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Author Archives: Danielle Whittaker
BEACON Researchers at Work: Teaching a Robot to Learn
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho graduate student Travis DeVault. I imagine it would be difficult to find someone working in the field of computer science that did not start with a love … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: What Every Scientist Needs to Know
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas graduate student Amir Shahmoradi. Summary: In a world in which science and technological breakthroughs dominate all aspects of almost every individual human life, scientists and researchers are … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Engineering life
This week’s blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Leandra Brettner. All living organisms share a universal programming language—DNA. Long strings of unit molecules A’s, T’s, C’s and G’s dictate the unique traits of each individual, but the … Continue reading
Meet the 2014 BEACON Distinguished Postdocs, Chandra Jack and Will Soto
This year, BEACON was fortunate to be able to appoint TWO new Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellows. Meet Chandra Jack and Will Soto! Chandra Jack Chandra started working in the Strassmann-Queller lab at Rice University as an undergraduate in the summer after … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Using evolution to update old software
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Erik Fredericks. His first BEACON blog post is here. Engineers in industry are often given the somewhat daunting task of updating legacy software systems. Consider, for a … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Improving Search Quality in Genetic Programming
This week’s BEACON Researcher at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Armand Burks. About Me As a young “army brat,” I was always fascinated with learning how things worked. Trying to figure out how my toys worked, I … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Spatial dynamics of evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Emily Dolson. All biological organisms must occupy a single location in physical space. This idea is so obvious that most people don’t give it much thought, but … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolution of plasmid host range
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho postdoc Wesley Loftie-Eaton. I stumbled into the world of plasmids at my alma mater, the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. My advisor, Prof. D. E. Rawlings, … Continue reading
Why lactation rooms matter
This post is by UW graduate student Carrie Glenney, and is cross-posted from the UW biology graduate student blog Science Positive. A lack of access to lactation rooms might be a widespread issue for women in academia. As demonstrated in … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The Evolution of Gene Distribution in Bacteria
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Nathan Ward. One of the strengths of BEACON is its focus on interdisciplinary research. Through gathering together scientists and educators from different backgrounds, BEACON can address problems … Continue reading