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    Webinar: How BioQUEST and QUBES Can Support Your Project
    Follow the link to the webinar video, "How BioQUEST and QUBES Can Support Your Project". This webinar provides an overview of how QUBES is organized and examples of different ways that groups can...
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    Got Milk? Biome 2021 Lightning Talk
    The Got Milk? working group plans to use lactase persistence evolution as a case study to teach genetics in large introductory biology courses. While developing these resources, we will be mindful...

    Keywords: geneticsintroductory biologyundergraduate researchundergraduate educationStudent misconceptionsbiasdiversitylactase persistenceraceBIOME 2021

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    Integrating digitized biodiversity data exploration into the undergraduate biology curriculum
    Poster on the Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education (BLUE) project presented at the 2020 BIOME Institute: Cultivating Scientific Curiosity

    Keywords: Biodiversitybiodiversity collectionsBLUEbiodiversity literacy

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    Growing from Tiny Earth: A model for interdisciplinary CUREs at Johnson County Community College
    This resource includes a video that highlights how Tiny Earth is implemented and a poster that shows independent research done by students after participating in the CURE courses.

    Keywords: researchCURECUREs

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    Sickle Cell Disease and Natural Selection in Humans
    A short film explores the evolutionary connection between an infectious disease, malaria, and a genetic condition, sickle cell anemia. The animation explores the genetic causes and biological...

    Keywords: HHMI BioInteractive

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    Electronic Lab Notebooks: Options for Building Data Management and Quantitative Reasoning Skills
    Presentation on Electronic Notebooks and Lab Archives given at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop

    Keywords: 2019 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshopelectronic notebookselectronic lab notebookslab archives

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    A “Rule-of-Five” Framework for Models and Modeling
    In this paper, we extend the “Rule-of-Four,” initially used in calculus reform efforts, to a “Rule-of-Five” framework for models and modeling that is inclusive of varying disciplinary definitions...
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    The Biology of Skin Color
    This film explores the hypothesis that different tones of skin color in humans arose as adaptations to the intensity of ultraviolet radiation in different parts of the world.

    Keywords: Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractivegene regulationgene expressionAnatomy & Physiologyhuman evolutionfilm

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    statsTeachR
    statsTeachR is an open-access, online repository of modular lesson plans, a.k.a. "modules", for teaching statistics using R at the undergraduate and graduate level.

    Keywords: statisticsmodulecase studytextbookSimulationscurriculumResources @ ICB3 - statsTeachRin-class activityproblem set

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    My Experiences in a Faculty Mentoring Network for Mathematical Modeling
    Talk given as a part of the Symposium - Communities of Practice for Math Modeling Education at the SIAM 2018 Conference

    Keywords: SIAMfaculty mentoring networksfaculty communitiesResources @ MMHubResources @ SIAMEd 2018

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    Interactive, online modules to enhance quantitative skills in biology students
    Session presentation on the need for enhancing quantitative proficiency through a series of interactive, web‐based modules at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: modulesquantitative skillsMathBenchSummer Workshop 2018

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    Integrating Natural History Collections into Undergraduate Education: Creating the Resources and Growing the Community
    Presentation given at SPNHC

    Keywords: idigbio

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    Staying Alive: Extinction Risk: Introduction to Extinction and Extinction Bias
    Data driven curriculum module from Dryad Digital Repository

    Keywords: ecologydata analysisconservationgraphingResources @ Dryadextinctionmacroevolution

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    Using gross parasites to sneak even grosser equations into the introductory biology classroom
    This was an oral presentation at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists in Omaha, NE.

    Keywords: ParasitologyAmerican Society for Parasitologists

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    Exploring HIV Evolution
    In this activity you will study aspects of sequence evolution by working with a set of HIV sequence data from 15 different subjects (Markham, et al., 1998). You will first learn about the dataset,...

    Keywords: EvolutionbioinformaticssequencingUndergraduateNIBLSEincubatorsHIVAudience LevelC1. Role of bioinformaticsC4. Bioinformatics toolsRecommended by NIBLSE

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    Integrating Artificial Intelligence with the Project Leadership App
    Project Leadership is a web-based application which empowers the STEM participants to take up leadership roles to develop diverse leadership skills. Implementing Project Leadership (PL) provides...

    Keywords: Artificial Intelligenceleadershipteam workproject leadership

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    IBP - Preparing to Prepare the 21st Century Biology Student: Using Scientific Societies as Change Agents for the Introductory Biology Experience (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    This was the first or second RCN-UBE award made. The Introductory Biology Project (IBP) collaborated with the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) to link introductory biology...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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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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    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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    2009-Agnes_Rash-Brian_Winkel-Birth_and_Death_Process_Modeling_Leads_to_the_Poisson_Distribution
    In this paper there are details of development of the general birth and death process from which we can extract the Poisson process as a special case.

    Keywords: ProbabilityMeanPoisson processbirth and death processinfinite number of differential equations

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