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.

Wanted: 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 want 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 2008 annual meeting will be from June 2-7, 2008, at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada.

HAPS Regional Conference: The upcoming Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS) 22nd Annual Conference will be hosted at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, May 24th through May 29th, 2008 in Downtown New Orleans. 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 51st Annual Meeting, "Learning by Doing: Integrating Teaching and Research in the Biology Classroom" will be held October 4-6, 2007 at Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa.

AIBS (American Institute of Biological Sciences): The 2008 AIBS annual meeting will be held May 12-13, 2008 in Washington DC, at the Capital Hilton Hotel, on the theme of "Climate, Environment and Infectious Diseases."

CUR (Council on Undergraduate Research): The 12th National Conference will be at the College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, MN from June 21-24, 2008. The theme is "Frontiers and Challenges in Undergraduate Research."

NABT (National Association of Biology Teachers): The 2007 annual meeting will be in Atlanta, GA from November 28-Dec 1, 2007.

NCUR (National Conferences on Undergraduate Research): The 2008 annual meeting will be April 10-12, 2008 at Salisbury University, Maryland.

NSTA (National Science Teachers Association): NSTA has several regional conferences October-December 2007. The Northern/Midwestern Area Conference will be October 18-20 in Detroit; Western Area Conference - Nov 8-10 in Denver; and Southern Area Conference - Dec 6-8 in Birmingham, AL.

Project Kaleidoscope is devoted to undergraduate education in mathematics, engineering, and science. The website lists a variety of meetings and workshops. Upcoming seminars include "2007 F21 National Assembly: Leaders Developing Leaders Developing Leaders... ," scheduled for Nov. 2-4, 2007 in Chantilly, VA, and "2007 Fall Planning Facilities for Undergraduate Science, Engineering & Mathematics Workshop ," scheduled for Nov 30-Dec 2, 2007. Location details still to come.

Wakonse South: The Texas A&M Center for Teaching Excellence invites you to participate in the 10th Annual Wakonse South Conference on College Teaching. This event is to be held March 30-April 1, 2008 at Canyon of the Eagles Lodge & Nature Park in Burnet, TX.