PROJECT BIODIVERSIFY: We contain multitudes. Our courses should reflect this.

  From Small Pond Science  by Project Biodiversify We contain multitudes. Our courses should reflect this. We contain multitudes. Like an ecological niche, a person’s identity is composed of infinite dimensions that make up a person or group’s collective identity space (Figure 1). However, in science – a discipline that has historically valued objective and…

Feria de Ciencias

by Kristel Sánchez, a University of Michigan graduate student in ecology and evolutionary biology EEB graduate students Nicholas Medina and Zach Hajian-Forooshani and School for Environment and Sustainability master’s student Iris Rivera talk about the biodiversity of organisms children can find in their backyards and kitchens. Image: Clarisse Betancourt.  Education is one of the main…

Friday links: #LGBTSTEMDay edition!

LGBT STEM cake. Image from Twitter @TopPhysicist Matt LeBlanc From Dynamic Ecology by Meghan Duffy, a University of Michigan ecologist and professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology All this week’s links are related to #LGBTSTEMDay (including links explaining why such a day is needed): Yesterday was the first #LGBTSTEMDay, and even the…

The M-Sci program completes its seventh summer session

M-Sci students Mustafa Sami and Arielle Ewing answer questions posed by judges from Biological Anthropology. by Lisa Bradshaw, a University of Michigan lecturer in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in Ann Arbor and the Department of Natural Sciences in Dearborn Last Thursday I had the pleasure of watching the M-Sci Summer Program students…