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    An evolution curriculum designed around understanding the rise and spread of drug-resistant pathogens
    Poster on teaching concepts in evolution and data science skills in an upper level Biology elective at Spelman College presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: EvolutionRdata sciencedrug resistanceSummer Workshop 2018

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    Gratitude Interventions in a Biology Course to Foster Student Persistence and Success
    College students are experiencing a mental health crisis, which has been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is problematic because stress and anxiety impede learning. One way to...

    Keywords: mental healthgratitudepositive psychologydegree commitment

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    Exploring Marine Primary Productivity with Descriptive Statistics and Graphing in Excel
    In this activity, students use real water chemistry data and descriptive statistics in Excel to examine primary productivity in an urban estuary of the Salish Sea. They will consider how actual...

    Keywords: statisticsecologydataExcelgraphingBiochemistryOceanographymarine ecosystemsmarine ecologydescriptive statisticslong-term datasetsmarineMicrosoft Excelmarine biologyplanktonOutliersMarine ScienceqbccUsing ExcelphytoplanktonCreate graphsInterpret graphsConcepts in Statisticslarge datasetexplaining statisticsusing statisticsPacific NorthwestSalish Seaprimary productivitywater chemistryestuarygraphing in Excelformulas in Excelchlorophylltime-series plotsocean

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    Exploring Marine Primary Productivity with Descriptive Statistics and Graphing in Excel
    In this activity, students use real water chemistry data and descriptive statistics in Excel to examine primary productivity in an urban estuary of the Salish Sea. They will consider how actual...

    Keywords: statisticsecologydataExcelgraphingBiochemistryOceanographymarine ecosystemsmarine ecologydescriptive statisticslong-term datasetsmarineMicrosoft Excelmarine biologyplanktonOutliersMarine ScienceqbccUsing ExcelphytoplanktonCreate graphsInterpret graphsConcepts in Statisticslarge datasetexplaining statisticsusing statisticsPacific NorthwestSalish Seaprimary productivitywater chemistryestuarygraphing in Excelformulas in Excelchlorophylltime-series plotsocean

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    Fish, forests, and phosphorus: How do tropical fish, rainforest canopies, and volcanic groundwater inputs affect stream phosphorus cycling?
    Rainforest stream nutrient concentrations vary with groundwater source, and different stream fish species feed on aquatic and/or terrestrial prey. Explore how phosphorus cycling changes with stream...

    Keywords: nutrient cyclesBiogeochemistrykeystone speciesfood webFunctional Diversity

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    QB@CC- Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges (QB@CC) is a National Science Foundation (NSF) supported project that received funding in 2019. The long-term goal of QB@CC is to drive the disciplinary...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    1994-JM_McDill-Bjorn_Felsager-The Lighter Side of Differential Equations
    Although differential equations have many serious applications to the modeling of real-world problems, a few lighthearted problems can serve to motivate students and brighten their attitudes toward...

    Keywords: cooperationharvestingRomeo and Julietlovecannibalismovercrowding

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    2014-Jiri_Lebl-Notes_on_Diffy_Qs_Differential_Equations_for_Engineers
    There is a pdf and html version of the text as well as a purchasable paperback version. The text has pretty much all the basics, but has only a few exercises and there is very little modeling.

    Keywords: differential equationstextbookengineering

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    Exploring Interdisciplinary Professional Development Opportunities through the Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges QB@CC Project
    The Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges (QB@CC) project provides a platform for open education resource (OER) development. Biology and mathematics faculty collaborate, create, and publish...

    Keywords: mathematicsprofessional developmentbiologycommunity collegesinterdisciplinaryOERcollaborationopen educational resourceqbcc

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    A Student's Guide to Tropical Marine Biology
    A Student's Guide to Tropical Marine Biology was curated and written entirely by students, and mostly edited by students at Keene State College that were enrolled in the course taught by Dr. Karen...

    Keywords: Student-Created

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    Learning Communities as a Driver for Humanizing STEM: Cultivating Authentic Conversations about Anti-Racism in Introductory Biology Pedagogy using Duoethnography
    In this study we present a retrospective debrief of a learning community of college biology professors who were exploring how to define and implement racial equity-focused practices and content in...

    Keywords: Equitysocial justicediversity

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    How STEM Faculty Can Manage Generative A.I. use by Students
    Generative AIs (e.g., ChatGPT have arrived on college campuses. STEM faculty have begun grappling with this disruptive technology and have responded in a various way from grudging acceptance to...

    Keywords: stemInterdisciplinary STEMfaculty developmentMERLOTPresentationArtificial Intelligencebest practicesscienceFacultyleadershipChatGPTGenerative AIsSpeaker

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    Figure of the Week: Applied Statistics for Wildlife Research
    Students use their number sense to make observations and explain or guess at patterns shown, discussing at the start of a weekly computer lab. This slide deck focuses on figures related to concepts...

    Keywords: statisticsgraphsmath anxietyWildlife Biologymath attitudesInterpreting Graphssense of belongingfear of negative evaluation

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    STEMCEL - The STEM Career Exploration Laboratory Network (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    In the STEMCEL network, we propose to synergize students’ learning and training while addressing community issues, where student-driven, course-based, research projects will deliver/develop rapid...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Effect of Florida Surface Temperatures Over The Past Four Decades on the Frequency and Intensity of Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms
    Tropical storms and hurricanes bring strong winds and heavy rainfall with the capability of destroying entire cities when these storms break landfall. Warm ocean waters are required to produce...

    Keywords: hurricane

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    The Edge Effect
    This module has students venturing outdoors to take a 50m transect and collect abundance data on plants utilizing quadrats in both edge and interior environment. Mathematically the goals of this...

    Keywords: statisticsecologydata analysisExcelintroductory biologygraphingp-valuest-testsQuantitative reasoninghypothesis testingsample sizestatistical testsinterdisciplinarystatistical analysisCommunity Ecologyspecies diversityvariationdiversity indexvinterpret dataNIQBShannon diversity indexC3. Statistical AnalysisC6. Quantitative Languageedge effect

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    2017-Guy-Bart_Stan-Modelling in Biology
    This is a very rich set of notes, rich in examples and ideas for modeling. In almost all cases after a model is introduced in real context there is attention to stability analysis.

    Keywords: spring massbifurcationmass actionlimit cycles

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    2013-Kose-Kunze-Climate Modeling in the Calculus and Differential Equations Classroom
    We introduce here the basic principles of climate science for a one-dimensional Energy Balance Model (EBM),

    Keywords: climate changeEnergy Balance Modelsice albedo

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    RAT ATTACK! Population growth
    This module contains exercises focused on the use and interpretation of density independent and density dependent population growth models. Students build logistic and exponential growth models in...

    Keywords: modelingecologyExcelintroductory biologygraphingQuantitative reasoningdata visualizationinterdisciplinaryexponential growthlogistic growthdata managementInterpreting Graphspopulation modelingNIQBC2. Data and GraphsC4. mathematical modelsnonlinear models

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    2011-Kurt_Kreith-The Mathematics of Global Change
    The authors discuss broad issues and then focus on specifics like exponential growth, logistic growth, and the logistic equation with delay.

    Keywords: exponential growthlogistic growth

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