If you have never attended one of Sam Rhine’s Genetics Update Conferences (GUC), you have really missed out on a fantastic resource for you and your students. Sam Rhine is one of our own – a Hoosier boy, born and raised right here in Indiana. He has been covering the country and parts of the [...]
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Summer Workshops in Biology Modeling will be offered at Shady Side Academy in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
When: June 23-27, 2008. 9:00am – 4:30pm, daily
For: High school biology teachers interested in developing a student-centered, modeling oriented biology program in the style of the Modeling Instruction Method developed at Arizona State University. The instructors of this workshop have created [...]
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UPDATE: After the workshop…
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If you missed this offering, you missed out on a wonderful set of presentations and good discussion. Isidore also handed out an armload of materials to each attendee. Thanks again to Drs. Gribskov & Gedney for their efforts to improve biology teachers and their teaching!
Look for information about a workshop in the [...]
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Whether it’s tainted spinach or Avian flu, the outbreak or mere threat of disease regularly makes headlines. The new “killer cold” virus — a mutant strain of adenovirus — is no exception. The virus has killed 10 people in the U.S. in the past 18 months, many of whom were otherwise healthy. Why are some [...]
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