Six SBE Faculty Members Publish an Education Journal Article
Six faculty members in SBE (Karen Pelletreau, Farahad Dastoor, Hamish Greig, Robert Northington, Brian Olsen, and Michelle Smith) are co-authors on a recent publication about teaching the Central Dogma, which is a core concept of biology. The UMaine faculty led a collaboration with faculty from the University of Georgia, University of Colorado-Boulder, University of South Florida, Michigan State University, and Stony Brook University to identify student conceptual difficulties about the Central Dogma and develop an in-class active-learning activity that positively impacted student learning. The project involved an unprecedented number of faculty (both within UMaine and at all these different institutions) working together to design an effective lesson for the undergraduate biology classroom.