Archives for September, 2012

Studying student misconceptions about plant biology

In August, The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Education Foundation awarded a $26,853 grant to Kathleen Archer, associate professor of biology. The grant will pay for a portion of an ambitious project that will help reform how introductory biology courses are taught in higher education. The project being undertaken by Archer, working with co-investigators […]

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Sensual perception in the work of Johann Georg Hamann

Language is a structured way through which human beings communicate with one another and more easily conceptualize the world around them. At the same time, each of us has unique experiences that account for variations in how we understand the words we use. To what extent do these variations occur? And what does this mean […]

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Hebe Guardiola-Diaz partners with UConn Health Center

Associate Professor of Biology and Neuroscience Hebe Guardiola-Diaz recently teamed up with researchers at the University of Connecticut to study the development and stability of oligodendrocytes, cells in the brain that produce the myelin required for nervous system function. During a 2009-2010 sabbatical, Guardiola-Diaz spent time as a visiting faculty member at the UConn Health […]

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