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    1-043-CoolingUpAndDown-ModelingScenario
    We consider modeling the attempt of an air conditioner to cool a room to a ``constant'' temperature.

    Keywords: temperatureoscillationNewton's Law of Coolingcoolingthermostatair conditioner

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    BioQUEST Partner Support Module: Exploring Community
    A four-week module for BioQUEST's Research Coordination Network partners on using BioQUEST's features, resources, and services to build a community that supports their project goals.

    Keywords: Resources @ BioQUESTRCNcommunitybuilding communityOnline community building

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    Neochromosomes: Creating transcriptional units with yeast Golden Gate assembly
    This resource is a series of protocols using the yeast Golden Gate (yGG) method as developed by Neta Agmon and Leslie Mitchell in Jef Boeke’s lab to assemble a functional yeast gene with...
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    Ethics of Metabolic engineering
    This is an ethical reflection for students on an issue in metabolic engineering and the potential for "home-brew" morphine. The case study asks students to reflect on material in the linked...

    Keywords: biostatisticsstatistical analysisavian malariaSummer Workshop 2018

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    Ethics in synthetic genomics
    This is an ethical reflection for students on an issue in genome engineering and the synthesis of potentially infectious viruses. The case study asks students to reflect on material in the linked...

    Keywords: biostatisticsstatistical analysisavian malariaSummer Workshop 2018

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    Ethics of Gene Editing
    This is an ethical reflection for students on an issue in gene editing. The case study asks students to reflect on material in the two linked articles. Also included is the grading rubric.

    Keywords: biostatisticsstatistical analysisavian malariaSummer Workshop 2018

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    IPMpack: an R package for Integral Projection Models
    IPMpack is an R package (R Development Core Team 2013) that allows users to build and analyse Integral Projection Models.

    Keywords: RR-Forgeanimalbiostatisticscomparative analysisecologylongitudinal datamodel comparisonmodel estimationprojectionssurvivaltime seriestrajectoryIPMintegral projection modelsResources @ QUBES - Software

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    HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT AQUATIC LAB (HEAL) CURE
    Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) provide students with genuine research experiences and associated skills in the classroom. This resource, the HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT AQUATIC LAB...

    Keywords: undergraduate researchField researchcollaborationcourse-based research experiences (CUREs)

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    2020-TeachingModule-ModelingNonlethalInfluenzaEpidemic
    We discuss the modeling efforts and tools for success in modeling the spread of nonlethal influenza in an English boarding school

    Keywords: moduleepidemicboarding schoolTeaching Module

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    Community Conversation: Publishing Conference Materials on QUBES
    Follow the link to the webinar video, "Publishing Conference Materials on QUBES". In this video, an overview of QUBES will be given, followed by information on how conference participants and...
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    Confronting the challenges of bringing research data into undergraduate classrooms using online faculty mentoring networks
    Poster on using ecological research data in undergraduate courses

    Keywords: Ecological Society of Americafmn

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    1-125-DiceyPopulation-ModelingScenario
    We offer students an opportunity to generate data for their team on a death and immigration model using 12 and 20 sided dice and then pass on the data to another student team for analysis with a...

    Keywords: simulationimmigrationdeathdice

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    6-004-VillageEpidemic-ModelingScenario
    Students are offered data from a plague epidemic that occurred in the middle of the seventeenth century in Eyam, a small English village. With only two assumptions offered to students they...

    Keywords: SIR modelsepidemicsusceptibleinfectiveremovedEyamEnglish village

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    1-040-OutcomeSavings-ModelingScenario
    We ask students to build a model for a savings account and to determine the monthly deposit in a savings account in order meet a long term savings goal.

    Keywords: Pop_Growth Pilotsavingsgrowthdepositg

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    1-094-SteepingTea-ModelingScenario
    We provide photographs of steeping process for a tea steeped in hot water. Students build a differential equation model for the steeping process and do parameter estimation using the color of our...

    Keywords: concentrationSurface AreacolorNewton's Law of Coolingteasugar

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    7-008-MachineReplacement-ModelingScenario
    Students build an integro-differential equation model using a convolution for machine replacement strategies for two different machine failure models.

    Keywords: Probabilityreplacement numberLaplace transformindustrial engineeringmachineconvolutiondistributiojstep functionderivative definition

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    Building Better groups in STEM Courses
    Formation of student groups that can work effectively together is challenging at best. Considerations include group size and formation (assigned or student choice) and how group members will be...

    Keywords: EquityinclusionDiversity in STEM classroomsgroup workdeidiversity equity and inclusionBIOME 2022

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    1-025-MixingItUp-ModelingScenario
    Students build three different models for levels of salt in a tank of water and at each stage the level of complexity increases with attention to nuances necessary for success.

    Keywords: compartmentsalttankmixing

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    2019-Radulescu-Lundgren-A_pharmacokinetic_model_of_lead_absorption_and_calcium_competitive_dynamics
    We build and analyze a compartmental model of lead pharmacokinetics, focused specifically on addressing neurotoxicity.

    Keywords: QUBES Leadership Teamparametersabsorptionbifurcationpharmacokineticscalciumcognitive decline

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    Cladistic Analysis Lesson Using Bats
    Phylogenetic analysis can be a challenging concept to grasp for undergraduate biology students. This cladistic analysis lesson utilizes the amazingly diverse Order Chiroptera as a model to...

    Keywords: batsphylogeny and classificationVertebrate Morphologycladistic analysisbat evolution

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