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 our webmanager 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 2009 annual meeting will be from June 9-13, 2009, at the University of Deleware, Newark, DE.

HAPS Regional Conference: The upcoming Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS) 23rd Annual Conference will be hosted at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, May 23rd through May 28th, 2009 in Baltimore, MD. 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 52nd Annual Meeting, "Assessment in the Biology Classroom: How do we evaluate student learning?" was held October 16-18, 2008 at Hopkinsville Community College, Hopkinsville, KY (2009 meeting not yet announced).

AIBS (American Institute of Biological Sciences): The 2009 AIBS annual meeting will be held May 18-19, 2009 in Arlington, VA at the Westin Arlinton Hotel, on the theme of "Sustainable Agriculture: Greening the Global Food Supply."

CUR (Council on Undergraduate Research): The 13th National Conference will be at Weber State University in June 2010.

NABT (National Association of Biology Teachers): The 2009 annual meeting will be at the Sheraton Denver in Denver, CO from November 11-14, 2009.

NCUR (National Conferences on Undergraduate Research): The 2009 annual meeting will be April 16-18, 2009 at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse.

NSTA (National Science Teachers Association): The National Conference will be held New Orleans, LA March 19-22nd.

Project Kaleidoscope is devoted to undergraduate education in mathematics, engineering, and science. The website lists a variety of meetings and workshops. Upcoming events include "Learning Spaces and Technology Workshop ", March 6-8th, 2009 at the University of Richmond and "2009 Keck/ PKAL Facilitating Interdisciplinary Learning Project", July 29-31st at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN.

Wakonse South: The Texas A&M Center for Teaching Excellence invites you to participate in the 12th Annual Wakonse South Conference on College Teaching. This event will be held April 3-5, 2009 at Canyon of the Eagles Lodge & Nature Park in Burnet, TX.