Approximately twice as many
undergraduate biology majors enter medical school than graduate school, says the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Web site.
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.
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.
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).
In 2000, she left Cell along with Benjamin Lewin, the journal's founder, for a new venture called Virtual Text, an online life sciences resource whose projects include
publishing undergraduate biology textbooks online.
In this new study, Burd and Andrea Holderbaum, a
senior undergraduate biology major working in Burd's laboratory, found that if they exposed the genetically engineered mice to a single dose of UVB light one day after applying 4OHT to the skin, melanomas appeared much more rapidly, and there were many more tumors.
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.
By the way I have 24 units of graduate and
undergraduate biology.
I teach
an undergraduate biology lab as well as an online high school Oceanography course.
Three years later they both won faculty positions, he in biochemistry, she as
an undergraduate biology education specialist in the biology department.
When Ko - Ferrigno graduated from Brown University with
a undergraduate biology degree in 1987, she went to work for an environmental consultancy in Washington, D.C. «I wanted to see what I could do with a biology degree,» explains Ko - Ferrigno.
Where genomics is going and how the field can be useful to society are questions that have been tugging on Gillian Hooker's sleeve since she was
an undergraduate biology student.
As
an undergraduate biology major at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, Niyogi focused on molecular and cell biology and thought about immunology or transcription factors as a potential field of study.
I most enjoyed classes in zoology, physiology and animal behavior during
my undergraduate biology work at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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.
Toward a conceptual framework for measuring the effectiveness of course - based undergraduate research experiences in
undergraduate biology.
As it turns out,
we undergraduate biology majors were right about one thing — the quantum universe is mind - bending.