Focus Session: Teaching at the Intersection of Physics and Biology

Presentations

• Cultivating the Physical Biology Mindset

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 3, 2014, 11:15 AM – March 3, 2014, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Rob Phillips

    • Caltech

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• Resources and approaches for teaching physics to pre-health and life science majors

  ORAL

  March 3, 2014, 11:51 AM – March 3, 2014, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Ralf Widenhorn

    • Portland State University

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• Teaching wave phenomena via biophysical applications

  ORAL

  March 3, 2014, 12:03 PM – March 3, 2014, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Daniel Reich

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University
    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Mark Robbins

    • Johns Hopkins University
    • Johns Hopkins University, Department of Physics and Astronomy

  • Robert Leheny

    • Johns Hopkins University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University

  • Steven Wonnell

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• Experiences Gained Creating a Biophysics Major at a Predominately Undergraduate Institution

  ORAL

  March 3, 2014, 12:15 PM – March 3, 2014, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Justin Link

    • Xavier University, Department of Physics

  • Steven Herbert

    • Xavier University, Department of Physics, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School

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• Supporting students in building interdisciplinary connections across physics and biology

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 3, 2014, 12:27 PM – March 3, 2014, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Chandra Turpen

    • Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park

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• Energy as a Unifying Theme for a Models Approach to Instruction

  ORAL

  March 3, 2014, 1:03 PM – March 3, 2014, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Stephen Tsui

    • California State University San Marcos

  • Clarisa Guelman

    • California State University San Marcos

  • Charles De Leone

    • California State University San Marcos

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• Biotic games and cloud experimentation as novel media for biophysics education

  ORAL

  March 3, 2014, 1:15 PM – March 3, 2014, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Ingmar Riedel-Kruse

    • Stanford Department of Bioengineering

  • Paulo Blikstein

    • Stanford School of Education

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• A course on physical models of living systems

  ORAL

  March 3, 2014, 1:27 PM – March 3, 2014, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Phillip Nelson

    • Univ Pennsylvania
    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Initial experience with a calculus-based IPLS course at Vanderbilt

  ORAL

  March 3, 2014, 1:39 PM – March 3, 2014, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • M. Shane Hutson

    • Vanderbilt University

  • Erin C. Rericha

    • Vanderbilt University

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• The Physics of Life: A Biophysics Course for Non-science Major Undergraduates

  ORAL

  March 3, 2014, 1:51 PM – March 3, 2014, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Raghuveer Parthasarathy

    • University of Oregon

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• Toward Better Physics Labs for Future Biologists

  ORAL

  March 3, 2014, 2:03 PM – March 3, 2014, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • John Giannini

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Kim Moore

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Wolfgang Losert

    • University of Maryland College Park

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