The Scientific Citizenship Initiative at HMS (SCI) is offering the Introduction to Science Policy online nanocourse for Harvard STEM graduate students and postdocs in January 2021. This is a 4-day program divided...

This course is an introduction to the skills and frameworks necessary for success as a graduate student teaching fellow (TF) or teaching assistant (TA). After completing this 6 hour introduction, students will be able to:

- describe core pedagogy concepts including backwards design, formative assessment, active learning, alignment, and inclusive teaching
- identify ways these core concepts may influence their work as graduate student TFs/TAs
- demonstrate the ability to apply these concepts to their expected teaching and course-related responsibilities
- identify...

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This online hands-on nanocourse will instruct participants on several best practices for reproducible research in Bioinformatics, including:

• How to generate reports for your analyses using RMarkdown...

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Single cell and spatial technologies allowed us to surpass granularity and context barriers, revolutionizing cancer research. They permit the investigation of cellular transcriptional programs, tumor clonal evolution, or...

Course Director: John Assad

Course Instructors: Ofer Mazor, Pavel Gorelik

Course description:

Biomedical researchers often use, or even building, experimental rigs consisting of several interconnected electronic instruments. These rigs are typically used to make high-quality recordings of weak biological signals. The goal of this course is to demystify the rig: What does each instrument do? How should they be connected? How does one troubleshoot noise, or adjust settings in a principled way...

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Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatments. It has resulted in complete and durable responses in several malignancies including advanced melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer, among...

About the series

This online nanocourse series is part of the curriculum offered by the Scientific Citizenship Initiative (SCI) at Harvard Medical School. SCI aims to make science more socially responsive and responsible by examining the social impact of scientific research and emerging technology, exposing students to the multiple roles and institutions that make up the innovation ecosystem, and teaching practical skills, such as how to communicate across disciplines and perspectives.

This online course series consists of three...