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.
A Real-World Biotech Detective
July 9, 2024
Detective work is not found only in law enforcement. Epidemiologists and data scientists all investigate what happens when a medicine enters the real world, “deciphering” everything from who receives the medicine and how it’s prescribed to unanticipated side effects and long-term benefits. “It's all about observing the real patients out there,”…
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…
A Teacher Finds Personal Meaning Through ABE Professional Experience
April 4, 2023
Although many people think about careers as a linear journey that continues along roughly the same track, building over time, I experienced a path a…
Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement in Your Biotechnology Class
March 12, 2023
Sometimes we forget that our students are, first and foremost, people. It is human nature to be more interested in things and subjects that we are…
How to Hook Students on Biotech
February 20, 2023
Just about every teacher has been there. You are starting a new lesson or new subject with your class. And while you are excited about the journey…