The other day I had a meeting with a colleague who indicated that she refuses to answer emails from students addressed to “Hey,”. I was glad to hear this, because although I certainly like to be on a first-name basis with students (including undergrads) working in my lab, I expect students that I don’t [...]
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The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach is now online: Article Editorial Mick Wycoff PDF (53.8 KB)HTML 579-580 Article How Can English Tell the Story? Douglas Reed Eldredge PDF (70.4 KB)HTML 581-583 Article Becoming Modern Homo sapiens Ian Tattersall PDF (109.3 KB)HTML 584-589 Article The Evolution of Morality Douglas Allchin PDF (202.8 [...] From Oct. 9-30, the University of Guelph and Ed Video are hosting a special art exhibit entitled “This View of Life: Evolutionary Art for the Year of Darwin“. It was organized by professors in four departments: Integrative Biology, Philosophy, History, and English and Theatre Studies, and was curated by Scott McGovern of Ed Video. [...] Some instructors have lamented the challenges of teaching students who are constantly logged-on, plugged-in, facebooked, etc. Guess what? I like teaching the iGeneration*. I enjoy using YouTube clips in my lectures, putting together online discussions, and making use of blogs and online resources. I like the fact that they all have laptops (but not [...] The Journal of Effective teaching has a special issue on evolution education.
Journal of Effective Teaching Volume 9, Issue 2, September 2009 Special Issue – Teaching Evolution in the Classroom Full Issue – PDF
I did a brief radio interview with our campus station CFRU on today’s The Press Conference about our BioScience paper on graduate student understanding of evolution. Enjoy.
In my recent article on Understanding natural selection in E:EO, I reviewed a large number of studies that examined conceptions of evolution among students from the high school to undergraduate level, as well as among teachers. However, almost nothing seemed to be known about how graduate students in science perceive evolution or how well [...] The most recent issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach (vol. 2, issue 3) is now available online. I decided to sit this one out after six consecutive contributions (links below), but I will be back in the next issue with a follow-up to my previous article on selection. Evolution: Education and OutreachVolume 2, [...] There has been some discussion in the comments section of the previous post about probable interest in a regular EvoCast (cf. Astronomy Cast) that people could listen to, presented by evolutionary biologists and covering basic processes and exciting discoveries in evolution. This, or something like a series of videos on Youtube, has crossed my [...] Various bloggers on my must-read list have weighed in on the latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach, which focuses on transitional fossils (guest editor, Don Prothero). It is great to see the articles being discussed and recommended. A couple of minor responses to the apt comments (not criticisms per se, or at least [...] |
T. Ryan Gregory 
I am an evolutionary biologist specializing in genome size evolution at the University of Guelph in Canada.
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