One of the most basic misconceptions
in biology education is the notion that a trait is the product of a single gene.
Successful candidates will become members of an elite, influential group recognized worldwide as a leader in
modern biology education.
Together, we will develop a blueprint for change
in biology education and, critically, an action plan.
The Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) Professional Development and Education Committee (PDEC) created the John Doctor Education Prize to highlight great developmental
biology education research.
Brownell
studies biology education, in particular how undergraduate biology students learn and how instructors can develop more effective ways to teach.
Now that she has left the bench, «it would be difficult, but not impossible, for me to go back to research,» says undergraduate
biology education professor Christie Howard (see sidebar 3).
The project, overseen by Yolanda George, deputy director of AAAS Education and Human Resources, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), brought hundreds of educators, students, policy - makers, scientists, and others together for a series of regional and national meetings on
transforming biology education.
The Promoting Active Learning & Mentoring (PALM) network was established to spark
sustained biology education reform at diverse institutions through one - on - one mentorships for faculty new to approaches based on Vision and Change recommendations.
The goal of this conference is to mobilize people to focus on undergraduate
biology education by engaging them in shared, directed, provocative, and ongoing discussions that lead to action in the immediate future.
She earned her bachelor of science degree in
biology education from Ball State University and later graduated from the Purdue University Veterinary Technology program.
Biology student resume objective 4: Looking for a place in a university which has a special cell for biology and gives
good biology education to those interested in this subject.
CAMBRIDGE, U.K. — British systems biologist Eric de Silva — an astrophysicist by training — began his
systems biology education «by sitting at home reading popular science books.»
Kimberly D. Tanner, a professor in the Biology Department at San Francisco State University, will receive the Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Science Education, for her tireless work to build local and national capacity for evidence - based teaching and
biology education research.
Immediately following my presentation on the mathematical models for eliminating hantavirus — a pathogen that can cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome — I was offered an opportunity to participate in BioQuest, a community of educators addressing
undergraduate biology education.
In
biology education, evolution and religious beliefs are often «hot - button'topics that play out publicly in the media as an «either - or» scenario, in which one side wins and the other loses.
In
biology education, evolution and religious beliefs are often «hot - button» topics that play out publicly in the media as an «either — or» scenario, in which one side wins and the other loses.
To aspiring students of mathematical biology, a word of advice is in order: There can never be too much mathematics in a good math -
biology education!
Later, he says he «was brave enough to pick up [the textbook] The Cell,» and
his biology education began in earnest.
Leshner and others say that a transformation in
biology education, from elementary school through graduate school, will be essential to support biotechnology, biomedicine, and other sectors that will be centers of 21st - century innovation and economic growth.
While biological research is advancing at warp speed, amassing new insights and new data as the lines separating biology, chemistry, mathematics, and engineering dissolve and the fields converge,
biology education has seemed stuck in the 20th century.
Betsy M. Martinez - Vaz, Irina Makarevitch, Shane Stensland (2010) Studying Gene Expression: Database Searches and Promoter Fusions to Investigate Transcriptional Regulation in Bacteria Journal of microbiology and
biology education.
We've compiled links to the best resources on the web for pursuing
a biology education and for pursuing the various career paths available to biology majors.