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Workforce shortages are a growing problem in the biotech industry. Communities are concerned that a lack of trained workers will either keep companies away or cause companies to move. If companies do have to move, it's likely those jobs might be lost forever, never to return. According to Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labor, now a professor at UC-Berkeley,...
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Posted on May 9, 2008 8:00 AM • 12 Comments •
Arnold Schwarzenegger on community colleges
Posted on May 8, 2008 12:30 PM • 1 Comments •
Bio-Link is accepting applications for this year's National Summer Fellows forum, June 2-6th, in Berkeley, CA. You can get an application at www.bio-link.org I'll be there, doing some kind of bioinformatics workshop. I'll probably be talking about either metagenomics or comparing protein structures and drug resistance, but if you have topic requests, feel free to submit them in the comments....
Posted on March 17, 2008 6:13 PM • 0 Comments •
We often see memorials written about famous scientists, but we rarely see them about the people who work in the background to help people learn the science in the first place. Ron was one of those people whose work inspired teachers and helped spark excitement in science students throughout the world. I just learned last week that Ron passed away...
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Posted on January 10, 2008 12:53 PM • 2 Comments •
Congratulations to George Cachianes (who I've written about before), his amazing students from Abraham Lincoln High School, and collaborators at UCSF! These students, from a public high school no less, placed in the top 6 finalists, along with only one other US team. The other top teams were: Peking University (China), University of Science and Technology (China), University of Paris...
Posted on November 13, 2007 12:15 PM • 0 Comments •
It must be spring. Summer course announcements are popping up everywhere and this site is no exception. Last Friday, I posted an announcement about our summer bioinformatics course in Alaska, June 27-29th. This week, I have a couple more conferences to announce. Naturally, I'll be at both of them, leading hands-on workshops for college and high school teachers in using...
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Posted on March 10, 2007 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
GenomeWeb reports that OKCC and the University of Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center received NIH funds for genomics and bioinformatics education projects, respectively. Congratulations are certainly due to the University of Utah. For a community college, on the other hand, to get NIH funding is very unusual and OKCC should be commended. From GenomeWeb: The NCRR said it will fund...
Posted on January 5, 2007 1:15 PM • 0 Comments •
Many regions in the United States, and the world for that matter, are seeking to entice biotech companies to relocate. As Lorraine Ruff and David Gabrilska describe in their Genetic Engineering News Article, "Metrics for Economic Development," the exhibitors at meetings like BIO work hard to: ".. entice founders and CEOs with a wide spectrum of inducements: institutional and technological...
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Posted on July 12, 2006 11:40 AM • 0 Comments •
Yet another Bio-Link blog post. The San Francisco bay area has experienced phenomenal growth in both the number of biotech companies and the need to find employees. But, no matter how many attractions entice potential employees to move to the Bay Area, they still face the problem of finding a place to live. Housing prices are, well, a bit startling...
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Posted on June 27, 2006 7:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Science Blogs has asked: What makes a good science teacher? Many of the science teachers that I've met can't really be described by the adjective "good." The better fitting words are: great, marvelous, inspiring, and fantastic. But, SBer's want to know, "what makes them so great?" Right? I've compiled a list of characteristics that I've seen all great science teachers...
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Posted on June 22, 2006 8:00 PM • 1 Comments •
Blogging from Bio-Link, part III High school teachers have different techniques for selling their students on the benefits of science and math. When some high school instructors step in front of a class, the quiet demeanor gets put away and another persona steps out - the USED-CAR SALESMAN SCIENCE EVANGELIST. Science is no longer "science," when these instructors head up...
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Posted on June 16, 2006 8:32 PM • 2 Comments •
"It's all about saving Aunt Millie"
Bob Swanson
Co-Founder, Genentech
More blogging from Bio-Link
These next two posts salute instructors who teach in community college and high school biotechnology programs.
Confronted with the daily routines of doing lab work, or keeping up with latest genotyping techniques or chromatography tools, some of us might forget that there's more to biotechnology than just the science.
There are others who will
never forget.
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Posted on June 10, 2006 2:31 PM • 6 Comments •
Blogging from Bio-Link, part I I am currently in Berkeley attending the 2006 Bio-Link summer fellows' workshop. It's hard to believe that it's been eight years since the first workshop was held. We're still meeting here in the same lovely Clark Kerr Center and I'm still, as every year, awed by the amount of initiative and drive that I see...
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Posted on June 5, 2006 8:29 PM • 0 Comments •
I am a microbiologist and molecular biologist turned tenured biotech faculty turned bioinformatics scientist turned entrepreneur. My passion is developing instructional materials for 21st century biology (Geospiza Education).
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