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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...
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Understanding the Quantitative and Computational Skills of Incoming Biology Students
27 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Charles Umbanhowar Jr, Jason M Belitsky, P. Brodfuehrer, Gregory Davis, T. Haque, L. Lee, C. McFadden, Paul Overvoorde, M. Preest, Liz Stanhope, M. Vinces, Andrew Zieffler, Laura Ziegler
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/244Insufficient mathematical preparation has been linked to the failure of incoming students to persist in STEM-related majors. In addition, recent advances in computation allow biologists...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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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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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Biomathematics education from the viewpoint of graduate biology
21 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Alexis White
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/253Biology and mathematics in early education are often presented as two distinct entities. The strength of both disciplines becomes highlighted when combined to create the cryptic study of...
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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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Biometeorology of Asthma in South Florida: From Statistical Analysis to Mathematical Modeling
21 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): David Quesada
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/251Biometeorology has emerged as an interdisciplinary field dedicated to the study of the mutual influence between living things and the surrounding environment. Within this field, the study of...
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Using Online Materials/Videos to Enrich Linear Algebra for Scientists
21 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Sarah Hews
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/250Linear algebra is an important course for biology majors but it is usually designed for math majors (emphasizing proofs) or engineers (focusing more on matrix algebra and algorithms)....
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Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century
23 Sep 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Daniel R. Taub, Gillian S. Graham
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/263The Ecological QuestionHow might global temperature change during the 21st century? How might these changes vary geographically, seasonally, and depending upon future human...
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Changes in Lake Ice: Ecosystem Response to Global Change
23 Sep 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Robert E. Bohanan, Marianne Krasny, Adam Welman
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/266Ecological QuestionIs there evidence for global warming in long term data on changes in dates of ice cover in three Wisconsin Lakes?This activity uses ice cover records from three lakes in...
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HHMI Teacher Guide: Math and Statistics
23 Sep 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Paul Strode, Ann Brokaw
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/342Topics include measures of average (mean, median, and mode), variability (range and standard deviation), uncertainty (standard error and 95% confidence interval), Chi-square analysis, student...
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Investigating the Footprint of Climate Change on Phenology and Ecological Interactions in North-Central North America
23 Sep 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Kellen M. Calinger
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/267The Ecological QuestionHave long-term temperatures changed throughout Ohio? How will these temperature changes impact plant and animal phenology, ecological interactions, and, as a result,...
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R Commander
04 Sep 2015 | Software (On-site) | Contributor(s): Drew LaMar
R provides a powerful and comprehensive system for analysing data and when used in conjunction with the R-commander (a graphical user interface, commonly known as Rcmdr) it also provides one that is easy and intuitive to use.
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Calculus, Zombies, Community, and QUBES
25 Aug 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Carrie Diaz Eaton
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/225At the interface of mathematics and biology emerges not only new research, but also a resurging call for education to meet the demands of this research. Reports suggest foundational...
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E. coli Citrate Use
11 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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Monkey Opsins
11 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...