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    5-014-TwoSpringMass-ModelingScenario
    We ask students to build a Free Body Diagram for a vertical two mass situation in which the two masses are held fixed at the tip and at the bottom. The mass holds the springs together at the join...

    Keywords: massspring mass dampersprings

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    6-075-LorenzSystemSimulation-ModelingScenario
    The Lorenz system is examined by students as a simple model of chaotic behavior or strange attractor. MATLAB code is created to find the numerical solutions of the Lorenz’ system of nonlinear...

    Keywords: chaososcillatorLorenzwaterwheelstrange attractorbifurcation effect

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    Genome Hunters: A Quantitative Biology Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE)
    Poster outlining the process of designing, implementing, and assessing a new quantitative biology CURE course series. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute.

    Keywords: quantitative biologycourse-based undergraduate research experienceCURE2021 BIOME

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    QUBES: An education gateway for accelerating undergraduate biology education reform
    Poster about QUBES as an education gateway presented at the 2020 Partners@QUBES Leadership Summit.

    Keywords: cyberinfrastructureeducation gateway

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    Using Bioinformatics to Understand Genetic Diseases: A Practical Guide
    This Practical Guide outlines a number of basic bioinformatics approaches that can be used to understand the molecular basis of genetic diseases.
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    What Moves You?
    Using various bone segments to create joints that will explain planar movement and then develop a mechanical model of different joint types that will allow certain movement in a robotic unit.
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    Cell Collective: Learning biology with modeling and simulations
    Cell Collective is an online, research-grade modeling platform adapted to engage students in creating and simulating dynamic models of biological processes.

    Keywords: modelingsimulationSimulationsCell Collective

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    Encouraging student collaboration and networking and improving student access to undergraduate research opportunities.
    We describe, as a case study, work done by two undergraduate students on a specific enzyme in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila.

    Keywords: undergraduate researchstudent researchenzymes

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    QUBES: An education gateway for professional development, OER sharing, and project support
    Poster about QUBES as an education gateway presented at the 2019 ASCN Transforming Institutions

    Keywords: cyberinfrastructureeducation gateway

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    The Education for Sustainability – Philly Project: Supporting Teachers to Develop Lessons on Sustainability
    Talk given as a part of the Symposium - Communities of Practice for Math Modeling Education at the SIAM 2018 Conference

    Keywords: SIAMsustainabilityResources @ MMHubResources @ SIAMEd 2018

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    The Math Modeling Hub: a New Online Community of Practice for Educators
    Talk given as a part of the Symposium - Communities of Practice for Math Modeling Education at the SIAM 2018 Conference

    Keywords: SIAMCommunities of PracticeResources @ MMHubResources @ SIAMEd 2018

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    EQUITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND BIOLOGY: DEMYSTIFYING RACE WITH GENETICS OF HUMAN SKIN COLOR
    Poster on a case study on the genetics of human skin color presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: geneticssocial justiceSummer Workshop 2018racehuman skin color

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    Math anxiety and attitudes in biology undergraduate students
    Session presentation for BIOMAAP at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: math anxietymath attitudesBIOMAAPSummer Workshop 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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    Reaching Across Boundaries: Building Relationships, Sharing, & Learning Online
    Presentation given as part of a Minisymposium at BEER 2015.

    Keywords: social mediaCommunities of Practiceonline learning communities

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    Using gross parasites to sneak even grosser equations into the introductory biology classroom
    This was an oral presentation at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists in Omaha, NE.

    Keywords: ParasitologyAmerican Society for Parasitologists

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    Polyploidapalooza: Exploring the diversity and evolution of polyploid plants and animals
    This series of modules explores the complex world of polyploidy, including species formation, cell division, evolution, conservation, and economic importance. We focus on polyploidy across the...

    Keywords: Evolutionconservationnatural historyCell DivisionhybridizationPolyploidygenome duplicationallopolyploidyautopolyploidy

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    The Tentative Nature of Science
    This part focuses on the tentative nature of science

    Keywords: scienceCOVID19Tentative Nature

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    Towards better modelling and decision support: Documenting model development, testing, and analysis using TRACE
    We introduce TRACE, a framework for documenting model testing and analysis. TRACE is based on the recently proposed framework of model "evaluation" , and is designed to make models fit for...

    Keywords: standardizationgood modelling practicerisk assessmentdecision supportTRACEResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Reference

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    E. coli Citrate Use
    EvoEd module on citrate use in E.coli

    Keywords: modulephylogeneticsecologycell biologymolecular genetics

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