HHMI’s BioInteractive (http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive) and the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) project invite applications for a Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN) focused on adapting quantitative BioInteractive modules for undergraduate introductory biology courses. BioInteractive has a growing collection of quantitative and data based modules on statistics, graphing, and data manipulation, however these were initially designed for high school and AP biology. Participants in this FMN will work together and with the HHMI BioInteractive staff to adapt and implement these modules in their own introductory biology courses.
The Faculty Mentoring Network combines a face to face workshop experience with a mentored, long term community interaction on the QUBES site. The group will begin working at the National Academies Special Topics Summer Institute on Quantitative Biology (http://qubeshub.org/groups/summer2016), June 19-24 2016. After the meeting participants will continue to work online with a group of peers and mentors to adapt and implement quantitative modules in their courses during the Fall 2016 semester. This work will take advantage of the QUBESHub infrastructure and include short online meetings every other week. Upon completion of the Faculty Mentoring Network participants will post their materials and teaching guidelines on the BioInteractive partner page on QUBES. Applicants must be teaching introductory biology or an equivalent course in Fall 2016, and be able to attend the Quantitative Biology Summer Institute June 19-24. For more information, visit: https://qubeshub.org/groups/hhmibiointeractivefmn . Questions? Contact Melissa Csikari (csika...@hhmi.org) or Kristin Jenkins (kristin.jenk...@bioquest.org).
