Digital Tools
Episode 2: Harvard/MIT's Felice Frankel on Visualizing ...
Episode 2: Harvard/MIT's Felice Frankel on Visualizing Science
Felice Frankel discusses how creating visual representations of science can change the way science is taught.
Episode 8: Brown's Casey Dunn on Student-Made Videos
Episode 8: Brown's Casey Dunn on Student-Made Videos
Casey Dunn discusses how the use of student-created science videos can enhance the learning experience.
Episode 12: Robin Heyden on Science Education in the ...
Episode 12: Robin Heyden on Science Education in the Virtual World
Education consultant Robin Heyden talks about the use of virtual worlds in science education.
Episode 11: MBARI’s Steve Haddock on Citizen Science
Episode 11: MBARI’s Steve Haddock on Citizen Science
Steve Haddock talks about a project he recently began called Jellywatch, a website for collecting data all around the world about jellyfish sightings.
The Digital Classroom
Episode 19: HMS's Gael McGill
Episode 19: HMS's Gael McGill
Gael McGill talks to Ilona Miko about molecular visualization as a powerful teaching tool.
Episode 20: Tim Stelzer
Episode 20: Tim Stelzer
Tim Stelzer explains how interactive media exercises improved learning in his intorductory physics class.
Episode 18: MIT's Natalie Kuldell
Episode 18: MIT's Natalie Kuldell
Ilona talks with Natalie Kuldell, a scientist and instructor in MIT's Department of Biological Engineering, about synthetic biology tutorials.
Episode 14: UCSF's Ron Vale on Online Lectures
Episode 14: UCSF's Ron Vale on Online Lectures
UCSF's Ron Vale talks about iBioSeminars and the value of online lectures.
Episode 13: St. Joseph Missouri's Sean Nash on ...
Episode 13: St. Joseph Missouri's Sean Nash on Online Learning Networks
Sean Nash talks about the benefits of using social media and technology in the classroom.
Outside The Classroom
Gene Therapy Restores Vision to Mice
Gene Therapy Restores Vision to Mice
Dr. Masland is the Charles A. Pappas Professor of Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School and Neurophysiologist in Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He received his A.B. degree from Harvard College and his Ph.D. degree from McGill University. His postdoctoral work was done at Stanford and Harvard Medical Schools. Among his awards is Harvard University's Hoopes Prize, for excellence in teaching. Research in this laboratory concerns local cellular interactions within the retina. Mammalian retinas contain a surprising diversity of cell types. Amacrine cells, upon which we have especially concentrated, exist in atleast 20 different morphological subclasses. By fluorescent staining many of these classes can be visualized by distinct, reproducible populations in histological material or intact retinas in vitro during electrophysiological recording. The broad questions under investigation are: (1) why this diversity exists, i.e., what functions the many cells carry out; (2) how orderly structural relations among the cells are created and maintained; and (3) how inner retinal cell's local dendritic networks function.
Episode 6: The Atlantic's David Shenk on Genius
Episode 6: The Atlantic's David Shenk on Genius
David Shenk discusses a new way of thinking about genes and notions of inherited intelligence.
CreatureCast Pisaster
CreatureCast Pisaster
Nathaniel Chu explains sea stars, and their run-in with the oyster industry in the early 1900s.
Episode 4: Irvine Valley's Jeff Kaufmann on Field Courses
Episode 4: Irvine Valley's Jeff Kaufmann on Field Courses
Jeff Kaufmann describes the advantages of teaching out in the field and immersing students in nature for a rich learning experience
Episode 5: Davidson's Malcolm Campbell on Synthetic ...
Episode 5: Davidson's Malcolm Campbell on Synthetic Biology
Malcolm Campbell talks about the creation of the Synthetic Biology program at Davidson, integrating math and biology.
Episode 16: Wisconsin's Rupa Shevde on Outreach Education
Episode 16: Wisconsin's Rupa Shevde on Outreach Education
Rupa Shevde discusses the multiple educational workshops and programs she and her team run for students from all walks of life.
Episode 15: Harvard's Dayan Li on the Triple Helix
Episode 15: Harvard's Dayan Li on the Triple Helix
Dayan Li talks about the Triple Helix, a student-run organization involving multiple universities worldwide that publishes Science in Society Review.
Episode 10: UC Boulder's Dick McIntosh on Workshops in ...
Episode 10: UC Boulder’s Dick McIntosh on Workshops in Africa
Dick McIntosh talks about the importance of ASCB-sponsored workshops in cell biology in Africa.
Trends in Science Education
Episode 1: UC Irvine's Diane O'Dowd on Hands-on Education
Episode 1: UC Irvine's Diane O'Dowd on Hands-on Education
UC Irvine's Diane O'Dowd talks about her philosophy of hands-on education through garage lectures.
Episode 3: Brown's David Targan on the WiSE Program
Episode 3: Brown's David Targan on the WiSE Program
David Targan talks about the founding of the Women in Science and Engineering at Brown.
Episode 17: RISD's David Bogen
Episode 17: RISD's David Bogen
Ilona talks to RISD's David Bogen about that school's involvement in the NSF-funded EPSCoR.
Episode 9: San Francisco State's Kimberly Tanner on ...
Episode 9: San Francisco State’s Kimberly Tanner on Education Specialists
Kimberly Tanner talks about transformations in science education and how they impact both a students and teachers.
Episode 7: Yale's Jo Handelsman on Scientific Teaching
Episode 7: Yale's Jo Handelsman on Scientific Teaching
Jo Handelsman describes what makes scientific teaching work so well and why it is rewarding for teachers and students.
