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.
Seeing the Impact: ABE Reaches 1 Million Students and Counting
September 6, 2024
“The Amgen Biotech Experience has inspired me to pursue a lab opportunity in my post-secondary pathway. … At York University, I work as a research assistant under Dr. Haas's lab, and it involves a lot of the techniques that were learned through the program, including techniques related to working with DNA and gel electrophoresis. The pipetting…
An Encore Career as an ABE Teacher
May 6, 2015
Teaching science was always Dr. Howard Goldsweig’s dream "encore career." Formerly Amgen’s executive director of medical science, Dr. Goldsweig had…
Sharing Passion for Science with the Next Generation
May 5, 2015
Like so many undergrads, Christine Martin hit a ‘wall’ her senior year at Dundee University in Scotland. She’d soon have her bachelor’s degree in…
Reflections on 24 Years of Teaching ABE
April 30, 2015
Winnie Litten may have come from a family of educators, but she didn’t realize her passion for teaching until she was studying pre-med in college. A…
ABE Reignites Interest in Science for Teachers and Students
March 15, 2015
Huw Williams never intended to become a high school science teacher. Prior to teaching high school, Huw taught game rangers at a technical university…