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    QUBES: Building a community to promote undergraduate quantitative biology education
    Poster on the QUBES project presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: QUBESfaculty mentoring networkscommunitySummer Workshop 2018

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    National Institute for STEM Evaluation and Research (NISER)
    Poster on program evaluation presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: evaluationNISERprogram evaluationSummer Workshop 2018

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    Confronting the challenges of bringing research data into undergraduate classrooms using online faculty mentoring networks
    Poster on using ecological research data in undergraduate courses

    Keywords: Ecological Society of Americafmn

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    Reimagining professional development: Faculty mentoring networks as a model for connecting projects and teachers
    iDigBio webinar providing background on the QUBES project, examples of how faculty mentoring networks have made it possible for diverse educational programs to reach new audiences, and a framework...

    Keywords: webinar

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    Faculty Mentoring Networks: A Model for Promoting Teaching Scholarship in Quantitative Biology Education
    Presentation given at NABT 2016 on Faculty Mentoring Networks and teaching scholarship in quantitative biology education.

    Keywords: faculty mentoring networksquantitative biology education

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    Professional development in quantitative biology and its relationship to promoting scholarly teaching
    Poster presented at Ecological Society of America Annual Conference 2017.

    Keywords: Faculty Mentoring Network

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    QUBES: Building a community to promote undergraduate quantitative biology education
    QUBES is designed to improve communication among educators, assist faculty in understanding and implementing novel content and teaching strategies in their classrooms, and create an academic reward...

    Keywords: QUBES

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    Teaching Notes for Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century
    This is an FMN participant supplement for the TIEE module "Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century," authored by Daniel R. Taub and Gillian S. Graham in 2011.

    Keywords: ecologyLabfmnLectureUndergraduateData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelAdvancedActivity LengthMore than 1 hour

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    Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century
    This is an FMN participant modification of the TIEE module "Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century," authored by Daniel R. Taub and Gillian S. Graham in 2011.

    Keywords: ecologyIntroductoryfmnLectureUndergraduateData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelActivity LengthMore than 1 hour

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    Modeling Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century
    This is an FMN participant modification of the TIEE module "Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century," authored by Daniel R. Taub and Gillian S. Graham in 2011.

    Keywords: ecologyLabEcological Society of AmericafmnLectureUndergraduateData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelAdvancedActivity LengthMore than 1 hour

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    Using Science Education Gateways to Improve Undergraduate STEM Education: The QUBES Platform as a Case Study
    This paper describes BioQUEST's vision for the QUBES platform as an engine for science education reform. 

    Keywords: Science Education Gateway

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    2017-Bruce_Emerson-Wonderful World of Differential Equations
    This is a terrific set of noted with models and applications woven into the material at every opportunity and data as well. This is introductory differential equations with attention to detail and...

    Keywords: Newton's Second Law of MotionNewton's Law of CoolingreactionsPoiseuille’s Lawstopping distancerate of changeproblemsmodeling opportunities

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    2017-Andras_Domokos-Differential Equations - Theory and Applications – Notes
    This is a terrific set of notes with models and applications woven into the material at every opportunity and data as well. This is introductory differential equations with attention to detail and...

    Keywords: Newton's Second Law of MotionNewton's Law of Coolingbiochemical reactionsPoiseuille’s Lawstopping distance

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    1-145-FastPitch-ModelingScenario
    We consider the problem of comparing pitch velocities using measurement methods in different eras of baseball.

    Keywords: Measurementresistanceair resistancebaseballpitcherfast

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    1-030-RandomPerturbation-TechniqueNarrative
    After a brief historical view of this problem, we will demonstrate the derivation of first order linear differential equations with random perturbations.

    Keywords: random perturbationBrownian motionLangevin equationRiemann-Steiltjes integralWiener processIto's calculus

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    1-110-TidePoolSnails-ModelingScenario
    Students use linear differential equations to model temperature change, in a sand tide pool and inside the shell of a snail in the tide pool. We offer data on temperature in a tide pool as the...

    Keywords: datasnailstemperatureNewton's Law of CoolingcoolingNewtonwarmingtital pooltide pool

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    1-141-MMGameRevisited-ModelingScenario
    It is assumed that the probability of an M&M chocolate, when tossed, falling on the M side is 0.5 The goal is to find a probability distribution of the probability q which is Pr(randomly chosen...

    Keywords: Probabilitystochastic processesBayesian methodsprobability distribution

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    3-017-StackedCoffeeFiltersFalling-ModelingScenario
    Data on free falling 2, 4, 6, and 8 stacked coffee filters is offered. Students form a model using a resistance term proportional to velocity, velocity squared, or velocity to some general power....

    Keywords: dataresistancefalling bodycoffee filterstacked

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    4-036-AltitudeDependentGravity-ModelingScenario
    When projectiles are way above Earth's surface gravity's changes become important when dealing with projectiles at high altitudes. We lay out an approach for such a case which is a second-order...

    Keywords: agravityprojectilelinearizationltitufealtitude

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    6-009-FakeNews-ModelingScenario
    In modern society, creating and disseminating information is easier than ever. In this project, you will model the spread of fake news and investigate ways to deter distributing misinformation.

    Keywords: sensitivity analysisSIR modelsSIS modelfake news

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