How an abundance of seaweed helps students explore ecological principles Christopher Columbus is often credited with naming the subtropical gyre of …
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The Vaccine Debate
Helping students navigate comparative risk Each year, I begin my ecology course by assigning a popular-press article Amy Wallace wrote for Wired …
Making Climate Change Real While Giving Students Hope
Over the past decade, I’ve seen dramatic shifts in how college students in my courses view the evidence for climate change. Much of the skepticism I …
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A Systems Thinking Framework for Biology Classes
Webinar explores advances in systems thinking The Society for the Advancement of Undergraduate Biology Research (SABER) conference is always one of …
Six Degrees of Biology
Years ago, back when I was a Biology grad student, Kevin Bacon was at the height of his popularity. It seems he was everywhere, starring in films as …
San Francisco’s Algal Bloom
Current Events provide teachable moments As educators, we seek to convince our students that the challenging concepts we assign are worth taking …
Big Ideas from SABER
Finding inspiration at my first in-person conference in over two years. One silver-lining of the pandemic was not getting on an airplane for over two …
Mentors Honored
SimBio founder Eli Meir honored by the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, an innovator of professional development …
What’s The Buzz?
Classroom-based Lotka-Volterra exercise uses real-world mosquito invasion case study to teach difficult concepts. In the past decade, two species of …
