Coursera blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This biologist is learning to lead so he can pave the way for science. There, he soon realized it takes more than science to change the world. Jadson now serves as co-chair of the Career Development Subcommittee at the Genetic Society of America. It takes leadership.

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GlobalHigherEd

JANUARY 2, 2018

As the book description states: In Fungible Life Aihwa Ong explores the dynamic world of cutting-edge bioscience research, offering critical insights into the complex ways Asian bioscientific worlds and cosmopolitan sciences are entangled in a tropical environment brimming with the threat of emergent diseases.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The hope is for “constant cross-fertilization and collaboration, such that scholars in brain science can be in conversation with scholars in communications and social psychology around what different forms dehumanization can take,” Myers said. It’s supported by a $3 million gift from an anonymous donor.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time. Then, alongside a small number of scientific skeptics, there are those who don’t consider themselves science people, and who feel utterly incapable of evaluating scientific claims. Americans once revered science and scientists.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

Students Should Surpass AI—or Not When Boris Steipe, associate professor of molecular genetics at the University of Toronto, first asked ChatGPT questions from his bioinformatics course, it produced detailed, high-level answers that he deemed as good as his own. He still encourages his students to use the chat bot.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

You can read about them on the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science website (see the section, Teaching with Cases ). An example of an intimate debate case study is the case of golden rice ( Prud’homme-Généreux, 2009 ), which is a genetically modified rice. Journal of College Science teaching, 27(4), 236-239.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

You can read about them on the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science website (see the section, Teaching with Cases ). An example of an intimate debate case study is the case of golden rice ( Prud’homme-Généreux, 2009 ), which is a genetically modified rice. Journal of College Science teaching, 27(4), 236-239.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

“If I’m a very intelligent AI and I want to bypass your detection, I could insert typos into my writing on purpose,” said Diyi Yang, assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University. Bengio is a professor of computer science at the University of Montreal.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Given findings from genetic tests, he was aware his own risk of susceptibility to the disease and “suspect[ed] he had Alzheimer’s several years before any official diagnosis could be made. Caring for Alzheimer’s patients was the author’s specialty for 25 years.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

I’m Jewish, culturally and genetically,” Abigail shares. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17(6), 365–369. When I advertised one of my breads, it unexpectedly sparked outrage in a local religious community for not being kosher. It was bewildering to be accused of cultural appropriation when I am Jewish myself.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

It’s not genetics nor is it about individual behavior, educational attainment, diet, marital status, place of residence, of household income. Why is this the case? This wasn’t cheap, but it wasn’t excessively expensive either.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

I’m Jewish, culturally and genetically,” Abigail shares. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17(6), 365–369. When I advertised one of my breads, it unexpectedly sparked outrage in a local religious community for not being kosher. It was bewildering to be accused of cultural appropriation when I am Jewish myself.”

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

How to decide what policy decisions or prescriptions should be drawn from science or data. When scientists disagree, for example, about the dangers of genetically modified organisms, whom should nonscientists trust and on what basis? The extent to which nonspecialists can rely on an expert consensus.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Scholarship in the humanities and social sciences is an interpretive, question-asking, problem-solving enterprise. It is not simply descriptive or expository. We need to do a better job, I think, in teaching students how to: Read closely.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In June, Elsevier, a Dutch academic publisher, retracted an article entitled “Analysis of Uyghur and Kazakh populations using the Precision ID Ancestry Panel” that had been published in 2019.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

I’ve written before about the need to cultivate social science literacy. Every social science discipline not only has its distinct subject matter and language; it also has its unique ways of thinking. What about the core social science disciplines? Political Science. Many only become apparent in retrospect.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 2, 2023

Today’s blog explores Regular and Substantive Interaction through a learning science-based approach to course design and instruction. Each brain is a complex, interconnected web that is sculpted and influenced by genetics and interactions with the environment” (p. Each student enrolled in a distance education course is truly unique.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Given the ongoing threats to the health and safety of our students, faculty, staff, and North Philadelphia neighbors, we demand that the university follow science—and common sense—as classes resume.” ” At the time, Philadelphia was experiencing high community transmission rates.

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eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The aforementioned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote a seminal cognitive science article called “Selfish Genes and Selfish Memes.” For a literal virus, the relevant environmental factors include pre-existing immune responses, genetics, other health conditions that weaken the host, and so on.

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2024

A professor of genetics and biochemistry at Clemson University, the veteran educator admitted Pria has made him a better teacher at University Business’ Wednesday live webinar , “The Impact of AI on Higher Ed.” Since Pria was born in January 2023, she’s significantly impacted Alex Feltus’ life.

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