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Last year, we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin (1809–1882); it has been approximately 150 years since the publication...

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Editorial: It’s Not Just You

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, t...

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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 sci...

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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 che...

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Increasing Scientific Literacy About Global Climate Change Through a Laboratory-Based Feminist Science Course

The authors have developed and implemented a novel general education science course that examines scientific knowledge, laboratory experimentation, an...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ar...

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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, ...

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Case Study: The Chemistry of Curcumin, the Health Promoting Ingredient in Turmeric

Case studies pertaining to the health benefits of foods can be particularly effective in engaging students and in teaching core concepts in science (H...

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Research and Teaching: Enticing Students to Enter Into Undergraduate Research—The Instrumentality of an Undergraduate Course

To encourage students to seek research opportunities with campus faculty, one large university in the Southeast created a course entitled Science for ...

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Research and Teaching: Offering More Than “Here Is the Textbook”—Teaching Assistants’ Perspectives on Introductory Science Courses

Eight Earth science graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) participated in a semester-long seminar designed to facilitate change in their practice. The s...