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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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    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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    Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps
    Organized Oral Session at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting, August 8th, 2017 Portland Oregon.

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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    STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Episode One
    Episode One is a conversation with Bryan Dewsbury (University of Rhode Island) one of the authors of the CBE-LSE Inclusive Pedagogy guide.

    Keywords: idigbioundergraduate educationwebinarInclusive teachingEDSINBLUE

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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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    Improving Civic and Scientific Literacy through Scaffolded Thematic Classroom Research Experiences
    Poster on encouraging civic and scientific literacy presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: scientific literacyauthentic researchcivic literacySummer Workshop 2018

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    2020-Stepien_Kostelich_Kuang-Mathematics Cancer An Undergraduate Bridge Course in Applied Mathematics
    Most undergraduates have limited experience with mathematical modeling. This paper describes a course on the mathematical models of cancer growth and treatment.

    Keywords: differential equationsmodelingundergraduate educationcancertumor

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    Democratizing Student Access to Help: the nationwide, virtual peer mentoring network of the Genomics Education Partnership
    Our data suggests that online delivery of the novel Virtual TA program allowed the GEP CURE to remain effective through the transition from onsite to online: the GEP CURE is resilient. This...

    Keywords: Genomics Education PartnershipNABT2023

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    Community Conversation: OER for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in STEM Classrooms
    Follow the link to the webinar video, "OER for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in STEM Classrooms". In this conversation, bringing in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to the classroom was discussed...
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    Making Universal Design for Learning Accessible to Faculty
    Presentation on Universal Design for Learning at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop

    Keywords: Universal Design for Learning2019 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer WorkshopUDLscreen readersudl guidelines

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    Climate change and Strawberries: A real-life problem-based activity for teaching ANOVA
    This is a real-life lab activity for teaching ANOVA using Problem-Based Learning and formatted for one-day (JMP or R) or two-day (JMP) implementations.

    Keywords: climate changeProblem based learningANOVAplant sciencetwo-way ANOVA

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    Evaluating Representation in Science Through a Peer-Reviewed Research Study
    The demographic representation of scientists featured in biology curricular materials do not match that of the undergraduate biology student population or of the U.S. population. In this lesson, we...

    Keywords: societyRepresentationSTEM equity

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    Using Comics to Make Science Come Alive
    Students often see science as a fragmented set of facts to be memorized, rather than concepts and processes that are relevant in their everyday lives. This is especially true for non-science...

    Keywords: role of science in society

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    Anti-bias Education Puppet Plays
    Nature provides science content for teacher preparation certification programs and the backdrop for puppet plays used as a springboard for teaching the NAEYC's four goals of Anti-bias...

    Keywords: educationcollectionsmuseumidentitydiversityNatureearly childhoodjusticepuppetplaysnature-basedanti-biasactivism

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    STEM OER Accessibility Framework and Guidebook
    This framework, developed by ISKME in partnership with SERC, provides a practical reference for curators and authors of STEM OER, with 23 accessibility criteria, or elements, to reference as they...

    Keywords: OEROER Evaluation

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    Interdisciplinary biology education: a holistic approach to an intractable problem
    Presentation on interdisciplinary biology education at the 2019 Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference

    Keywords: quantitative biologyinterdisciplinarybioinformaticsbiology educationinterdisciplinary education

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    Citations
    Published Avida-Ed article

    Keywords: EvolutioncurriculumSelectionDigital Organisms

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    BioVEDA Curriculum: An Approach to Link Conceptual and Quantitative Understanding of Variation During Experimental Design and Data Analysis
    When performing a biological investigation, experts constantly cycle between conceptual and quantitative modes of thinking, integrating their understanding in both worlds to make decisions about...

    Keywords: statisticssample sizeBiological variation

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