Category: Announcements (Page 3 of 4)

Hey folks,

Please fill out this form ASAP but no later than Sunday so that we can sort you all into groups. Other than your own project, please rate your first, second, and third choice of projects to work on. At the bottom, there will be a place to indicate that you’d like to work on your own project, that you don’t want to work on your own project, or that you have no preference. We will sort groups on Monday. Thanks!

Have a good weekend,

Jake

Hi class,

We’d like to try to get you sorted into groups for your final project by Wednesday, so that you can have a chance to work a little bit in the 3D printing workshop on your final project ideas. In order to do this, it will require you to fill out some forms quickly before Wednesday. So, please try to fill out this form by tomorrow:

You do not have to submit the idea from your post of last week. You can submit a new idea if you like. Remember, since we will be working in groups of 3 or so, not everyone will be working on their own idea.

The form is also available on the Poster Presentation assignment page, you only need to fill it out once (here or on that page, either way it’s the same).

Dear Students,

Please remember that healthcare innovation ideas for posters are due tomorrow.

See to tomorrow for the second part of the 3D printing workshop. Regards, Dr. Greer

Hello all,

I just realized that I had a setting on our website that was preventing you from using new categories. I’ve fixed this now so you should be able to select both the “Blog Entry 1” category (for assignment due by Sunday) and the “Poster Ideas” category for next Wednesday’s assignment. If you already started or completed either of these posts, please go back and make sure that you select the category so that Dr. Greer and I can read it and you can get credit for it.

For those observing the holiday, have an easy fast and g’mar chatima tovah.

-Jake

Dear Students,

I wish to remind you that for the next three classes we are scheduled to participate in a 3D printing workshop organized by MakerHub.

The workshop will take place in room 6-145 in VC. Please see below for details:

Monday October 2^nd, 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m., Location: 6-145 VC.

Wednesday October 4^th, 2:30 p.m.- 3:45 p.m., Location: 6-145 VC.

Wednesday October 11^th, 2:30 p.m. -3:45 p.m., Location: 6-145 VC.

Please do not miss these three important classes, come on time, and bring your computer.

Thank you and see you all on Monday! Dr. Greer

Hi class,

Here is the ibuprofen molecule that we talked about yesterday in class. Please try to construct this molecule in GaussView and save it on your computer. Bring your laptops to class tomorrow.

For those of you who did not get GaussView yesterday, we can give it to you in class tomorrow and you can attempt to make the molecule after class.

-Jake

Hi everyone, check out this article about the BioBlitz in the Queens Chronicle, featuring a quote from our class’ own Evan Harris!

Hope everyone enjoyed the BioBlitz! You can see some of the preliminary iNaturalist info here.

-Jake

Dear Students,

I hope you enjoyed the Bioblitz weekend!

If you do not see a grade assigned to your Hot Topic post on ePortfolios, it means that you have not addressed comments left for you below the post. The grade will be assigned when the post is corrected. Please accomplish this task as soon as possible.

To prepare your Hot Topic presentation, please follow instructions below (also available here). Your grade will be based on how well you address all the points.

Prepare an in-class presentation of approximately 10 minutes in which you:

• Describe the healthcare innovation(s) discussed in your popular media report.
• Introduce the source for your popular report and justify its and the author’s legitimacy
• Justify the need for this particular healthcare innovation.
• Compare your popular media report and the primary literature and try to assess the truthfulness of the popular media report. This is the most important part of the presentation. Consider the following:
  • Does the popular report seem to cover everything in the primary literature? Or did they only read the abstract/introduction/conclusion?
  • Does the popular report accurately reproduce data?
  • Is the data manipulated in any way for the popular report?
  • Does the popular report misread or misinterpret conclusions in order to make a more definitive statement than the primary literature?
  • Anything else relevant

Looking forward to hearing your presentations! Best wishes, Dr. Greer

Hello everyone, a lot in this post so please read all the way to the bottom (you should always read these emails by clicking to view the full post, since they only send a snippet of the text via email)

1. Citations

Everyone should look at their Hot Topic posting and read the comments.

Dr. Greer and I have looked through all of the posted Hot Topic links. Great job everyone! Dr. Greer has made comments on a few students’ posts where the primary literature article wasn’t actually the primary literature — it may have been a summary or an editorial published in a peer-reviewed journal, or elsewhere. In these few cases, you’ll see a comment from Dr. Greer, please email her if you have any questions.

I reviewed everyone’s citations and for the most part, they look rather good. One thing that almost everyone did incorrectly was the placement of the year for author-date references. Remember we discussed that Chicago Style has two different ways of citing sources: foot/end notes, or parenthetical in-text citations. Because we will be doing parenthetical in-text citations in our class, we use Chicago’s author-date system. All the nitty-gritty details are here, in chapter 15, but the most important thing to note is that reference lists for author-date place the year directly after the authors. That way, when you’re looking for (Cohen 2017) in the reference list, you just go right to “C” and you’ll be able to see the 2017 right after that. So, for example:

Greer, Edyta M., and Olga Lavinda. 2010. “Theoretical study of the Bergman cyclization of 2,3-diethynyl-1-nitrotropylium ion: formation of a nitroxide radical amenable to EPR detection for biological applications.” Journal of Organic Chemistry 75, no. 24 (December): 8650-53.

This way, when reading a text that says (Greer 2010) we can quickly go to the references list, find Greer, and see which article we’re talking about.

There were a couple other minor points that need fixing — if you have questions about these, please email me!

2. Paraphrase exercise

The tutorial from Wednesday is now up here, my apologies for the delay! Before next Wednesday, please complete the paraphrase exercise that is at the end of the tutorial, reprinted below. This brief assignment asks you to imagine that you are writing a paragraph that advocates why school nurses should be trained to use EpiPens. Don’t worry about what you’re saying or whether the information is accurate, the most important thing is to try to do a good paraphrase of any part of the original article (I provided you with a paragraph to use in the PowerPoint, but if you want to read the entire article or use a different part, it’s here).

• In dashboard: Go to “Users”>“Your Profile”
  • Scroll down to “Display name publicly as” and select your full name from the dropdown menu [First Last]
• Click on “Posts”>“Add New”
  • Give your post a title
  • Select the category “Paraphrase exercise”
  • Type your post, using the in-text citation we’ve just covered
  • Make sure you’ve selected the category “Paraphrase exercise!!”
• Publish!
  • To view others’ posts, select the “Paraphrase exercise” from the “Posts” dropdown menu on the site

3. BioBlitz reminders!

BioBlitz is this weekend! Get psyched!!! Please remember the following IMPORTANT points

• Wear pants and closed-toed shoes (you’ll be walking around the park a bit so don’t wear a crisp new pair of sneakers!). If you burn easily, a hat, sunglasses, and sunscreen are recommended too. The weather looks gorgeous.
• Everyone is required to go to PS 69 unless you have previously cleared permission from Lisa Brundage at MHC. You won’t be able to participate if you go directly to Alley Pond Park, unless you have previously OK’d it with Dr. Brundage.
• Bring water and a snack if you know you get hangry. We’ll have some light snacks but it’s best to bring something you like and especially a bottle of water.
• Be sure your phone is fully charged. If you have a portable battery pack, you might want to bring it, for you or for a helpless colleague who forgot to charge their phone.
• Download iNaturalist onto your phone, open it and set up an account before you go to make your life easier. You’ll get directions on using iNaturalist on the way there.

Phew, that’s all! Have a good weekend everyone, happy data gathering!

-Jake

Hi all,

Some of you mentioned to me that you signed up for a BioBlitz session but then changed to a different one. If this applies to you and you signed up more than once, please email Lisa Brundage at bioblitz@macaulay.cuny.edu and clarify which session you’ll actually be attending.

For everyone else, a reminder to download the iNaturalist app on your phone before this weekend, and also please make sure you wear your shirts to the event. Meet at PS 69 in Jackson Heights, Queens, at the time you’re scheduled to begin. Last, you’ll be asked to sign a waiver upon arrival – I forgot to hand these out in class yesterday for which I apologize!

Jake