350: TWiM Goes to College

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Feb 14, 202653:16Religion & Spirituality

Nancy and Maggie join TWiM to share how and why they created a freely available ebook of TWiM-based science literacy resources and classroom exercises that support teaching across key microbiology and molecular biology t...

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