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Bridgette Clarkston received lots of love from her BIOL 121 students this term in the form of biology-themed Valentine’s Day cards. Students were tasked to create a set of Valentine’s Day cards that incorporated concepts from the course, and as you can see from the display on her door in the pictures above, they definitely …
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Donald received his undergraduate degree from UBC in Cell Biology and Genetics. During that time, he took a course on cell biology that discussed unusual cellular structures found in unicellular eukaryotes, or protists. From this, he gained an appreciation of the evolutionary processes and genetics that underlie this massive diversity found in protists and lesser-studied …
We asked some Biology instructors about their experiences delivering midterm exams online, and here are their tools and methods, and what worked and what didn’t. Hear from Darren Irwin (BIOL 300), Trish Schulte (BIOL 260), Jackie Dee and Karen Smith (BIOL 112), Mary O’Connor (BIOL 306), Laura Parfrey (BIOL 230), and Kyra Janot (BIOL 320) …
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