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BEACON now funds video games?
This is a repost from Terry Soule (Computer Science, UI) and Barrie Robison (Biological Sciences, UI) Also visit Telliamed Revisited (Richard Lenski’s blog) for another write-up. Hello BEACONites, Thanks to BEACON’s support Polymorphic Games has created the evolutionary video game Darwin’s Demons, and placed it … Continue reading
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Introducing BEACON’s New Science Outreach and Communication Postdocs
This post is by MSU postdoc Alexa Warwick. Alexa Warwick is the new Evolution Education and Outreach Postdoc at BEACON working with Dr. Louise Mead. Alexa worked on her Ph.D. with Drs. Emily Lemmon and Joseph Travis at Florida State … Continue reading
A Mighty Mouse and a Scientist in Training: A Story of Physiological and Personal Evolution
This post is by Okemos High School student Maddie Stover working in Dr. Ashlee Rowe’s lab in the Neuroscience Program & Department of Integrative Biology at MSU. A particularly effective nervous system makes the four-inch grasshopper mouse quite a fearsome … Continue reading
Introducing BEACON’s New Science Outreach and Communication Postdocs
This post is by MSU postdoc Wendy Smythe. Dr. Wendy F. Smythe is an environmental scientist who came to BEACON from CMOP who looks at how microbes influence their environment, by examining geochemistry, microbial ecology, microbial diversity, and biomineralization of iron … Continue reading
2nd Active LENS Workshop: June 2016
This post is by MSU postdoc Mike Wiser The 2nd annual Avida-ED Active LENS Workshop will be held at Michigan State University June 9-11, 2016 in East Lansing, MI. The purpose of this workshop is to train instructors in the use … Continue reading
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Introducing BEACON’s New Science Outreach and Communication Postdocs
This post is by MSU postdoc Travis Hagey. Late in 2015 BEACON advertised for an Evolution Outreach and Education postdoctoral fellowship. As a result of that posting, we would like to introduce three new postdocs, Dr. Wendy Smythe, Dr. Travis … Continue reading
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Avida-ED for classroom research
This post is by MSU postdoc Mike Wiser. Reposted from the DevoLab blog. Laboratory components are often integral parts of both K-12 and college science courses. I certainly had a lot over the course of my science education; 5 courses … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: An Adventure in Thailand
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Eben Gering. I. The Land of the Leech This spring I received a last-minute invitation to join a French film crew in Thailand, which left me a) totally … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Explain it to me like I'm a four-year-old.
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Sonia Singhal. How do you know that you understand a scientific concept? When you can explain it to a four-year-old. While this is not a … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolution in Action Exhibit at MSU Museum
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU Museum Education Specialist Julie Fick. Intro Museums mean different things to different people. For me, the MSU Museum was a place where as a child I explored the halls … Continue reading
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