EvolvingSTEM and our BIORETS summer training program was profiled by PittMed Magazine in an article called “Mutant Summer.”
…in early 2022, a $600,000 three-year grant from the National Science Foundation began funding a new eight-week summer program on Pitt’s Oakland campus. There, middle and high school teachers gather for training, stock up on supplies and fan out to their classrooms to take students through the experiment.
In a 2019 paper published in Evolution: Education and Outreach, Cooper and his coauthors documented that EvolvingSTEM students learn about 50% better on a common assessment of knowledge about evolution and heredity.
“Doing science is the best way to make scientists,” says Cooper, whose lab focuses on the evolution of infectious disease and evolutionary processes in microbial populations. When he reflects further on EvolvingSTEM, he adds: “It’s the most important work that we do.”
The 2022 cohort of BIORETS teachers and mentors
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