ABE Blog
The ABE blog covers biotech and biotech-education news and trends in and beyond the ABE community. Topical posts often include student activities.
AI in Education
April 12, 2024
While many professors are actively discouraging their students from using AI, others are embracing the technology as a new way to enhance productivity and generate novel ideas. Since ChatGPT became available to the public, physiology professor Naava Schottenstein has been leveraging it in the classroom, from daily activities like writing emails to…
ABE Master Teacher Fellowship Launches a New Community of Leaders
January 15, 2021
The ABE Program Office is proud and excited to launch the inaugural cohort of the ABE Master Teacher Fellowship, with its first meeting taking place…
Spotlight on Rhode Island: Empowering Students with College-Level Lab Skills
December 23, 2020
As school systems across the United States continue to adapt to the new challenges posed by the COVID-19 global pandemic, Amgen Biotech Experience (…
CAR-T Therapy and Other Immunotherapies
December 19, 2020
Immunotherapy is fast becoming a promising treatment for cancer. By using patients’ own immune cells to treat cancer, doctors can avoid using…
ABE Volunteer Program: Bringing Biotech Careers into the Classroom
December 15, 2020
“You can’t be it if you can’t see it!” This is the driving mission behind the Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) Volunteer Program, launched in 2018 to…
Tips and Tricks for Successful Virtual Learning Experiences
December 8, 2020
As distance learning continues for many communities across the world because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenge of keeping students engaged and…
An Escape with Purpose: Creating a Flexible Classroom Experience
December 8, 2020
On a Zoom call in November, Maria Niño-Soto held up her lab schedule, and it looked more like a complex conference scheme than a classroom set-up. It…
Bioinformatics BLAST-off!
December 7, 2020
Bioinformatics, the emerging field that uses software to analyze vast amounts of biological data, is also accessible in the classroom. Bioinformatics…
Barriers to Teacher Success
December 2, 2020
In past ABE all-staff meetings, we have discussed barriers to teacher success. Below are some suggestions from various ABE site staff on how to make…