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BEACON Researchers at Work: When Cooperating Means Just Saying No

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington postdoc Brian Connelly. Evolutionary biologists often talk like economists, particularly when the topic is cooperation. Instead of dollars, euros, or pounds, the universal currency in evolution is fitness. A species that … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Addressing the Next Generation Science Standards

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate students Melissa Kjelvik and Liz Schultheis. The current landscape of K-12 science education is shifting – moving away from memorization of science facts to an approach based on the … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimization to Allow Greenhouse Production/Energy Use Tradeoffs

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student José R. Llera. My name is José R. Llera, and I received my B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. I learned about … Continue reading →

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How and why do animals evolve grouping behavior?

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This blog post is reposted from MSU graduate student Randal Olson’s blog. In the concluding remarks of their book Living in Groups, Jens Krause and Graeme Ruxton highlighted “understanding how and why animals evolve grouping behavior” as one of the … Continue reading →

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Bacterial warfare using antibiotics and communication

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington research assistant professor Josephine Chandler. Bacteria can compete with one another by making antibiotics Competition occurs all around us, between people and institutions, and in plants and animals. … Continue reading →

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