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The Center for Advancing Scholarship to Transform Learning is a network of faculty, projects and programs engaged in scholarship surrounding STEM education.

Led by co-directors Dina Newman and Ben Zwickl, CASTLE is comprised of STEM faculty, research associates, instructional service professionals, and communication experts. Together they form a network of skilled individuals committed to the Center’s mission of advancing STEM teaching, learning and evaluation. Members work together on research and programs engaged in scholarship of pedagogy, facilitating dialog, encouraging collaborative opportunities in evidence-based practices, conducting discipline-based education research and establishing methods of assessment and evaluation.

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Seminar Speaker Series

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Research Experience for Undergraduates

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CodeBMB: Computational Literacy for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education

This introductory six-hour workshop will introduce faculty members with all levels of coding skill to the use of coding in their classroom. The focus will be on pedagogy, needs of the community and some basics of Python syntax, with examples of data analysis and plotting. This is the first of three workshops and will be followed by workshops on "learning to code" and "teaching with code."

CodeBMB: Computational Literacy for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education

This four-hour virtual crash course (sponsored by the Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine at Rutgers University) is designed to introduce novices (with little or no coding experience) to a pedagogical foundation for coding, the Google Colab environment, GitHub, and the fundamentals of Python scripting. A link for registration will be shared on this site as soon as it is available.

PyBMB: Python scripting for biochemistry & molecular biology

Paul Craig has been invited to present a poster at SciMix on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. SciMix is an evening event where a limited number of presenters are asked to present posters because their topics are perceived as interesting, engaging, and likely to lead to productive networking

PyBMB: Python scripting for biochemistry & molecular biology

Paul Craig will present this talk at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Atlanta, GA, on March 26, 2026 in a session sponsored by the ACS Division of Chemical Education called "Blending Generative AI With Instructor Insight for Next Generation Chemistry Teaching and Improved Student Learning".