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Career of the Month: Systems Engineer

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Anne O'Neil's career path to becoming a systems engineer....

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Safer Science: Safer Use of Toxic Chemicals

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses the use of moderately or highly toxic chemicals....

High School Chemistry Labs Safety

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A Hands-On Activity to Build Mastery of Intermolecular Forces and Its Impacts on Student Learning

The intermolecular forces activity presented in this article is designed to foster concept-building through students’ use of concrete, manipulative objects, and it was developed to be pedagogically sound. Data analysis via pre- and posttesting and ...

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To Flip or Not to Flip? Analysis of a Flipped Classroom Pedagogy in a General Biology Course

In an attempt to better understand the flipped technique and evaluate its purported superiority in terms of student learning gains, the authors conducted an experiment comparing a flipped classroom to a traditional lecture classroom. Although the ou...

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Deliberative Pedagogy in a Nonmajors Biology Course: Active Learning That Promotes Student Engagement With Science Policy and Research

Deliberative democracy, a consensus model of decision making, has been used in real-life policy making involving controversial, science-related issues to increase citizen participation and engagement. Here, we describe a pedagogical approach based o...

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Developing Student Presentation Skills in an Introductory-Level Chemistry Course With Audio Technology

The objective of this article is to explain and provide rubrics for science and communication faculty as a means to help nonscience students, in basic science classes, understand that proper communication and presentation skills are a necessity in al...

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Undergraduate Journal Club as an Intervention to Improve Student Development in Applying the Scientific Process

We developed and implemented a series of workshops and seminars in an undergraduate journal club targeted at improving student development in applying the scientific process. Students were surveyed before and after participating in the club about th...

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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Success for Underrepresented Students in STEM

To recruit underrepresented students with demonstrated financial need into STEM disciplines, Lock Haven University established the interdisciplinary Nano Scholars Program, offering National Science Foundation–funded scholarships, academic support,...

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Research and Teaching: Undergraduate Science Students’ Attitudes Toward and Approaches to Scientific Reading and Writing

In this study, a cohort of final-year undergraduate science students were surveyed to examine whether they fully read journal articles, including whether they seek to understand how the results support the conclusions. Their writing was also examined...

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Research and Teaching: Association of Summer Bridge Program Outcomes With STEM Retention of Targeted Demographic Groups

Retention of students to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) major has been studied for four cohorts participating in a summer bridge program supported by the National Science Foundation. Students participated in a 6-week program...

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Point of View: How Important Is Achieving Equity in Undergraduate STEM Education to You?

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. In this month’s issue the authors make a case for their belief that significant progress toward equity and inclusion will only be achieved when evid...

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Two-Year Community: Time for Action: Vision and Change Implementation in an Online Biology Course at a Community College

The authors discuss an Introduction to Biology course they created. The course was designed by following the recommendations from the Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action report, which stresses the need for engaging ...

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Case Study: Feeling Detoxified: Expectations, Effects, and Explanations

The idea for this case study came about after a student described her experience at a spa with an ionic foot bath. The student was skeptical about the explanation provided to her about the underlying mechanism of the foot bath and wished to know mor...