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A Community Mentoring Model for STEM Undergraduate Research Experiences

This article describes a community mentoring model for UREs that avoids some of the common pitfalls of the traditional paradigm while harnessing the power of learning communities to provide young scholars a stimulating collaborative STEM research exp...

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Learning Experiences of University Biology Faculty: A Qualitative Pilot Study

The study described in this article incorporates qualitative research through in-depth, individual, structured interviews with 12 biology faculty from two Midwestern universities to explore perceptions about how they have learned to teach and how the...

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What Can Students Learn About Lab Safety From Mr. Bean?

Chemical laboratory safety education is often synonymous with boring, dry, drawn-out lectures. In an effort to challenge this norm and stimulate vivid learning opportunities about laboratory safety, college chemistry classes analyzed a short, humorou...

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Live From Boone Lake: Interdisciplinary Problem-Based Learning Meets Public Science Writing

As strong proponents of problem-based learning (PBL), the authors designed and taught an interdisciplinary, team–taught PBL course on Writing Science for the Public at a midsize northeastern state university. This approach led to emphasizing collab...

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Assessing Climate Literacy Content in Higher Education Science Courses: Distribution, Challenges, and Needs

The study described in this article is part of the Maryland and Delaware Climate Change Education Assessment and Research (MADE CLEAR) project, which aims to improve climate literacy in the K–16 population through systemic, sustainable change in te...

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Exploring the Science–Society Interface With a Bridging Research Course

This article describes the development of a model for an optional, research-based course that bridges two existing, traditionally separate, introductory science courses. This research course provided freedom for students to design and implement new e...

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Research and Teaching: Using Twitter in a Nonscience Major Science Class Increases Journal of College Science Teaching

Nonscience majors often rely on general internet searches to locate science information. This practice can lead to misconceptions because the returned search information can be unreliable. In this article the authors describe how they used the social...

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Research and Teaching: The Explorations Program: Benefits of Single-Session, Research-Focused Classes for Students and Postdoctoral Instructors

In this article the authors present an update to Explorations, a program at Stanford University that allows undergraduates in an introductory biology course to explore specialized topics in the biological sciences while providing graduate students an...