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The Impact of Diversity on Group Productivity Within Online Faculty Mentoring Networks (FMNs) of Educators
25 May 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Sam S Donovan, Alison N Hale, Loretta Wanda Liu, Katie Grobengieser
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/212With the fast growing pace of online technology for teaching and obtaining information, increasingly, many educators are turning their browsers on to immerse both themselves and their...
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Quantitative biology: how educators that "buy-in" demonstrate greater productivity in teaching scholarship
25 May 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Sam S Donovan, Alison N Hale, Leah Balsan, Connor McLaughlin
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/213How does one teach effectively? Teachers and school administrators have been asking this question for generations. However, in the biological sciences, this question has been complicated by...
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Mentoring Undergraduate Research Projects in Mathematical Biology
21 Oct 2015 | | 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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Characterizing the Quantitative Biology Curricula from Institutions Across the United States
29 Apr 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Wendy Jo Levenson, Monika Norea Herbst, Sam S Donovan, Alison N Hale
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/236Due to the increasingly quantitative nature of the biological sciences, many schools now offer majors in mathematical biology. As this is a new major, there is no standard for how the program...
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The Effect of Instructor Communication on Student Perceptions of Mathematics in Biology
19 Apr 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Sam S Donovan, Alison N Hale, Hayley Orndorf
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/237Student perceptions of the importance of mathematics in biology are context dependent. While students often view math as unnecessary to understanding biology, certain conditions can promote...