今年，我们将充分利用毕洛伊特学院的新LEED认证中心科学探讨如何，我们的设施为我们提供了机会，要求科学问题和收集数据，以及解决可持续性问题。 夏季讲习班的BioQUEST将开始由一个单独的会议上规划PKAL设施本科生科学 。
标题 ：绿色建筑-绿色课程
日期 ： 6月15号至21号， 2009年
地点 ：贝洛，威斯康星
精选项目 ：今年夏天的研讨会将采用数字伯爵 ！和调查案件 。
更多的信息和应用 ： http://bioquest.org/summer2009
也看到BioQUEST日历为其他即将举行的活动。
BioQUEST已有幸与许多有趣的项目，其20年的历史。 我们正在开发一系列的合作项目简介分享一些的丰富与更广泛的团体。 Project assistant and author) of Understanding Science . This profile interview was conducted via e-mail over several days in February 2009.针对此配置文件，我们以与朱迪Scotchmoo 住宅 （ 项目协调员 ） 和安娜Thanukos （项目助理和作者）的理解科学 。此个人资料进行面试通过电子邮件数天在2009年2月。
概括地说 ， 什么是理解为什么要科学学院本科教学生物学知道吗 ？
你能确定1个或2个具体的资源很受欢迎 ， 或者您将建议教师教学介绍生物学 ？
如果你让您的材料 ？ 如何帮助教师或提供意见 ？
您还没有提到科学流程图 。 我认为BioQUEST共同体将是非常感兴趣 。 您能谈谈吗 ？
谁应该人接触 ， 如果他们有意见 ， 问题或建议 ？
朱迪Scotchmoor -项目经理， jscotch@berkeley.edu 
安娜Thanukos -项目助理， thanukos@berkeley.edu 编者注 ：
欢迎来到我们的第一次网上调查。 我们呼吁我们的调查， “我们在哪里？ ” ，因为他们的目的是提供给我们所有的感觉与我们所处的位置作为一个社区。 这第一次调查的重点是教学的演变。
整个过程非常简单。 你回答一系列的10个问题（它应该只需要大约5分钟） 。 我们将汇编的数据和共享回到社会进行讨论。 任何个人数据会被共享，但我们大家都可以学到一些东西的过程中。
在“我们在哪里？ 演化调查“将开放到3月16日，然后，我们将发布新的调查，并开始着眼于发展的数据。
我们希望您能加入我们的行列-因为它不会工作，而你。 请随意发表评论这一过程中，建议为今后的专题调查，并提供反馈意见的空间在页面底部。
欢迎您到BioQUEST课程协会（ BQCC ）博客。 我们非常高兴地看到你作为一个读者，我们希望你会发现和分享有用的信息这里。 有几件事要完成，我们希望利用这个博客，其中包括：
与我们联系，请张贴评论，我们发送电子邮件，或拨打起诉[ 608/363-2012 ] 。
休Risseeuw -项目经理[ risseeuw@beloit.edu ]
埃塞尔斯坦利-主任[ stanleye@beloit.edu ]
三多诺万-代理的博客编辑器[ sdonovan@pitt.edu ]
豌豆形象菲尔价格共享（ CC ）宣布。
您目前正在阅读的第一BioQUEST博客更新。 我们很高兴能利用我们的新设计的网站，以信息共享与BioQUEST课程联盟共同体 。 然而，我们共享信息仅仅是开始。 我们的目标是在使用本网站的建立全社区的互动。 当然，它不会自动发生。 我们都在探索过程中新出现的社会媒体找出如何使它们为我们工作。 有什么更好的地方，探讨和交流而不是一个社区有兴趣的教师反思本科生物学教育？ 我们一直在围绕1986年以来 ，我们准备坚持这种一段更长的时间。 请考虑加入我们的行列。
如果您目前没有收到更新的电子邮件，并希望只是让我们知道[ bioquest@beloit.edu ] 。
电子邮件版本的此更新的其他信息包括以下职位：
立即申请BioQUEST暑期研讨会2009年 ： 绿色建筑 - 绿色课程
The 2009 PKAL Summer Workshop on Planning Facilities is an opportunity for faculty and administrators to explore approaches to shaping spaces that serve institutional goals for student learning in STEM fields and for environmental sustainability.
Workshop participants (individuals and teams) will have first-hand experiences with contemporary pedagogical practices that require learning spaces that easily accommodate collaborating, problem-solving teams of undergraduate learners and that enable easy access to tools, technologies and instrumentation needed by learners/practitioners in 21st century STEM fields. Participants will explore intersections involved in planning curricula, pedagogies and spaces designed for undergraduate STEM learning communities.
This meeting will be directly followed by the BioQUEST 2009 Summer Workshop
Workshop Title : PKAL Summer Workshop on Planning Facilities
Date s: June 13-15, 2009
Location : Beloit College, Beloit, WI
Application Deadline : Monday April 6, 2009
Contact : Please call at 202-232-1300 or write to applications@pkal.org
See the workshop homepage for more information and the BioQUEST Calendar for other events.
Sponsors :
As you already know — Darwin is having a big year in 2009. All the incredible resources are providing great opportunities to learn, and teach more about evolution. I’ve listed a few of my favorites here and I hope that you will include others you have found useful in the comments section below. Here is a listing of the materials discussed below:
This is a comprehensive online collection including Darwin’s published works, his research notebooks, and related materials. It has resources for getting started (have you read the On the Origin of Species ?), and materials for the serious scholar (you can find all 6 editions here). I have particularly enjoyed the collection of Darwin’s sketches of his specimens and the BBC audio book format of Darwin’s Beagle Diary .
From:
Robert Pennock, Chair, SSE Education Committee Thomas Meagher, Chair, SSE Darwin 200 Working Group To:
Evolution Directory (EvoDir) mailing list
We hope all have had a nice Birthday Celebration for Charles Darwin on 12 February. We invite you to view the SSE YouTube birthday greetings at the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn7zLGJE9EY .
This is a fun collection of evolutionary biologist singing and saying happy birthday to Chuck.
I’ve often found that Scientific American strikes the right tone for introducing difficult scientific content to lay audiences. The January 2009 issue has a diverse collection of Darwin and evolution related articles includeing:
You can see the entire TOC here and all the articles are available online.
The Year of Science 2009 (YoS09) is a national, year-long celebration of science. The goals of the project include engaging the public and improving public understanding about how science works, why it matters, and who scientists are. Each month has a different science theme and Evolution takes center stage in February . As an attempt to raise public awareness, I think the section call “ Exploring Evolutionary Thought ” is particularly useful. It includes brief interviews with more than 20 scientists in which they describe the role that evolution plays in their work.
Science is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and the 200th anniversary of the author’s birth with a variety of news features, scientific reviews and other special content, all collected here . The materials include:
It should be interesting to watch this collection grow throughout the year.
From a very useful compendium of popular press coverage of Darwin’s Anniversary at the National Center for Science Edcuation:
In recognition of Darwin’s 200th birthday, February 12, 2009, the mass media are again taking notice of Darwin’s life, accomplishments, and importance and influence. Writing to Charles Lyell in 1860, Darwin was wryly amused at the sort of newspaper coverage he was receiving in the wake of the publication of the Origin of Species : “I have received in a Manchester Newspaper a rather … good squib, showing that I have proved ‘might is right’, & therefore that Napoleon is right & every cheating Tradesman is also right.” Fortunately, today’s journalists exhibit a higher degree of accuracy than their Victorian colleagues at the Manchester Guardian ! Herewith a sampling of the recent coverage of the Darwin bicentennial.
Click here to read the full post at the NCSE web site. I includes information about and links to content from Science News, National Public Radio, BBC, CBC, The New York Times and several more.
