Travis spent April 13th-15th in Virginia with MTSU’s Student Organization for the Advancement of Research (SOAR) at NCUR 2026, where he presented a poster on his research about undergraduate biology students’ perceptions, learning, and communication of vaccines! SOAR is an undergraduate student organization at Middle Tennessee State University committed to promoting undergraduate research. As part of this mission, SOAR encourages members to attend the National Conference on Undergraduate...

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...

Liz headed to the Pacific Northwest this week to give the Keynote talk at ComSciCon about using conflict-reducing practices in science communication and to give a short talk on teaching students to use these practices at SciTalk!