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E. coli Citrate Use
24 Aug 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/357Bacteria are excellent model organisms for studying evolution. They are easy to grow, maintain, and handle under very controlled conditions. Even more importantly for evolution...
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Ecology and Epidemiology in R
09 May 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/837
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IMMERSION Video
27 Jul 2017 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Alondra Torres-Navarro
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Integrating Natural History Collections into Undergraduate Education: Creating the Resources and Growing the Community
14 Nov 2016 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Anna Monfils, Libby Ellwood, Debra Linton, Molly Phillips, Joseph A. Cook, Joseph Kerski, Tracy Barbaro, Sam S Donovan, Karen Powers, L. Alan Prather, Rob Guralnick
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/328Natural history collection specimens and associated data provide unique physical and virtual opportunities to engage students in the practice of science in authentic, place-based lessons. We...
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Integrating student research projects into mathematical biology courses
21 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Elissa Schwartz
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/256Interdisciplinary mathematical biology courses have particular challenges. Specific teaching methods are necessary in order to engage students with varying levels of competency in mathematics...
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Introduction to Genome Browser: What is a Gene?
21 Feb 2018 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Joyce Stamm
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/850 Genes encode information that our cells use to carry out their functions. In particular,...
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IPMpack: an R package for Integral Projection Models
19 Jan 2015 | Software (Off-site) | Contributor(s): C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Sean M. McMahon, Roberto Salguero-Gómez, Eelke Jongejans, Cory Merow
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/779IPMpack is an R package (R Development Core Team 2013) that allows users to build and analyse Integral Projection Models. An IPM is a demographic tool to explore the...
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IQS 2.0: A Modularized Integrated Math and Science Course
21 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Lester Caudill
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/252For the past several years, the University of Richmond has offered an Integrated Quantitative Science (IQS) course, integrating introductory courses in five math and science disciplines, to...
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MathBench Biology Modules
13 Mar 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Katerina V. Thompson, Kären C. Nelson, Gili Marbach-Ad, Michael Keller, William F. Fagan, Patricia A. Shields
Modules designed to help students understand the math behind the material learned in introductory ecology courses.
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Measuring the Health of the Earth Using the Theory of Island Biography
11 Mar 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Jana Eggleston, Stephanie Renee Campau, Farshid Ahrestani, Holly D Gaff
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/868Biodiversity has been shown to be a good measure of the health of the planet system (McGrady-Steed et al. 1997). The more species and genetic diversity, the more stable the...
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Mentoring Undergraduate Research Projects in Mathematical Biology
21 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Timothy Comar
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/255For several years, we have been mentoring undergraduate research projects in the areas of the dynamics of impulsive differential equation models for pest management and epidemiology and the...
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Modeling the Mechanisms of Evolution
25 May 2018 | Software (On-site) | Contributor(s): Jackie Matthes
Simulate population-level mechanisms of evolution: genetic drift, gene flow, and natural selection.
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Modeling: A Primer - The crafty art of making, exploring, extending, transforming, tweaking, bending, disassembling, questioning, and breaking models
26 Feb 2016 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): William Wimsatt, Jeff Schank
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/346Explore how to use, analyze, and criticize some important and historically influential models in biology in this text only module.
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ModelSim Population Biology Unit
18 May 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/902This resource provides rich student modeling activities and materials, teacher resources, and much more, in the realm of agent based models applied to population biology....
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Modernizing Statistics Education via Biology Applications
21 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Olcay Akman
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/254In most traditional statistics courses, instructors use data from different fields in an effort to give the courses an interdisciplinary flavor. They generally fail because these attempts...
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Monkey Opsins
20 Aug 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/356Humans have trichromatic vision. Our eyes detect colors in the visible range of the spectrum using three different cone cell types, each maximally stimulated by a different wavelength of...
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Numbers Count!: Calculus 2 course
28 Mar 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Claudia Neuhauser
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/751Based upon the University of Minnesota Bachelor's of Science in Health Science calculus curriculum (part 2), this course introduces linear transformations,...
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Open science, open data, open source projects for undergraduate research experiences
17 Jun 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Kam Dahlquist
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/314Description:In this workshop, I will demonstrate a suite of open source tools that students use in my courses to conduct original research in my courses. In a team-taught, cross-listed...
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Outstanding Oaks: Quercus phenology at NEON sites
09 Oct 2018 | Software (On-site) | Contributor(s): Jackie Matthes
This app visualizes data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) observations of oak phenology at three different sites.
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Panel Discussion for using QUBES in your classroom
27 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): DorothyBelle Poli, Bob Sheehy
This resource has been updated - find the current version here https://qubeshub.org/publications/215QUBES will provide a panel of personnel who will be able to answer your questions and elaborate in a more complete way about the QUBES Hub functions, uses, and tools. This session will...