ABLE 2012 Sponsors & Vendors – Association for Biology Laboratory Education

Hayden-McNeil a provider of custom laboratory manuals and course materials and W.H. Freeman a source for outstanding textbooks and educational media for biology, are sponsors of the Wednesday Mixer at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center. . Mark Kesson from Hayden-McNeil will be presenting Friday from 12:00pm-1:00pm. Beth McHenry from W.H. Freeman will be presenting from 12:00pm-1:00pm on Friday as well.

Pearson is supporting ABLE 2012 with an exhibit showing new editions of their best-selling, customizable laboratory manuals and to view a demonstration of MasteringBiology® Virtual Labs for microscopy, molecular biology, genetics, ecology, and systematics. Pearson will also be sponsoring the Wednesday morning refreshments.

Carolina Biological Supply Company is a worldwide leader in providing top-quality, innovative science and math materials for K-16 educators. The Carolina Science catalog is available free on request. Carolina is the sponsor of the Thursday afternoon refreshments.

PASCOS’s SPARKscience™ solution includes quality sensors for field and laboratory use, a comprehensive set of college level experiments, and intuitive yet powerful software. With the ability to embed instructional content and analyze images SPARKscience is much more than a datalogger, it’s a science platform. PASCO is sponsoring the Friday morning refreshments. Mike Blasberg will be presenting 12:00pm-1:00pm on Friday.

WebAssign is the leading provider of powerful online instructional tools for faculty and students. Partnering with all major textbook publishers, WebAssign offers customizable precoded questions from a wide range of math and science textbooks along with easy-to-use tools that allow instructors to create their own questions.