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    Forests for the Future: How Can Trees Offset Carbon Emissions?
    This activity explores the chemistry and biology underlying forest carbon sequestration, a process that removes carbon from the atmosphere via photosynthesis and storage in plant tissues and soils....

    Keywords: carbon foot printCarbon sequestration of forests vegetationforest ecology (structure and function)

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    Walkabout: An Easy to Use, Experiential Learning Activity for Applying Abstract Concepts to the Real-World
    Students can have difficulty recognizing examples of course concepts in the real-world. They particularly struggle with phenomena that are ambiguously defined, have mimics, or are hard to...

    Keywords: data gatheringgreen technologyobservations

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    Central Dogma, Dictionaries, and Functions: Using Programming Concepts to Simulate Biological Processes
    Technologies like next-generation sequencing, proteomics, and high-throughput phenotyping have transformed the way we do biology. There is a continued need for scientists with computational skills...

    Keywords: computationpythonJupyter notebookFunctionscentral dogmaDictionaries

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    Before You Start Publishing on QUBES
    This handy guide follows the Instructions for Authors to keep together all the text that can then be copied during the publication process. Notes and comments in this document are italicized so...

    Keywords: QUBESOERpublish on QUBESpublish

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    Facilitating Scientific Literacy Through Writing: A Write-to-Learn Assignment for Large Introductory Undergraduate Biology Courses
    Write-to-learn (WTL) assignments have been used in a variety of disciplines to encourage conceptual learning and critical thinking in undergraduate education. These assignments focus on...

    Keywords: geneticsEvolutionecologyCellsPlants form and functionAnimals form and function

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    Learning How to Make “Good Enough” Estimations
    The ability to estimate physical quantities is a useful skill that can help develop critical thinking and scientific literacy. This lesson provides an accessible way to teach students how to...

    Keywords: MeasurementestimationcommunicationProblem Solvinggroup workUnit conversion

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    ICABL: An Inclusive Community for the Assessment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) Learning (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    ICABL is an inclusive and collaborative community that supports the professional development of biochemistry and molecular biology scientist-educators committed to the enhancement of student...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    The (STEM)2 Network - Sustainable, Transformative Engagement across a Multi-Institution and Multidisciplinary STEM Network (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    Enhance undergraduate STEM education by promoting new and strengthening existing collaborations among biology, chemistry, and math faculty at 2- and 4-year institutions; and support faculty in...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Fatty Acid Induction of Lipid Droplets in Cancer Cells
    There is a growing need for the development and communication of cell culture-based laboratory activities specifically designed for undergraduate students. This multi-week laboratory activity...

    Keywords: Course based undergraduate researchCell ImagingLive Cell Staining

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    BEIC - Creation of the Biology Educator/Researcher Cross-Segment Collective (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The Biology Education Intersegmental Collaborative aids faculty learning communities consisting of 2- and 4-year partners to improve community college and transfer student outcomes. BEIC supports...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    YEAH - Youth Environment Alliance in Higher Education (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The Youth Environment Alliance in Higher Education (YEAH) Network links academic institutions together to provide integrated knowledge that empowers students to address complex global environmental...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    REC Network - Deepening and Expanding the Mission and Outcomes of the Re-Envisioning Culture Network (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The Re-Envisioning Culture Network (REC Network) is a group of diverse individuals across institutions of higher education, STEM careers, K-12 education, Black cultural spaces, the arts, and the...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    CRISPR in the Classroom Network - Bringing CRISPR-Cas9 technologies to the undergraduate classroom: an undergraduate instructors' network (RCN Introduction)
    Our RCN-UBE seeks to develop a national network for the development and implementation of experiential-based course modules for undergraduates centered around CRISPR-Cas9 technology through...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    AK UNiTE - Alaska Undergraduate Research Experience: Partnering for Alaska Students by Growing Recruitment and Retention through Undergraduate Research (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    AK UNiTE is a network that supports research mentors in culturally sensitive mentoring practices, offers place-based research opportunities throughout Alaska to empower Alaskan students to become...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    SOAR - San Francisco Bay Research Coordination Network for Student Opportunities in Avian Research to enhance STEM education and assess human impacts on avian biodiversity (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The San Francisco Bay Research Coordination Network for Student Opportunities in Avian Research (SOAR) brings together faculty, students, and volunteers to implement an experiential learning and...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Adaptation of Environmental Pollution & Public Health for Water and Emerging Contaminants (Project EDDIE)
    Environmental health is a field of study within public health that is concerned with human-environment interactions, and specifically, how the environment influences public well-being. In this...

    Keywords: public healthProject EDDIEwater qualitypollutionpfas

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    ROSE Network - The Research on STEM Education Network: Improving Research Inclusivity through a Grassroots Culture of Scientific Teaching (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    ROSE provides professional development and networking opportunities for CC and HBCU faculty.

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    BioGraphI - Biologists and Graph Interpretation: Professional development for an online curriculum to foster data literacy and value diverse identities (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    Biologists and Graph Interpretation (BioGraphI) is an RCN of faculty who work collaboratively to increase student persistence in biology through improving representation of diverse scientists in...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    VISABLI - an RCN-UBE for Visualizations, Interactive Simulations, and Animations for Biology Learning & Instruction (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    Our network improves instructional multimedia design for biology education by fostering communication and collaboration among members of three communities: undergraduate biology instructors,...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Environmental Pollution & Public Health (Project EDDIE) used in an introductory Environmental Challenges course
    Environmental health is a field of study within public health that is concerned with human-environment interactions, and specifically, how the environment influences public well-being. In this...

    Keywords: public healthProject EDDIEpollution

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