Monthly Archives: February 2015

BEACON Researchers at Work: The KBS GK-12 program: Graduate training in science communication through K-12 classroom engagement

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

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 →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: A Developing Science Teacher – Research, Theory, and Application

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

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

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

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 →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving ways to switch genes on and off

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

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 →

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