Sentences with phrase «teaching labs in»

Leah wrote: «I've had several uncomfortable conversations with pastors who have decried the evils of evolution because when I was teaching labs in graduate school I taught evolution.

Drew Endy developed the world's first «fabless» genetic engineering teaching lab in the new Bioengineering program at Stanford and previously helped start the Biological Engineering major at MIT.

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It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

In doing so, the San Francisco - based tech firm also teaches the engineers of its clients how to replicate Pivotal Labs» process.

I had to teach a chem lab at 9 am, which meant leaving the house by 8, and in the freezing cold winter... Oatmeal was the only thing I looked forward to.

Kristen Rasmussen, R.D., a culinary nutritionist who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, has done research at the Nordic Food Lab in Copenhagen and runs a Nordic porridge pop - up in the Bay Area.

His favorite course this semester is a Thursday - only corporate finance lab, taught to a group of about 20 by a very pretty young woman who wears blue jeans in class and «just happens to be a terrific lecturer.

A few weeks after my trip to Queens, I visited the Stress Neurobiology and Prevention lab at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where a team of researchers led by Phil Fisher, a psychologist, has developed a series of interventions with parents that in many ways parallel the ABC program, though with one major difference: They use digital video as a teaching tool to help steer parents away from behaviors that cause fear and stress in children and toward patterns that promote attachment and self - regulation.

Chemistry is taught by creating potions and spells, bringing the world of Harry Potter to life in a lab.

In addition, if the homeschool curriculum takes a particular approach, such as being literature or text - based, it may not be the best approach for teaching biology or chemistry, which are lab - based sciences.

Lila's first doggy kiss I recently spent the afternoon in our yard in the sun with my 7 1/2 month old daughter and our golden lab teaching her to sign dog.

In addition to actually teaching the warm little bodies in our classes, we have to grade papers, attend meetings, participate in school leadership committees, create bulletin boards, set up for labs, meet with students, plan future lessons, prepare for and administer tests... the list seems endlesIn addition to actually teaching the warm little bodies in our classes, we have to grade papers, attend meetings, participate in school leadership committees, create bulletin boards, set up for labs, meet with students, plan future lessons, prepare for and administer tests... the list seems endlesin our classes, we have to grade papers, attend meetings, participate in school leadership committees, create bulletin boards, set up for labs, meet with students, plan future lessons, prepare for and administer tests... the list seems endlesin school leadership committees, create bulletin boards, set up for labs, meet with students, plan future lessons, prepare for and administer tests... the list seems endless.

For Amy Replogle, science core facility technician at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, keeping her toe in the professorial pool takes the form of teaching lab classes occasionally.

THE Shojinmeat Project in Japan is teaching people how to make lab - grown meat themselves at home.

She may spend 80 % of her time in her lab, 10 % of her time teaching, and only 10 % of her time on an inpatient service.

Establishing a lab in Turkey can take a bit longer than in other places because new faculty members there usually don't receive start - up funds, getting supplies and attracting good postdocs can be difficult, and teaching loads tend to be heavy.

Efforts to improve safety standards and practices in academic labs are multiplying at universities and colleges across the country, but teaching safety as rules and compliance is insufficient, experts agree.

In a case called Brown University, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that graduate assistants teaching courses and working in labs, libraries, museums, and offices on the private campus in Providence have no right to form a labor unioIn a case called Brown University, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that graduate assistants teaching courses and working in labs, libraries, museums, and offices on the private campus in Providence have no right to form a labor unioin labs, libraries, museums, and offices on the private campus in Providence have no right to form a labor unioin Providence have no right to form a labor union.

Once again, you're overwhelmed with things to do: Your e-mail inbox is full, you have a lab to teach later in the week, and you want to socialize with friends you haven't seen for a while.

He was given an opportunity to start a research lab and teach students novel techniques in this discipline.

Many working scientists have fond memories of undergraduate days spent in the field or in the lab — including Wilson, who graduated from Wooster in 1978 and came back because he liked the way the school blends undergraduate teaching and research.

She branched out from lab research after 6 years and spent a couple of years working in field schools with farmers to learn and teach scientific approaches to plant disease and how to curb its spread.

For those five summers he taught a six - week field and lab - based course in marine paleoecology at Bodega Marine Laboratory in northern California — a course that drew students from all over the world.

She holds a Ph.D. in communication and culture and was director of the MIT Teaching and Learning Lab, which helped assess, develop, and demonstrate the value of TEAL.

But there are practical challenges: During the semester, all of Queensborough's lab space is devoted to teaching labs, so students must work on independent research projects after hours, on weekends, or at times when classes are not in session.

And epigenetic research has taught her something not found in the What to Expect books or even her mother's former lab.

Some of these skills can be honed in the context of your lab work or teaching responsibilities, while others may require you to explore learning and professional opportunities outside the lab.

Biola lacks an animal facility, for one, and he's swamped with a teaching load that includes physiology, an introductory biology lab section, and an advanced seminar on biological research methods, all in one semester.

After the first renewal, however, the funding also becomes portable should the researcher choose to leave Janelia for a university position in order, for example, to teach or run a larger lab.

In France, all Ph.D. candidates with a doctoral contract are entitled to take up to 32 days a year away from the lab to do paid work in teaching, science communication, technology transfer, or consulting — an option which Rym Boudjemaa took advantage oIn France, all Ph.D. candidates with a doctoral contract are entitled to take up to 32 days a year away from the lab to do paid work in teaching, science communication, technology transfer, or consulting — an option which Rym Boudjemaa took advantage oin teaching, science communication, technology transfer, or consulting — an option which Rym Boudjemaa took advantage of.

So early - career scientists who aren't eager to head up their own research enterprise should consider opportunities to teach or to find work outside academia — at government labs or in private industry — where they can do good work without having to build and support a laboratory and a team.

I got to go all over the world: to India to research poverty, to New Orleans to teach science, to Sweden to study design and biomechanics, and to Nike's research labs in Oregon.

One way neuroscientists can hone their technical edge is to take off - major courses in physics or engineering (if they are still in graduate school) or postdoc in a lab that can teach them new techniques.

Noticing that I was struggling in the lab, my thesis adviser came to my rescue and spent hours teaching me techniques and scientific thought processes.

I was enrolled in the physics graduate program, taking a full course load, and I was teaching lab courses.

Cell biologist Andrea Ladd of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio keeps her lab notebook exactly the same way she was taught as an undergraduate in the early 1990s.

The practical component of the program includes experience in instructing or assisting in a classroom or lab setting, either as teaching assistants in their own department or in outreach programs, and under the guidance of a teaching mentor.

If you are asked to review too many papers one month, ask the women postdocs or graduate students in your lab to assist you with the review — and teach them how to do it effectively.

For example, describe new lab activities, changes in class format, introduction of problem - based learning, development of new problem sets, and addition of teaching technology.

Postdocs do the bulk of the hands - on teaching that goes on in labs — by training graduate students, medical students, and technicians, for example.

Gentet's years of teaching himself film chemistry and tinkering alone in his lab have resulted in an emulsion he calls Ultimate.

So, in 2002, the Institute partnered with the Burroughs - Wellcome Fund (BWF) to design a lab management course focused on teaching scientists the «people skills» they would need in the future.

«It's the first conclusive evidence that so - called active learning courses, which science educators have promoted for decades as a better way to teach than lectures and cookbook labs, can lower the high attrition rates in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields at U.S. universities.»

She has worked on initiatives to revamp the curriculum and participated in a major remodeling project for the teaching labs.

His encouragement for her to join in departmental committees and gatherings paid off when a professor at nearby Ursinus College came looking for someone to teach an undergraduate lab course.

English - proficient foreign - national science trainees in their first 2 years of graduate school are likely to be offered a teaching assistantship instead of a research assistantship, because their lack of experience and training tends to limit their effectiveness in the research lab and because the amount of service required for a teaching assistantship (typically 20 hours / week or fewer... often much fewer) is less than for a research assistantship.

In addition to working as a teaching assistant during his graduate degree, Oak volunteered to design and teach chemistry and lab science to a class of 30 Grade 6 and 7 students at a private school in Malton, OntariIn addition to working as a teaching assistant during his graduate degree, Oak volunteered to design and teach chemistry and lab science to a class of 30 Grade 6 and 7 students at a private school in Malton, Ontariin Malton, Ontario.

Those who teach lab management and still run a lab say that teaching the courses is helpful in their own labs.

Hilde Janssens currently works as a lab manager in the laboratory of a junior principal investigator (PI) at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain — except when she's teaching other scientists how to manage their own laboratories.

According to Walsh, who teaches a popular course in medical device design at SEAS and is founder of the Harvard Biodesign Lab, soft robotics is especially well suited to shared design tools because many of the required components, such as regulators, valves, and microcontrollers, are largely interchangeable between systems.