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.
ABE's Expansion to the Global South: Part 1 – Brazil
November 18, 2024
Three countries, with vastly different education, science, and biotechnology infrastructures, are now bonded in a common goal—bringing hands-on biotech labs to underserved students. Comparing notes at a recent visit to a science education conference in Washington, DC, USA, leaders of the newest ABE sites, in Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa, found…
Pushing the Bounds of Biotech Education: Highlights from the ABE Meeting in Dublin
May 8, 2018
The ABE annual meeting in Dublin was a terrific success, bringing together teachers, site directors, coordinators, and lab technicians, to help chart…
Keeping Up with Biotech Demand in East Asia: A Conversation with the ABE Hong Kong Team
April 3, 2018
In Hong Kong and much of the broader East Asia area, the educational system is highly focused on exams. Teachers have their hands full just trying to…
Transforming Practical Classroom Science in the UK: Q&A with British Science Educator Karen Stephens
March 14, 2018
Counting bubbles of oxygen to measure the rate of photosynthesis, estimating the population size of an organism using quadrats – these are some of…
Expanding Opportunities for Biotechnology Worldwide
March 12, 2018
China recently announced a new strategic plan, stipulating that the biotechnology sector should exceed 4% of gross domestic product by 2020, with 10…
A Passion for the Scientific Process
April 10, 2017
For almost half of his life, Dr. David Mangus worked as a research scientist. He loved working in the laboratory, trying to figure out how things…
From Ballet to Biotech
August 11, 2015
With nearly 15 years of dancing under her belt, Kimberly Piper had hopes of one day joining the Boston Ballet – that is, until she took ABE during a…
The Amgen Scholars Program was a "Scientist Boot Camp"
August 11, 2015
"ABE was my only encounter with hands-on activities in science class which allowed me to actually experience the science and personally relate to the…
Inspiring the Next Generation, One Lab Kit at a Time
August 11, 2015
"The hands-on components of ABE were much better than what was offered in other science courses I had taken. They are really what turned me on to…