Quantitative Evolutionary Biology on the QUBESHub

27 Jul 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Kristin Jenkins

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/227Welcome to QUBESHub - a virtual meeting space, resource center and collaborative environment for you to enhance quantitative biology in your undergraduate courses.  This space is highly...

Quantitative Modules to accompany general biology courses

06 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Lou Gross, Susan Harrell Yee, Monica Beals

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/828This collection of about 50 modules were developed to accompany general biology courses and allow instructors to add some quantitative examples in many of the topics in a...

Quantitative reasoning: Interdisciplinary STEM 21st century reasoning modality

14 Jun 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Robert Lee Mayes

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/316Date & Time:Wednesday, June 17 @ 9AMDescription:The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS 2013) and the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (NGA 2010) call for improving...

QUBES News, Highlights, and the Grand Opening of QUBESHub.org

27 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Drew LaMar, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Alison N Hale, DorothyBelle Poli, Bob Sheehy

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/216The mission of the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) project is to improve learning opportunities for all students enrolled in undergraduate biology courses...

QUBES: A vision of community collaboration in teaching and learning in quantitative biology

25 Jul 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Drew LaMar, Carrie Diaz Eaton

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/231/QUBES, which stands for Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis, is an NSF Research Coordination Network in Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE) and was recently...

QUBES: Building a community to promote undergraduate quantitative biology education

22 Jul 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Alison N Hale, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Sam S Donovan

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/232This was a poster session at the 2015 Ecological Society of America meeting in Baltimore, MD.Ecology has developed into a field with a strong emphasis on quantitative research. As a result,...

QUBES: Supporting faculty in the teaching of mathematical biology

21 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Carrie Diaz Eaton, Sam S Donovan, Tom Gower, Kristin Jenkins, Drew LaMar, DorothyBelle Poli, Bob Sheehy, Jeremy M Wojdak

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/218Faculty are working hard to meet the career needs of students in mathematical biology at institutions across the country and the world. This may be by creating mathematical biology courses or...

Radiant Lite

24 Jul 2019 | Software (On-site) | Contributor(s): Drew LaMar

Stripped down version of Radiant on QUBES

Reaching Across Boundaries: Building Relationships, Sharing, & Learning Online

27 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Ruth Kermish-Allen

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/245The tools of the digital age are beginning to change the way we interact, the way we learn, the way we act, and the way we define our identities...for better or worse.  How can this love...

Robot vs. Disease: Using CellProfiler to model biomedical research in your classroom

15 Jun 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Mark Bray

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/315Date & Time:Saturday, June 13 @ 2PM & Sunday June 14, @2PMDescription: In this session, I will introduce the open-source and freely-available software package CellProfiler,...

Sealing the Deal The Grey Seal Problem in the U.S. Northeast

18 Jan 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Matthew S. Kaufman

"This case study uses a PowerPoint-driven approach combined with role-playing to explore issues surrounding the grey seal population off the coast of New England, specifically Chatham, Massachusetts. After gathering information, the students take the part of Chatham City council members and...

SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations

20 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Brian Winkel

SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations  is about teaching differential equations using modeling and technology upfront and throughout the learning process. You can learn more at our dynamic website, www.simiode.org, where we...

Small-world models

02 Jun 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Winfried Just, Hannah Lea Callender

Small-world networks are classes of networks that have both the small-world property and exhibit strong clustering. Two constructions of such networks are implemented in IONTW. Here we study, both theoretically and with simulation experiments, the structure of these networks and how it influences...

Statistical Exploration of Climate Data

11 Mar 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Tamra Carpenter, Robert Vanderbei, Jon Kettenring

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/900Teacher version       Student versionThis module is appropriate for introductory statistics classes.Supporting files: Module figures for...

statsTeachR

23 Jan 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Nicholas Reich, Andrea Foulkes, Harrel Blatt, Eric Cohen, Gregory Matthews

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/781From the project website:What is statsTeachR?statsTeachR is an open-access, online repository of modular lesson plans, a.k.a. "modules", for teaching...

Staying Alive: Extinction Risk: Introduction to Extinction and Extinction Bias

08 Jul 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Samantha Price, Peggy Schaeffer, Anna Thanukos, Samantha Swauger

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/275Data used in this activity are derived from: Price, S.A., and Gittleman J.L. 2007. Hunting to extinction: biology and regional economy influence extinction risk and the impact of hunting in...

Survivorship in the Natural World

09 Jul 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Anne M. Bronikowski, Jeanne Altmann, Diane K. Brockman, Marina Cords, Linda M. Fedigan, Anne Pusey, Tara Stoinski, William F. Morris, Karen B. Strier, Susan C. Alberts, Samantha Swauger

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/273Data used in this activity are derived from: Bronikowski A.M., Altmann J., Brockman D.K., Cords, M., Fedigan, L.M., Pusey, A., Stoinski, T., Morris, W.F., Strier, K.B., Alberts, S.C. (2011)...

Teaching Exponential and Logistic Growth in a Variety of Classroom and Laboratory Settings

03 Aug 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Barry Aronhime, Bret D. Elderd, Carol Wicks, Margaret McMichael, Elizabeth Eich

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/268Ecology and conservation biology contain numerous examples of populations growing without bounds or shrinking towards extinction. For these populations, the change in the number of...

The Evolution (and Coevolution) of Flowering Plants

02 Dec 2016 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Anna Monfils, Debra Linton, Libby Ellwood, Molly Phillips

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/277In this laboratory exercise, students will explore the diversity of flower and fruit adaptations that have evolved to accomplish pollination and seed dispersal and investigate the...

The Evolution of Color Vision in Monkeys: From Nucleotides to Ecology

16 Jun 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Merle Heidemann, Peter J.T. White, Jim Smith

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/843This case study examines the evolution color vision in Old World and New World monkeys from multiple biological perspectives. This integrative approach employs both...