Updated: Jul 7, 2023
First-year Ph.D. student and SPS Lab member Katie Coscia attended the Association of Southeastern Biologists 2023 Annual Meeting in Winston-Salem this weekend to present her research! She presented a poster on the perceived conflict between religion and evolution in undergraduate biology students. Awesome job, Katie!
Updated: Jul 6, 2023
The SPS lab headed to Tennessee Tech to present at the Southeastern STEM Education Research conference! Rahmi gave a talk on Muslim students' perceptions of evolution and Liz gave a talk on undergraduate science students' science communication training. Madison gave her first poster on motivated reasoning about evolution among undergraduate biology students and Katie presented a poster on religious and non-religious students' perceived conflict between religion and evolution! Finally, Casey and Alexa presented new research from the lab on how instructors' religious and non-religious identities might influence the effectiveness of their evolution instruction.
First year Ph.D. student and new SPS Lab member Katie Coscia won a prize for her 3 Minute Thesis! She took home 3rd prize in the doctoral division for the 3 Minute Thesis @ Middle Tennessee competition hosted by the MTSU College of Basic and Applied Sciences! Her entry explained her entire research project on the perceived conflict between religion and evolution in undergraduate biology students in just under 3 minutes! Way to go, Katie!
