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BEACON Researchers at Work: To What Place Workflowmics?
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by NC A&T faculty member Scott Harrison. A practical challenge in genomic studies has been for students to conceive of different outcomes concerning variation, and to test these outcomes against data … Continue reading
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Evolve & Conquer: Teaching Evolution via an Engaging Multiplayer Video Game
Cross-posted from the Adami Lab website. Teaching with games has been one of the buzz topics in pedagogy lately. Although video games aren’t a formal teaching method by any means, many education scientists suggest games increase intrinsic (self-) motivation to … Continue reading
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Animal Athletes: BEACONites introduce kids to biomechanics
‘How do animals jump so high?’, ‘Why are some animals so fast?’, and ‘How do kangaroos hop?’ were just a few of the questions kids and their families had a chance to explore at the ‘Animal Athletes’ Science Saturday program … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: A Tyrannosaurus and a virus walk into a bar…
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Alita Burmeister. … the scientist asks “Hey, what do you two have in common?” This summer I met Sue the T. rex. Her fossil remains are the largest, … Continue reading
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