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…
Unpacking Representation in Science
October 15, 2023
“Everyone needs science and science needs everyone.” That mantra from the Amgen Foundation leads our efforts here at the Amgen Biotech Experience (…
ABE Opens Doors to Hands-On Science in Mexico
September 18, 2023
A new type of science experience has come to classrooms in Mexico. After four schools in the Mexico City and Cuernavaca, state of Morelos, areas…
Seeing Individual Differences Through a Genomics Lens in the Classroom
August 22, 2023
A new school year is beginning now in the United States, and for some students, that means they will get exclusive access to a new ABE module, in the…
Diving into Wonder Through New Approaches to Science Education
July 26, 2023
In the last weeks of May, after finishing her honors thesis and graduating with a biology degree from Bellarmine University, Kaitlyn Kalehuawehe made…
Closing Out the School Year by Investigating a Real-World Biotech Mystery
July 5, 2023
As the school year wound down for most students in the Northern Hemisphere in the first couple weeks of June, some students were still actively…
A Biotech Collaboration with the Deaf Community in Ireland
June 20, 2023
Any language is a living system. Language is not about individual words or phrases; it is about how those words uniquely connect as part of the…
A Student–Teacher Relationship That Continues to Make an Impact
June 5, 2023
Throughout her career, every time Tara Reed has had to give a public presentation, she thinks of one person: Tammy Fay. Reed’s high school biology…
Reframing the Discovery of DNA Through a Recreation of Rosalind Franklin’s Pivotal Photo
April 18, 2023
Until relatively recently, the story of the discovery of the structure of DNA has gone something like: On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis…