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    Cellular Respiration and pH: blocking the electron transport chain and its effects on the proton gradient, pH, and ATP production
    This module contains exercises designed to help students describe the stages of cellular respiration and quantify the energy molecules produced. Students will predict the region of higher proton...

    Keywords: introductory biologyQuantitative reasoningquantitative biologyinterdisciplarycell functionInterpreting GraphsATPpHCellular RespirationEnergy transformationsElectron flowNIQBC2. Data and GraphsC4. mathematical modelsC1. Numeracyproton gradientelectron transportelectron transport blockersFADH2chemiosmosisATP synthaseNADHproton concentration

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    Osmosis: Determination of the rate of osmosis and the isotonic concentration
    This module contains exercises designed to help students understand how solute concentrations affect the direction and rate of osmosis. Students are given different scenarios to predict the...

    Keywords: introductory biologyQuantitative reasoninginterdisciplinarycell functionOsmosisNIQBC2. Data and GraphsC4. mathematical modelsC6. Quantitative LanguageC1. NumeracyC5. Logic and Algorithms

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    How We Help: Human elements of restoration ecology
    In this lesson, students recall the basics of restoration ecology, interpret and predict several graphs that explain restoration manager characteristics, and reflect on an interview with...

    Keywords: graph interpretationEcosystem Ecologyfmnconservation biologydata literacyinvasive plantsLGBTQRestoration Ecologyriparian ecologyNatural Resource ManagementBioGraphIrepresentation in STEM

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    OER For CURE Development BIOME 2021 Lightning Talk - YouTube
    Members of the Ciliate Genomics Consortium (CGG) formed a fall working group to brainstorm how to convert existing Course-based Undergraduate Research (CURE) curriculum modules, which have been...

    Keywords: CUREscourse-based research experiences (CUREs)STEM CUREs

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    The Education for Sustainability – Philly Project: Supporting Teachers to Develop Lessons on Sustainability
    Talk given as a part of the Symposium - Communities of Practice for Math Modeling Education at the SIAM 2018 Conference

    Keywords: SIAMsustainabilityResources @ MMHubResources @ SIAMEd 2018

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    Undergraduate Research Experiences in Computational Science at a Community College
    Resource from the 2015 BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: computer simulationscomputational modelInterdisciplinary STEMcomputational toolscommunity colleges

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    Integrating Social Justice into your STEM Classroom: Redlining & Health
    Workshop about models for introducing social justice issues into classes developed in a Faculty Mentoring Network. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute.

    Keywords: STEM educationhealthsocial justiceredlining2021 BIOME

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    MCC - A National Malate Dehydrogenase Protein-Centric Molecular Life Sciences Couse-based Undergraduate Research Network (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The MCC is an inclusive national community consisting of faculty, from community colleges, MSI, PUI and Research Intensive institutions teaching and developing Course based Undergraduate Research...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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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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    Science For and With the Community
    The Circle of Excellence addresses the multifaceted concerns of educational inequality in STEM experiences and outcomes. Since 2017, the program has met to provide challenging math and science...
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    The BioTAP Professional Development Model: Expanding Empirical Research on Graduate Student Teaching Professional Development
    The Biology Teaching Assistant Project (BioTAP) provides a year-long mentoring program for practitioners and researchers of Biology Graduate Teaching Assistant Teaching Professional Development...

    Keywords: mentoringstemcommunityUndergraduateteaching professional developmentGraduate Teaching AssistantConfidence in Research Skills

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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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    Biobyte 4 - The role of data science principles and practices in undergraduate biology
    This short activity was an effort to launch a community conversation around the interface of data science principles and practices and undergraduate biology education. A variety of resources,...

    Keywords: biostatisticsstatistical analysisavian malariaSummer Workshop 2018

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    NSITE - Networking STEM Initiatives to Enhance Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    NSITE is a network of national STEM transformation organizations. The goal of NSITE is to provide a venue for these organizations, that have typically operated in parallel on projects related to...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Videos on Java for courses at University of Tennessee
    Eight videos developed by Hong Qin about using Java at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga

    Keywords: videosjavabioinformaticsgenomicsyoutube

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    Java for-loop, investment problem, with debug flag usage demo
    BigJava Chapter 6, UTC CPSC1100 Fall 2017. Debug flag usage is shown.

    Keywords: videosjavabioinformaticsgenomicsyoutubeBig Java

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    Screen Casts for Foundations of Bioinformatics at UCSD
    Collection of videos developed by Barry Grant at UCSD for his course, BGGN-213

    Keywords: videosbioinformaticsgenomicsyoutubescreen cast

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    How do we do Bioinformatics?
    A description of the computational setup for “Foundations of Bioinformatics” (BGGN-213) See: http://thegrantlab.org/bggn213/

    Keywords: bioinformaticsgenomicsyoutubescreen cast

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    What is Bioinformatics?
    This second screencast introduces bioinformatics, details major leaning goals & expectations of BGGN-213 and outlines the areas of bioinformatics covered in ...

    Keywords: videosbioinformaticsgenomicsyoutubescreen castintroductory bioinformatics

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    Foundations of Bioinformatics (BGGN-213)
    This first short screen-cast introduces “Foundations of Bioinformatics” (BGGN-213) course at UCSD and covers some pre-course logistics.

    Keywords: bioinformaticsgenomicsyoutubescreen cast

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