ABLE News and Notes

Barbara Stegenga
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

bstegenga@bio.unc.edu

ABLE-bodied Employees

Don't forget to let your ABLE-peers know about biology and biology-related jobs you come across or that your institution is looking to hire for! Visit our job page to view them, or email Mark Walvoord with details to post one.

News from NSDL Available

As BEN (BiosciEdNet) partners, ABLE occasionally receives news and notes from the National Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Education Digital Library (NSDL) Program. Read their newsletter, the Whiteboard Report, or click on Back Issues to find a wealth of other news.

Make a Contribution to Labstracts: Your ABLE Conference Experiences

Have you ever applied what you learned at an ABLE conference to your own teaching? If you did, how did it go?

If you have contact me with a write up about whether it worked or not. Did you make changes to the lab? Are you still using it now? Why or why not?

All submissions are welcome at anytime, in addition to your experiences at ABLE conferences and how you have used the ABLE labs in your own labs. Do you have ideas for articles, even if you don't have time to write one yourself?

If you would like to submit an article or news item, please email bstegenga@bio.unc.edu. If you are submitting an article, please include information about yourself and a digital photograph (if possible) to include with the article. Photos of students or equipment "in action" are, of course, also always welcome.

Upcoming Meetings

Here is a short list of upcoming meetings that might interest ABLE members.

ABLE (Association for Biology Laboratory Education): The 2011 annual meeting will be from June 14-17, 2011, at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.

HAPS Regional Conference: The upcoming Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS) 23rd Annual Conference will be hosted January, 2011 in Sarasota, FL. HAPS conferences provide lots of great general teaching tips that any biology teacher can use, not just Anatomy & Physiology teachers. In essence a HAPS conference is a Multidisciplinary Teaching Conference. For more information go to: www.hapsweb.org . 

ACUBE (Association of College and University Biology Educators): The 54th Annual Meeting will be held October 8-9, 2011 at Lourdes College, Sylvania, Ohio.

AIBS (American Institute of Biological Sciences): The next AIBS special symposium will be held November 5-6, 2010 in Minneapolis, MN, on the theme of "Molecular Insights Into 'Classic Examples' of Evolution."

CUR (Council on Undergraduate Research): The 13th National Conference was held at Weber State University, June 19-22, 2010.

NABT (National Association of Biology Teachers): The 2010 annual meeting will be in Minneapolis, MN from November 3-6, 2010.

NCUR (National Conferences on Undergraduate Research): The 2011 annual meeting will be March 31-April 2, 2011 at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.

NSTA (National Science Teachers Association): The National Conference will be held in San Francisco, CA, March 10-13, 2011.

Project Kaleidoscope is devoted to undergraduate education in mathematics, engineering, and science. The website lists a variety of meetings and workshops. Upcoming events include "Engaged STEM Learning: From Promising to Pervasive Practices," March 24-26, 2011 in Miami, FL.

Wakonse South: The Texas A&M Center for Teaching Excellence invites you to participate in the 14th Annual Wakonse South Conference on College Teaching. This event will be held April 1-3, 2011 at Canyon of the Eagles Lodge & Nature Park in Burnet, TX.