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8/25 or 26  Class Introduction

8/30 or 31  Strong Inference (article as pdf)

9/1 or 2  What should you do for Inquiry #1?

Lab on 8/30 or 9/2  Strong Inference Practice, Journals, and Database Searches (updated 9/8/10 with slides from Life Science Librarian Roxanne Bogucka)

9/8 or 9 Introduction to Statistics, What to do and what not to do.

9/13 or 14 Mean, Median, Mode, Standard Deviation, and T-tests

9/15 or 16 Outliers, R-squared, and Sample Size

Lab on 9/16 or 20 Statistics Practice

9/20 or 21 Peer Review: How do articles get into scientific journals?

9/22 or 23 Inquiry 2 and Lab Safety

9/27 or 30 Authorship

9/29 In Class Exercise (TTh class will make this up in lab)

10/4 or 5 The Art of Presenting

10/6 or 7 Using Human Research Subjects

10/11 or 12 Writing and Inquiry 2

10/13 or 14 University Lecture Series: Why don't we solve the world's problems?

10/18 or 19 Where does the money come from to fund research at universities, and what conflicts of interest accompany that money?

10/20 or 21 Intellectual Property: Commercializing public research and Patents

10/25 or 26 University Research (Who are all these people?)

10/27 Guest lecturer Dr. Mona Mehdy

10/28 Guest lecturer Allen Reichler

11/1 or 2 Using Animals as Research Subjects (How different are we?)

11/3 or 4 Using Animals as Research Subjects and the Response to the Peer-Reviewed Article: Toxins in transgenic crop byproducts may affect headwater stream ecosystems (2007)

11/8 or 9 Holism and Reductionism

11/10 Guest lecturer Dr. Stan Roux

11/11 Guest lecturer Dr. Schonna Manning

11/15 or 16 What is success?

11/17 or 18 Research gives you the skills to get things done, and maybe even get a job.

11/22 Guest lecturer Allen Reichler

11/23 Guest lecturer Dr. Jennifer Moon

11/29 or 30 Scientific Meetings: Where to find out what is happening, what will be happening, what works, what doesn't work, etc

12/1 or 2 Evaluations