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1. Connecting Viral Pandemics to Ecological Population Growth Models

   16 Sep 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Parks Collins¹, Paul Strode²

   1. Mitchell Community College 2. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

   In this activity students use the HHMI Population Growth Models interactive to explore R0 for diseases and discuss the importance of connecting population ecology to current events like the...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2104/?v=1

2. Anti-Racist Educator's Starting Guides

   10 Sep 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By CSUEB Alliance for the Black Community¹, Nicole Sumner¹, christina Chin-Newman¹, Nina Haft¹, Jessika Murphy¹, Shannon Coskran¹, Michael Lee¹, Ian Pollock¹, Nazzy Pakpour¹, Pascale Guiton¹

   California State University East Bay

   The Alliance for the Black Community (ABC) has worked diligently to create the attached anti-racist starting guides for our faculty and staff at CSUEB and on other higherEd campuses.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2098/?v=2

3. Building Community-Based Approaches to Systemic Reform in Mathematical Biology Education

   03 Sep 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Olcay Akman¹, Carrie Diaz Eaton², Dan Hrozencik³, Kristin Jenkins⁴, Kaci Thompson⁵

   1. Illinois State University 2. Bates College and QUBES 3. Chicago State University 4. BioQUEST 5. University of Maryland

   This is an open access article from Bulletins in Math Bio.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2095/?v=1

4. Anti-Racist Educator's Starting Guides

   02 Sep 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By CSUEB Alliance for the Black Community¹, Nicole Sumner¹, christina Chin-Newman¹, Nina Haft¹, Shannon Coskran¹, Michael Lee¹, Ian Pollock¹, Nazzy Pakpour¹, Pascale Guiton¹

   California State University East Bay

   The Alliance for the Black Community (ABC) has worked diligently to create the attached anti-racist starting guides for our faculty and staff at CSUEB and on other higherEd campuses.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2098/?v=1

5. Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges: Building a Community of Biology and Math Faculty to Develop and Disseminate Open Educational Resources

   31 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Vedham Karpakakunjaram¹, Kristin Jenkins²

   1. Montgomery College 2. BioQUEST

   This is a poster presented at the SABER West 2020 conference. We introduced the grant's goals and objectives, described the leadership team and disseminated the information about the first network...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2093/?v=1

6. Examining the Physiology Behind the Symptoms of Lactose Intolerance

   28 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Melissa Haswell

   Davenport University

   This is a set of extension questions for the HHMI short film The Making of the Fittest: Got Lactase? The Co-evolution of Genes Video Activity.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2087/?v=1

7. Nature’s Flying Machines: The Evolutionary Relationship of Avian Form & Function

   28 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Melissa Haswell

   Davenport University

   In this series of activities, birds will be used as the model organism. The modules examine the connections between body form and function over time by investigating the relationship between avian...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2085/?v=1

8. Ethics in Synthetic Biology

   28 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Lisa Scheifele¹, Fran Sandmeier

   Loyola University Maryland

   This collection of five activities provide students with an introduction to thinking about ethical concerns in human genome synthesis, gene editing, metabolic engineering, and synthetic genomes.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1396/?v=3

9. STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Universal Design for Learning Recording

   14 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Hayley Orndorf¹, Andrew Osborne Hasley²

   1. University of Pittsburgh 2. BioQuest

   Video recordings (with captions), transcript, and chat for the STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Universal Design for Learning.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1862/?v=1

10. STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Episode One

    14 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Bryan Dewsbury¹, Carrie Diaz Eaton², Molly Phillips³, Anna Monfils⁴

    1. University of Rhode Island 2. Bates College and QUBES 3. iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida 4. Central Michigan University

    Episode One is a conversation with Bryan Dewsbury (University of Rhode Island) one of the authors of the CBE-LSE Inclusive Pedagogy guide.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1805/?v=1

11. STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Episode 3

    14 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kelisa Wing

    Department of Defense Education Activity

    Episode 3 builds from Kelisa Wing's recent blog post calling for educators to hold themselves accountable for dismantling racial oppression.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1945/?v=1

12. Meeting Report: Sustainability Challenges for Open Resources to promote an Equitable Undergraduate Biology Education (SCORE-UBE) Network

    13 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Carrie Diaz Eaton¹, Kaitlin Bonner², Karen Cangialosi³, Bryan Dewsbury⁴, Maggie Diamond-Stanic⁵, Jason Douma⁶, Michelle Smith⁷, Jeremy M Wojdak⁸

    1. Bates College and QUBES 2. St. John Fisher College 3. Keene State College 4. University of Rhode Island 5. Bates College 6. University of Sioux Falls 7. Cornell University 8. Radford University

    We report on the SCORE-UBE Network Summit, which involved participants from multiple sectors in open educational resources (OER) in an on-going discussion about sustainability of OER in tandem with...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2061/?v=1

13. Using the QUBES platform and NEON faculty mentoring networks to build, adapt, and publish data-driven open educational resources

    07 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kusum Naithani¹, Megan A. Jones², Kristine Grayson³

    1. University of Arkansas 2. National Ecological Observatory Network 3. University of Richmond

    This video provides an overview of the NEON Data Education Faculty Mentoring Networks and an example of published QUBES resource implementation in the classroom.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2046/?v=1

14. STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Episode 4

    06 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Mays Imad

    Pima Community College

    Beyond Techniques: A Phenomenological Approach to Inclusive Teaching with Dr. Mays Imad.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2041/?v=1

15. Scientist Spotlights: Integrating Themes of Diversity and Inclusion with Course Content

    04 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Dax Ovid¹, Kimberly Tanner¹, Jeff Schinske²

    1. San Francisco State University 2. Foothill College

    The Scientist Spotlights Initiative empowers middle/high school, college, and university science educators to implement inclusive curricula that help ALL students see themselves in science.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1971/?v=1

16. Flying With Swallows – a Model for Undergraduate Research-Based Learning

    03 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Joanna Werner-Fraczek

    Moreno Valley College

    Moreno Valley College, a two-year community college in Southern California, experiences an annual migration of cliff swallows. The presence of these birds inspired the development of the...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1970/?v=1

17. Ethics in Synthetic Biology

    30 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Lisa Scheifele

    Loyola University Maryland

    This collection of five activities provide students with an introduction to thinking about ethical concerns in human genome synthesis, gene editing, metabolic engineering, and synthetic genomes.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1396/?v=2

18. Atlas of Black Scholarship for Inclusive and Racially Diverse STEM Curricula – Volume I

    30 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Aparna Anandkumar¹, Ariel Moline², Pascale S. Guiton²

    1. Castro Valley High School & California State University East Bay 2. California State University East Bay

    The contributions of Black scientists to the advancement of STEM are poorly represented in course materials. Here, we provide an Atlas of Black Scholarship to help Life Sciences and Chemistry...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2022/?v=1

19. Implementing a Math Prerequisite - Does it help or hurt?

    29 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Stacey Kiser¹, Christine Andrews², Matthew Fisher³, Shannon Seidel⁴, Molloy Wilson², Natalie Wright⁵

    1. Lane Community College, BioQUEST 2. Lane Community College 3. Oregon Coast Community College 4. Pacific Lutheran University 5. Kenyon College

    Poster on the effect of math prerequisite courses on student success in introductory biology. Presented at the 2020 BIOME Institute: Cultivating Scientific Curiosity

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2001/?v=1

20. Failing (in order) to succeed: Exploring how students cope with science failures in research-based courses

    28 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Lisa Auchincloss Corwin

    University of Colorado Boulder

    Slides and related materials from the presentation given by Dr. Lisa Corwin as a part of the 2020 BIOME Institute.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2015/?v=1