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    Angiosperm Diversity in Pollination Systems
    This activity is designed for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students engaged in ecology and biodiversity sustainability studies. This activity will explore how plant-pollinator...

    Keywords: data visualizationBiodiversityplantsPlant-insect interactionsnetworkinsectsBLUEpollinators

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    2019-Lorelei_Koss-SIR_Models_Differential_Equations_that_Support_The_Common_Good
    This article surveys how SIR models have been extended beyond investigations of biologically infectious diseases to other topics that contribute to social inequality and environmental concerns.

    Keywords: environmentSIRsocial justiceepidemiccommon good

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    Can people afford safe drinking water? A discussion on water as a human right with Dr. Jess Goddard.
    Water researcher Jess Goddard holds talked to us about her incredibly important research on measuring water affordability as a human right. Safe drinking water impacts over 2 billion people and, in...

    Keywords: human rightsWater affordability

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    HSI - Student Research Journal - Vol.3 Issue 1 - Summer 2021
    The Headwaters Research Experience students have produced some fascinating research throughout our 10-week program. We encourage all to read their reports in our Vol. 3 - Issue 1 - Summer 2021...

    Keywords: scientific methodscience education

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    A talk about the impacts of Tobacco with Rachel Hendricks
    We interview researchers of all rankings! In this interview, NIH postbaccalaureate fellow Rachel Hendricks discusses her undergraduate research in Dr. Karen Bernd's lab at Davidson College and the...

    Keywords: undergraduate researchTobacco

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    The Human Microbiome Biodiversity in Health and Disease
    The students will analyze the human gut and vaginal microbiomes in healthy and diseased states using diversity of bacteria as determined by 16SrRNA sequence.
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    Social Justice & Community Change QUBES Faculty Mentoring Network 2021
    In this Faculty Mentoring Network we will examine the historical practice of redlining, and how social and economic factors over the last century have created disparities in environmental...

    Keywords: social justiceair qualityBIOME 2020redlining

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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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    Biobyte 2 - Exploratory data analysis
    This short activity can be used to introduce the concept of exploratory data analysis and get participants to think about how this data science strategy is complementary to having students...

    Keywords: data sciencedsube

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    Passion-Driven Statistics
    E-book in .pdf format and customizable .iba format

    Keywords: statisticstextbook

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    Sequence Similarity Resource Adaptation: Exploring Ebola Virus
    This adaptation of the sequence similarity resource provides biology students with a basic set of bioinformatics concepts and tools. These concepts and tools are used to explore relationships...

    Keywords: phylogeneticsbioinformaticsEbolasequencingFASTANCBINIBLSEalgorithmsincubatorsBLASTmultiple sequence alignmentsequence similarityBLOSUM scoring matrixneighbor-joining distance matrixCourseSourcephylogram

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    UW Data Science for Social Good program
    The UW Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program partners eScience Data Scientists and Student Fellows from across the country with Project Leads from academia, government, and the private sector...
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    Exploration of the Human Genome by Investigation of Personalized SNPs
    To increase students' interest in their own genomes, this computer-based laboratory lesson is designed to be coupled with the opportunity for the students to be genotyped by the consumer sequencing...

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNIBLSECourseSourcegenomic wide association studiesUCSC genome browsersingle nucleotide polymorphism

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    Probing Subunit Interactions in 3-Phosphoglycerate Dehydrogenase
    A research poster.

    Keywords: JoCURE

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    Identifiers in Digital Natural History Collections
    This is a collection of resources focusing on GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifiers) on what they are, what role they play in digital natural history collections, and how to incorporate them in...

    Keywords: idigbioStudy guidedata managementnatural history collectionsBLUEdigitized natural history collectionsidentifiers

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    2009-Das-EtAl-Bioeconomic harvesting of a pre-predator fishery
    This paper deals with the problem of non-selective harvesting of a prey–predator system by using a reasonable catch-rate function instead of usual catch-per-unit-effort hypothesis.

    Keywords: predator-preyharvestingPontryagin’s maximum principlebioeconomicbionomic equilibriumbiotechnical productivitycatch-rate functionoptimal equilibrium

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    2019-Zhu_EtAl-Partial_differential_equation_modeling_of_rumor_propagation
    This paper defines a spatial distance in online social networks by clustering and then proposes a partial differential equation model with a time delay.

    Keywords: social networksrumorpropogation

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    Using Bioinformatics Activities to understand the Past and Present of SARS-CoV2
    We have designed a Bioinformatics activity that uses tools to identify the origins and mutations in the novel SARS-CoV2 strains.
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    Mosquito Vector Ecology of the East Coast using NEON
    This data module examines the relationship between mosquito vector ecology and climate across the east coast of the United States. The module is designed to merge core concepts in ecology with...
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    Interconnections in The Open Ecosystem
    Presentation on open education and open science given as the keynote address at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop

    Keywords: biostatisticsstatistical analysisavian malariaSummer Workshop 2018

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