Monthly Archives: September 2011

Tennessee Education Leaders Learn About NIMBioS Outreach

Hundreds of school principals and superintendents at the Tennessee Educational LEADership Conference viewed Biology in a Box materials and were introduced to NIMBioS outreach programs in Nashville last week. About 1,800 educational professionals attended in all. All ten Biology in … Continue reading

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NSF CAREER Grant Awarded to Board Member

Mariel Vazquez, a member of the NIMBioS Board of Advisors, is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for her innovative work on DNA topology. Vazquez is an associate professor of mathematics at San Francisco State University. Her … Continue reading

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NIMBioS a Partner on Grant to Train Math and Science Teachers

A STEM education seminar series co-hosted at NIMBioS and a chance for pre-service teachers in math and biology to join the summer NIMBioS REU program are the planned collaborations resulting from a national grant awarded to UT’s VolsTeach program.  VolsTeach … Continue reading

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Biology in a Box — The Movie!

In this video about Biology in Box, you’ll discover how the program helps kids from kindergarten to 12th grade learn about the wonders of the natural world, while also learning the scientific methods and math skills needed to understand that … Continue reading

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Gross Reappointed to National Academies’ Board

We’re please to announce that NIMBioS Director Louis Gross has been reappointed to serve as a member of The National Academies Board of Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies, one of six subject area divisions that enlist the … Continue reading

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NIMBioS Outreach: Girl Scouts Identify Wildlife Tracks

By examining wildlife tracks imprinted in clay, area Girl Scouts learned how to identify the animal that would have made them in a recent outreach activity led by NIMBioS at Cherokee Caverns in Knoxville.  Using materials from Biology in a … Continue reading

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New TalkingScience Post: Epidemic!

TalkingScience now features our latest post: “Epidemic! The Handshake Game.” In the game, 4th through 8th graders learn a simple disease model by being an active participant in a mock “outbreak” of handshake disease. The game was created by Rebecca … Continue reading

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