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Tag Archives: Education
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: Directed and Real Evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin faculty Andy Ellington. Evolution in Action. That’s the BEACON motto. It always struck me as a bit wishful. Because evolution is mostly glacial. Sure, it … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Discussing evolution is fruitful: Or, Why I don’t shut up about evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Emily Weigel. As a woman raised in the South, and now returning to it as I finish my dissertation, I am reminded of a gem I have … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Making evolution personal
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas graduate student Laura Crothers. I used to have a little sticker in my office that said I ❤ evolution. “You can’t love evolution,” my co-worker once told … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Students Become the Teachers – Teaching Evolution in the Classroom
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Texas postdoc Gwen Stovall. The Student Connection So, maybe the students didn’t have a good idea of “evolution” in the beginning. As far as they knew, they were unable … Continue reading
Discussing evolution on reddit: Interview with Bjørn Østman
Cross-posted from Randal Olson’s blog. As a followup to my previous blog post about using reddit AMAs as a form of science outreach, I thought it’d be helpful to interview a few scientists who are already doing science outreach on … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: BEACON on the Beach
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington graduate student Bryan Bartley. Like some kind of planktonic larva, I drifted through my formative years, until I finally settled in Seattle 14 years ago. Seattle belongs to … Continue reading
Teaching computing to biologists
This week at BEACON, two different computing workshops are being taught: Bootcamp for Biologists, covering the entry-level basics needed for people interested in taking BEACON’s Computational Science for Evolutionary Biologists Software Carpentry: Software Carpentry‘s aim is to teach researchers basic computing … Continue reading
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