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EvolvingSTEM @evolvingSTEM

Evolution-in-action 3D curriculum & kit. Students observe bacteria as they adapt and diversify in a week

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EvolvingSTEM@evolvingSTEM
19 May 2023
Look đź‘€ 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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To any science education colleagues interested in joining 🔵🌤️, please DM for an invite code
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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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Karl Klose@realKarlKlose
8 Jul 2023
Germophiles! There's a new #microTalk! Vaughn Cooper @vscooper is leading the evolution revolution. To learn about bacterial evolution, antibiotic resistance, and STEM, Listen! @STCEID @UTSA @ASMicrobiology @UTSAmmi @PittTweet asm.org/Podcasts/microTalk/E…

The Evolution Revolution with Dr. Vaughn Cooper

The power of next generation sequencing for the study of evolution, how mutation rates affect evolution, how providing hands-on evolution experiments to high school students can stimulate the next...

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Welcome to our second cohort of our @NSF BIORETS teachers who will be learning our program and then building an inquiry driven curriculum that fits their classrooms grades 7-12. We are evolving STEM! @PPSnews
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Andrew W. Duncan@DuncanWAndrew
21 Jun 2023
We are excited to begin the UPMC Hillman Academy summer high school research program. We have a talented group at Tech Drive X and look forward to a fun and productive summer. @UPMCHillmanCC @AgingPitt @McGowanRM @PittBioE @evolvingSTEM
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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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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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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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We are delighted and honored to be awarded an R25 Science Education Partnership Award from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) entitled "EvolvingSTEM: authentic classroom...

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Rebecca Brewer (she/her)@brewerbiology
13 Jun 2023
Michigan Teachers! @BrooBio and I are hosting a workshop to address evolution misconceptions. Jen will be showcasing a horse evolution storyline she wrote and I will feature a snake speciation storyline I authored. Sponsored by @NCSE & @sse_evolution tinyurl.com/xxvf336a
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Hey, that’s us 🤗🦠
University of Pittsburgh@PittTweet
14 Jun 2023
🧑‍🔬 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… 🙏

Pitt professors bring hands-on scientific research into Pittsburgh Public Schools

The EvolvingSTEM program gives high school classrooms the tools to deliver lab-ready lessons to kids. Key Pitt suppliers pitched in to help, too.

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Look đź‘€ 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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Update! Forgot to include our new partner at @unevadareno Deanna Colton 🦠🧬
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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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direct link here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersect…
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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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Evolution-in-action at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

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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 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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