The Barnes SPS lab presents at MTSU 2026 Scholars Week!
- lizbarnes
- 14 hours ago
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Members of the Barnes Social Perceptions of Science lab presented at the College of Basic and Applied Sciences, the College of Education, and the university-wide scholars week events!
Undergraduate student Donye Asberry presented a poster on biology students’ learning, perceptions, and communication about race within the context of genetics and evolution education.
And he won the undergraduate category of the College of Education poster competition! Congratulations, Donye!
Undergraduate student Travis Ray presented a poster on biology students’ learning, perceptions, and communication of vaccines.
And he won 1st place in the undergraduate category of the College of Behavioral and Health Sciences poster competition at the university-wide event on Friday! Congratulations, Travis!
Undergraduate student J. Hayes presented a poster on a project done by the Science Communication Education Research Network (SCERN) to identify barriers and solutions to teaching science communication in undergraduate science courses.
And she won 2nd place in the undergraduate category of the College of Basic and Applied Sciences poster competition at Friday’s university-wide event! Congratulations, J!
Ph.D. student Rahmi Aini presented a poster about using the Nature of Science (NoS) as a framework for understanding students’ perceptions of conflict and compatibility between science and societal issues.
And she won 3rd place in the graduate category of the College of Basic and Applied Sciences poster competition at the university-wide event on Friday! Congratulations, Rahmi!
Ph.D. student Kate Coscia presented a poster on a literature review of over 3,000 articles describing science communication trainings.
And Kate won 1st place in the College of Basic and Applied Sciences Ph.D. student poster competition! Congratulations, Kate!
The presenters enjoyed a celebratory pizza picnic on Monday afternoon with the rest of the SPS Lab at MTSU—PI Liz and Post-docs Mary and Sumaiya.
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