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As a young graduate student learning to write fellowship proposals, I took a course in which the main assignment was to write a research proposal. This involved several rounds of peer-review and pr...
One of the best courses I had in ecology was an Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) tropical ecology field course in Costa Rica. While being in this beautiful country didn't hurt, it was the s...
When I was an undergrad, I had to take a calculus class. It was not difficult for me, but I can't forget what the professor said in class that I thought was amazing and inspired me in other courses...
I took a graduate-level bioinformatics course at UC Davis, which had a lab component in which we learned basic Unix and Perl programming skills. This was a great lab, which incorporated aspects of ...
While I was an undergraduate I did an honours type project for which I had to produce a paper modelled like a scientific journal article. A postdoc of the professor I was working under read over on...
I attended a (primary and secondary) school with no grades and it was great! Since the classes were small teachers evaluated each student on their progress at the end of each term. At the end of th...
As a STEM learner I relied heavily on creating organizational charts of the subject at hand, plus a fair amount of memorization. Since I was an undergraduate in a very different environment (Spain...
The first difficult block I remember getting in college was understanding moments in statics. What was counterintuitive for me is that moments (or torques) are represented as vectors perpendicular ...
I am fascinated by the recent move by the NIH to require all graduate students and postdoctoral researchers funded by grants from the NIH (or funded by their PI's NIH grant) to explicitly outline t...
one of the hardest concepts in cell biology for undergrads is understanding DNA topology. How a right handed twist can become a left handed interwound writhe, then taken up by a toroidal writhe whe...
