BEACON Researchers at Work: The KBS GK-12 program: Graduate training in...
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...
View ArticleNatural Rejection: Addressing Student Resistance to Evolution Education
Reposted from the Teaching Evolution in Action blog By Ian Zaback It’s a moment that we’ve all dreaded in one way or another. A student approaches you at the end of class clutching a note, and as the...
View ArticleBEACON Researchers at Work: Murphy's Law
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU sophomore Krista Nicholson. Krista was an BEACON Undergraduate Research Apprentice (URA) at MSU Kellogg Biological Station in summer 2015,...
View ArticleBEACON Researchers at Work: Life by the Lake
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by College of Charleston junior Kola George. Kola was an BEACON Undergraduate Research Apprentice (URA) at MSU Kellogg Biological Station in summer...
View ArticleBEACON Researchers at Work: #SummerofKBS
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by 2015 REU student Douglas Page. My time at the Kellogg Biological Station working as a BEACON/NSF sponsored REU was an amazing opportunity to not...
View ArticleEvolution’s Pet Cemeteries: museum collections are haunted by ghosts of...
This post is by MSU Postdoc Eben Gering. Dr. Helen James. The Smithsonian bird collection Curator in Charge Several of my most exciting workdays last year were spent rummaging through drawers of dead...
View ArticleManipulating evolution to conserve species
Sarah Fitzpatrick fishing for guppies in Trinidad. This post is by MSU Postdoc Sarah Fitzpatrick working at the Kellogg Biological Station Consider a native fish population in a small headwater stream...
View ArticleMale battles split species apart
Picture of me: Behind me are some of the hundreds of fish tanks in the basement of Giltner containing all the baby sticklebacks we generated for this experiment. This post is by MSU postdoc Jason Keagy...
View ArticleCollaborations with K-12 teachers first inspired Data Nuggets, and continue...
This post is by MSU postdocs Melissa Kjelvik and Liz Schultheis Liz modeling the process of science within a Data Nugget. Back when we were biology graduate students, the GK-12 program at the Kellogg...
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