Thursday, October 13th

12-5 pm

Pre-Conference Field Trip: Little Grand Canyon

Led by Dr. Allan Bornstein, Southeast Missouri State University

Meet at Ballroom Registration Area

3:00 - 5:00 PM

Steering Committee Meeting

Board Room

6:00 - 8:00 PM

Registration and Reception

 H'ors d'oerves

Ballroom Atrium

and adjacent

Party Room

8:00 - 9:00 PM

Opening Session

Welcome to ACUBE:

ACUBE President: Lynn Gillie, Elmira College

Welcome to Southeast Missouri State University

Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics:

          Dr. Chris McGowan,
          Southeast Missouri State University

Greetings from the Conference Chairpersons

Program Chair: Jill Kruper, Murray State University  
Local Arrangements Chair: Margaret Waterman,
                 Southeast Missouri State University

OPENING PRESENTATION (Public Welcome to Attend)

Chief Paul White Eagle, Grassy Missouri

"The Origin of Life:  Looking from the inside and seeing its many spectrums as known and taught by Native Peoples."

Ballroom

9:15 - 10:15 PM

Steering Committee Meeting

UC - Board Room

Friday, October 14th

7:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Registration table

(Register, pay dues, buy T shirts, etc.)

Ballroom Atrium

7:15 - 8:30 AM

Hot Buffet Breakfast (by Interest Group)

Ballroom

7:30 - 10:30 AM

Field Trip:  Birding at Horseshoe Lake

Led by Aaron Givens, Southeast Missouri State University

Meet at Ballroom

Registration Area

9:00 AM - Noon  and 2:00 - 5:00 PM

SUSTAINING MEMBER EXHIBITS

Party Room

8:30- 10:00 AM

CONCURRENT WORKSHOP SESSION 1

1. Implementing Independent Research Projects for Undergraduates Using Adult and Embryonic Zebrafish

Melissa Daggett, Missouri Western State University

2. "Teaching Biology With NASA:   A Trip Through a Cell in STARLAB" and  "Biology Will Grow on You! Let the NASA ERC Show You How"

Jackie Wortmann, NASA Educator Resource Center, Southeast Missouri State University

University Room

NOTE:

Program Lounge, UC   3rd floor 

10:- 10:30 AM

POSTER SESSION 1

Refreshments provided

1. “An interdisciplinary exploration of global climate change”

Kerri M. Skinner, University of Nebraska at Kearney

2. "Web Page Construction as an Alternative Form of Testing in Plant Biology”

Lucinda Swatzell, Southeast Missouri State University

3. “Are group quizzes useful in enhancing student learning?

Glena G. Temple and Jennifer A. Sadowski, Viterbo University, WI

4.   "Planting the Seed:  Traveling with Students in the Caribbean"

Conrad Toepfer, Brescia University, KY

5. “Interdisciplinary teaching approaches in Invertebrate Zoology. Stress analysis of dried sea urchin tests: a Geodesic Dome.”

Robert L. Wallace, Ripon College, WI

6. “Ecology of Infectious Disease:  A New Piece of the Ecosystem Puzzle”

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

7. “Teaching microarrays:  A case involving pathogenic Pasteurella multocida”

Mark Wissel and Marcia Cordts, Univ. of Kansas Medical Center and Univ. of Iowa

Party Room

10:30 - 11:15 AM

CONCURRENT PAPER SESSION 1

1.  "What's This History and Culture Stuff Doing in my Microbiology Class?"

Christina Frazier, Southeast Missouri State University

2. “The customer is always right….right?: Adoption of a new liberal education model and its impact on biology instruction at a small, liberal arts college.”

Peter White, Colby-Sawyer College, NH

3. "Integrating Service Learning into General Biology”

Lisa Felzien and Laura Salem, Rockhurst University, MO

Indian Room

Riverboat Room

University Room

11:30 - 12:30 PM

Luncheon and First Business Meeting    

•      First and Final Call for Nominations!!

•      Out of this World Teaching Idea contributions

Ballroom

12:30 - 1:30 PM

Luncheon Program

         Dori Helms, Clemson University, SC

         "Revolution and Evolution in
            the Biology Classroom"

Ballroom

1:45 - 2:30 PM

CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS 2

1.   “Weaving Science into our Lives”

Christine Bezotte, Elmira College, NY

2.  “Experiences with an Interdisciplinary Biology-Mathematics Course - Follow-up Report”

John Koelzer and Chad Scholes, Rockhurst University, MO

3.   “Exploring Scientific Knowledge, Opinions, and Methods Through a Community Survey”

Kirt Moody, Columbia College, SC

4. "CleveLabs, a laboratory course system for anatomy and physiology:  exhibitor presentation".

Maria Grobelny, Cleveland Medical Devices, OH

Indian Room

University Room

Missouriana Room

Riverboat Room

2:45 - 3:15 PM

POSTER SESSION 2

 Refreshments provided

  Posters from morning available for review:

Party Room

3:00 - 5:00 PM

Field Trip:  Red House

Meet at Ballroom

Registration Area

3:30 - 4:15 PM

CONCURRENT PAPER SESSION 3

1.     “Six Degrees of Separation:  An Exercise to Improve Student Appreciation of the Scientific Literature”

W.W.  Hoback and K. M.  Skinner, University of Nebraska, Kearney

2.   “Cross-disciplinary projects between biology and psychology courses”

Glena G. Temple, Viterbo University, WI

CANCELLED 3.   “AIDS Education in the Biology Classroom”

Kathleen Rath Marr, Lakeland College, WI

 

Indian Room

University Room

Riverboat Room

5:00 PM

ACUBE Committee Meetings

Web Committee Meeting

Discuss ACUBE at Its 50th: Millikin University

Ethel Stanley, Beloit College, WI
and the Program and Local Arrangements Chairs

Board Room

6:00 - 7:00 PM

Social Hour

Cash bar

Party Room

7:00 - 9:00 PM

 Dinner and Second Business Meeting

(two-minute speeches prior to dinner; balloting after dinner, new officers announced at end of  presentation)

The  2005 Out of this World Teaching Idea Award

   Dinner Presentation

     Sherryl Broverman, SENCER and

                                 Duke University, NC

"How Much Can One Course Multi-task: Scientific, Multidisciplinary and International Education"

Ballroom

Saturday, October 15th

7:30 - 8:45 AM

Buffet Breakfast (by Interest Group)

Ballroom

7:45 - 8:45 AM

Bioscene Editorial Board Meeting

Board Room

8:45 - 9:30 AM

 CONCURRENT PAPER SESSION 4

1. “Learning how to learn: A study skills tutorial for the sciences”

Shawn E.  Nordell, St. Louis University, MO

2. “Integrating Teaching, Research and Service at a Local Nature Center”

Lynn Gillie, Elmira College, NY

3.  “Ecology of Infectious Disease:  A New Piece of the Ecosystem Puzzle”

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

Indian Room

University Room

Riverboat Room

9:45 - 11:15 AM

 

Workshop Session 2

 

1. Biological ESTEEM: Excel Simulations and Tools for Exploratory, Experiential Mathematical Biology: Implementing NRC Bio 2010’s Recommendations for More Mathematics in Undergraduate Biology Education"

John Jungck and Tony Weisstein, Beloit College, WI and Truman State University, MO

2.  "An Interdisciplinary Biology Course that Uses Tablet PC's in a New High Tech Classroom"

Dave Starrett, Southeast Missouri State University

Missouriana Room

NOTE:

KENT LIBRARY
Room 311

11:15 AM -

12:15 PM

Luncheon and Third Business Meeting

Resolutions:

Brenda Moore, Truman University, MO

Executive Secretary Report:

Pres Martin, Hamline University, MN

Bioscene:

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

            Presidential Address: Lynn Gillie, Elmira College

  2006 Meeting (50th):

Local Arrangements Chair, Millikin University

Adjournment:  Ethel Stanley, incoming President

 

Ballroom

12:30 - 3:00 PM

Steering Committee Meeting

Includes newly elected members!

Board Room