Sentences with phrase «course on biology»

«What we want is to live longer, healthily,» Steven Austad, Ph.D., said, speaking at a recent course on the biology of aging at the MDI Biological Laboratory on Mount Desert Island.

I am concerned you missed a course on biology somewhere along the way.

The University also maintains a hands - on Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, NC, where courses on biology, science and nature writing, and marine policy take place in the Gold LEED - certified conservation center.

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«Redemption23», do the world a favor, take on some personal responsibility, dump your foolish, unsupportable god myth, and take an intro biology course.

Stephen Meredith is professor in the departments of pathology, neurology, and biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Chicago, where he also teaches courses on literature, philosophy, and theology.

There may be doubt that high school biology courses are clear on the subject these days, but consider what we know.

To name just four academics sympathetic to sociobiology at work in the biology departments of American universities: Timothy Goldsmith of Yale teaches a course called «Biological Roots of Human Nature»; William Zimmerman of Amherst teaches the «Evolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of rape.

For the Web team of myself (the producer), four researchers, a technical manager, and six designers, the task in creating «Blue Planet Challenge» online was to connect a keen but casual audience with an attractive learning experience that could take them as far as they wanted to go, right through to enrolling on a marine biology course — a «learning journey».

This foundational course provides a broad overview of approaches in applied mathematics, covering both deterministic and stochastic methods, with an emphasis on ecological questions, and is taken by general mathematics students who wish to obtain an introduction to graduate - level applied math, as well as by our students who are specifically interested in mathematical biology.

Despite their diverse backgrounds, all our students are required to take a 2 - year course sequence of mathematical ecology, a one - semester course on mathematical evolutionary theory, and a mathematical biology seminar that meets each Fall and Spring semester.

While she was a student there, she met E. O. Wilson, the Harvard entomologist, who offered her a teaching fellowship for his undergraduate course on evolutionary biology.

He settled on the master's of bioscience offered by the Keck Graduate Institute, a program in Claremont, California, that offers classes in biology, bioinformatics, and bioengineering side by side with courses in management, ethics, and business policy.

Siddiq and Montooth began working together in 2008 after Siddiq took the freshman biology course Montooth taught while on faculty at Indiana University.

You've been on the academic conveyor belt for as long as you can remember: a seamless journey from messing with insects and test tubes as a child, to years of earnest undergraduate biology courses, through the financial deprivations of your PhD and a postdoc or two.

But in my junior year at Stony Brook University on Long Island, I took a course in invertebrate biology.

I teach a general course on molecular biology for anyone who wants to know about molecular biology.

Therefore, I enrolled in Biological Sciences at Bonn University, focusing on courses in medical and molecular microbiology (as well as marine biology).

As an undergraduate, he «got really switched on» by microbial genetics while taking a molecular biology course, he says.

I had never done a biology course in my life, but I started to work on this class of problems.

The percentage of 12th graders taking courses in biology, chemistry, and physics since 8th grade increased to 41 % in 2015 from 34 % in 2009, said Mary Koppal, Project 2061's communications director, citing the most recent results for science from the National Assessment of Education Progress, which serves as a national report card on student achievement.

One of the classic images used in introductory biology and psychology courses is the motor homunculus: a deformed map of the body drawn on the primary motor cortex, showing which brain areas control different body parts.

Clark had always liked the idea of international cooperation; he had been active since 1969 in planning summer school courses about molecular biology on the Greek island of Spetses, which were funded by the Advanced Study Institutes program of NATO, the European Molecular Biology Organization, and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies.

During the course of our work, the studies of Jim Rothman, who received a Lasker Award in 2002 for his work on the cell biology of vesicle fusion, expanded our thinking and injected great enthusiasm into the rapidly growing field of neurotransmitter release.

I loved all of my courses focusing on the pure biology side of neuroscience and use that foundation daily, but I would have never discovered my love for the technical side of science without getting to work with Dr. Nyhus in EEG, and learn about MRI and other medical imaging technology.

I would also tell him that his pioneering work on master regulatory factors in muscle inspired me to change my course from being an orthopedic surgeon to the study gene regulatory biology in the cardiovascular system.

«Of course, when MDI was established, many of the experimental and computational tools were simply not there to do drug design based on quantitative biology.

Dr. Ganz was active in academic outreach throughout her time at Cornell, mentoring undergraduate students, co-teaching a weekly computer science course to a local high school chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Jr., as well as a five - week mini-course on experiments in chemistry and biology to local elementary school students.

«We are proud to add the organoid course to our roster of biomedical innovation courses, which also includes courses on aging and regenerative biology,» said Jane E. Disney, Ph.D., director of education.

The facility includes a 464 seat auditorium, as well as wet labs, microscopy and computer rooms, which allow courses on the latest technologies in the field of molecular biology.

Three different biology experiments were included on both landers, but they were of course based on what was understood about Mars at the time.

Shortly after Urnov joined Sangamo in 2000, it just so happened that Rine's department at Berkeley had a lecturer bail on a section of an undergraduate biology course.

Students in the cancer biology program participate in courses at the University of Sciences and The Wistar Institute and engage in hands - on training at Wistar's Molecular Screening and Protein Expression Facility.

Vasculata ™ 2018 will be an intense 3 1/2 day course introducing the basics of cardiovascular biology and cardiovascular disease with an emphasis on new approaches to treating the most common causes of human disease in our society, based on cutting - edge research in the field.

The main teaching activities I am involved in are practical courses on cell biology.

May I be the first to propose that Louisiana schools begin teaching a section of the biology course on the subject of the evolution of religion.

Odum, then a young associate professor in the University of Georgia's biology department, had taught a course on ecology for several semesters and was passionate about the subject.

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Last year, my first experience with a PBL collaborative group was working with six teachers on an integrated biology / chemistry course.

Cross-register for courses in cellular biology, cognitive neuroscience, and linguistics in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences or explore the impact of research on education policy in the Harvard Kennedy School.

Washington — The U.S. Supreme Court last week agreed to review the validity of a $ 321,000 jury award to a Michigan biology teacher who was suspended because of parents» objections to his course on human reproduction.

So, over the course of probably 10 - 12 years now I've looked to pick up on those people externally that can help us and some of those examples have been, the common one that a lot of people would know in Australia is the Scientists in Schools program, whereby scientists from universities or in professional practice make a link with the school and we've had a couple of scientists from the University of Wollongong, which is just down the road from us, come in and run workshops and sessions with students on bacteria and biology - type aspects.

A successful undergraduate teacher in, say, introductory biology, not only induces his or her students to take additional biology courses, but leads those students to do unexpectedly well in those additional classes (based on what we would have predicted based on their standardized test scores, other grades, grading standards in that field, etc.) In our earlier paper, we lay out the statistical techniques [xi] employed in controlling for course and student impacts other than those linked directly to the teaching effectiveness of the original professor.

In some classes, like Jay Vavra's junior biology course on conservation forensics using DNA barcoding, a full five - week period consists of a single project.

Through a dual - enrollment program, senior Caitlynn Atwood takes an online biology course on her school - issued laptop, receiving college credit at Eastern New Mexico University.

For instance, principal Stephen Stoll says the biology course that had 70 labs a year ago now has only 30, because students need more time to learn the terms and concepts that will be on the Regents test.

Click below to download the biology course overview and follow the links on this page to find revision guides for each module.

The courses include project - based, media - rich units in biology on such topics as genetics, ecology, and infectious disease, in which students conduct investigations using contemporary science tools and technology.

After examining our students» contexts, we may find that find it appealing to pursue success on an exam that will increase students» life opportunities but is not aligned to the course they are teaching (such as a High School Exit Exam that measures mastery of some components of algebra (your course) but also components of language arts, chemistry, biology, economics, geometry, U.S. history and world history).

The grant, part of a $ 60 million effort by HHMI to reduce the attrition rate of students majoring in science fields, will introduce hands - on, project - based learning techniques to lower level courses in biology, chemistry, and bioengineering.

Study 2, a field experiment in a «weed - out» biology course, tests the effects of a randomly assigned affirmation intervention on students» social networks and persistence in STEM.