Toward Better Teaching. 2001 James Flack Norris Award, sponsored by ACS Northeast Section

James David Ebert (1921-2001)

James David Ebert studied the developmental processes of chicks and of viruses in the US during the twentieth century. He also helped build and grow many research institutions, such as the Department of Embryology in the Carnegie Institution of Washington [5] in Baltimore, Maryland and the Marine Biological Laboratory [6] (MBL) in Woods Hole [7], Massachusetts. When few biologists studied the b...

Biochemist James Spudich wins Lasker Award

Stanford biochemist James Spudich, PhD, has been flying small planes as a hobby since 1975. At his Pacific Ocean vacation home there’s a private runway within walking distance from his cottage. But what’s put him in the pilot seat with respect to his professional career is his consistent ability to develop evermore-precise ways of measuring molecular movements. Spudich, the Douglass M. and Nola...

Teaching Academy Innovation Award Applicationx

• Clickers provide nearly instantaneous feedback on student learning both to the instructor and to the student. A primary goal I have as a teacher is to create an environment in which students feel secure, significant, and connected both to me and to other students. Clickers have become an indispensable tool for me in achieving such a learning environment. Feedback from clickers builds student ...

Human Leptospirosis Trends: Northeast Thailand, 2001–2012

The objective of this study was to determine the changing trend of leptospirosis over time in Thailand using two prospective hospital-based studies conducted amongst adult patients with acute undifferentiated fever (AUFI) admitted to Maharat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand between July 2001 to December 2002 and between July 2011 to December 2012. During the firs...

Book Review: The Teaching Gap by James W. Stigler and James Hiebert