by Olivia Sisson | Sep 18, 2020 | Education
Delivering an effective STEM course to students during COVID-19 is no easy task. Trying to keep students distanced yet engaged is tricky – organization is key. Whether your students are on campus, at home, or a bit of both – these two tools can help keep...
by Olivia Sisson | Sep 15, 2020 | Education
Chemical Kitchen, an entry level course at Imperial College London, is the innovative STEM course that 2020 absolutely requires. In it, students learn good laboratory practice through a simple and accessible activity – cooking. Designed by Jakub Radzikowski...
by Olivia Sisson | Sep 3, 2020 | Education
COVID-19 has challenged the traditional classroom set up – solutions and workarounds have emerged from all corners. One LabArchives instructor has designed a data generator that helps to ensure experimental design and independent analysis remain...
by Olivia Sisson | Aug 28, 2020 | Data Management, Education
Authenticity is one of many buzzwords in the education space and it relates to one very important question which is, “What’s the point?” While it can be tongue in cheek, this question is worth asking early and often when it comes to designing...
by Olivia Sisson | Aug 19, 2020 | Data Management, Education, Research
Projects at Jonathon Hill’s lab at Brigham Young University generally take between two and five years to complete and his team of about twenty is composed entirely of undergraduate researchers. The setup inherently sees a lot of turnover but because Jonathon plans for...
by Olivia Sisson | Aug 14, 2020 | Education
When Dr. Julia Raizen started graduate school in the 1980’s, the term ‘molecular biology’ hardly existed. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), now commonly used in biology and medicine, had just been invented and was a slow, laborious process. While studying a class of...