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Summer research project promotes collaboration between Statistics and Biological Sciences
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Robert Carmer, an HHMI Summer Undergrate Student, was featured in the press releases of the College of Science and Department of Biological Sciences. Also see him describing his research experience in this video.
My visit to Ho Yu College in Hong Kong
Friday, April 12, 2013
I visited Ho Yu College in Hong Kong last month. A good mentor Dr. William Mak has been running a great biotechnology education program for the primary and secondary school students, as well as the public there. See an old post about their outreach program in which they fit a whole research lab into custom-built […]
Has education destroyed our creativity?
Monday, March 25, 2013
Recently I have got the privilege to share my research work with secondary school students. During the talk, it was obvious to me that the younger the students were, the more imaginative the questions that they could come up with and the more fearless they were in asking questions. One reason is that the eduction […]
One of the many causes of the financial crisis in universities these days
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
A colleague at Purdue puts it in perspective in a Bloomberg News article: College Costs Rise With $250,000-a-Year Bureaucrats
Occupy Science
Thursday, December 1, 2011
This is a cross post from a discussion thread on my facebook, after the UC Davis pepper spray incidence. There are interesting ideas that are worthwhile to think further. It is also interesting to see that there are scientists joining the actual Occupy protests… um.. I still think the problem is not merely the lack […]
Dr. Fox Effect
Saturday, October 1, 2011
To find out how useful the student evaluation on a lecture is, an interesting experiment was done many years ago that the researcher found an actor to deliver a lecture that he had no idea about. He only tried to make it sound impressive and confusing. Interestingly, most students, despite being trained scientists from different […]
From an insightful article about kids and eduation
Sunday, January 2, 2011
I have just received this article, “How America Messed Up Its Kids… And How We Can Fix Them“, from a fellow professor in the department. Here is an except of it: Teenager: “Please, Mom and Dad, just let me do this, and I promise that I will take full responsibility for it.” Parent: “Do you […]
Biotechnology Mobile Laboratory Education Program in Hong Kong
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Dr. William Mak, a good friend and a great role model, has been devoting his career to improving the biotechnology education for primary and secondary students and teachers over the years. He has established the Hong Kong Biotechnology Education Resource center with Sik Sik Yuen Ho Yu College and built a university-level research laboratory to […]