An event in December, Tiny Earth in Titletown in Green Bay, featured presentations from 110 students who had been working over 14 weeks on solutions to antibiotic resistance by studying soil.

The "Tiny Earth" initiative is intent on discovering solutions to the problem, which is why UW-Green Bay professor Brian Merkel considers his students the best medicine against the threat to global health.

Through a new opportunity in the Biology Department, Eastern Connecticut State University students are tapping into the Tiny Earth network, an international crowdsourcing effort that engages young scientists in the search for new antibiotic medicines.

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Honors biology students at Mount Saint Mary's University in Los Angeles analyze campus soil as part of international search for new, effective antibiotics.

From On Wisconsin Magazine: UW-Madison students are joining the hunt for new antibiotics in their introductory biology coursework and becoming part of the Tiny Earth network, based at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.

At a recent training event, teachers from Milwaukee Public Schools were joined by a teacher from New York Public Schools, a middle school teacher from Oak Creek, and even a researcher planning to bring the program back to his home university in India.

Illinois Wesleyan University is joining with Tiny Earth Network to prepare student researchers to address the modern-day public health crisis of antibiotic resistance.

Students at UWGB are doing their part to help find new antibiotics.

Jodi Enos-Berlage, Luther professor of biology, recently took part in a week-long training, to enable Luther to join the Tiny Earth network.