ADInstruments Blog

Each year, ADInstruments partners with the APS to offer the Claude Bernard Distinguished Lectureship Award, presented to an established investigator with a history of excellence in education who is making outstanding contributions to teaching and learning.

Congratulations to this year's winner of the ADInstruments Macknight Early Career Innovative Educator Award, presented by the APS: Katherine Wilkinson, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at San Josè State University!

This year, ADInstruments are proud winners of the Association for Talent Development (ATD) Excellence in Practice Award for Learning Technologies!

James Elworthy, Multimedia Designer at ADInstruments and Kait Mikes, Biomedical Sales Engineer at ADInstruments, joined Dr Trevor Day on an intrepid journey to Mt. Everest Base Camp.

We are very excited to be partnering with Bruce Johnson, recipient of SfN's Award for Education. We'd like to thank Bruce for the successes he has brought to our Neurobiology workshops, and his hard work in the field.

This week we’d like to introduce Tom, our talented Education Support specialist. Based in Oxford, Tom travels all over the UK and EU region helping with installations of education software and hardware at universities and health science institutions, as well as running workshops for educators wanting to upskill or explore the different applications available in LabChart, LabTutor and Lt.

Use this free experimental protocol to have your students activate their sympathetic nervous system via the cold pressor test! Investigate the effect of cold water on blood pressure, heart rate, and pulse amplitude.

Neuroscientist Bruce Johnson is one of the founders of the Classroom of Excellence CrawFly workshops. We spoke to Bruce about how he started out in Neuroscience and what advice he'd give to others considering this career. You can meet him first hand at CrawFly 2016 next month - there are still a few places left!

With the incredible sportspeople of the rugby world in the spotlight, we took the opportunity to show kids another side to the game - the technology that can help athletes reach their full potential.

Colin Olivier, one of our talented Applications Scientists and the Technical Sales representative for Northeastern USA, reports back from CrawFly - the renowned Neurophysiology Workshop for Educators run by Cornell University and ADInstruments as part of the Classroom of Excellence series. We'd like to thank everyone involved for helping to make it a great success, and special thanks to Mike Kaplan, PhD for the awesome photography! And if you haven't been yet, read on to see what CrawFly is like…

Last week, thousands of medical educators, administrators, researchers and students converged on Glasgow for the annual meeting of AMEE , the Association of Medical Educators in Europe - five intense days for people at all stages of their careers to exchange ideas and learn about the latest advances in this field. Whether you wanted to know " Has the medical student changed?" or "How do you invent a model abscess?", AMEE 2015 had an answer for you!

In autumn of 2014, we were proud to sponsor a poetry competition run by the UK Physiological Society in conjunction with Biology week. The challenge was to write an “Ode to physiology” and was open to two student age groups: under 11’s and under 19’s.

The ADInstruments team​ have long been strong advocates for innovation in teaching and for creative use of technology in the classroom, and we're pleased to show our support for creative educators with the Macknight award, to be presented at EB 2015. This year the winner is Dr. Trevor Day of Mt Royal University, Calgary, Canada.