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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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    Priority Setting in Public Health: A lesson in ethics and hard choices
    Undergraduate life sciences majors, many of whom aspire to work in healthcare and health research, can benefit from early exposure to ethical issues that they may encounter in these careers. This...

    Keywords: public health ethicsramifications of one's decisionsrole of science in society

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    2015-Joshi-EtAl-Optimal control of an SIR model with changing behavior through an education campaign
    We study stability analysis and use optimal control theory on the system of differential equations to achieve the goal of minimizing the infected population (while minimizing the cost).

    Keywords: SIR modelsvaccinepopulationwater treatmentsusceptibleeducation campaignminimizing costinfected

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    Example Poster
    This is just an example.
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    Findings from S-JEDI Learning Community Post-Survey
    Summary of findings of the Summer 2020 S-JEDI Learning Community Post-Survey

    Keywords: evaluationscore

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    NSF RCN-UBE SCORE Mid-Survey Findings
    Network findings for the SCORE Network Mid-Survey.

    Keywords: evaluationscoreSTEM Evaluation

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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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    Helping teachers and students learn with research data: The role of a scientific gateway for education
    Presentation at the Cary Institute, April 5, 2018

    Keywords: QUBESteaching with data.data literacyPresentation

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    Development of the NIBLSE Learning Resource Collection and Incubators
    Talk on the NIBLSE Resource Collection and Incubators given at several professional development confernces

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNIBLSEincubators

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    QUBES: A vision of community collaboration in teaching and learning in quantitative biology
    Presentation about new projects QUBES is pursuing and how to get involved. Presented at the Seventh International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research 2014, Claremont, CA.

    Keywords: QUBESquantitative biologyteaching

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    Counting the Forest and the Trees: Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) is a tool for Vision and Change
    Presentation focusing on how QUBES plans to improve learning opportunities for all students enrolled in undergraduate biology courses, presented at Botany 2015.

    Keywords: QUBEScommunityconferencedigital tools

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    Creating ownership through creative writing: Advice columns as term papers in an upper-level Animal Behavior course
    Poster on taking a creative writing approach to traditional term papers. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute.

    Keywords: writinganimal behaviorscience writing2021 BIOMEcreative writing

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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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    More information about the Discovery – Doing Science Biology Education Conference
    2023 Conference Theme - Variants in Biology Education: What can we learn from pandemics?

    Keywords: LDC2023

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    Using Data Science Skills and Digitized Natural History Collections Data to Investigate Ecological and Evolutionary Principles in Introductory Biology Courses
    Session presentation Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education project at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop

    Keywords: data sciencenatural history collections2019 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer WorkshopBLUEdigitized natural history collections

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    Measuring Success for Collections: Educational Products and Outcomes
    Presentation at the 34th Annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections

    Keywords: educationassessmentnatural history collectionsBLUE

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    NIBLSE Incubators: A community-based model for the development of bioinformatics learning resources
    Presentation on NIBLSE incubators at the 2019 Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNIBLSEBioinformatics Educationincubators

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    Natural History Collections as Emerging Resources for Innovative Education
    Natural history collections have the potential to help transform undergraduate science education from passive learning into an active exploration of the natural world.

    Keywords: educationnatural historycollectionsdigital resourcesResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Reference

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    Two themes, one talk: Distributing quantitative faculty expertise to classrooms that need it in real-time & measuring professional contributions to undergraduate education
    Presentation given at the Seventh International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research 2014, Claremont, CA. Discussing quantitative biology education.

    Keywords: QUBESfaculty mentoring networksmetrics

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    Role of Crop Genetic Diversity on Pathogen Impact: The Tale of Two Pathogens
    Introductory genetics courses are part of the core curriculum in many different fields, including plant breeding, animal science, biology, microbiology, and natural resource management. Concepts...

    Keywords: plant pathologygenetic diversityDisease TriangleModes of Reproduction

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