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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
BEACON Researchers at Work: Coach, Put me on the bench! A Novice’s Journey into Old-Fashioned Experimental Evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog is by MSU graduate student Jay Bundy. As a kid I played a lot of basketball. I loved almost everything about the game. But there was one thing I hated: spending time riding … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: How fast can hyenas learn?
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Agathe Laurence. “If monkeys could reach the point of being bored, they could turn into human beings,” said Goethe. More than a philosophical essay about boredom, that comparison … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Seeing double? Genome duplication and the teleost fish retina
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho graduate student Joshua Sukeena. The sense of vision is mediated by a specialized projection of the central nervous system located in the back of the eye, the … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Of Milk and Microbes
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho graduate student Janet Williams. Milk and microbes, what do these two things have to do with each other? For many years, milk was thought to be sterile … Continue reading
Tips for Thriving in Your Research Career
This blog post is written by University Texas at Austin graduate student Rayna Harris, and was inspired by the “NIH and You: How to Survive and Thrive in Your Research Career” Symposium at the 2014 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Can't we all get along? Overcoming evolutionary conflict
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington postdoc Sylvie Estrela. Conflict is widespread in nature and that is no exception in the microbial world. Examples of competitive interactions between microbes include competition for shared … Continue reading
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