Education Corner

Published quarterly in our Newsletter, each Education Corner offers an account of how members of the community use the PDB to educate students.   If you would like to submit an Education Corner column, please send an email to info@rcsb.org.

2009

• Issue 43, Fall 2009 | Gary Battle reports on a symposium that demonstrated the different ways the Cambridge Structural Database is used to teach chemistry.
  
  
• Issue 42, Summer 2009 | RCSB PDB Community Outreach.
  
  
• Issue 41, Spring 2009 | Molecular Models: Tangible Representations of the Abstract by Dr. Gavin Whittaker, Miramodus Ltd.
  
  
• Issue 40, Fall 2009 | Brookhaven National Laboratory's Science Learning Center, by Bernadette Uzzi
  
  

2008

• Issue 39, Fall 2008 | The iPhone program Molecules by Brad Larson (Sunset Lake Software)
  
  
• Issue 38, Summer 2008 | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education (BAMBED), a Journal for University, College, and High School Educators by Dr. Judith Voet (Swarthmore) and Dr. Donald Voet (University of Pennsylvania)
  
  
• Issue 37, Spring 2008 | Moving Pictures: Using Chimera to Make Molecular Multimedia for the Classroom by Dr. Jeramia Ory, Kings College
  
  
• Issue 36, Winter 2008 | Fruit-flavored Folding by Teresa MacDonald, Director of Education at The University of Kansas Natural History Museum
  
  

2007

• Issue 35, Fall 2007 | Navigating the molecular universe in 3D: Teaching biology students protein structure-function relationships using StarBiochem by Dr. Melissa Kosinski-Collins (Brandeis University)
  
  
• Issue 34, Summer 2007 | Structures and Other NIGMS Booklets Make Science Accessible by Alisa Zapp Machalek, science writer at the National Institute General Medical Sciences at NIH
  
  
• Issue 33, Spring 2007 | The 2007 New Jersey Science Olympiad
  
  
• Issue 32, Winter 2007 | Gary L. Gilliland discusses the X-Ray Methods in Structural Biology Course at CSHL
  
  

2006

• Issue 31, Fall 2006 | Robert J. Warburton describes ways of seeing and thinking about PDB structures.
  
  
• Issue 30, Summer 2006 | Cheryl Campbell of New Providence High School, NJ discusses their participation in the NJ Science Olympiad.
  
  
• Issue 29, Spring 2006 | The RCSB PDB guides middle school students in making handheld models of the common cold.
  
  
• Issue 28, Winter 2006 | Margaret A. Franzen, Pellissippi State Technical Community College, Knoxville, TN
  Franzen teaches general biology, genetics and microbiology. In addition to covering course content, her innovative classroom teaching methods focus on developing analytical thinking skills and exposing her students to the process of science.
  
  

2005

• Issue 27, Fall 2005 | Miriam Rossi, Vassar College
  In this interview, Rossi discusses a interdisiplinary course that familiarizes students with basic concepts of molecular structure, from an introduction to X-ray crystallographic methods through interpreting published structural papers.
  
  
• Issue 26, Summer 2005 | Gary Graper, Event Supervisor
  Wisconsin High School Science Olympiad Protein Modeling Event
  
  
• Issue 25, Spring 2005 | Judith Voet, J. H. Hammons Professor, Swarthmore College
  A short history of visualizing structures in the PDB
  
  
• Issue 24, Winter 2005 | Early Protein Structures

2004

• Issue 23, Fall 2004 | "X-rays, Molecules, and You"
  During this workshop held at an ACA meeting, prominent crystallographers and structural biologists introduced high school students and teachers to basic concepts in X-ray crystallography and structural databases to promote interest in structural biology, chemistry, and general science.
  
  
• Issue 22, Summer 2004 | J. Ricky Cox, an associate professor of chemistry at Murray State University - Using Visualization Tools
  
  
• Issue 21, Spring 2004 | Tommie Hata, Biology Teacher at The Pingry School in Martinsville, NJ
  Hata describes how the PDB, RasMol, and the Molecule of the Month are used in his high school classroom.
  
  
• Issue 20, Winter 2004 | Katherine Kantardjieff, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at California State University Fullerton
  The resources for protein resources, macromolecular structure/function analysis, and structural biology at CSUF are highlighted.

2003

• Issue 19, Fall 2003 | Paul A. Craig, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the Rochester Institute of Technology
  The use of the PDB and related resources in classes at RIT are described.
  
  
• Issue 18, Summer 2003 | Tim Herman, Director of the Center for BioMolecular Modeling at the Milwaukee School of Engineering
  The CBM creates physical models of proteins and other molecular structures for researchers, students, and teachers.
  
  
• Issue 17, Spring 2003 | Gale Rhodes, University of Southern Maine
  Rhodes discusses molecular visualization.