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Point of View: What Makes it Science? A Modern Look

Scientific inquiry differs from other human inquiry in the kind of evidence scientists pay attention to. Scientific evidence was born, historically o...

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Field Botany and Creative Writing: Where the Science of Writing Meets the Writing of Science

Merging science and writing to enhance both subjects was the objective of a venture known as Plant Notes. At first, teacher-written notes served as t...

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Phylogenetic Reconstruction as a Broadly Applicable Teaching Tool in the Biology Classroom: The Value of Data in Estimating Likley Answers

This laboratory exercise introduces students to a fundamental tool in evolutionary biology--phylogenetic inference. Students are required to create a...

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Undergraduate Research Communities: A Powerful Approach to Research Training

We applied the concept of learning communities, whereby students develop their ideas in cohort-based settings, to undergraduate research training. Th...

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Editorial: A Change in Terrain or a Shift in Perspective?

Guess what? While you weren't looking, the world got flattened. At least, that's the conclusion of Thomas L. Friedman in his explosive book, The Worl...

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Research and Teaching: Active Learning Is Not Enough

In this article, the author examines the frequency of assessment and how it impacts learning in an undergraduate biology course employing a student-ce...

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Turning the Potential Liability of Large Enrollment Laboratory Science Courses Into an Asset

Data sharing among multiple lab sections increases statistical power of data analyses and informs student-generated hypotheses. This article describe...