ABE Blog
The ABE blog covers biotech and biotech-education news and trends in and beyond the ABE community. Topical posts often include student activities.
AI in Education
April 12, 2024
While many professors are actively discouraging their students from using AI, others are embracing the technology as a new way to enhance productivity and generate novel ideas. Since ChatGPT became available to the public, physiology professor Naava Schottenstein has been leveraging it in the classroom, from daily activities like writing emails to…
Piloting PCR at Bay Area Schools: PDIs in Action
July 26, 2018
In the last month, Maia Binding and her team have worked with some 30 teachers across the San Francisco Bay area to arm them with new tools and…
Partnering to Build Communities Beyond the Classroom
June 22, 2018
The core of the Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) is a unique partnership between scientists and teachers. Amgen scientists contribute their expertise…
Creating Strong Bridges to Biotech: Professional Development in Action
June 5, 2018
School is out for summer – or almost – for most high school students globally. But for some teachers, the learning is going to continue. Around the…
Views of the Biotech Experience from Dublin
May 15, 2018
On one typically overcast morning in April, I stepped out of my comfort zone and headed down to the Herbert Park Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin, to…
It Starts with One Teacher: Broadening Biotech Training Globally
April 25, 2018
It's STEM Discovery Week, and ABE is in Dublin, Ireland, for our annual meeting, working to strengthen the biotech experience for students and…
Pushing the Bounds of Biotech Education: Highlights from the ABE Meeting in Dublin
May 8, 2018
The ABE annual meeting in Dublin was a terrific success, bringing together teachers, site directors, coordinators, and lab technicians, to help chart…
Keeping Up with Biotech Demand in East Asia: A Conversation with the ABE Hong Kong Team
April 3, 2018
In Hong Kong and much of the broader East Asia area, the educational system is highly focused on exams. Teachers have their hands full just trying to…
Transforming Practical Classroom Science in the UK: Q&A with British Science Educator Karen Stephens
March 14, 2018
Counting bubbles of oxygen to measure the rate of photosynthesis, estimating the population size of an organism using quadrats – these are some of…