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Counting the Forest and the Trees: Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) is a tool for Vision and Change
27 Jul 2015 | | Contributor(s):: DorothyBelle Poli
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/228/Vision and Change stressed the importance of quantitative skills for the future of science in the United States. In response to this plea, biologists and mathematicians came together to...
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QUBES: Building a community to promote undergraduate quantitative biology education
22 Jul 2015 | | 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,...
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A collaborative approach to quantitative biology course reform: It's better than doing it all by yourself
19 Jul 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Jeremy M Wojdak
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/233This is the abstract of an oral presentation given at the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA in 2015. "Faculty often experience two distinct problems as...
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Using gross parasites to sneak even grosser equations into the introductory biology classroom
19 Jul 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Jeremy M Wojdak
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/234This was an oral presentation at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists in Omaha, NE. "College faculty that teach introductory courses often struggle to...
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CONFERENCE: QUBES preaches to the choir at the Society for Mathematical Biology in Atlanta, GA
07 Jul 2015 |
Posted by Jeremy M Wojdak
John Jungck, Director of the Interdisciplinary Science Learning Center at the University of Delaware and long-time advocate for mathematical biology education, was a plenary speaker at SMB...
https://qubeshub.org/news/blog/2015/07/conference-qubes-preaches-to-the-choir-at-the-society-for-mathematical-biology-in-atlanta-ga
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CONFERENCE: QUBES Roadshow visits American Society for Parasitologists meeting in Omaha, NE and runs into Antiques Roadshow
04 Jul 2015 |
Posted by Jeremy M Wojdak
QUBES (represented by Jeremy Wojdak) presented a case for using the compelling stories of parasites and their hosts to engage introductory biology students (and faculty) in modeling and...
https://qubeshub.org/news/blog/2015/07/conference-qubes-roadshow-visits-american-society-for-parasitologists-meeting-in-omaha-ne-and
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Undergraduate Research Experiences in Computational Science at a Community College
13 Jun 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Tony Sena
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/320We will present our experiences doing undergraduate research in the area of parallel computing and distributed systems on a multidisciplinary environment with STEM students. We show that...
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A collaborative approach to quantitative biology course reform: It's better than doing it all by yourself
Citation | Presentation
Wojdak, Jeremy, (2015), "A collaborative approach to quantitative biology course reform: It's better than doing it all by yourself", Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting, : Atlanta, GA, July, (DOI: )
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Integrating quantitative reasoning in biology education: Making the science more authentic and the learning more robust
Citation | Presentation
Donovan, Sam S, Gross, Lou, Fleming-Davies, Arietta, (2015), "Integrating quantitative reasoning in biology education: Making the science more authentic and the learning more robust", BioQUEST / HHMI / CaseNet Summer Workshop 2015, : Claremont, CA, June, (DOI: )
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QUBES: Building a community to promote undergraduate quantitative biology education
Citation | Poster
Hale, Alison N, Fleming-Davies, Arietta, Donovan, Sam, (2015), "QUBES: Building a community to promote undergraduate quantitative biology education", Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, : Baltimore, MD, August, (DOI: )
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The tree of life: Transforming the "parade of phyla" into an integrated curriculum emphasizing evolutionary concepts, tree-thinking, and quantitative reasoning skills
Citation | Presentation
Fleming-Davies, Arietta, Morris, Julie, Orlofske, Sarah, Wisner, Ellen, (2015), "The tree of life: Transforming the "parade of phyla" into an integrated curriculum emphasizing evolutionary concepts, tree-thinking, and quantitative reasoning skills", BioQUEST/HHMI/CaseNet Annual Workshop 2015, : Claremont, CA, June, (DOI: )
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Using gross parasites to sneak even grosser equations into the introductory biology classroom
Citation | Presentation
Wojdak, Jeremy, (2015), "Using gross parasites to sneak even grosser equations into the introductory biology classroom", American Society of Parasitologists Annual Meeting, : American Society of Parasitologists, Omaha, NE, June, (DOI: )