Evolution-in-action 3D curriculum & kit. Students observe bacteria as they adapt and diversify in a week
Pittsburgh, PA
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Celebrating this amazing group of teachers and TA’s who made our second year BIORETS program successful and memorable. They will take their new curriculum based on EvolvingSTEM.org and their own research back to Pittsburgh Public Schools grades 6-12 this year
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We have so many wonderful teammates to thank, many tagged in the LinkedIn post, including especially Dr. Abigail Matela, our director of operations, and dozens of current and former alumni of the @vscooper lab. linkedin.com/posts/vaughn-co…
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Our Specific Aims are:
1. Assess program impacts on subject learning and STEM attraction in majority URM/economically disadvantaged classes
2. Reinforce curriculum accessibility and its relevance to medicine, public health, and data science
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This award has been a longtime goal at @PittTweet to support our program (turning 10yrs old!) to reinforce our unique classroom laboratory curriculum for high school students that demonstrates concepts of genetics and evolution using an authentic microbiology experiment.
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We are delighted and honored to be awarded an R25 Science Education Partnership Award from @NIAIDFunding entitled "EvolvingSTEM: authentic classroom research curriculum to enhance inclusion and agency in modern life science." Been a long haul to get here, but so worth it!
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Hey, that’s us 🤗🦠
🧑🔬 This is more than baking soda volcanos! Pitt professors are bringing hands-on on scientific research to Pittsburgh Public schools. pitt.edu/pittwire/features-a…
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🎉 Super article highlighting our expansion in Pittsburgh Public Schools @PPSnews with the support of @NSF @PittHealthSci @fishersci, dozens of bold teachers, and 1000s of students pitt.edu/pittwire/features-a… 🙏
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Look 👀 how much we've grown!
20+ high schools and 10+ colleges/universities
Learn key concepts and skills of evolution, heredity, population biology, microbiology, biotechnology with an authentic experiment in your classroom. Join us! evolvingstem.org
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Our open position for a full-time Educational Outreach Assistant (staff research tech) is now live at join.pitt.edu, position 23003841. Does helping to grow an authentic lab research-based curriculum in Pittsburgh schools and beyond sound awesome? Apply now or share!
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The link for the student positions is here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersect… and the full-time position will soon follow. Additional research opportunities include processes that drive bacterial biofilm community dynamics, training in whole-genome sequencing, and bioinformatic analysis.
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The goal of this training program is to prepare teachers to implement our laboratory’s EvolvingSTEM (evolvingstem.org/) outreach program during the following school year, and to help students learn through authentic research experiences.
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The Cooper Lab (micropopbio.org/) is recruiting a full-time Educational Outreach Assistant and two undergraduate students to help us provide a summer research training program to middle and high school teachers and students from the Pittsburgh Public School District.
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Each year, some teachers & students are inspired to go beyond our core experiments and design new experiments of their own. A fabulous group from Milton Academy in MA led by @medgar9 studied how sub-MIC AMP affects biofilm production, and published it! emerginginvestigators.org/ar…
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Delighted by the opportunity to share our #microbiology #evolution in action program with a community of education innovators at #TRETC2023
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We ❤️partners like @markowenmartin
I really adore @vscooper's "Evolving STEM" curriculum. After static culture, see all the different colonial variants in response to the static culture conditions. Three cheers for "wrinkly spreaders." @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology
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Full of thanks & admiration for these @PPSnews teachers who excelled in creative bacterial evolution experiments this summer, now ready to lead students to do the same. Impossible w/out leadership and passion of Dr Abigail Matela and support from @vscooper lab @PittHealthSci
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Our amazing BIORETS teachers from @PPSnews presented their research findings today⭐️👩🔬🧑🔬. One of the most inspiring days in our program's history! Check out the bead🎂 and the serious literature h/t @DrLindzyONeal @RGS561toPGH @microbigal
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