Tag Archives: BEACON Researchers at Work

Evolve & Conquer: Teaching Evolution via an Engaging Multiplayer Video Game

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

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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BEACON Researchers at Work: Making and breaking species

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Alycia Lackey. The world’s biodiversity represents a balance between the formation and extinction of species. To understand what drives diversity, scientists study what generates, maintains, and degrades … Continue reading →

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Goldilocks and the Three Mutators

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This blog post is by MSU graduate student Mike Wiser. Many things in life seem to follow the Goldilocks principle: both too much and too little of something can be worse than striking a balance somewhere in between. Goldilocks saw … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: In Search of The Perfect Password

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by NC A&T graduate student Joshua Adams. Passwords are a problem. They are easy to forget and if you write them down, they can be stolen. If you’re like me, you probably … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Cheaters never win

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Adam Waite. Why do we cooperate? It’s easy enough to understand the benefits of cooperation. When we pay taxes, for example, we are contributing to … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: The not-so-inscrutable HIV

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU postdoc Aditi Gupta. It all started in 1981. A few patients suffering from unusual opportunistic infections, that immune system normally easily takes care of, walked into doctors’ offices and nobody … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: A Tyrannosaurus and a virus walk into a bar…

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

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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BEACON Researchers at Work: Going Viral

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Sonia Singhal. As a junior in college, I fell in love with viruses. That September, I joined Dr. Paul Turner’s virus evolution lab. I had … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work – Teaching Evolution: The Ladybug Game

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho graduate student Joshua Rubini. Hi, my name is Joshua Rubini, and I am a graduate (master’s) student in computer science at the University of Idaho. I’m a … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Journey from Microbiology to Microsoft

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Michelle Vogel. Since this is the tale of how I ended up as an intern and future employee of Microsoft, I guess I should tell you a bit … Continue reading →

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