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    Amino Acid Frequency
    This module introduces expected frequencies in the context of understanding amino acid composition. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.
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    Mutation and Selection: An Exploration of Antibiotic Resistance in Serratia Marcescens
    This laboratory module gives students hands-on experience with mutation and selection in bacteria.
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    Claymander Field Experiment
    This activity addresses how predation may affect the frequency of two color morphs in a population. Students collect and analyze data from clay salamander models ('claymanders') to determine...
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    Teacher Guide: Math and Statistics
    Topics include measures of average (mean, median, and mode), variability (range and standard deviation), uncertainty (standard error and 95% confidence interval), Chi-square analysis, student...
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    Coral Bleaching Mapping Activity
    This is a classroom activity in which students use authentic data to assess the threat of coral bleaching around the world. It supports the 2014 Holiday Lectures on Science video featuring Dr....
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    QUBES: a community focused on supporting teaching and learning in quantitative biology
    This letter provides an overview of the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) Project funded through the National Science Foundation.
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    The Science Behind the ACTN3 Polymorphism
    A common polymorphism in the alpha-actinin-3 (ACTN3) gene results in the lack of ACTN3 protein expression in fast twitch muscle fibers in ~16% of the human population (1). This genetic change has...
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    1999-PS_Crooke-S_Hota_JJ_Martini-JR_Hochkiss-A Mathematical Model for Carbon Dioxide Exchange
    A mathematical model is presented to study the effect of Tracheal Gas Insufflation (TGI) on the alveolar ventilation during passive, mechanical ventilation.
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    4-055-ShatterWineGlass-ModelingScenario
    This module takes students through real life scenarios to examine resonance and its destructive power using differential equation models. What is resonance? How does it happen? Why is it important?
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    Cross-Scale Interactions (Project EDDIE)
    Students explore new modeling and computing tools while learning fundamental concepts about how lake phytoplankton blooms occur through cross-scale interactions.
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    Discrete Math Modeling with Biological Applications (Course Materials)
    These are the materials for Math 214 offered at Rhodes College.
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    3D breast cancer tissue reconstruction
    This module allows students to follow a researcher as she discovers new features of breast cancer tissue architecture, using 3D reconstructions of histological specimens.
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    Leaf cutter ant foraging
    This module introduces students to leaf-cutter ants in the rainforests of Panama. Students derive their own research hypotheses regarding ant foraging or allometric scaling relationships.
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    Climate Change
    This video describes the basic science of climate change. How do we know about climate in the past? What are humans interfering with? How can we make predictions about what will happen in the future?
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    2017-Fred_Adler-Mathematically Modeling Asthma
    Our Asthma models have examined how a viral infection can tip the immune system into a different state, with the potential to predispose an individual to future asthma
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    2015-Pendrill-Eager-Free fall and harmonic oscillations analyzing trampoline jumps
    In this work, the motion on a trampoline is modelled by assuming a linear relation between force and deflection, giving harmonic oscillations for small amplitudes.
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    2010-Shianga-EtAl-Computational model of the human glucose-insulin regulatory system
    A computational model of insulin secretion and glucose metabolism for assisting the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus in clinical research is introduced. The
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    2009-James_May-Nonlinear vibration control of long flexible structures
    An automated, non-linear control scheme was developed to transfer energy from the fundamental vibration mode, where most vibration energy of the structures of interest resides, to higher order...
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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.
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    3-030-SecondOrderIntro-ModelingScenario
    We outline the solution strategies involved in solving second-order, linear, constant coefficient ordinary differential equations, both homogeneous and nonhomogeneous and offer many application and...
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