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    A Framework for Modeling to Encourage Interdisciplinary Conversations
    Presentation given as part of a minisymposium at SIAM 2016 on interdisciplinary approaches to modeling.

    Keywords: modelinginterdisciplinaryminisymposium

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    Interdisciplinary biology education: a holistic approach to an intractable problem
    Presentation on interdisciplinary biology education at the 2019 Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference

    Keywords: quantitative biologyinterdisciplinarybioinformaticsbiology educationinterdisciplinary education

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    2020-Cline_Fasteen_Francis_Sullivan_Wendt-Vision_for_Projects_Across_Mathematics_Curriculum
    We consider the use of projects in math courses as a mechanism for promoting coding, communication, and interdisciplinary application of math skills. Final projects play an important role, but we...

    Keywords: modelinginterdisciplinarywritingcodingprojecttechnical writing

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    Using Data in Limnology
    Poster on the interdisciplinary study of limnology as a "PEAK" integrative learning experience at Concordia Collegepresented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: student researchinterdisciplinary educationlimnologyeco-informaticsSummer Workshop 2018

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    CC-CURE Report Out from the BIOME 2020 Institute
    This resource includes a collection of videos describing some of the outcomes from the Interdisciplinary and Cross Course CURE working group.

    Keywords: course-based undergraduate research experience

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    QB@CC: An interdisciplinary network model for developing and disseminating OER to support pedagogical change
    Presentation given at the Northeast OER Summer 2022 We describe the interdisciplinary network that has been developing and sharing quantitative skills-based OER in biological sciences. The...

    Keywords: Resources @ BioQUESTqbccNortheast OER Summit

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    HITS: A network to create inquiry-based case studies that make high-throughput approaches and discovery accessible
    HITS brings together interdisciplinary groups of HT researchers and instructors to produce authentic HT case studies that can be implemented in a variety of courses, allowing students to analyze...

    Keywords: case studieshigh-throughputHITS

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    Characterizing the Quantitative Biology Curricula from Institutions Across the United States
    Undergraduate research poster presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Pittsburgh in 2015.

    Keywords: Mathematical Biologycurriculumundergraduate researchinterdisciplinaryPresentation

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    The Mathematics of Voting Systems: Plurality, Runoff and Ranked Choice
    In this five-day interdisciplinary math and social studies unit, students use math to create informed opinions about the three most common voting systems in the United States: plurality, runoff and...

    Keywords: mathematicsInterdisciplinary STEMInterdisciplinary Mathematics Educationinterdisciplinary math educationvoting

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    Fostering and sustaining interdisciplinary faculty communities around undergraduate teaching: Insights from the QUBES project
    Presentation part of a minisymposium at the SIAM Applied Mathematics Education (ED18) conference, "Communities of Practice for Math Modeling Education"

    Keywords: SIAMapplied mathematicsfaculty communities

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    HITS: A Network to Create Inquiry-based Case Studies | BIOME 2022
    We created the NSF-funded High-throughput Discovery Science & Inquiry-based Case Studies for Today’s Students (HITS) Research Coordination Network to address this gap. HITS brings together...

    Keywords: case studiesHigh-throughput Discovery Science & Inquiry-based Case Studies for Today’s StudentsHigh-throughput (HT) approaches

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    Fostering and Sustaining Interdisciplinary Faculty Communities Around Undergraduate Teaching: Insights from the QUBES Project
    Talk given as a part of the Symposium - Communities of Practice for Math Modeling Education at the SIAM 2018 Conference

    Keywords: SIAMQUBESfaculty communitiesResources @ MMHubResources @ SIAMEd 2018

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    Interdisciplinarity through a modular sustainability curriculum
    Poster on successful sustainability education in college curricula presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop .

    Keywords: sustainabilityinterdisciplinary educationSummer Workshop 2018

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    Integrating student research projects into mathematical biology courses
    Part of the 2015 SMB Minisymposium: Topics in Biomathematics Education

    Keywords: Mathematical Biologycourseproject

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    Bacteria to Brains in Backyard Coyotes: An Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Case Study
    Our interdisciplinary pedagogical case study explores the differences between rural and urban coyotes at the levels of organismal and community ecology. The focus is on how coyotes’ gut microbiomes...

    Keywords: Vision and Changeecologyintroductory biologyImmunologymicrobiologydietanimal behaviormicrobiomecore conceptscoyotesBraingut-brain axisImmunoReachcytokinedysbiosis

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    ImmunoReach: Incorporating Immunology into the Curriculum to Promote Interdisciplinary Science Education (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    This is an interdisciplinary faculty community of practice, that connects immunology educators with faculty in other biology disciplines, with an intention to increase access to concept-focused...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Ethics in Synthetic Biology
    This collection of five activities provide students with an introduction to thinking about ethical concerns in human genome synthesis, gene editing, metabolic engineering, and synthetic genomes.

    Keywords: biostatisticsstatistical analysisavian malariaSummer Workshop 2018

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    COVID-19 Simulator (ISEE) Module
    This accessible module guides students through exploring the COVID-19 Simulator developed by ISEE. Students dig into the four scenarios provided (including the parameters and the graphs),...

    Keywords: mathematical modelingSTELLAInfectious Disease ModelingInterpreting Graphsinterpreting modelsCOVID19coronavirus

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    REMNet Tutorial, R Part 5: Normalizing Microbiome Data in R 5.2.19
    Video on normalizing microbiome data from the Research Experiences in Microbiomes Network

    Keywords: geneticsstatisticsdata analysisgraphingRStudioVideoexperimental designR programming languagemicrobiomesstudent researchinterdisciplinary educationlimnologyeco-informaticsresearch in the classroomtidyverseWorking with datasetsREMNet

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    Should we synthesize a human genome?
    Two articles introducing the Human Genome Project-Write and asking questions about the ethics of the project.

    Keywords: biostatisticsstatistical analysisavian malariaSummer Workshop 2018

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