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Writing in the Sciences
This course teaches scientists to become more effective writers, using practical examples and exerci...
Wood Science: Beyond Building
The central question of this course: “why study wood?” If “why study wood” is the question, one answ...
Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life
Learn how the nervous system produces behavior, how we use our brain every day, and how neuroscience...
Understanding Plants - Part I: What a Plant Knows
For centuries we have collectively marveled at plant diversity and form—from Charles Darwin’s early...
Understanding Cancer Metastasis
Over 500,000 people in the United States and over 8 million people worldwide are dying from cancer e...
Tropical Parasitology: Protozoans, Worms, Vectors and Human Diseases
This course provides students an understanding of important human parasitic diseases, including thei...
Toxicology 21: Scientific Applications
This course familiarizes students with the novel concepts being used to revamp regulatory toxicology...
Thoracic Oncology
Thoracic malignancies are major, global health problems. Lung cancer is the most common cancer and c...
The Sustainable Development Goals – A global, transdisciplinary vision for the future
In 2015, the UN launched the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Adopted by 193 member states,...
The Science of Stem Cells
What promise do stem cells hold for the treatment of medical conditions? In this five-part online co...
The Oral Cavity: Portal to Health and Disease
This course will focus on the interprofessional realtionship of dentistry and medicine. For each ses...
The History of Medicine: Philosophy, Science, and Psychology
"History of Medicine" provides an accessible historical and interdisciplinary perspective on medicin...
The Brain and Space
This course is about how the brain creates our sense of spatial location from a variety of sensory a...
The Addicted Brain
This is a course about addiction to drugs and other behaviors. It will describe what happens in the...
Teaching Science at University
This course will prepare you for teaching science in higher education. In this MOOC you will learn t...
Synapses, Neurons and Brains
These are very unique times for brain research. The aperitif for the course will thus highlight the...
Sustainable Tourism – promoting environmental public health
The MOOC introduces learners to key environmental health and natural resources management challenges...
Sleep: Neurobiology, Medicine, and Society
The objective of this course is to give students the most up-to-date information on the biological,...
Science of Exercise
Learners who complete Science of Exercise will have an improved physiological understanding of how y...
Science Literacy
Fake news or good science? In a world where we have access to unlimited information, it is hard to s...