Reflections

Promoting Belonging Across a Department

The ASMCUE 2022 microbrew session I watched tonight was entitled “Measures Taken to Increase Belonging and Retention in a First Semester Majors Biology Course.” Sean Timothy Coleman was the presenter and used a Padlet to share information. Coleman is at a small institution in Iowa. They launched workshops on diversity and inclusion and brought in […]
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Connect for Virtual Labs

McGraw Hill Education was one of the exhibitors at ASMCUE 2022. I watched the recording of their live twenty-minute session tonight. Tammy Lorince was the presenter and is an instructor and lab coordinator at the University of Arkansas. They were developing an online microbiology course with lecture and lab with the University of Arkansas Global […]
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Microbiology Poetry

Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 microbrew “Teaching microbiology with poetry: Connecting lower and higher order cognitive skills.” Suparna Chatterjee has two Ph.D. degrees: one in microbiology and one in curriculum and instruction! They presented this short microbrew on their approach to teach microbiology with poetry at Arkansas Tech University. Chatterjee teaches several courses and […]
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Tinkercad for Environmental Microbiology

Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 microbrew “3D Printing to Observe Bacterial Interactions.” The speaker was Nik Stasulli, an Assistant Professor at the University of New Haven. This session was about creating 3D structures to examine bacterial interactions due to chemical secretions. Stasulli started the semester by having groups create Winogradsky columns and isolating bacteria. […]
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Labster Pre-labs and Safety

Dr. Manuela Tripepi, an Assistant Professor at Thomas Jefferson University, presented at ASMCUE 2022 about the use of laboratory simulations as pre-lab activities. This microbrew entitled “Using Laboratory Simulations as Pre-lab Activity” was an overview of how Tripepi used Labster videos during the pandemic in unique ways. Tripepi asked: do students learn and read the […]
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Inclusifying URM

Tonight Amada and I watched the ASMCUE 2022 microbrew “Toward ‘Inclusifying’ the Underrepresented ‘Minority’ in STEM Education Research. The presenter was Haider Ali Bhatti, a Ph.D. Candidate at UC Berkeley. They started with a quote from former US census director Kenneth Prewitt describing the “demographically complex” nation. Bhatti then focused on the term Under Represented […]
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T-cell Receptors and Student Engagement with a New ImmunoReach Activity

The ImmunoReach RCN has been very active! Tonight I watched their ASMCUE 2022 microbrew entitled: ImmunoReach: An interactive approach to understanding T-cell receptor diversity. Claudette Davis from LaGuardia Community College – CUNY and Timothy Paustian from the University of Wisconsin-Madison presented. Davis is a (newly) Associate Professor and spoke about the students at LaGuardia. They […]
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Incorporating the Virtual Tools into the In-Person Courses

The Microbrew from ASMCUE 2022 that I watched tonight was titled “When Plan B Becomes Plan A; Incorporating Content Created Virtually into In-person Classes.” Heather Townsend and Sarah Shoemaker were the presenters. They both have decades of experience teaching and wanted to reflect on how to use content created during “the virtual year” and incorporated […]
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Verification of Tweets with Primary Literature Summaries

Dr. Judy Brown from Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, TN presented at ASMCUE 2022 a Microbrew session entitled “Using Social Media to Enhance Science Literacy.” The goals of the session that Brown shared were to share the framework for this assignment and ideas for implementation. Brown asked the participants: how much time do undergraduate students […]
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A Seminar Series Based on Breakout Room Discussions of Racial Justice

Tonight I returned from Denver and watched SNL and spooky stories with the family. We then watched the ASMCUE 2022 Microbrew: “Cultivating Conversations: Talking about racial justice & inclusion with faculty and students.” Amy Siegesmund from the Department of Biology at Pacific Lutheran University started by asking the audience to share in the chat their […]
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