Sentences with phrase «school biology students in»

During the school year 1963 — 1964 some 250,000 copies of the three texts were sold, a number sufficient to reach 12 percent of the high school biology students in the U.S.. All three have been offered to and accepted by state adoption boards in Georgia and Florida.

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Think high schoolers dissecting 3 - D holographic frogs in biology class, or med students watching a virtual open - heart surgery.

Archaeopteryx was a fossil hoax which was at one time believed to support evolutionary theory and is still in current published biology texts for high school students.

My senior year in high school I, the pre-premed student, was dutifully enrolled in biology.

I know that somewhere in the back of my mind I've always been interested in biology and bodies, nutrition, anatomy etc. but I never took it seriously in school because I had some rigid idea / mantra that I was an english student, not a science student.

Waubonsie Valley High School students taking Advanced Placement environmental science and biology got their hands dirty and their feet wet in a prairie planting project just outside the sSchool students taking Advanced Placement environmental science and biology got their hands dirty and their feet wet in a prairie planting project just outside the schoolschool.

The new unit will help develop students» understanding of energy transfer and conservation in both living and non-living systems so that they can explain fundamental processes in living organisms, a major topic in most high school biology courses.

When I was a high school student in my home country of Greece, good students were expected to become doctors, and my biology teacher insisted that I apply to medical school.

The stage for the courtroom confrontation was set in October 2004, when the Dover school board voted 6 to 3 to require ninth - grade biology students to listen to a brief disclaimer asserting that «Darwin's theory is a theory... not a fact» and that «Intelligent Design is an explanation of the origin of life that differs from Darwin's view.»

To date, he has mentored more than 40 high school and undergraduate students, mainly through the annual iGEM competition in which students try their hands at synthetic biology under the supervision of senior researchers.

In addition, our School of Life Sciences and Cancer Institute, among other components, provide plenty of opportunities for the training of undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs interested in theoretical, mathematical, and computational biologIn addition, our School of Life Sciences and Cancer Institute, among other components, provide plenty of opportunities for the training of undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs interested in theoretical, mathematical, and computational biologin theoretical, mathematical, and computational biology.

Inside the StarCAVE at the University of California, San Diego, high school biology students find themselves engulfed in virtual 3 - D renderings of green fluorescent proteins and other structures derived from the university's Protein Data Bank.

In addition to Belote and Pitnick, the article was co-authored by William T. Starmer, professor of biology at SU; Manier, a former SU research associate who is assistant professor of biology at the George Washington University; Stefan Lüpold, an SU research assistant professor; Kirstin S. Berben, an SU lab technician; Outi Ala - Honkola, a former SU postdoctoral fellow who is a biologist at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland); and William F. Collins» 12, a former student of Pitnick's who is a master's candidate at the Johns Hopkins» School of Advanced International Studies.

Working in the laboratory of Heather A. Hundley, corresponding author on the paper and an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the IU School of Medicine's Medical Sciences Program at Bloomington, Washburn and undergraduate Medical Sciences program student Emily Wheeler collaborated with the team from UCSD to show that the region of ADR - 1 protein that binds to target mRNAs in C. elegans is also required for regulating editing.

Last week, for the second time in 6 months, opposition from several scientists on National Institutes of Health director Harold Varmus's influential Advisory Committee to the Director forced him to withdraw a plan to establish a small graduate school on the NIH campus that would enroll 15 students a year for a 5 - year Ph.D. program in disease - oriented, integrative biology.

Mary Ellen Lane, associate dean for curriculum and academic affairs at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, says that the anxieties she hears from current Ph.D. students are similar to the concerns she and her peers had as cell biology doctoral students in the late 80s and early 90s.

As a child, Zhang moved with his family from China to Des Moines, where he worked in a gene therapy lab as a high school student; the experience taught him to think about biology from an engineering point of view.

«Mantis shrimp, or stomatopods, are well known for aggressive temperaments and complex visual systems, but until now we've known very little about whether and how they use color to communicate with other mantis shrimp,» said Amanda Franklin, a Ph.D. student in the biology department of Tufts University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the first and corresponding author on the paper.

In addition, a portion of the project will enable Subramanian to reach out to high school biology teachers and their students to spark interest in science and technologIn addition, a portion of the project will enable Subramanian to reach out to high school biology teachers and their students to spark interest in science and technologin science and technology.

The group is developing a science curriculum for use in Malagasy high schools in which students learn about biology by exploring the rich environment right outside their school houses.

As the 2005 school year got underway, a new requirement in a Pennsylvania public school district mandated that all 9th - grade biology students listen to a statement questioning the validity of evolutionary theory and promoting intelligent design.

But in the 1980s, as a student at Vestavia Hills High School in Birmingham, Ala., he learned about biology and chemistry and switched his allegiance to more Earth - based sciences.

«Until now, it often has been a real mystery which antigens T cells are recognizing; there are whole classes of disease where we don't have this information,» said Michael Birnbaum, a graduate student who led the research at the School of Medicine in the laboratory of K. Christopher Garcia, the study's senior author and a professor of molecular and cellular physiology and of structural biology.

And Project 2061, the AAAS science literacy initiative, is working with teachers in Colorado, Maryland, Boston, and Washington, D.C., on a module that prepares middle - school students for high school biology — by teaching them chemistry.

Instructed three high school students in the lab on molecular biology techniques and thin layer chromatography.

This SLP trains undergraduate students enrolled in a non-science majors» introductory biology course in the SLP curriculum and takes them to middle and high school classrooms to lead the younger students through the curriculum.

Students at the Watson School are exposed to a broad representation of biological sciences, invigorated by CSHL research expertise in genetics, molecular, cellular, and structural biology, neuroscience, cancer, plant biology, and bioinformatics.

The Summer School is open to Postgraduate research students, Postdoctoral researchers, Senior researchers, Clinical training fellows and Technicians from Universities, Research Institutes and Industry, working in stem cell biology or related fields.

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.

On 16th November, students from Liberton High School in Edinburgh will take part in a day of talks, quizzes and discussions on stem cell biology.

When not studying yeast in the lab, he made a home in the classroom, teaching biology to a wide range of students, in elementary school, college and medical school.

The summer school is open to PhD students, post docs, emerging group leaders, research - active clinicians and technicians from universities, research institutes and industry, working in stem cell biology or related fields.

The summer school is open to all postgraduate research students, postdoctoral researchers, senior researchers, clinical training fellows and technicians from universities, research institutes and industry, working in stem cell biology or related fields.

Using synthetic biology, student members of the school's International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) team enhanced the process of biological synthesis with E. coli in an effort to make this environmentally friendly production method more affordable and accessible.

In less than 2 weeks, he'll officially be a former student of Texas A&M University with a Bachelor's degree in biology with plans on going to vet schooIn less than 2 weeks, he'll officially be a former student of Texas A&M University with a Bachelor's degree in biology with plans on going to vet schooin biology with plans on going to vet school!

Michele Naber, who teaches regular and AP biology at Mission Viejo High School, in Mission Viejo, California, assigns MIT's practice problems to her students as in - class assignments and on tests.

Rosemary Cenci, a teacher at Schuylerville Junior - Senior High School, in Schuylerville, New York, assigns her AP biology students practice problems from the MIT site to complete as homework.

High school students engaged in PBL in biology, chemistry, and earth science classes outscored their peers on 44 percent of the items on the National Assessment of Educational Progress science test during their twelfth - grade year (Schneider, Krajcik, Marx, & Soloway, 2002).

She has taught chemistry, biology and science for 10 years in secondary schools throughout Victoria and still lectures and tutors students across Victoria.

Many of the students in Rebekka L. Stone's biology classes hope to become the first in their families to graduate from high school.

Rebekka Stone, a tenth - grade biology teacher in Homestead, Florida, says she uses Highlights for High School to increase her students» science comprehension and to introduce them to the idea of higher learning.

High school students across Maryland work with scientists on board doing lab work in biology, chemistry, and forensic science.

In Belmont, California, high school biology teacher Rebecca Girard has been using mixed reality computers from zSpace — which come with special glasses that allow cells and organs to «pop out» of the flat screen in 3D — to help her students gain a better grasp on how the heart workIn Belmont, California, high school biology teacher Rebecca Girard has been using mixed reality computers from zSpace — which come with special glasses that allow cells and organs to «pop out» of the flat screen in 3D — to help her students gain a better grasp on how the heart workin 3D — to help her students gain a better grasp on how the heart works.

And some criteria are clearly aligned with the schools» singular missions and student bodies (e.g., PhD in biology, training in AP instruction, ability to work with gifted pupils).

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.

At Montpelier High School, biology students grow the salad greens that are then consumed in cafeterias throughout the entire district.

Montpelier High School uses the concept of sustainability to make curriculum connections across a wide variety of disciplines at the school, from students studying nutrient cycles in biology class, to learning about sustainability through the lens of economics, or even looking at how energy is sustainable in physics School uses the concept of sustainability to make curriculum connections across a wide variety of disciplines at the school, from students studying nutrient cycles in biology class, to learning about sustainability through the lens of economics, or even looking at how energy is sustainable in physics school, from students studying nutrient cycles in biology class, to learning about sustainability through the lens of economics, or even looking at how energy is sustainable in physics class.

Tracy Sheehan, who teaches biology and bioethics both for VHS and at Westborough High School, in Westborough, Massachusetts, says she hears from students online who would probably remain silent in class, especially when teaching bioethics.

Spurred by a team of three biology, math, and humanities teachers at High Tech High, a public charter school in San Diego, these diverse students — of widely mixed academic levels and socioeconomic backgrounds — created the book as the central project of their junior year.

Education Review reported that in his PhD thesis for the University of Sydney, Simon Crook — demonstrated that teaching with laptops helped NSW Year 12 students achieve better results in Higher School Certificate biology, chemistry and physics.