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    2002-Ragnar-Norberg-Basic Life Insurance Mathematics
    Presents fundamentals of life insurance, mortality, savings, banks, finance, reserves, pensions, stochastic processes.
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    2007-Mogen_Steffensen-Differential Equations in Finance and Life Insurance
    The mathematics of finance and the mathematics of life insurance were always intersecting. Life insurance contracts specify an exchange of streams of payments between the insurance company and the...
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    2011-Carl_Leinbach-Beyond_Newton_law_of_cooling_estimation_of_time_since_death
    The estimate of the time since death. Thus, the time of death is strictly that, an estimate. However, the time of death can be an important piece of information in some coroner’s cases, especially...
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    Let's Talk About COVID-19
    This exercise asks you to write a short paper reflecting on your personal experiences (or those you have read about) with COVID-19
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    Understanding Gastric Acid Secretion: An Active Learning Approach
    The human digestive system is a diverse network of cells, tissues, and organs that is regulated by systemic (e.g., nervous and endocrine systems) and local factors (e.g., secretions, pH, and the...
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    SCIENCE/Fiction: Modular Template for Class Design
    We present a modular scaffold for designing an introductory seminar using speculative fiction and science papers to welcome university undergraduates to the biology major. A list of twelve possible...
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    PLANT Talking Points: Crime Scene Botanicals - Forensic Botany...
    Provides information on the interesting job of Forensic Botany using real life examples

    Keywords: botany

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    What’s the DEAL – The Digital Encyclopedia of Ancient Life and Digital Atlas Apps
    The Digital Encyclopedia of Ancient Life and Digital Atlas Apps -- identify fossils and explore diversity and history of life on earth.
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    Inclusive Pedagogy for Life Science Education Tagging Ontology
    Inclusive Pedagogy for Life Science Education Tagging Ontology

    Keywords: ontology

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    PLANT Talking Points: Popcorn, endosperm and the foods we eat...
    This resource connects botany to everyday life by way of explaining what common foods we eat really are.

    Keywords: botanyplants

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    R for biologists
    An introductory guide to data analysis in R for life sciences researchers.

    Keywords: R

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    Leaping Lemur Life History
    This interrupted case study is intended for use in lower-division biology or ecology courses to complement the SimUText (SimBio) Life History chapter. Students practice calculating life history...
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    2002-Dietz-Heesterbeek-Daniel Bernoulli-epidemiological model revisited
    The seminal paper by Daniel Bernoulli published in 1766 is put into a new perspective. After a short account of smallpox inoculation and of Bernoulli’s life, the motivation for that paper and its...
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    The Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education (NIBLSE): Barriers to Integration
    The Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education (NIBLSE) seeks to promote the use of bioinformatics and data science as a way to teach biology.
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    Introduction to Data Management, Life History, and Demography
    Learning Goals: • explain importance of data management • identify elements of an organized data sheet • create & manipulate data in a spreadsheet • calculate vital statistics using life...
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    Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education (NIBLSE): Recent Activities
    Presentation on NIBLSE at the 2019 Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference
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    2011-Yuan-EtAl-Real life applications of ODEs for Undergraduates
    This study introduces real-life mathematical theories and models of international relationships suitable for undergraduate ordinary differential equations, by investigating contradicts between...
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    2008-Taro-Blog on Modern Political Economy-Differential Equations in Our Life
    Differential equations - easy to hear but often impossible to solve- are around there in our life. If you are an econ learner, you have much time to express the economy by using differential...
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    1-016-DogDrugs-ModelingScenario
    We offer a problem to determine the necessary drug administration in order to keep a dog sedated with specific information on half-life for an exponentially decaying presence of the drug in the body.
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    Life in Urban Environments: The Impact of Urbanization on Life-History Traits in Amphibian Species
    This lesson focuses on urbanization and its negative effects on species, specifically amphibians. The lesson will also provide hands-on statistical analyses and critical thinking questions to...
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