The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium actively supports educators interested in the reform of undergraduate biology and engages in the collaborative development of curricula. We offer the following resources: The BioQUEST Library, BQ Notes, The BioQUEST Website, publications by project staff and participants, workshops and presentations for institutions and organizations, and support of an extended BioQUEST community. We encourage the use of simulations, databases, and tools to construct learning environments where students are able to engage in activities like those of practicing scientists. I served as Director of the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium from 1988-1990, returning in 2000 as Editor of the BioQUEST Notes.


BioQUEST Notes is a publication of the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium. It is published 2-3 times per year and focuses curricular reform issues in the undergraduate biology classroom. We are currently transitioning from a hard copy to a digital publication.

We invite others to contribute articles to BioQUEST Notes. Please share your own experiences with bringing student-led, investigatory science into the undergraduate classroom.

EPIC - Engaging People in Cyberinfrastructure

BioQUEST is a partner in EPIC, (Engaging People In Cyberinfrastructure), a collaboration led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Boston University.

The goal of EPIC is to build human capacity by creating awareness of the opportunities afforded through cyberinfrastruture(CI) and by educating and training a diverse group of people in all stages of life from K-12 to professional practice to fully participate in the CI community as developers, users, and leaders.

Biocomplexity

I am Co-director of the BioQUEST Biocomplexity Project, an initiative that focuses on bringing the dynamics and richness of biocomplexity-related research into undergraduate learning. Our goal is to collaborate with undergraduate faculty, science educators and researchers to develop and field test new learning materials that build upon:

  • BioQUEST's problem solving approach
  • Investigative, case-based learning
  • Modeling
  • Environmental and biological monitoring
  • Geographic information systems
  • Bioinformatics
  • Analysis of network accessable data
  • Software simulation 

During the summer of 2002, BioQUEST sponsored a biocomplexity workshop for faculty and undergraduate educators and biocomplexity researchers entitled, From
Hard Data to Hard Decisions: Biocomplexity in Undergraduate Education.