Professor of Biological Sciences and Chemistry Brent Stockwell this year enlisted the services of the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning to redesign his “Biochemistry: Structure and Metabolism” course using digital tools so that students would be better prepared for and have more incentives to attend class. Stockwell’s “blended learning” environment, which builds upon the “flipped classroom” model, requires students to watch recorded lectures and complete corresponding quizzes for homework. Class time is devoted to discussions, during which students use smartphones or tablets to answer discussion questions and to tackle biochemistry problems in small groups. During summer 2014, Stockwell, along with Associate Professor of Psychology Valerie Purdie-Vaughns ’93, participated in the 2014 National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Science, exploring how to use current research on the best pedagogical practices to engage students in science. Stockwell believes his new class format makes material more accessible for students who struggle to grasp scientific concepts as presented in a traditional classroom format.