Each week, you will have the opportunity to:
Participate actively in class and labs by asking/answering questions via voice or on Teams.
Complete two pre-class quizzes, primarily consisting of short-answer questions.
Make a graphical abstract summarizing the core paper for the week
Construct an annotated figure describing the methods, results, and future directions from a paper figure.
Write a paragraph describing followup experiments you could do, based on the core paper
Contact an author of the core paper, and ask them a question about the paper
Enter a photo from lab in the weekly photo contest
You do not need to complete all of these each week; rather, you just need to accumulate enough points from the ones that you do complete. For details about these assignments, see the 'weekly work' portion of the syllabus
There will be three within-term exams and a (cumulative) final exam. All exams will be take-home, open note exams, but must be completed independently. The exams will be generally handed out on Thursday or Friday, and will be due following Tuesday. See sample exams here.
Exam due dates:
September 23
October 20
November 17
December 15
Each lab has a document with instructions and questions to answer. Completed labs will be turned in on Canvas
The final project will be a grant proposal and review. See details.