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    Prioritizing your Data Science Curriculum
    This is the summary powerpoint of the Monday session at the BioQUEST / QUBES 2019 Summer Workshop including the description of the student data project on height change overnight.

    Keywords: data scienceOER2019 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshopdata science educationNASEM

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    The Polar Bear of the Salt Marsh? Warming Tolerance Limits of Local Species
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science- In the adaptation exercise, students explore connections between saltmarsh sparrow declines and declining populations of local species that live...

    Keywords: Coastal wetlandsConnecticutmanagementnortheastsea-level risesalt marsh

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    The Polar Bear of the Salt Marsh?
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science- in this interrupted case study, students follow a young naturalist as she explores why saltmarsh sparrows are increasingly rare in coastal...

    Keywords: Coastal wetlandsConnecticutmanagementnortheastsea-level risesalt marsh

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    Author Guidelines
    These Author Guidelines are designed to assist module authors throughout this participatory process of creating a new OCELOTS module or adapting an existing one.
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    Globally endangered sea turtles of the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge: A Focus on Scientific Analysis
    Based on the sea turtle case, students will (1) work on a worksheet by analyzing existing survey data, (2) conduct a literature review of two relevant research, and (3) draft a proposal for a...

    Keywords: sea turtle conservationliterature reviewResearch methodsProposal writingPalmyra Atoll

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    1994-S_S_Everingham-C_Peter_Rydell-Modeling the Demand for Cocaine
    This is a report prepared for the Office of National Drug Control Policy of the United States Army by the Rand Corporation. The report contains lots of data and builds a two compartment difference...

    Keywords: drugstwo compartmentcocainedemand

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    Colon Cancer: A Case of Genetic Bad Luck
    Case study developed for an introductory genetics class published in the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNCBINIBLSEBLASTPublished in National Center for Case Study Teaching in Sciencecolon cancerpedigreegenetic testingAPC

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    Introduction to IGELS: Tools, Tips, & Strategies to Enhance Undergraduate Biology for Non-majors
    The national network for the Interactions in General Education Life Science Courses (IGELS) is a coalition of biologists and biology educators collaborating to support and mentor “non-major...

    Keywords: NABT 2022IGELS

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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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    US Forest Service land management efforts with Kurt Sable
    Kurt Sable has been a Hydrologist for the US Forest Service for 17 years, working for three different National Forests in Northern California. He supplies insight on the watershed restoration...

    Keywords: forest ecologyhydrologywildfirenatural resources

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    The intersection of research and operations in Meteorology with Dr. Katie Wilson
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientist Dr. Katie Wilson discusses with us the intersection of research and operations in the field of Meteorology.

    Keywords: climatenoaameteorologyweather

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    Advances in Genome Sequencing with Nathan Olson
    In this Lunch with a Scientist episode, we discuss Genome Sequencing and Bioinformatics with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) biologist Nate Olson, Ph.D.

    Keywords: Bioinformatics and Genomics

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    Uninhibited Growth of Cells
    In this activity, students will explore the concept of binary fission, generation time, and bacterial growth curves, with an emphasis on the log phase. Students will use semi-log graphs and linear...

    Keywords: graphingexponential growthMicrobiology Educationmicrobiologybacteriagrowth rateUndergraduate STEM educationCommunity College Educationqbccmanipulate equationsCellular and Molecular BiologyCreate graphsInterpret graphsbinary fissionsemi-log graphlinear graphgrowth curvecreating graphsExponential and Logarithmic Functions

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    Using Linear Regression to Explore Environmental Factors Affecting Vector-borne Diseases
    In this activity students will use linear regression to analyze real data on vector-borne diseases and explore how environmental factors such as climate change or population density influence the...

    Keywords: ecologygraphingmicrobiologyqbccUnderstanding ratesCreate graphsInterpret graphsinterpret tablesConcepts in Statistics

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    Genomics Education Alliance: Towards Genomics CURE templates
    Here we present major findings of a national survey of faculty teaching genomics CUREs conducted by the GEA, and our work on presenting relevant resources on the QUBES web portal.

    Keywords: genomicsRNAseqCURECUREscourse-based research experiences (CUREs)

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    BioSkills Guide
    The BioSkills Guide comprises program- and course-level learning outcomes for the Vision and Change core competencies that elaborate what general biology majors should be able to do by the time...
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    Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally
    How does nutrient pollution impact stream ecosystems locally and nationally?
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    Bioinformatics: An Interactive Introduction to NCBI
    Modules showing how the NCBI database classifies and organizes information on DNA sequences, evolutionary relationships, and scientific publications. And a module working to identify a nucleotide...

    Keywords: NCBINIBLSEDNABLASTnucleotide sequencing

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    QUBES: a community focused on supporting teaching and learning in quantitative biology
    This letter provides an overview of the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) Project funded through the National Science Foundation.

    Keywords: mathematicseducationQUBESprofessional developmentbiologycollaborationproceedings

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    CURE-all: Large Scale Implementation of Authentic DNA Barcoding Research into First-Year Biology Curriculum
    Growing calls in science education reform have emphasized wide-scale engagement of first-year undergraduate students in authentic research experiences; however, large course enrollments, inadequate...

    Keywords: phylogeneticsbioinformaticsBiodiversityprocess of sciencetaxonomyPCRDNADNA sequencegel electrophoresis

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