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Meet Education & Outreach Intern Virginia Parkman
Virginia Parkman, NIMBioS Education & Outreach Intern Virginia Parkman joined the NIMBioS team in the summer as Education & Outreach Intern and will be with us again for the fall semester....
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Tennessee Environmental Educators Connect Biodiversity & Probability
Kelly Sturner presents at the Tennessee Environmental Educators Association Conference NIMBioS showcased its “Measuring Biodiversity with Probability” at the Tennessee Environmental Educators...
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Building New Connections at SACNAS 2014
NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow Clemente Aguilar (far right) with conference participants at SACNAS, including Carolina Guerra (gold shirt) who was a NIMBioS visiting graduate fellow from June-August 2014....
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Math for Cholera, Drug Discovery, Environment & More at 2014 NIMBioS...
Juita Martinez from the College of Charleston talks about her research on the effects of antimicrobial pollutants on shrimp to a group at the 2014 NIMBioS Undergraduate Research Conference More than...
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Two Days of STEM Fun: Over 100 Middle School Students, Teachers & Parents...
Elizabeth Hobson, NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow (standing, black shirt) helping visiting students from Greenback School with an image analysis activity. NIMBioS hosted two events for middle school...
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Evolution Featured at Tennessee Teacher Conference
Mike Knapp (upper left), biology teacher at Hardin Valley High School, sets up a demonstration of his lactose intolerance lab while teachers discuss. While socio-cultural forces continue to pressure...
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NIMBioS Hits 5,000 Mark
NIMBioS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Since our first activity in March 2009, more than 5,000 visitors have participated in NIMBioS research and educational opportunities. We recently...
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Fractals and Fruit Flies Win Awards at Regional Science Fair
A cardboard cutout advertising the Southern Appalachian Science & Engineering Fair NIMBioS awarded its annual prizes for Research at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology last month to budding...
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NIMBioS Undergrads – Where are They Now?
Just a few of the graduate institutions, companies, and scholarships our past REU and SRE students have mentioned so far. Former SRE Nicole Bender conducts penguin consensus work in Antarctica as a...
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Workshop to Support Research Collaboration Between Junior and Senior Women
Yet another barrier facing women in academia is that senior women faculty are less likely to collaborate with junior women. A study in Current Biology found evidence for this in the field of...
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Fireflies, Farms, Food: NIMBioS SRE 2015 Underway!
The 2015 SRE’s at Great Smoky Mountains National Park The 2015 NIMBioS Summer Research Experpience (SRE) for undergraduates and teachers just wrapped up its third whirlwind week. Already participants...
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Testing the Waters: Summer Research Good Preparation
Ginny, Diya, Talon, Mariel and Ryan – just a few of our creative SRE students The NIMBioS Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates and Teachers (SRE) program helps prepare its participants for...
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NIMBioS Staff, Postdocs & Graduate Students Give Middle School Girls STEM...
Highlights from last week’s Adventures in STEM Camp Sixteen middle school girls enjoyed a fun and exciting week of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) adventures last week during a...
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Math and Biology Interface Meets Steampunk
Students at STEMPunk show off their labeled axis, ready to graph some bird population data. Science and math educators are always looking for innovative ways to make their messages memorable — which...
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Awards Grant to NIMBioS for 2016 Blackwell-Tapia...
The Blackwell-Tapia Prize and Conference honors the legacy of two trailblazing minority mathematicians. Source: http://www.mathinstitutes.org/diversity/Blackwell-Tapia NIMBioS’ plan to host the 2016...
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Lenhart Receives Lorayne Lester Award
Suzanne Lenhart, Associate Director for Education and Outreach Congratulations to NIMBioS Associate Director for Education and Outreach Suzanne Lenhart who has received the Lorayne W. Lester Award for...
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SRE Students Win Award for ComFlo
(From L to R) College students Ashish Gauli, Nathan Wikle and Ryan Yan have developed a website tool to help in the fight against invasive species. Congratulations to Ashish Gauli, Nathan Wikle and...
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2015 NIMBioS Undergraduate Conference Attendance Tops 100
The graduate school and career advice panelists spoke to a packed room at the 7th Annual NIMBioS Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology. With topics ranging from...
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Teachers Explore Local Fossils with Paleontologists
Tennessee teachers inspect and categorize fossils at the Darwin Day Teacher Workshop Fossils and paleontology were the special topics this year for an exciting teacher workshop hosted at NIMBioS, the...
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NIMBioS Hosts Field Trip for Rural Middle School Students
Greenback School sixth graders release their “organisms” back into the “habitat” during the capture-recapture simulation. Nearly 50 sixth graders and their teachers from Greenback School visited...
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