BEACON 2012 Congress Recap
The annual BEACON Congress took place this week at Michigan State University. In addition to talks and posters about ongoing research and education progress, one of the most important kinds of sessions...
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BEACON Summer REU Students Shine
BEACON’s summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program is a 10-week intensive residential program targeting the recruitment of underrepresented students to conduct research with a faculty...
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BEACON Researchers at Work: To What Place Workflowmics?
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by NC A&T faculty member Scott Harrison. A practical challenge in genomic studies has been for students to conceive of different outcomes...
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Black in Science
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by Bradley Watson. Bradley spent two summers working as an undergraduate researcher at Kellogg Biological Station with BEACON faculty Kay Gross, and...
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Why lactation rooms matter
This post is by UW graduate student Carrie Glenney, and is cross-posted from the UW biology graduate student blog Science Positive. A lack of access to lactation rooms might be a widespread issue for...
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Introducing BEACON’s New Science Outreach and Communication Postdocs
This post is by MSU postdoc Wendy Smythe. Wendy Smythe and Minnie Kadake deploying a CTD sensor in Southeast, Alaska. Dr. Wendy F. Smythe is an environmental scientist who came to BEACON from CMOP who...
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A niche in time: adaptations in sensory processing associated with temporal...
MSU graduate student Andrea Morrow This post is by MSU graduate student Andrea Morrow. People often associate certain physical adaptations with an animal’s temporal niche, i.e. daily activity pattern....
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Dr. Judi Brown Clarke as a 2016 Sequoyah Fellow
This post is written by BEACON postdoc Wendy Smythe Judi Brown Clarke (center) with her two sponsors Drs. Kenneth Poff and Holly Schaffer On November 12th, Drs. Kenneth Poff and Holly Schaffer...
View ArticleIndigenous Evolutionary Knowledge Survey
This post is written by MSU postdoc Wendy Smythe For the purpose of this survey we are asking Native American, Alaska Native, Pacific Islanders, and Hispanic individuals to take this 15-minute survey...
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Judi Brown Clarke receives Excellence in Diversity Award
We are proud to congratulate BEACON’s Diversity Director Judi Brown Clarke for receiving the Individual Sustained Effort Toward Excellence in Diversity. The Excellence in Diversity Award program...
View ArticleTravel Award – Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution (UDE) 2017
We are pleased to announce an undergraduate travel award to bring talented and diverse undergraduates to the Evolution meetings this June 23-27 in Portland, Oregon. For the 14th year the UDE program...
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The Diversity of Ways that BEACONites Engage the Public
This post is by UT Austin postdoc Tessa Solomon-Lane. Tessa is working with Hans Hofmann (UT Austin), Travis Hagey (MSU), and Alexa Warwick (MSU) on public engagement at BEACON. Public engagement is...
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Food for thought: research-based courses replace regurgitation with digestion!
This post is by UW research scientist Katie Dickinson Katie Dickinson This blog is based on a true story… After work the other day, I walked with a friend to a nearby café for dinner. After ordering,...
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BEACON Research Fellow Dr. Wendy F Smythe receives an AAAS Science &...
Michigan State University BEACON Research Fellow Dr. Wendy Smythe receives an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship. Wendy will be working at NSF within the EHR/Division of Research on...
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BEACON goes back to Alaska!
This post is written by MSU postdoc Wendy Smythe. We have just returned from another amazing trip to Alaska where we visited Ketchikan, and the Haida communities of Hydaburg and Kasaan Alaska located...
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Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution 2017
This post is written by Hollie Heape and MSU postdoc Alexa Warwick Fig. 1. UDE 2017 workshop and discussion panel As an undergraduate research assistant through BEACON at Michigan State University, I...
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UCI Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program
This post is written by UC Irvine grad student Aide Macias Munoz Adiya Moore, Aide Macias-Muñoz and Aline Rangel Olguin during a coffee break at the Ward Watt Festschrift My advisor Adriana Briscoe is...
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Using music, beer, and pop-culture to communicate science. Zombie Brains:...
This post is by former UT Austin graduate student Rayna Harris. I recently gave a talk at The North Door for Nerd Nite Austin. This is a monthly event with an audience of 250 partially inebriated...
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Congratulations to Prof. Percy Pierre, Chair of the BEACON Diversity Steering...
On April 10, 2018, BEACON’s own Prof. Percy Pierre, Chair of the BEACON Diversity Steering Committee and contributor to BEACON from its earliest proposal days, was honored with the Historical Leader...
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