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Point of View: A Lateral View of Darwin
Last year, we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin (1809–1882); it has been approximately 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species on the theory of evolution by natural selection. As the authors’ cont...
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Does the process of gaining tenure and promotion make your stomach lurch? If your answer is “yes,” you are not alone. In this month’s column, the author recounts her personal experience related to this grueling procedure and discusses a highly...
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Speak Up! Mini Cases in Language
This is a series of short cases useful for a variety of courses, including physiological psychology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuropsychology/neuroscience. Each of these cases depicts a breakdown in languag...
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Research and Teaching: Transfer of Knowledge in Science Courses for Elementary Education Majors
In this article, the authors report the results of a preliminary study of preservice teachers’ ability to transfer their knowledge between their chemistry and Earth science courses. They examined whether they could answer the transfer questions cor...
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The authors have developed and implemented a novel general education science course that examines scientific knowledge, laboratory experimentation, and science-related public policy through the lens of feminist science studies. They argue that this a...
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Integrative Metabolism: An Interactive Learning Tool for Nutrition, Biochemistry, and Physiology
Metabolism is a dynamic, simultaneous, and integrative science that cuts across nutrition, biochemistry, and physiology. Teaching this science can be a challenge. The use of a scenario-based, visually appealing, interactive, computer-animated CD may ...
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Building a Scientist-Science Educator Collaboration: Establishing the Inquiry Institute
This article describes the development of the Inquiry Institute, a collaboration of scientists from a science department and science educators from a school of education. The history of the institute and the benefits to students, faculty, and the ins...
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Point of View: How to Survive an Academic Job Interview
Career development is an important issue, and there are aspects of finding the right position that are particular to science faculty. Although this article does not follow the usual format and subject of submissions to our Point of View column, we ha...
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Environmental Education and Service Learning in the Tropics: Making Global Connections
Research has suggested that a service-learning component can add a powerful dimension to learning course content in a variety of science disciplines, in addition to assisting students in seeing connections between their studies and the world outside ...