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    Reading and Discussing Popular Media to Increase SEA-PHAGES Student Engagement
    This module introduces ways for students to connect their SEA-PHAGES work and real life medical trials with events presented in Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis’s 1925 Pulitzer prize winning novel on...

    Keywords: discussionsbacteriophagereadingSEA-PHAGESpopular media

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    Small Organisms with Big Consequences: Understanding the Microbial World Around Us
    Creating a hands-on lab that conveys important information while simultaneously allowing for student autonomy can be difficult. This is particularly true for the field of microbiology, in which...

    Keywords: disease transmissionmicrobiologymicrobiomeliterature reviewPeer reviewPathogensHealth and WellnessThe Scientific Method

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    Application of a Bacterial Experimental Evolution System to Visualize and Teach Evolution in Action: A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience
    Concepts of evolution are typically taught through examples of extremely long timescales, which do not always resonate broadly. Here, we describe a course-based undergraduate research experience...

    Keywords: EvolutionmutationcompetitionNatural Selectionregulationstructure and functionreproductive fitnessgenotype to phenotypehomologs

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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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    Implicit Bias in Data Visualization (BIOME 2022 presentation)
    We want to build cooperative spaces where students can improve the quality of their work in iterative ways. However, are we sure that students will rate each other in unbiased ways. We will take...
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    Implicit Bias in Data Visualization (BIOME 2022 presentation)
    We want to build cooperative spaces where students can improve the quality of their work in iterative ways. However, are we sure that students will rate each other in unbiased ways. We will take...
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    Choose Your Own Adventure: Control a Wildlife Disease Epidemic
    This educational game allows teams of students to try to control a simulated epidemic in United States snake populations using their epidemiological and ecological knowledge. It combines a "choose...

    Keywords: educational game

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    A Laboratory Module That Explores RNA Interference and Codon Optimization Through Fluorescence Microscopy Using Caenorhabditis elegans
    Scientific research experiences are beneficial to students allowing them to gain laboratory and problem-solving skills, as well as foundational research skills in a team-based setting. We designed...

    Keywords: microscopyC. elegansquantitative analysisinquiry-based learninggene expressionRNA interferenceCodon UsageLaboratory Module

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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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    HSI - Student Research Journal - Vol.2 Issue 1 - Spring 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. 2 - Issue 1 - Spring 2021...

    Keywords: scientific methodscience education

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    Mock Drug Activity Enhances Student Learning About the Challenges of HIV/AIDS Therapy
    While traditional didactic coursework is important for learning about the scientific aspects of HIV/AIDS, it is difficult to convey social aspects of the epidemic. Due to effective drug therapies,...

    Keywords: drug resistanceRetrovirusViral replication

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    HSI - Student Research Journal - Vol.1 Issue 4 - Fall 2020
    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. 1 - Issue 4 - Fall 2020...

    Keywords: scientific methodscience education

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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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    Sequences and Properties of Gluten Proteins From Different Grains: A Virtual-Friendly Protein Laboratory
    The COVID-19 pandemic has forced much university instruction into virtual modes. As a result, many laboratory courses have either dropped content altogether or replaced hands-on activities with...

    Keywords: protein structure and functionProtein sequenceintermolecular forcesBiomacromolecules

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    Medical Student Opinions of a Gross Anatomy Course Aided with Prosection
    Dissection manuals and color atlases are useful tools in the anatomy lab, but do not provide the important three-dimensional (3-D) relationships between structures. For the first time at the...

    Keywords: Gross AnatomyStructure function relationMorphological variationProsected specimen as teaching tool

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    Evaluating the potential for immune escape: how likely is an antibody to protect against a specific SARS-CoV-2 variant?
    Commercial antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein have been successfully used to treat people with COVID-19. Unfortunately, as the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolves, new variants have appeared that can...

    Keywords: course based undergraduate research experiencesBLASTmolecular modelingSARS-CoV-2antibodyNextstrainiCn3DSequence alignmentStructure alignment

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    7-011-CoupledSystemLaplace-ModelingScenario
    Differential equations and Laplace transforms are an integral part of control problems in engineering systems. We consider a baby warming device.

    Keywords: transfer functionpolycarbonatebaby heatercoupled systemheating

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    1-024-MalariaControl-ModelingScenario
    This project offers students a chance to make policy recommendations based on the analysis of models using both linear (exponential decay) and non-linear (logistic growth) differential equations.

    Keywords: population dynamicsmalariaPolicyDecision-makingEuler's methodpharmacokineticsmosquitoimproved Euler's methodHuen's methodUS Army

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    1-021-FeralCatControl-ModelingScenario
    Students act as professional mathematical consultants and write a report analyzing the client's problem. The client company is a fictional organization which advocates for the use of...

    Keywords: population growthcontrolferal catspopulation controlneutertrap-killtrap-neuter-return

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    1-079-HomeHeating-ModelingScenario
    This project concerns using Newton's Law of Cooling to model the heating of a house. In particular, if one is going away for awhile, is it more economical to leave a house at a desired temperature...

    Keywords: Optimal Control TheorytemperatureheatfurnaceNewton's Law of Coolinghome heatingspecific heat

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