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CFP Journal Club

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CFP Journal Club is open to anyone interested in learning about new findings from the teaching and learning literature. Presented by: Kale Hartmann, PhD Successful Integration of Data Science in Undergraduate Biostatistics Courses Using Cognitive Load...

Better Teaching Through Observations (CFP Education Workshop Series)

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Better Teaching Through Observations Bradley Coleman, PhD Director, HMS Curriculum Fellows Program A teaching observation is a powerful learning tool, both for the observer and their subject. In this workshop we will discuss the many possible goals of...

From Z to A: Principles of backward design (CFP Education Workshop Series)

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From Z to A: Principles of backward design Saoirse McSharry, Ph.D Curriculum Fellow, Cell Biology This workshop will provide a review of the principles of backward design as originally described by Wiggins and McTIghe in 1988. Participants will examine...

Applying Growth Mindset in the Classroom (CFP Education Workshop Series)

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Applying Growth Mindset in the Classroom Jelena Patrnogic, PhD Curriculum Fellow, Landry Cancer Biology Consortium How can we motivate students when they often struggle to motivate themselves? How can we help them achieve their goals? A growth mindset...

Develop Your Mentoring Philosophy: a workshop for graduate students and postdocs to create individualized mentoring statements (CFP Education Workshop Series)

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Develop Your Mentoring Philosophy: a workshop for graduate students and postdocs to create individualized mentoring statements Temperance Rowell, PhD Curriculum Fellow, Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program Formal and informal mentoring relationships often occur for...

Fall 2019 Curriculum Fellows Graduate Science Education Seminar

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Critical thinking and good investigative practice across the disciplines - The R3ISE Graduate Science Program at Johns Hopkins - and beyond The problems besieging the biomedical sciences are deeply rooted and improvements in graduate education need to be...

CRISPR Gene Editing for Studying Disease Pathology and Treating Human Disease

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Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) RNAs and their CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins are an important part of adaptive immune systems in many prokaryotes. CRISPR-Cas systems function as RNA-directed endonucleases that can...

Arduino for Biologists: Building scientific instruments using Arduino

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Director: John Assad Instructors: Ofer Mazor, Pavel Gorelik, Brett Graham Course description: The Arduino is a powerful and inexpensive digital microcontrollers that can be used to develop custom lab instruments. Many tasks that used to require a PC or...

General Quantitative Microscopy and Experimental Design

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Light Microscopy is currently a widespread tool for scientific discovery. Advances in this field including the development of brighter and better dyes and fluorescent proteins and techniques that go beyond the optical resolution limit have shaped the way...

Deep Learning for Biomedical Image Analysis

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Advances in the AI method of deep learning have the potential to transform how biomedical data is analyzed for research, clinical diagnosis and prognosis. This nanocourse will deliver information and allot guided practice so that anyone can apply the...

Graduate TA Training in the Biomedical Sciences

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This course is an introduction to the skills and frameworks necessary for success as a graduate student teaching assistant (TA). After completing this 6 hour introduction, students will be able to: - describe core pedagogy concepts including backwards...

Governance and Ethics of Biotechnology 1: Gene Drives

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About the series This nanocourse is part of the curriculum offered by the Scientific Citizenship Initiative (SCI) at Harvard, that aims to complement traditional scientific training by examining the social impact of scientific research and emerging...