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Biology graduates have found successful careers across an array of fields, and many have pursued graduate or professional school after leaving UE. Graduate and professional schools our alums have attended include Georgetown University School of Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Iowa College of Dentistry, Southern College of Optometry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Duke University, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, Washington University, University of Louisville, and the University of Illinois School of Veterinary Medicine.

Background: Efficient learning is essential for successful completion of the medical degree and students use a variety of strategies to cope with university requirements. However, strategies that lead to academic success have hardly been explored. We therefore evaluated the individual learning approaches used by a cohort of medical students in their first and second preclinical years and analyzed possible correlations with examination scores.

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Results: We here identified four different patterns of learning strategy combinations, describing the relaxed, diligent, hard-working, and sociable learners. About half of the students stayed true to their initially registered pattern of learning strategy combinations while 53 students underwent a change between the first and second surveys. Changes were predominantly made between the relaxed and the sociable and between the diligent and the hard-working learners, respectively. Examination results suggested that the diligent and hard-working learners were academically more successful than the relaxed and sociable ones.

Conclusion: Early habits of sociable learning were quickly abandoned however, not in favor of more successful patterns. It is therefore essential to develop interventions on learning skills that have a lasting impact on the pattern of the students learning strategy combinations.

Secondly (and partially as a consequence of this), fitness is an average or idealised/expected property across a population; but actual reproductive success per individual is stochastic. Individuals possessing an allele with a relative fitness of "2" will on average have twice as many offpsring as their competitors, all else being equal, but individual reproductive success will vary as a consequence of other factors such as predation, parasitism, starvation etc.

Finally, absolute fitness relates to the proportional representation of a genotype in a population. Reproductive success relates to offspring per individual. For example, in a growing population a genotype could be simultaneously declining in proportion while it is increasing in absolute number, if other genotypes are increasing in number more rapidly.

Welcome! Here at the Biology Success Center located in Foster Hall room 204, our mission is to ensure that our majors are supported in all things relating to their degree in Biology, Conservation Ecology, Genetics, and/or Microbiology. We want to see you progressing in your degree, moving toward a career that is in line with your interests and talents, and that you aware of the opportunities for undergraduate research, connecting with other students, and personal growth while here at NMSU. BioCats will hold help desk hours posted each semester for you to come in and get help for your Biology course.

All BEST members will be invited to participate in various social events throughout the fall semester. Upperclass peer mentors provide advice and direction and are involved in leading activities in the Biology orientation course. Our social programming increases opportunities for interaction between students, faculty, and staff during events, trips, and picnics. It is our hope that after participation in the BEST Learning Community, students will feel a strong connection to the Biology program, feel more comfortable approaching and interacting with faculty and staff, know and utilize ISU resources, and demonstrate academic success during their time here at Iowa State.

Jacob Kerby, Ph.D., professor and chair of biology, said the department formed the medical biology major when USD joined other U.S. medical schools in adopting new prerequisites recommended in a report by the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

USD is also home to the Nolop Institute for Medical Biology, named for alumnus Keith Bradley Nolop, M.D., who graduated with an undergraduate degree from USD in 1975. The institute provides a fully funded scholarship each year to an incoming medical biology student and research grants to undergraduates performing medically oriented research.

Her Nolop Scholarship also fostered connections with faculty in the biology department, such as the one she forged with Kerby, who became her research mentor. An ecologist who focuses on amphibian populations, Kerby tapped Hawks to join his research team, where she studied the effects of contaminants on false map turtles in the Missouri River.

Not all USD graduates with a degree in medical biology enter medical school. Some students come into the program knowing they plan to pursue other professions, while others may make that choice during their studies or after graduation.

Another 2017 graduate of the program, Tim Skog, earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience in 2023 from the University of Iowa. The Worthington, Minnesota, native chose the medical biology major to prepare him for a future clinical profession that included options such as occupational therapy and physical therapy as well as medical school.

Not every medical biology major will attend medical school, of course. Competitive admissions policies are only part of the reason. The medical biology major and other options at USD give students the ability to change direction if they choose.

In introductory biology courses, many students find that the adjustment to college expectations can be difficult. This can lead to lower success rates on exams, which can be immensely frustrating to both students and their professors. Low performance on an exam can be the result of a number of issues. Students may not realize how much they need to prepare due to a false level of confidence in their understanding. They may have underdeveloped study habits, which result in insufficient storage of information. Alternatively, a substantial percentage of students are frustrated with the perception that they study and prepare sufficiently to be successful on exams but still experience a lack of successful outcome. This can be due to students becoming familiar with material by reviewing notes or rereading text without actually developing reliable recall of the information, or it can be due to a study environment that, unlike a testing environment, provides cues that aid in information recall. Evidence indicates conditions that create difficulty in retrieving information actually optimize long-term storage and recall (Bjork and Bjork, 2011).

Bjork's studies point to two distinct events that must occur for students to experience success on classroom exams. Students must first successfully store presented information through lecture, integration of material using familiar associations, and subsequent study of the material. Instructors can aid students in their endeavors to learn and store presented information by sharing real-life analogies as a framework into which students can integrate the presented material. Equally important to success on these exams is the practice of retrieval of the stored information. Bjork asserts that frequent, low-stakes testing opportunities enable students to practice retrieval as a learning event and will strengthen retrieval efforts as students prepare for their exams (Bjork and Bjork, 2011).

Overall, the benefit of pre-exam quizzing seems to be driven by the decision of the individual student to commit to taking all of the required quizzes. Our analysis indicates that this benefit is not limited to only strong students who are typically successful on exams, but that students of all abilities see a benefit from taking online, pre-exam quizzes. Pre-exam quizzing utilizing an online platform seems to be an effective way to increase student performance on introductory biology exams, and quiz averages serve to give students feedback as to potential exam performance.

MU typically likes to see students with a history of proven success in the classroom with a minimum high school grade point average of 2.5. Minimum *SAT requirement is typically an 850 (Math + Critical Reading), but other factors can be taken into consideration. A number of programs have requirements for direct entry that are higher than university minimums. We advise checking the admission requirements for your program of interest within its designated section of the website. View our list of majors to find your program. *Note: Misericordia will be Test-Optional for Fall 2021 Admissions

1) B.S. Biology with research option: Students who choose the research option are required to take five biology electives. Additionally, they will take at least 2 credits of BIO 480 to conduct an independent research project under the guidance of a faculty member and present their findings in BIO 491 Senior Thesis.

2) B.S. Biology with the non-research option: Students who choose the non-research option are required to take six biology electives and present a paper on a topic prescribed by the BIO 491 Senior Thesis course. These students are not required to take BIO 480 Research.

The Department of Biology recognizes that diversity in students, faculty, and staff along multiple dimensions is beneficial to both student success and to the research enterprise itself. When individuals are grouped in diverse combinations and in an environment that supports collaboration, innovation and creativity increases and problem-solving skills are enhanced. Achieving excellence through diversity alone is, however, not sufficient. In parallel, equitable and inclusive practices must be established and embraced to ensure that the environment fosters the success of diverse groups. e24fc04721