Announcements

24 April 2017 C.E.

After you have completed the laboratory examination, you are REQUIRED to go to the Upload area of Blackboard and follow the instructions in the Peer Review item. The Peer Review item will not show up in Blackboard until after the laboratory examination has started, so wait until after you complete the examination. Take care of this as soon as possible after completing the examination. The absolute deadline is noon on 01 May.

14 April 2017 C.E.

Some of you might benefit from having this study guide for the final examination.

21 February 2017 C.E.

Consider this:

RFNS

07 February 2017 C.E.

Please be aware of this:

PPP

29 January 2017 C.E.

Please be aware of this opportunity:

https://eoss.asu.edu/career-week

12 January 2017 C.E.

If there is anyone who is in one of my Monday sections but who would prefer to be in my Tuesday 10:00 section, please email me as soon as possible.

09 January 2017 C.E.

Today in BIO353, I accidentally told a couple students that there is no laboratory meeting the first week. I was thinking about A&P, not Cell Biology. THERE DEFINITELY IS A MEETING THIS WEEK FOR BIO354. I'm sorry about the confusion.

12 December 2016 C.E.

The course syllabus has been posted. Please realize that the syllabus might change. If I upload an updated version, I will post an announcement here. It is your responsibility to ensure that you are using the most current version (printed at the top of the syllabus).

11 November 2016 C.E.

Greetings.

Welcome to BIO354 Laboratory. For various reasons, I am choosing to use my own website (this one) for this course, but from time to time you will be required to visit the Blackboard site to submit assignments. If any item in the menu to the left is unavailable as a link, that is because the corresponding page is being amended. When changes have been made, the menu item will become an active link.

You are required to check these announcements daily throughout the semester, and any announcements that appear here will be official. It is a good idea to take a few minutes right now and familiarize yourself with this website. You should also take a look at the global site to see whether there is anything that might be helpful to you in any of your courses. For instance, at the global site you'll find a link to my BIO353 site, which includes my lecture recordings and slide shows. It would be silly not to at least take a look to see what's there that might help you.

Before coming to the first meeting, you MUST download or print a copy of the first meeting's protocol (Exercise 1: Scientific Calculations and Basic Lab Techniques), which you will find under Laboratory Exercises. In ether case, you MUST have a copy at your disposal during the laboratory period. A cell phone features too small a screen to be useful, so I will not count that as an allowable copy. If you view it on a tablet or laptop, that will be acceptable.

You should be aware that BIO354 requires an enormous amount of work for a single credit hour. You might think that this is unfair (and I would agree), but that's just the way it is. Nevertheless, there are ways to minimize what will still be an inordinate amount of work. The very best thing that you can do for yourself is to pay very close attention to all instructions. This means listening carefully to me (and making notes) whenever I'm speaking, and it means carefully reading everything on this website and in the laboratory manual. Put simply, I want you to be able to follow directions. This might sound like a simple request that shouldn't even need to be mentioned. But if you were an instructor, you would realize that, sadly, most undergraduates are either unable or unwilling to carefully read a set of instructions. Reading comprehension will be required not only for this course, but for all of your career. So please keep in mind that you're not here just to get a grade; you're preparing yourself for life after graduation. Do yourself a favor and pay close attention to detail. Doing so will pay off in the short run and in the long run.

I'll see you soon.

Ty

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