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Jeffrey Olimpo

TitleDr.
Faculty RankAssociate Professor
InstitutionUniversity of Texas at El Paso
DepartmentBiological Sciences
Address500 W University Ave
El Paso TX 79968
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    1. Alam I, Olimpo JT, Corwin LA. How Latin? STEM Students' Identities Shaped Community Engagement: A Case Study. CBE Life Sci Educ. 2025 Sep 01; 24(3):ar33. PMID: 40729597.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Humans
    2. Goodwin EC, Santillan KA, Kranzfelder P, Olimpo JT. Not just an afterthought: the essentiality of professional development for STEM teaching assistants. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2025 Dec 09; 26(3):e0016125. PMID: 40853117.
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    3. Santillan KA, Rediske AM, Olimpo JT. Graduate teaching assistants' beliefs and practices regarding mentoring in the context of an online introductory biology CURE: an exploratory study. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2024 Dec 12; 25(3):e0015024. PMID: 39269179.
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    4. Reyes-Nava NG, Esparza D, Suarez V, Quintana A, Olimpo JT. Interactive Notebooks Improve Students' Understanding of Developmental Neurobiology, Attitudes Toward Research, and Experimental Design Competency in a Lecture-Based Neuroscience Course. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2024; 22(3):A265-A272. PMID: 39355666.
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    5. Esparza D, Hern?ndez-Gaytan AA, Olimpo JT. Gender Identity and Student Perceptions of Peer Research Aptitude in CUREs and Traditional Laboratory Courses in the Biological Sciences. CBE Life Sci Educ. 2023 12; 22(4):ar53. PMID: 37991869.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    6. Shortlidge EE, Kern AM, Goodwin EC, Olimpo JT. Preparing Teaching Assistants to Facilitate Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) in the Biological Sciences: A Call to Action. CBE Life Sci Educ. 2023 12; 22(4):es4. PMID: 37816213.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    7. Paat YF, Orezzoli MCE, Ngan CK, Olimpo JT. Racial Health Disparities and Black Heterogeneity in COVID-19: A Case Study of Miami Gardens. J Appl Soc Sci (Boulder). 2023 Jun; 17(2):190-208. PMID: 38603238.
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    8. D'Arcy CE, Lapsov L, Navarro V, Nevarez D, Olimpo JT. Converting a face-to-face neuroanatomy course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) to an online environment: lessons learned from remote teaching. Adv Physiol Educ. 2023 Mar 01; 47(1):52-70. PMID: 36454690.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsPHPublic Health
    9. Kern AM, Olimpo JT. SMART CUREs: a Professional Development Program for Advancing Teaching Assistant Preparedness To Facilitate Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2023 Apr; 24(1). PMID: 37089243.
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    10. Gavaldon L, Nieto-Gavaldon S, D'Arcy CE, Olimpo JT. No Cameras, No Problem: Creating an Inclusive Research-Driven Classroom Environment Using Student-Generated Avatars. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2022 Apr; 23(1). PMID: 35496713.
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    11. Smith MA, Olimpo JT, Santillan KA, McLaughlin JS. Addressing Foodborne Illness in C?te d'Ivoire: Connecting the Classroom to the Community through a Nonmajors Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2022 Apr; 23(1). PMID: 35340447.
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    12. Olimpo JT, Kern AM. The DoC IT: a Professional Development Tool to Support and Articulate Alignment of One's Course with the Five Dimensions of CUREs. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2021 Dec; 22(3). PMID: 34970388.
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    13. Diaz-Martinez LA, Hernandez AA, D'Arcy CE, Corral S, Bhatt JM, Esparza D, Rosenberg M, Olimpo JT. Current Approaches for Integrating Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research (RECR) Education into Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences: A National Assessment. CBE Life Sci Educ. 2021 09; 20(3):ar38. PMID: 34241537.
      Citations: 7     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    14. Khan AM, D'Arcy CE, Olimpo JT. A historical perspective on training students to create standardized maps of novel brain structure: Newly-uncovered resonances between past and present research-based neuroanatomy curricula. Neurosci Lett. 2021 08 10; 759:136052. PMID: 34139317.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    15. McCabe TM, Olimpo JT. Advancing Metacognitive Practices in Experimental Design: A Suite of Worksheet-Based Activities To Promote Reflection and Discourse in Laboratory Contexts. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2020; 21(1). PMID: 32431775.
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    16. Koroshetz WJ, Behrman S, Brame CJ, Branchaw JL, Brown EN, Clark EA, Dockterman D, Elm JJ, Gay PL, Green KM, Hsi S, Kaplitt MG, Kolber BJ, Kolodkin AL, Lipscombe D, MacLeod MR, McKinney CC, Munaf? MR, Oakley B, Olimpo JT, Percie du Sert N, Raman IM, Riley C, Shelton AL, Uzzo SM, Crawford DC, Silberberg SD. Framework for advancing rigorous research. Elife. 2020 03 04; 9. PMID: 32127131.
      Citations: 14     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    17. Esparza D, Wagler AE, Olimpo JT. Characterization of Instructor and Student Behaviors in CURE and Non-CURE Learning Environments: Impacts on Student Motivation, Science Identity Development, and Perceptions of the Laboratory Experience. CBE Life Sci Educ. 2020 03; 19(1):ar10. PMID: 32108560.
      Citations: 30     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    18. D'Arcy CE, Martinez A, Khan AM, Olimpo JT. Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Outcomes Associated with Student Engagement in a Novel Brain Chemoarchitecture Mapping Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2019; 18(1):A15-A43. PMID: 31983898.
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    19. Diaz-Martinez LA, Fisher GR, Esparza D, Bhatt JM, D'Arcy CE, Apodaca J, Brownell S, Corwin L, Davis WB, Floyd KW, Killion PJ, Madden J, Marsteller P, Mayfield-Meyer T, McDonald KK, Rosenberg M, Yarborough MA, Olimpo JT. Recommendations for Effective Integration of Ethics and Responsible Conduct of Research (E/RCR) Education into Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences: A Meeting Report. CBE Life Sci Educ. 2019 06; 18(2):mr2. PMID: 31120396.
      Citations: 10     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    20. Fisher GR, Esparza D, Olimpo JT. Place-Based Case Studies: A New Approach to an Effective Teaching Practice. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2019; 20(1). PMID: 31160930.
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    21. Fisher GR, Olimpo JT, McCabe TM, Pevey RS. The Tigriopus CURE - A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience with Concomitant Supplemental Instruction. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2018; 19(1). PMID: 29904566.
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    22. Olimpo JT, Pevey RS, McCabe TM. Incorporating an Interactive Statistics Workshop into an Introductory Biology Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Enhances Students' Statistical Reasoning and Quantitative Literacy Skills. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2018; 19(1). PMID: 29904549.
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    23. Olimpo JT, Rodriguez R, Lougheed VL, Tweedie CE. CUREcasts: An Innovative Mechanism to Increase Communication of Scientific Outcomes to Novice and Expert Audiences within the Context of Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2018; 19(1). PMID: 29904554.
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    24. Mayfield TJ, Olimpo JT, Floyd KW, Greenbaum E. Collaborative Posters Develop Students' Ability to Communicate about Undervalued Scientific Resources to Nonscientists. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2018; 19(1). PMID: 29904523.
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    25. Olimpo JT, Diaz-Martinez LA, Bhatt JM, D'Arcy CE. Integration of RCR and Ethics Education into Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences in the Biological Sciences: A Needed Discussion. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2017; 18(2). PMID: 28861142.
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    26. Olimpo JT, Quijas DA, Quintana AM. A focus on polarity: Investigating the role of orientation cues in mediating student performance on mRNA synthesis tasks in an introductory cell and molecular biology course. Biochem Mol Biol Educ. 2017 Nov; 45(6):501-508. PMID: 28520272.
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    27. Cleveland LM, McCabe TM, Olimpo JT. A Call for Programmatic Assessment of Undergraduate Students' Conceptual Understanding and Higher-Order Cognitive Skills. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2018; 19(1). PMID: 29904561.
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    28. Cleveland LM, Olimpo JT, DeChenne-Peters SE. Investigating the Relationship between Instructors' Use of Active-Learning Strategies and Students' Conceptual Understanding and Affective Changes in Introductory Biology: A Comparison of Two Active-Learning Environments. CBE Life Sci Educ. 2017; 16(2). PMID: 28389428.
      Citations: 12     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    29. Marsan LA, D'Arcy CE, Olimpo JT. The Impact of an Interactive Statistics Module on Novices' Development of Scientific Process Skills and Attitudes in a First-Semester Research Foundations Course. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2016 Dec; 17(3):436-443. PMID: 28101271.
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    30. Burleson KM, Olimpo JT. ClueConnect: a word array game to promote student comprehension of key terminology in an introductory anatomy and physiology course. Adv Physiol Educ. 2016 Jun; 40(2):223-8. PMID: 27105741.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    31. Olimpo JT, Fisher GR, DeChenne-Peters SE. Development and Evaluation of the Tigriopus Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience: Impacts on Students' Content Knowledge, Attitudes, and Motivation in a Majors Introductory Biology Course. CBE Life Sci Educ. 2016; 15(4). PMID: 27909022.
      Citations: 67     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    32. Cleveland LM, Olimpo JT. Deciphering Primary and Popular Literature: An Interactive Approach for Promoting Students' Development of Scientific, Digital, and Information Literacy in Post-Secondary Contexts. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2015 Dec; 16(2):256-7. PMID: 26753035.
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    33. Olimpo JT. The biology experimental design challenge: an interactive approach to enhance students' understanding of scientific inquiry in the context of an introductory biology course. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2015 May; 16(1):75-6. PMID: 25949761.
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    34. Olimpo JT, Davis S, Lagman S, Parekh R, Shields P. Learning can be all Fun and Games: Constructing and Utilizing a Biology Taboo Wiktionary to Enhance Student Learning in an Introductory Biology Course. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2010; 11(2):164-5. PMID: 23653721.
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    35. Olimpo JT, DeStefano JJ. Duplex structural differences and not 2'-hydroxyls explain the more stable binding of HIV-reverse transcriptase to RNA-DNA versus DNA-DNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jul; 38(13):4426-35. PMID: 20338878.
      Citations: 8     Fields:    Translation:Cells
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