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InnovATEBIO - the new national biotechnology education center

By: 
Todd Smith
InnovATEBIO Website

This month (Oct) The Bio-Link community gained a new and important member. As many in the community know, NSF funding for Bio-Link, as a national center for biotechnology education, ended in 2018 - 20 years after it's initial funding. It was quite a run. While this first national center ended, the community has not, and continues to thrive. In part this is because Digital World Biology (DWBio) has been supporting the Bio-Link website and community via the monthly (mostly) newsletter and other social media activities through DWBio's own NSF grant - A Bridge to Bio-Link's Future (... Read more

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Biotech programs in Texas Work Together to Adopt and Implement the Texas Biotechnology Skill Standards.

By: 
Linnea Fletcher
Last year, five Texas community college biotechnology programs, worked together to produce a manual documenting how they assess student knowledge and skills related to the Texas Biotechnology Skill Standards. The purpose of this activity was to share what was being done by these programs to assess students, and to produce a manual that can be used by existing programs and new biotechnology programs for the purpose of producing employees that meet the needs of the industry across the state. All of these programs had already been recognized by the Texas Skills Standard Board (TSSB)... Read more
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