ACUBE 45th Annual Meeting

45th Annual Meeting

October 11-13, 2001
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Kearney, NE

Biology in the Light of Evolution

Thursday, October 11th

6:00 - 8:00 PM

Registration and Reception

Bruner Hall Lobby
(Science Building)

8:00 - 9:00 PM

Opening Session

Mary Morris Lecture Hall
(Bruner Hall)

Welcome to ACUBE:

ACUBE President: Tom Davis, Loras College, IA

Welcome to the University of Nebraska at Kearney:

Dean College of Arts and Sciences

Program Chair: Mary Haskins, Rockhurst University

Local Arrangements Chair: Charles Bicak, University of Nebraska at Kearney

OPENING ADDRESS (Public Welcome to Attend)

Mary Morris Lecture Hall
(Bruner Hall)

	"Biology of Sandhill Cranes"

Paul Tebbel, Manager of the Audubon Sanctuary, Kearney, Nebraska

9:15 - 10:15 PM

Executive Committee Meeting

Bruner Hall Reading Room
(3rd Floor)

Friday, October 12th

7:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Registration table will be open all day

Bruner Hall Lobby
(Science Building)

Please check your membership;
Inquire about audiovisual needs;
General information.

7:00 - 8:00 AM

Buffet Breakfast (by Interest Group)

Cedar Room
(Nebraskan Student Union)

7:30 - 10:30 AM

Field Trip: Platte River & Audubon Rowe Sanctuary

TBA

9:00 AM - Noon

SUSTAINING MEMBER EXHIBITS
(refreshments provided)

Bruner Hall
(2nd Floor Lounge)

8:15 - 9:45 AM

CONCURRENT WORKSHOP SESSIONS I

1.	The New BioQUEST Library VI: Tools & Simulations for Biological Problem Solving
	Ethel Stanley and Robin Greenler, Beloit College

TBA

2.	Assessing Students' Needs in the Classroom
	Abour Cherif, Columbia College, IL

TBA

3.	Measuring a Fitness Component in Students: Fluctuating Asymmetry
	Buzz Hoagland, Westfield State College

TBA

9:50 - 10:20 AM

POSTER SESSION I
(Refreshments available Bruner Hall, 2nd Floor Lounge)

Bruner Hall
(3rd Floor Hallway)

1.	Using Theme Concepts and the One-Minute Paper in Invertebrate Zoology
	Robert L. Wallace, Ripon College

2.	Thirty-three year Daily Weather Data Analysis, Lock & Dam 21, Quincy, IL 1968-2000
	Alfred Pogge, Quincy University

3.	Evolution Lab with Living Organisms
	Mark Salata, Gordon College

4.	Digital Photography
	Austin Brooks, Wabash College

5.	The Evolution of a Successful Peer Led Study Group
	Claire Sandler, University of Michigan

6.	TBA
	TBA

7.	TBA
	TBA

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

CONCURRENT WORKSHOP SESSIONS II

1.	The New Bioquest Library VI: Tools & Simulations for Biological Problem Solving
	Ethel Stanley and Robin Greenler, Beloit College

TBA

2.	Using ESCAPE, a Web-Based Interactive Learning Environment for Exploring Introduced Species Concepts.
	W.W. Hoback and Kerri M. Skinner, University of Nebraska at Kearney

TBA

10:30 - 11:15 AM

CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS I

1.	Student Designed Labs in Physiology - What Actually Happens
	Tom Davis, Loras College

TBA

2.	A Strategy for Teaching Evolution
	William R. Bowen, Jacksonville State University

TBA

3.	The New Science and Mathematics Building at Doane College, Crete, NE
	C. Robert Wikel, Doane College

TBA

11:20 AM - 12:05 PM

CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS II

1.	Radioactive Materials & Radioactive Dating
	Gerald Adams and Abour Cherif, Columbia College Chicago

TBA

2.	Council on Undergraduate Research - a Help in Organizing Undergraduate Research.
	Dick Wilson, Rockhurst University

TBA

12:15 - 1:00 PM

Luncheon and First Business Meeting

Cedar Room
(Nebraskan Student Union)

First and Final Call for
Nominations!!

1:00 - 1:45 PM

Luncheon Program

.."Brains Versus Bugs: Evolution's Role in Humanity's War Against Insects"
..
.. Leon Higley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln..

2:00 - 5:00 PM

SUSTAINING MEMBER EXHIBITS
(refreshments provided)

Bruner Hall
(2nd Floor Lounge)

2:00 - 2:45 PM

CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS III

1.	There's More to Digestive Physiology Laboratories than Spitting Into Test Tubes
	Greg Grabowski and Jelena Holt, University of Detroit-Mercy

TBA

2.	The Evolution of Assessment
	Steve Brewer and Buzz Hoagland, UMASS-Amherst & Westfield State College

TBA

3.	Teaching About the Creationism/Evolution Issue in the College Biology Classroom
	Neil Baird, Milliken University

TBA

4.	Plagues: An Interdisciplinary Study of the History and Evolution of Infectious Disease
	Steve Daggett and Jeffrey Myers, Avila College

TBA

2:50 - 3:20 PM

POSTER SESSION II (Refreshments available Bruner Hall, 2nd Floor Lounge)

Bruner Hall
(3rd Floor Hallway)

See list of posters, above

3:30 - 5:00 PM

CONCURRENT WORKSHOP SESSIONS III

1.	ACUBE: Are We Meeting Our Objectives?
	Tom Davis, Loras College Buzz Hoagland, Westfield State College Margaret Waterman, Southeast Missouri State University

TBA

2.	Action Research Guidelines to Improve the Scholarship of Teaching in Biology Classrooms
	Abour Cherif and Mary Patt Garr, Columbia College Chicago

TBA

3.	The Case It! Launch Pad - a New, Integrated System for International Collaboration in Case-Based Learning
	Mark Bergland and Karen Klyczek, UW-River Falls

TBA

5:05 - 5:45 PM

Web Page Committee Meeting

Bruner Hall Reading Room
(3rd Floor)

6:00 - 7:00 PM

Social
(resumes of candidates available for review)

Alumni House
(located south of Bruner Hall)

7:00 - 9:00 PM

BANQUET and Second Business Meeting
(two-minute speeches prior to banquet; balloting after dinner presentation)

Cedar Room
(Nebraskan Student Union)

Dinner Presentation

.."The Evolution of HIV"
..
.. Marcia Kalish, Ph.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention..

Saturday, October 13th

7:30 - 8:45 AM

Buffet Breakfast (by Interest Group)

Cedar Room
(Nebraskan Student Union)

7:45 - 8:45 AM

Bioscene Editorial Board
Ethel Stanley and Tim Mulkey, Co-Editors, presiding

Oak Room
(Nebraskan Student Union)

9:00 - 9:45 AM

CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS IV

1.	The Promises and Challenges of Teaching "Science of Nutrition": An Online Course for Non-Science Majors
	Charles Cannon, Columbia College-Chicago

TBA

2.	Hands-on Demonstrations of the Principles of Plate Tectonics to Introductory and Evolution Classes.
	Dick Wilson, Rockhurst University

TBA

3.	Reconstruction of an Introductory Biology Curriculum using Inquiry-Based Approaches
	Terry Derting, Murray State University

TBA

4.	Evolution of a Plant Morphology Course
	Austin Brooks, Wabash College

TBA

9:45 - 10:00 AM

Morning Break

Bruner Hall Lounge
(2nd Floor)

10:00 - 10:45 AM

CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS V

1.	Analyzing the Creation/Evolution Debate or What Students Should Know About the Nature of Knowledge, of Science, of Evolution, and of Creationism
	Malcolm Levin, University of Illinois-Springfield

TBA

2.	"This isn't Club-Med": Field Ecology in the Bahamas
	Lynn Gillie, Elmira College

TBA

3.	Kimchee: Exploring Microbial Ecology from Cultural Understanding to Real-time Data Acquisition
	Robin Greenler, John Greenler, Theresa Johnson, Beloit College

TBA

4.	Meals to Molecules
	Abour Cherif, Columbia College Chicago

TBA

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Luncheon and Third Business Meeting

Cedar Room
(Nebraskan Student Union)

BUSINESS MEETING

Election Results:
.....Lynn Giley, Elmira College

Resolutions:
.....Dick Wilson, Rockhurst University

Executive Secretary Report:
.....Pres Martin, Hamline University

Bioscene:
.....Ethel Stanley, Beloit College
.....Tim Mulkey, Indiana State University

Presidential Address:
.....Tom Davis, Loras College and
.....Malcolm Levin, University of Illinois, Springfield

2002 Meeting at Columbia College:
.....Abour Cherif, Columbia College, Chicago
.....

================= ADJOURNMENT OF REGULAR MEETING =================



12:30 - 1:15 PM	Steering Committee Meeting Includes newly elected Steering Committee members!	Oak Room (Nebraskan Student Union)

1:00 - 4:00 PM	Join us for a hike in an after-meeting field trip to an upland mixed-grass prairie ! We guarantee you will see bison ! OR on your own you could: tour any of the local sites (Archway Monument, MONA, Cabelas Sporting Goods Store, or other sites of local interest) ! !	Juhl Prairie & other local sites of interest

Submit Your Abstract Today !!!

Mail your completed abstract form, found in this issue, to: Mary Haskins, Biology Department, Rockhurst University, 1100 Rockhurst Road, Kansas City, MO 64110. Abstracts must also be submitted either on-line or via an e-mail attachment: on-line at http://biology.wsc.ma.edu/ACUBE01/; email Mary Haskins mary.haskins@rockhurst.edu. Deadline for posters is September 1, 2001. For additional information contact Mary Haskins by phone at 816-501-4006.

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