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Alex Hicks-Nelson - Tufts

V:50 I:4 Life as a Vet Student

Jessica Pinckard Photography

Jessica Pinckard - Texas A&M

V:50 I:4 Creative Corner

 Innocence 

Tree Frog

Yellow Lilly

Teaching Evolution to Students with Compromised Backgrounds & Lack of Confidence About Evolution - Is it Possible?

Alexandria Schauer - Minnesota

V:50 I:4 Cases/Abstracts Honorable Mention

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Teaching Evolution to Students with Compromised Backgrounds & Lack of Confidence About Evolution - Is it Possible?

Abstract:

Students regard evolutionary theory differently than science in general. Students’ reported confidence in their ability to understand science in general (e.g., posing scientific questions, interpreting tables and graphs, and understanding the content of their biology course) significantly outweighed their confidence in understanding evolution. We also show that those students with little incoming confidence in their understanding of evolution demonstrated more confidence and the most improved performance by the end of the semester. Collectively, our data indicate that regardless of prior experiences with evolution education, and in spite of myriad social challenges to teaching evolution, students can learn evolution. 

Pretty Fly (For a Lab Guy)

Rosalie Ierardi - Illinois

V:50 I:4 Creative Corner Winner

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Pretty Fly (For a Lab Guy)!

"Pretty Fly (For a Lab Guy)", by Rosalie Ierardi, 2015

Parody of "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)", by The Offspring, 1998

send it to me, baby (uh huh uh huh)

send it to me, baby (uh huh uh huh)

send it to me, baby (uh huh uh huh)

and all the doctors think I'm pretty fly ... for a lab guy

la influenza A hache cinco ene dos (influenza A H5N2)

you've heard about diseases

you've seen them in the news

the microscopic battles that we can't afford to lose

before you pick a treatment

you'd better get it right

you want a diagnosis?

we'll help you win the the fight

you'll be feeling swell / in the VDL

when you're finding viral plaques in microtiter wells

see them replicate / right there on your plate

with DNA / with DNA

finding serovars / running PCRs

just make sure that you don't breathe it or you might come down with SARS

the world needs virology

so hey! hey! use that thinky thing!

send it to me, baby (uh huh uh huh)

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Kestrel Boxes, or Why I Continue To Choose Experience: A First Year Story

Nikki Becich - Tufts

V:50 I:4 Experiences Honorable Mention

Everyone’s been there.

You’re stressed out on a regular Thursday afternoon. You have exactly 217 textbook pages you’d like to review before you even -look- at the end-chapter review questions you KNOW are going to be on the written part of the exam. You haven’t slept much because you’re on call for Large or Small animal tech team, or you got up early for baby care team at the Wildlife Clinic, and you went to those dinner talks and learned about Veterinarians in the Army, got your VBMA credits, and now you’re here. The exam is tomorrow. Your undergraduate A-complex conscience is chewing you out for your irresponsible behavior and irreverence of the educational system you’re paying for the privilege of being a part of…

And you get an email.

The State Ornithologist is on campus, and we know you love birds! Would you have time to walk campus with him while he stakes out the best location to place Kestrel nest boxes…for an hour or two? Just an hour or two.

You may not have pulled that A, or even that B, in this class’s last exam. You could get through a decent amount of material in these next few hours. You aren’t struggling with the material, though. Your grades are fine. Not exceptional, but fine. What do you say?

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