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1. Test Salamander Resource

   18 Apr 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kristine Grayson

   University of Richmond

   Test Abstract

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2265/?v=1

2. What’s the DEAL – The Digital Encyclopedia of Ancient Life and Digital Atlas Apps

   10 Nov 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Jonathan Hendricks¹, Bruce Lieberman²

   1. Paleontological Research Institution 2. The University of Kansas

   The Digital Encyclopedia of Ancient Life and Digital Atlas Apps -- identify fossils and explore diversity and history of life on earth.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2787/?v=1

3. Collections Education Coffee Break Series: oVert TCN Resources for Education

   24 Sep 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Jaimi Gray

   Florida Museum of Natural History

   Dr. Jaimi Gray gives a brief introduction into educational resources associated with the oVert project. ...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2760/?v=1

4. The Legacy of Redlining in Oakland, CA

   13 May 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Marci Cole Ekberg

   The issues of redlining and environmental justice will be introduced and used as a framework for a number of topics in the third part of the semester in a non-majors Environmental Science course.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2362/?v=1

5. STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Socially Relevant Teaching in the Time of COVID-19

   18 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Joanna Wares¹, Marcella Torres¹, zeynep teymuroglu², Grace Stadnyk³, Casey Hawthorne³, E Cabral Balreira⁴

   1. University of Richmond 2. Rollins College 3. Furman University 4. Trinity University

   Presents various mathematical modeling and data science activities created around analyzing and interpreting COVID-19 data. Much of the instructional guidance provided for the activities and...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2263/?v=1

6. 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

7. Digital Atlas of Ancient Life | Exploring the Diversity and History of Fossil Life

   08 Jun 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Jonathan Hendricks

   Paleontological Research Institution

   The Digital Atlas project include field guides to fossils (including a mobile app), an online paleontology textbook, and a collection of over 500 virtual 3D models of fossil specimens.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1893/?v=1

8. Coding Club: A Positive Peer-Learning Community

   22 Apr 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Gergana Daskalova¹, Sandra Angers-Blondin¹, John Godlee¹, Izzy Rich¹, Beverly Tan¹, Declan Valters¹, Haydn Thomas¹, Pedro Miranda¹, Gabriela Hajduk¹, Kat Keogan¹, Isla Myers-Smith¹, Kyle Dexter¹, Christina Coakley¹

   University of Edinburgh

   Free and self-paced tutorials and courses for learning to code out of the University of Edinburgh

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1816/?v=1

9. Biodiversity research using digitized, internet-based natural history collections

   17 Dec 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kaitlin Stack Whitney

   Rochester Institute of Technology

   Collections based research is a critical tool for organismal biology and biodiversity research. Yet natural history collections have a complicated past. This multi-class module examines the...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1553/?v=1

10. Using Synthetic Biology to Teach Data Science

    30 Jul 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Margaret S Saha¹, Beteel Abu-Ageel¹, Sanjana Challa¹, Xiangyi Fang¹, Chai Hibbert¹, Anna Isler¹, Elias Nafziger¹, Adam Oliver¹, Hanqiu Peng¹, Julia Urban¹, Vivian Zhu¹

    College of William and Mary

    Poster and supplemental materials on using synthetic biology to introduce students to meaningful data mining, analysis, and application to engineering novel biological constructs.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1326/?v=2

11. Quantifying The Drivers and Impacts of Natural Disturbance Events – The 2013 Colorado Floods

    12 Jul 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Heather Susanne Zimbler-DeLorenzo

    Georgia State University Perimeter College

    This lesson focuses on ways that scientists identify and use data to understand ecological disturbance events using data from five public datasets. The main lesson focused on interpretation of...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1349/?v=1

12. Using Synthetic Biology to Teach Data Science

    26 Jun 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Margaret S Saha¹, Beteel Abu-Ageel¹, Sanjana Challa¹, Xiangyi Fang¹, Chai Hibbert¹, Anna Isler¹, Elias Nafziger¹, Adam Oliver¹, Hanqiu Peng¹, Julia Urban¹, Vivian Zhu¹

    College of William and Mary

    Abstract for poster on using synthetic biology to introduce students to meaningful data mining, analysis, and application to engineering novel biological constructs.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1326/?v=1

13. BioQUEST / QUBES Summer Workshop 2019 - Code of Conduct

    23 Nov 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kristin Jenkins¹, Hayley Orndorf²

    1. BioQUEST 2. University of Pittsburgh

    We are using this project to publish and version our meeting code of conduct. Our goal is to engage the conference community in the discussion of the code of conduct to raise awareness about it.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/936/?v=1

14. Questions For Biology: Concept Inventories for Biological Concepts

    30 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Gülnur Birol¹, Greg Bole¹, Sunita Chowrira¹, Bridgette Clarkston¹, Thomas Deane¹, Malin Hansen¹, Erica Jeffery¹, Pam Kalas¹, Kathy Nomme¹, Rosemary Oh-McGinnis¹, Angie O’Neill¹, Carol Pollock¹, Joan Sharp¹, Karen Smith¹, Michelle Tseng¹

    University of British Columbia

    The Questions For Biology (Q4B) team aims to create validated concept inventories for use in diagnosing student misconceptions, informing teaching practices and tracking learning gains across a...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/908/?v=1

15. Computational Biology using R

    30 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Hong Qin

    University of Tennessee Chattanooga

    This is an introductory level course on computational biology.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/907/?v=1

16. ModelSim Population Biology Unit

    30 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Uri Wilensky¹, Paulo Blikstein², Corey Brady³, David Figlio¹, Pratim Sengupta⁴, Jason Bertsche¹, Yu (Bryan) Guo¹, Nathan Holbert¹, Michael Novak¹, Firat Soylu¹, Aditi Wagh¹, Gokul Krishnan⁴, Brogan Miller², Shima Salehi²

    1. Northwestern University 2. Stanford University 3. Inquire Learning 4. Vanderbilt University

    This resource provides rich student modeling activities and materials, teacher resources, and much more, in the realm of agent based models applied to population biology.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/902/?v=1

17. Statistics for Biologists

    30 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Magdalena Skipper¹, Ritu Dhand¹, Helen Pearson¹, Francesca Cesari¹

    Nature

    There is no disputing the importance of statistical analysis in biological research, but too often it is considered only after an experiment is completed, when it may be too late.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/897/?v=1

18. Tools: New tools for new science

    30 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Harry Shum

    Microsoft

    A collection of computational, modeling and data analysis tools developed at Microsoft Research Labs.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/891/?v=1

19. Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC)

    23 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials

    An online journal focusing upon generally-applicable studies of cell biology.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/851/?v=1

20. Data Analysis for the Life Sciences

    23 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Rafael A Irizarry¹, Michael I Love¹

    Harvard University

    An online stats book written completely in R

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/841/?v=1