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    Promoting Academic Success of Economically Disadvantaged, STEM-Interested, First- and Second-Year Undergraduate Students via the ACCESS in STEM Program at University of Washington Tacoma
    At the University of Washington Tacoma (UWT), a public, predominantly undergraduate, minority-serving institution (Asian-American, Native American, Pacific Islander, AANAPISI), the Achieving Change...

    Keywords: course based undergraduate research experiencesNSF S-STEMStudent mentoring

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    1990-Winkel_Brian-First-year_calculus_students_as_in-class_consultants
    We demonstrate how we use traditional text book calculus problems to involve first year calculus students as consultants. Students are asked to solve a “real world” problem after interviewing a...

    Keywords: optimizationcalculusConsultantprinterclient

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    QB@CC Poster for NABT 2020
    This is a poster presentation at the 2020 NABT Annual PD Conference. This poster describes the goals of QB@CC project, progress in the first year and an update on the upcoming events.

    Keywords: quant bioQuantitative reasoningcommunity collegesquantitative biologyquantitative skillsincubatorsqbccBiology and Math CollaborationOERsNABT 2020NSF grantRCN UBE grantQB learning modules

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    BEIC - Creation of the Biology Educator/Researcher Cross-Segment Collective (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The Biology Education Intersegmental Collaborative aids faculty learning communities consisting of 2- and 4-year partners to improve community college and transfer student outcomes. BEIC supports...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    1-003-CollegeSavings-ModelingScenario
    We present a modeling opportunity for students in which they have to plan and model for saving for a child's complete college education.

    Keywords: collegesavingsinterest ratecollege costsensitiviyty

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    Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges: Building a Community of Biology and Math Faculty to Develop and Disseminate Open Educational Resources
    This is a poster presented at the SABER West 2020 conference. We introduced the grant's goals and objectives, described the leadership team and disseminated the information about the first network...

    Keywords: community collegesquantitative biologyinterdisciplinaryCommunities of Practicebiology and math

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    1-104-InfectionRisk-ModelingScenario
    This project is designed to examine differences between the exponential and logistic growth models in biology and how to apply these models in solving epidemic questions.

    Keywords: infectionlogisticexponentialcovidcarrying capacity

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    1-032-WordPropagation-ModelingScenario
    This activity is a gentle introduction to modeling via differential equations. The students will learn about exponential growth by modeling the rate at which the word jumbo has propagated through...

    Keywords: Googleexponential growthlanguageword problemsetymologyNgrampropagationJumbo

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    1-060-SalesMarketing-ModelingScenario
    We lead students through a sales forecasting model based on marketing principles first espoused by F. M. Bass with definitions, assumptions, equations, and data on sales over 15 year periods...

    Keywords: marketingBass modelsalesconsumer productsinnovatorsimitators

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    Fostering Student to Student Collaboration Across Institutions in a Protein Centric CURE
    Collaboration is an essential component of research because it allows scientists to share expertise and tackle difficult scientific questions. While many undergraduate science courses include...

    Keywords: communicationBiochemistrycollaborationCUREhypothesisStudent to StudentInter institutionalProtein CentricAssignments

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    IQS 2.0: A Modularized Integrated Math and Science Course
    Part of the 2015 SMB Minisymposium: Topics in Biomathematics Education

    Keywords: coursefirst-year

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    Going from student to medical doctor. The pathway to medicine with Abel Edossa and Dr. Oluwatoyin Weaver
    In this "lunch with a Scientist" episode, we interviewed a medical student and medical doctor to help us understand the path to medicine. Becoming a medical doctor is a very daunting task but with...

    Keywords: medicine

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    1-005B-ChemDataCollection-ModelingScenario
    A chemistry graduate student is collecting data on a chemical reaction and does a poor job of collecting the data. Indeed, he only collects the data at the start and end of a number of three minute...

    Keywords: kineticslaboratoryorder of reactionchemical reactionchemical datainfusion

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    Cross-Course Public Health Project on Infectious Disease
    The need for collaborative, public health education has never been more important. Students increasingly require necessary skills in effectively communicating critical information to the general...

    Keywords: infectionpublic healthVaccinespathogenesisantibiotics

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    Applying Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Principles to Case Studies
    This is a presentation for the 2022 BIOME meeting.
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    1-104A-T-InfectionRisk-ModelingScenario
    This project is designed to examine differences between the exponential and logistic growth models in biology and how to apply these models in solving epidemic questions and comparing to actual...

    Keywords: regressioninfectionCOVID19carrying capacitylogistic equationexponential model

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    Sexy Smells - A case study using preen oil composition of the Dark Eyed Junco
    Poster on a case study invites students to explore the biochemistry and physiology of pheromones using authentic data presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: case studyBiochemistryphysiologypheromonesSummer Workshop 2018

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    Reading and Discussing Popular Media to Increase SEA-PHAGES Student Engagement
    This module introduces ways for students to connect their SEA-PHAGES work and real life medical trials with events presented in Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis’s 1925 Pulitzer prize winning novel on...

    Keywords: discussionsbacteriophagereadingSEA-PHAGESpopular media

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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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    Ripped from the Headlines! Creating Case Studies from Primary Literature.
    Poster on using case studies developed from primary literature presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: case studyprimary literatureSummer Workshop 2018

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