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Monthly Archives: February 2015
BEACON Researchers at Work: The KBS GK-12 program: Graduate training in science communication through K-12 classroom engagement
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Sarah Bodbyl. It is 6 AM on a Wednesday. Graduate student Di Liang is preparing to head in to the lab to collect data on a set of … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: A Developing Science Teacher – Research, Theory, and Application
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU undergraduate Lazarius Miller. Teaching has been a dream of mine since I was a small child. I am a native of Detroit Michigan as well as a proud alumnus … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Outreach in the lion’s den – An evolutionary biologist at a creationist conference
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Carina Baskett. Imagine that you are a construction worker, and one day a group of people set up a tent outside the house you are building. In … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving ways to switch genes on and off
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Kurtulus Kok. “In considering the Origin of Species, it is quite conceivable that a naturalist…might come to the conclusion that each species…had descended, like varieties, from other … Continue reading