Hrydziuszko-EtAl-Mathematical Two-compartment Model of Human Cholesterol Transport
    We develop a two-compartment mathematical model to investigate cholesterol transport in the circulatory system and its de novo synthesis in the liver.

    Keywords: metabolic syndromecompartmentcholesteroltwo-compartment modelcholesterol transport

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    2014-Groetsch-Yost-Vertical Projection in a Resisting Medium - Revelations on Observations of Mersenne
    This article, inspired by a 17th-century woodcut, validates empirical observations of Marin Mersenne (1588–1648) on timing of vertically-launched projectiles for a general mathematical model of...

    Keywords: resistanceprojectile

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    2010-Kijek-Kijek-Modelling of Innovation Diffusion
    This paper offers a first order differential equation model for innovation diffusion, solves it, and offers qualitative analysis as well as approaches to estimating parameters with some data on...

    Keywords: Bass modelinnovation diffusionLogistic modeldynamic model

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    2010-Jungck-EtAl-Mathematical Manipulative Models-In Defense of Beanbag Biology
    This paper offers up samples of projects from the Bio- QUEST Curriculum Consortium’s 24-yr experience of holding faculty development workshops for biology and mathematics educators.

    Keywords: epidemiologysimulationinfectious diseasedisease transmissiondiseasein-class activitybean bag activity

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    2009-Su-EtAl-Fitting Compartmental Models to Multiple Dose Pharmacokinetic Data using SAS
    In the case of a multiple dose study where subjects experience different dosing times, a superposition principle can be used to recursively account for each additional dose.

    Keywords: SASsuperpositionpharmacokineticscompartmental modelsmultiple dose

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    2009-G_Recktenwald-Tank Draining Exercise
    This paper describe deep mathematics, including differential equations concerned with modeling the draining of tank and the shape of the water coming out the bore hole at the bottom of the tank of...

    Keywords: laboratorytankLabViewBermoulli equationempty drainingcolumn of liquidpressure

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    Engaging Students in Pharmacogenetics: Patient Case Studies Using the PharmGKB Website
    Cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes are important regulators of drug efficacy and toxicity. Genetic variation in CYP isoforms can impact how well patients respond to medications or experience unwanted...

    Keywords: toxicologyPharmacologydrug metabolismpharmacodynamicspharmacogenetics

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    2003-Bohren-Dimensional analysis-falling bodies--fine art of not solving differential equations
    Dimensional analysis is a simple, physically transparent and intuitive method for obtaining approximate solutions to physics problems, especially in mechanics.

    Keywords: falling bodydimensional analysisdrag

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    2000-Erdman-Morelock-A Study of Kinetics The Estimation and Simulation of Systems of First-Order Differential Equations
    This paper introduces new and old features of the SAS System for the estimation and simulation of systems of first-order differential equations with emphasis on examples in kinetics.

    Keywords: kineticsSAScompartmentpharmacokinetics

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    2012-Vivek_Patel-Chemical Kinetics
    The book is designed to help the reader, particularly students, researchers, research scholars, scientists, chemists and industry fraternity of chemistry and allied fields; understand the mechanics...

    Keywords: kineticschemistryreaction

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    2014-Brun-EtAl-An introduction to the mechanics of the lasso
    Here, we study the mechanics of the simplest rope trick, the Flat Loop, in which the rope is driven by the steady circular motion of the roper’s hand in a horizontal plane.

    Keywords: bifurcationmotionlassorod modelrodeo

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