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    Introduction to the Faculty Resource Guide: Integrating Social Justice, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Issues in STEMM courses
    We live in challenging times. Higher education faces many challenges including changes in enrollment pattern, fiscal constraints and lack of public acceptance of the value of the degree relative to...

    Keywords: social justiceDEI statementsTeaching Controversial Issues

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    Cell Culture Best Practices: Getting Started
    These video resources show how to get started working in the lab.

    Keywords: beginnerchemical hygiene and lab safety

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    Thinking About Graduate School in Biology: Our Tips for Success
    As part of the iDigTrio 2020 Biological Conference and Fair we created this document to supplement our workshop on "Applying for Graduate school". This is a compilation drawing from the four...

    Keywords: fundingidigbiograduate schoolGraduate assistantshipsiDigTRIOTips and TricksAcademic cultureUnwritten rulesapplicationapplying

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    Re-Envisioning Culture Network: A Syllabus Guide
    The Re-Envisioning Culture Network Syllabus aims to honor Black identity and culture while acknowledging the barriers that Black undergraduate students face through definitions, art, storytelling,...

    Keywords: stemraceAddressing anti-blacknessBlack in STEM

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    SEAS CURE: Exploring Coral Biology Across Scales
    Complex biological concepts (like symbiosis and coral biology) that span multiple scales and cross disciplinary boundaries are often difficult for students to understand. This complexity is...

    Keywords: microscopyAnatomySymbiosisMetabolismbleachinginvertebratedinoflagellate

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    Growing Lung Carcinoma and Lung Fibroblast Cell Lines
    Basic information on how to grow Lung Carcinoma and Lung Fibroblast Cell Lines.

    Keywords: tipsCell Growthcell cultureA-549HFL-1

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    Easy Hypoxia Treatments for Cell Culture a CBEC Cell Block
    A combination of ideas we have found from various sources. These can be used in an undergraduate lab or Cell CURE.

    Keywords: hypoxia

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    STEM as Culture: Exploring exclusion and inclusion in mathematics and biology
    This is a paper given as a plenary lecture at the second CalcConf in Bergen, Norway, June 2023. The paper explores how marginalization in society & living between worlds becomes a superpower in...

    Keywords: calculusbiocalculusrule of fivemarine biologyco2Microagressionsmauna keamauna loafeministtestimonioindigenous epistomologyanzalduagutierrezdisciplinary microaggressions

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    Developing a semester long cancer cell culture CURE
    A weekly outline for developing a semester-long cell culture CURE. Includes examples of student class presentations with annotated notes.

    Keywords: cell biologyPresentationcourse-based research experiences (CUREs)Cell culture-based researchCBECSemester outline

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    REC Network - Deepening and Expanding the Mission and Outcomes of the Re-Envisioning Culture Network (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The Re-Envisioning Culture Network (REC Network) is a group of diverse individuals across institutions of higher education, STEM careers, K-12 education, Black cultural spaces, the arts, and the...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    A Structured Inquiry-Based Module for the Undergraduate Cell Biology Laboratory That Teaches Fundamental Concepts of Cell Differentiation
    Pedagogical research in science education has shown that students effectively learn science by doing science. As a result, there is increased interest in bringing research-like experiences into the...

    Keywords: fluorescence microscopygene expressionpolymerase chain reactionCell Structurecell culturewestern blottingdifferentiationreverse transcription

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    Film as a Powerful Tool for Increasing Awareness of the Importance of Belonging in STEM
    People of color in STEM fields can face a variety of challenges with belonging due to structural, cultural, psychological, and institutional barriers. The professional development sessions...

    Keywords: steminclusionfilmbelonging

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    Getting Started: Drug Treatment Calculations
    This assignment will help teach students...

    Keywords: experimentMicropipettingcalculationsdrug calculation

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    QUBES: Building a community to promote undergraduate quantitative biology education
    QUBES is designed to improve communication among educators, assist faculty in understanding and implementing novel content and teaching strategies in their classrooms, and create an academic reward...

    Keywords: QUBES

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    Setting up PC12 Differentiation Assay Cell Block
    How to conduct a differentiation assay using PC12 cells. Complete video protocol.

    Keywords: neurobiologycourse-based research experiences (CUREs)neuorscienceCell culture-based researchPC12

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    Scratch Assay (Cell Migration) Cell Block
    A video tutorial and pedagogy notes describing how to measure cell migration using a wound/scratch assay. This is an inexpensive and relatively easy experiment. A micropublication that used this...

    Keywords: wound healingcourse-based research experiences (CUREs)Cell culture-based researchScratch AssayCell migrationCancer cell biology

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    Starting Conversations About Discrimination Against Women in STEM
    Many scientists know about — and experience — discrimination against women. In this professional development lesson, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, and other career...

    Keywords: identityracismGender discriminationIntersectionalityMicroagressionsSexismSexual assaultSexual harassmentTrolling

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    Hemocytometer and Counting Cells Cell Block
    This resource describes how to count cells using a hemocytometer.

    Keywords: lab protocolcounting cells

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    How to Grow Specific Cell Lines: Liver Cancer Cell Lines (SNU-423 and Hep-G2)
    General information for growing cell lines. One is a high-grade (fast) cancer the other is a low-grade. Makes for great comparisons within a class setting.

    Keywords: tipsCell GrowthHepG2SNU-423 ATCC

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    MTT Assay Video Protocol
    This assay works great. However, the cells are killed during the course of the assay. If you want cells to remain alive use the Alamar Blue assay.

    Keywords: MTT Assay

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