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Saso, Luciano; Van Cleemput, Oswald – IntechOpen, 2017
The "Manual on Scientific Communication for Postgraduate Students and Young Researchers in Technical, Natural, and Life Sciences" is meant to be a practical guide for the preparation of theses, papers, posters, and other scientific documents. Upon going through the different chapters, the readers should be able to critically search for…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Research, Scientific and Technical Information, Biological Sciences
Singer, Susan R., Ed.; Nielsen, Natalie R. Ed.; Schweingruber, Heidi A., Ed. – National Academies Press, 2012
The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological sciences, geosciences, and chemistry. DBER combines knowledge of teaching and learning with deep knowledge of discipline-specific science content. It describes the…
Descriptors: Student Attrition, Science Education, Public Agencies, Engineering Education
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Veeraraghavan, Sudha – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is widely used by chemists. Furthermore, the use of NMR spectroscopy to solve structures of macromolecules or to examine protein-ligand interactions is popular. Yet, few students entering graduate education in biological sciences have been introduced to this method or its utility. Over the last six…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Spectroscopy, Biological Sciences
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Laursen, Sandra; Liston, Carrie; Thiry, Heather; Graf, Julie – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2007
Many short-duration science outreach interventions have important societal goals of raising science literacy and increasing the size and diversity of the science workforce. Yet, these long-term outcomes are inherently challenging to evaluate. We present findings from a qualitative research study of an inquiry-based, life science outreach program…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Outreach Programs, Science Interests