Focus Session: Undergraduate Teaching at the Intersection of Physics and Biology

Presentations

• Rethinking Physics for Biologists: A design-based research approach

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 4, 2015, 8:00 AM – March 4, 2015, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Vashti Sawtelle

    • Michigan State University

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• Introductory Physics Laboratories for Life Scientists -- Hands on Physics of Complex Systems

  ORAL

  March 4, 2015, 8:36 AM – March 4, 2015, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Wolfgang Losert

    • University of Maryland
    • Department of Physics, University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • Univ of Maryland-College Park

  • Kim Moore

    • University of Maryland

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• A biotic video game smart phone kit for formal and informal biophysics education

  ORAL

  March 4, 2015, 8:48 AM – March 4, 2015, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Honesty Kim

    • Stanford University, Bioengineering

  • Seung Ah Lee

    • Stanford University, Bioengineering

  • Ingmar Riedel-Kruse

    • Stanford University, Bioengineering

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• Hands-on-Entropy, Energy Balance with Biological Relevance

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 4, 2015, 9:00 AM – March 4, 2015, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Mark Reeves

    • George Washington University

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• A Low-Cost, Hands-on Module to Characterize Antimicrobial Compounds Using an Interdisciplinary, Biophysical Approach

  ORAL

  March 4, 2015, 9:36 AM – March 4, 2015, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Vernita Gordon

    • Univ of Texas, Austin
    • University of Texas at Austin
    • The University of Texas at Austin
    • Univ of Texas, Austinf

  • Karishma Kaushik

    • The University of Texas at Austin

  • Ashley Kessel

    • The University of Texas at Austin

  • Nalin Ratnayeke

    • The University of Texas at Austin

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• An undergraduate course, and new textbook, on ``Physical Models of Living Systems''

  ORAL

  March 4, 2015, 9:48 AM – March 4, 2015, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Philip Nelson

    • Univ Pennsylvania

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• Teaching Optics to Biology Students Through Constructing a Light Microscope

  ORAL

  March 4, 2015, 10:00 AM – March 4, 2015, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Jennifer Ross

    • Univ of Mass - Amherst
    • Univ of Massachusetts - Amherst

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• What Physics do Biophysicists Need to Know?

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 4, 2015, 10:12 AM – March 4, 2015, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Jonathon Howard

    • Yale University

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