Author: Kristen Procko

Last fall, BioMolViz Slack members discussed their favorite tools for active learning in biochemistry and teaching with visualization. We revisited those posts and made a back to school guide for our community. We hope you find it helpful!

In collaboration with Molecular CaseNet, we are bringing back Friday visualization conversations for summer of 2025! Friday Zoom sessions will include two featured speakers leading a casual conversation about their experience teaching with visualization.

Save the Date: Friday, May 16th at 1:30 PM ET / 12:30 PM CT / 10:30 AM PT

In this first installment, Josh Beckham and KP Procko will discuss teaching with AI, and teaching with AI tools in a biochemistry CURE.

Please sign up here to receive a reminder email with the Zoom link the week of the Conversation. The form also has an opportunity to express interest in being a speaker.

International BioMolViz Presentations & Workshops
Updates on our working groups

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BioMolViz recently published a manuscript in this special issue, organized by guest editors from the VISABLI RCN-UBE network (Jodie Jenkinson, Susan Keen, and Gaël McGill). The articles in this issue are an excellent read for those interested in visualization education.

Access the articles in Visualization in Biology Education

Last year, BioMolViz piloted some of our visual literacy assessments in classrooms. We’re using this invaluable student feedback to plan a large-scale effort, and we need your help! 

The team is seeking partners from a variety of institutions to test assessments in their classrooms during Fall 2023 and Spring 2024. If you’re willing to help with this key step in our validation process, please fill out THIS BRIEF FORM. 

Members of the BioMolViz community have identified BioMolecular Visualization areas in which students struggle or have misconceptions. We are seeking Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-based professors and instructors to participate in a research study designed to determine the prevalence of these challenges/misconceptions across institutions of higher education. We hope that, by better understanding these educational challenges, we can support instructional development that can minimize them. 

Take the survey (15–20 minutes): https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5q1XoAWj21IGItw

Several biomolecular visualization assessments from our workshops have been reviewed by an expert panel. Now, BioMolViz is seeking partners from a variety of institutions to test assessments at both the novice (beginner, typically students in introductory courses) and amateur (intermediate, typically students in upper-division courses) learner levels. If you are interested in partnering with BioMolViz to pilot visual literacy assessments in your classroom, please fill out this form.

Read the full summer 2022 newsletter here.

Summer Assessment Workshop & VR Training

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New Modeling Program Workshops
BioMolViz YouTube Channel
SACNAS Presentation

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Summer Workshops Announced
Visualization Conversation

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