Thursday, October 14th

2:00 - 5:00 PM

Pre-Conference Field Trip: Pine Hills

Location TBA

3:00 - 5:00 PM

Steering Committee Meeting

Biology and Chemistry Building

(TBA)

6:00 - 8:00 PM

Registration and Reception

heavy h'ors d'oerves

Biology and Chemistry Building  Entry and Room 104

8:00 - 9:00 PM

Opening Session

Welcome to ACUBE:

ACUBE President: Terry Derting, Murray  State University

Welcome to Wabash  College:

        Dean of the College, Dr. Mauri Ditzler, Wabash College

         Program Chair: Joyce V. Cadwallader, Saint Mary-of-the-

                 Woods College         

Local Arrangements Chair: Austin Brooks,.Wabash College

OPENING ADDRESS (Public Welcome to Attend)

John Kraemer, Southeast Missouri State University

 The Application of Remote Sensing and GIS Technology in Environmental Science Education. 

Biology and Chemistry Building Room 104

9:15 - 10:15 PM

Steering Committee Meeting

Biology and Chemistry Building

(TBA)

Friday, October 15th

7:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Registration table

(all locations are in the Biology and Chemistry Building unless otherwise indicated)

7:00 - 8:00 AM

Buffet Breakfast (by Interest Group)

Detchon Center

7:30 - 10:30 AM

Field Trip:  Birding

Location TBA

9:00 AM - Noon  and 2:00 - 5:00 PM

SUSTAINING MEMBER EXHIBITS

Refreshments provided

Biology and Chemistry Building

8:15-9:45 AM

CONCURRENT WORKSHOP SESSIONS I

1.  Easy Ways to do Physiology Labs from iWORX/CB Sciences

        Steve Andre, iWORX/CB Sciences

2.   Using Technology with Investigative Case Based Learning

       Margaret Waterman, Southeast Missouri State University   

       and Ethel Stanley, BioQUEST, Beloit College     

3.  Mastery Teaching and Learning Workshop
               Abour H. Cherif and Karen Murkar, DeVry University  

4.   Amphipods as a Model System for Teaching Ecology,

       Evolution, and Behavior.

            Susan E. Lewis, Carroll College

Biology and Chemistry Building

9:50-10:20 AM

POSTER SESSION I

Refreshments provided

 1.  Investigative Case Based Learning:  The LifeLines OnLine Project

        Margaret Waterman, Southeast Missouri State
          University and Ethel Stanley, BioQUEST, Beloit College 

2.  Development of a Blended Online/Traditional Environmental Science
      Course
               Jennifer A Sadowski* and Michael S. Alfieri, Viterbo
               University        

3.  Teaching Population Growth Using Cultures of Vinegar

      Eels, Turbatrix aceti (Nematoda)

                Robert L. Wallace, Ripon College 

4.  Development of an Upper-level Comparative Bioinformatics  Course
                Glenna G. Temple, Viterbo University  

5.  Tools for Environmental Conservation & Restoration

              Peter J. Wilkin, Purdue Univ. North Central      

Biology and Chemistry Building

10:30 - 11:15 AM

CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS I

1.   A Single  Organism Can Serve Many Educational Purposes
             William Brett, Indiana State University

2.   Bridging the Interdisciplinary Divide: A Mathematical Model of
       Muscle Contraction and Its Uses in Undergraduate Biology and
       Math Education
               Tom Hoogendyk, Biology Department, Northeastern
               University, and Jennifer Galovich, Mathematics
               Department, College of  Saint Benedict and Saint John's
               University         

3.    Writing, Collaborative Media, and Interactive Online
        Environments. 
                Steve Brewer, University of Massachusetts—Amherst

4.    LabWrite:  Educational Technology to Enhance Students’ Writing
         and Learning in Biology Labs
                Miriam Ferzli, Michael Carter, and Eric Wiebe, North Carolina
                State University
 

Biology and Chemistry Building

Room

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11:20 - 12:05 AM

CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS II

1.   The Web Enhanced Course:  A Liaison Between  theComputer and
       the Classroom

Hugh B. Cole, Hopkinsville Community College

 2.   Human Allometry: Sexual Differences in Growth Rates of Various
        Body Parts

               Buzz Hoagland, Westfield State College

3.   Long-term Impacts on One Semester of Reformed Teaching on
      Student Learning. 
              Terry L. Derting, Murray State University
 

Biology and Chemistry Building

12:15 - 1:00 PM

Luncheon and First Business Meeting    

•      First and Final Call for Nominations!!

•      Out of this World Teaching Idea contributions

Detchon Center

1:00 - 1:45 PM

Luncheon Program

         John Jungck, Beloit College

         Computer Power and Human Learning:  Using Technology As

         If Students Matter

Detchon Center

2:00 - 5:00 PM

Field Trip:  Crawfordsville Crinoid Beds

Location TBA

2:00–2:45 PM

CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS III

1.    The Science of Flight 3.      

          Lynn Gillie, Todd Egan, and Mary Anne Perks, Elmira

        College

2.    Round Table Discussion—Recruiting 1^st and 2^nd year Potential
 Majors—Strategies

Thomas A. Davis, Loras College

3.   A Survival Guide for Students in the Anatomy and Physiology
          Course

              Neil Baird, Millikin University

Biology and Chemistry Building

2:50 - 3:20 PM

POSTER SESSION II

Refreshments provided

Poster from the morning session will still be available for review

Biology and Chemistry Building

3:30 - 5:00 PM

CONCURRENT WORKSHOP SESSIONS II

1.   Case It! Computer Simulations for the Analysis of Genetic and
       Infectious Disease—An Update

Mark Bergland and Karen Klyczek, University of Wisconsin,

River Falls

2.   Using LabWrite:  Helping Students Write Better La

        Reports

             Michael Carter, Miriam Ferzli, and Eric Wiebe, North

                Carolina State University

3.   Integrating video camera, digital microscopy into the

             Biology curriculum and laboratory

             Richard E. Wilson, Ken-A-Vision Mfg. Co. Inc

Biology and Chemistry Building

5:05 - 5:45 PM

Web Committee Meeting

Biology and Chemistry Building

6:00 - 7:00 PM

Social Hour: 

Detchon Center

7:00 - 9:00 PM

 Dinner and Second Business Meeting

(two-minute speeches prior to dinner; balloting after dinner presentation)

Dinner Presentation

Cary Mitchell,  

Title:  TBA

Presentation of the 2004 Out of this World Teaching Idea Award

 Detchon Center

Saturday, October 16th

7:30 - 8:45 AM

Buffet Breakfast (by Interest Group)

Detchon Center

7:45 - 8:45 AM

Bioscene Editorial Board Meeting

Biology and Chemistry Building

9:00 - 9:45 AM

CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS IV

1.   Teaching with Ultrastructure—Active Learning with Rotating Teams
               Thomas A. Davis, Loras College

2.    Using Technology to Teach an Integrated Mathematics/Biology
       Course –  Preliminary Report

              George M. O’Connor and John G. Koelzer, Rockhurst

              University              

3.     Grantsmanship and NSF-Style Student Peer Review

In Undergraduate Research Experience

B. G. Blair, G. R. Cline, and William R. Bowen, Jacksonville State University

Biology and Chemistry Building

10:00 - 10:45 AM

CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS V

1.   Interdisciplinary Impact of Evolution

               David P. Benson, Marian College

2.   Bioinformatics Instruction: Using Microarray Data Sets to
                Stimulate Student Learning.

               Hugh A. Miller III and Karl H. Joplin, East Tennessee State

               University

3.   PDAs in the Biology Classroom an Lab:  The Future or Fad? 

Timothy Mulkey, Indiana State University

 Biology and Chemistry Building

11:00 AM -

12:15 PM

Luncheon and Third Business Meeting

Resolutions:

Dick Wilson, Rockhurst University

Executive Secretary Report:

Pres Martin, Hamline University

Bioscene:

Ethel Stanley, Beloit College & Tim Mulkey, Indiana State University

            Presidential Address: Terry Derting, Murray State University

        Students as the Center of Modern Education

2005 Meeting (49th):

Margaret Waterman, Southeast Missouri State University

Detchon Center

12:30 - 3:00 PM

Steering Committee Meeting

Includes newly elected Steering Committee members!

Biology and Chemistry Building

12:30 – 4:00 PM

Post conference:  Covered Bridge Festival of  Parke County, Indiana

(Information will be available at meeting for those who wish to participate on their own)