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Bucks County Community College will begin 2017 by opening its new 43,000-square-foot Science center building at its main campus in Newtown Township. It features 10 laboratories, including a biotechnology suite with a main lab, tissue-culture room and instrument room; four student collaboration spaces; indoor and outdoor gathering areas; and geothermal heating and cooling systems. College officials will celebrate the building's opening on January 12th. Read more

THE INTERACTIVE VIDEO IS RELEASED!

Bio-Link and its collaborator, Pellet Productions (the creators of ATETV.org), are proud to announce the release of our new educational interactive production: Making the Call: Quality in Biomanufacturing. The purpose of this “choose your own adventure” video is to prepare students to work in a regulated biomanufacturing environment. With YouTube technology, students can experience virtually the issues faced by biomanufacturing employees, immersing them in a world where quality is paramount. Students will be asked to make decisions and different outcomes, some good, some not, will unfold depending on their choices. The production can now... Read more

Stem cell research holds great promise for improved healthcare and regenerative medicine. However because the field is so new, instructors need help in learning what to teach and how to teach it.

Funding from the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technology Education program allowed teachers to learn about this new area through workshops last summer at Alamance Community College, Austin Community College (ACC), and Bluegrass Community and Technical College (BCTC).

Bill Woodruff, retired department head of Alamance's biotechnology program, taught professors from around the country about stem cell technology, both its potential and the practical aspects needed... Read more

Assignment begins January 2017 Online applications must be received by Friday, October 7th 2016.

Montgomery College, Germantown Campus, is looking for a Full-Time Biology Faculty # F02733, in the Chemical and Biological Sciences Department beginning spring semester 2017. They seek an enthusiastic and dedicated full-time faculty colleague who has a strong commitment to students from diverse backgrounds, who possesses pedagogical currency with quantitative/computational methodologies and the ability to motivate and educate in an engaging manner. Duties include teaching classroom and laboratory sections of first and second year biology courses including organismal biology, supervising undergraduate research projects, as... Read more

This entry is related to my presentation at the Bio-Link Community College Day Program at BIO 2016 in San Francisco. I was part of forum on “International Biotechnology Workforce Collaborations: What was learned or will be learned or will be shared, and how to get involved. The essence of my presentation is attached to this blog post as an Adobe file. I have work experience in the biotechnology industry which involved some of the earlier attempts at globalization. The company I worked for bought up some foreign companies as well as outsourced labor and materials from emerging economy countries. After... Read more

The HI TEC schedule is out and the registration deadline (July 11 th ) is upon us. If you haven’t registered yet, or even if you have, we thought this would be a good time to let you what’s in store to help you plan your time at the conference (see HI TEC event page )

Schedule details

Wednesday, July 27th

8:30 – 9:45 am – Keynote

9:45 – 10:15 Exhibits open

10:15-noon (Continued at 11:15)

Funding Opportunities at the NSF: Programs... Read more

If you end up with spare time this summer, or you need a book for an airplane ride, the National Academies Press has published three books of interest to the Bio-Link community. The paperback copies of the books are between 40 and $100, but the PDFs are free. I like to download the PDFs and read them on my iPad in apps like iBooks or iAnnotate, so I can highlight passages and find them later.

Even better, if you make an account at the National Academies Press bookstore, you get to log in to MyNAP (I wonder who came... Read more

The Advanced Technological Education program at the National Science Foundation supports the development of innovative approaches for educating highly skilled technicians in economically-important industries. In 2014, over 114,000 students were enrolled in ATE programs and over 45,830 educators participated in ATE-funded professional development activities.

Learn how the ATE program supports Advanced Manufacturing technologies, Information technology, Micro and Nanotechnology, Security, Engineering, Environmental technologies, and agriculture and biotechnology through 40 ATE centers across the US in the Annual ATE Impact book. Read more

After two years of attending the Worthington Bio Conference, I am convinced it is one of the most enjoyable experiences of my post-teaching career. There are such interesting presentations at this conference and it is truly amazing that such a small town can make such a huge impact on the local economy. Here are some of the highlights of this year’s conference.

Matt Gardner, Founder and CEO of the California Technology Council and former President and Chief Executive of BayBio, was the Lunch Keynote speaker. He spoke about the innovative paths whereby people can get an unconventional education and... Read more