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Kai Orton

Northwestern University · US
Area of research
Molecular Biology · Computer Science Applications
Research interest
Research interests include Teaching and Learning Programming, Heat shock proteins research, Experimental Learning in Engineering, and Natural Compounds in Disease Treatment.
h-index
7
citations
2,558
works
12
NIH funding
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primary concept
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email
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Recent publications

All Roads Lead to Computing: Making, Participatory Simulations, and Social Computing as Pathways to Computer Science
IEEE Transactions on Education 2016cited by 99position: middledoi
Defining Computational Thinking for Mathematics and Science Classrooms
Journal of Science Education and Technology 2015cited by 1,530position: middledoi
A Chaperome Subnetwork Safeguards Proteostasis in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease
Cell Reports 2014cited by 597position: middledoi

Grants

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Investigating Impacts of and Response to COVID-19 in the Technology Innovation Enterprise
NSF2031978$116,8772020–2022PIRePORTER
BPEC: Computational Thinking in STEM: A Whole-School Model for Broadening Participation and Education in Computing
NSF1441041$599,8492014–2017PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

David Weintrop · University of Maryland, College Park2 papers (2015–2016)Uri Wilensky · Northwestern University2 papers (2015–2016)Michael Horn · Northwestern University1 papers (2015–2015)Marc Brehme · Center For Biomarker Research In Medicine1 papers (2014–2014)Dan Garza · Palo Alto University1 papers (2014–2014)Yitan Zhu · Argonne National Laboratory1 papers (2014–2014)— · 1 papers (2014–2014)Laura Trouille · Adler Planetarium1 papers (2015–2015)Richard I. Morimoto · Northwestern University1 papers (2014–2014)— · 1 papers (2014–2014)— · 1 papers (2014–2014)— · 1 papers (2016–2016)Sebastián Rodríguez · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign1 papers (2016–2016)Marc Vidal · Harvard University1 papers (2014–2014)Cindy Voisine · Northeastern Illinois University1 papers (2014–2014)Hui Ge · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China1 papers (2014–2014)Elham Hosseini‐Beheshti · The University of Sydney1 papers (2015–2015)Thomas Rolland · Institut Pasteur1 papers (2014–2014)Kemi Jona · University of Virginia1 papers (2015–2015)