All teachers use red pens to grade student work, right?   Not this teacher.  I haven't used a red pen in over a decade.  I have stron...

I'll never forget when Ira Fritz, my doctoral committee chair, practically slapped a packet of artificial sweetener out of my hand a...

Many longtime readers of this blog know that I have a set of animated PowerPoint-compatible slide s available for you to use FREE ...

A story broadcast recently on National Public Radio (NPR) highlighted the role of a Pre-A&P course in student success. Listen t...

I recently posted an article in The A&P Student  called Getting a Good Start in Your Anatomy & Physiology Course .  In it, I ru...

Paul Langerhans I love eponyms! I'm a bit sad that eponyms— terms that include a proper name —are going out of style in the world...

A recent article in The Scientist once again reminds us of the ongoing explosion in the scientific understanding of the human microbial...

A while back, I recommended starting the second semester of A&P 2 with an exam. In  that article , I stated that it's a good oppo...

I just learned that the renowned forensic anthropologist  Clyde Snow  passed away this past May at the age of 86. Famous for identifyin...

Fall is the traditional start of the academic year, so as we approach that mark it may be a good time to think about ways to tweak our co...

Genomic researchers in Spain have recently proposed a new, lower number of protein-coding genes in the human genome.  Previously, the numb...

Researchers recently induced ordinary cardiac muscle fibers into becoming functioning pacemaker cells by injecting a therapeutic gene. ...

Have you heard that the American Physiological Society (APS) has expanded their Archive of Teaching Resources into The Life Science Teac...

A new study suggests that DNA mutations in some of the mitochondria of healthy people may be a lot more common than scientists thought. ...

For many years, I've been producing online lecture presentations as previews and supplements to the classroom experience in my A...

It's been there all along.  In most of us, at least.  Back in 1879, French surgeon Paul Ferdinand Segond first described it as it rel...

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  jointly to James E. R...

I've found that one of the things that stand in the way of student success in learning the anatomy of the skeleton is that they d...