In a mile-marker year, Tiny Earth celebrates another international training! This past July, at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, 20 new Tiny Earth Partner Instructors (TEPIs) were trained to teach the Tiny Earth course. Other international trainings have been hosted in Spain and India, and this increase in training locations highlights the remarkable efforts [...]
Several Tiny Earth Partner Instructors (TEPIs) found a gap in curriculum surrounding bioprospecting: The discussion of ethics when using biological resources. With biopiracy — the unethical use of biological materials without informed consent and fair benefit-sharing — prevalent in science, the Bioprospecting Module offers the benefit of providing knowledge and context to classrooms that [...]
Wednesday, October 16 at 2:00 PM–3:00 PM ET (1:00 PM-2:00 PM CT) | via Zoom Meeting ID: 91512114331 | Passcode: 332072 For students and instructors! Join the Zoom Add to Calendar (.ics file) Instructors — Invite your students! Join us for this special event showcasing the Tiny Earth Chemistry Hub’s (TECH) innovative approach to [...]
Dr. Kristin Labby (left) and Dr. Katherine Maloney (right) How do we know what chemical compounds are causing the antibiotic activity in the isolates Tiny Earthlings find? What can they do after extracting the molecules and testing them for activity? These are questions that the Tiny Earth Chemistry Hub strives to tackle. While Tiny [...]
Sarah is a Junior pursuing degrees in Economics and Communication Arts on a Radio, Television, Film track with minors in both Science Communication and Digital Cinema Production from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She aims to communicate the research and findings of Tiny Earth with the larger campus community through video and photography. With Tiny [...]
Melis is a Junior pursuing Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Global Health from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her goal as the Tiny Earth Media and Communications Intern is to help increase engagement with students and instructors and promote antibiotic discovery research through of social media and news. Melis’ interests include cognitive psychology, public health policy, [...]
Laura is the Project Manager for Tiny Earth at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She oversees a variety of projects that support the Tiny Earth mission of inspiring and retaining students in the sciences while addressing one of the most pressing health challenges of our century – the diminishing supply of effective antibiotics. Laura’s goal is [...]
Drs. Laura Pickell and Anil Gollapudi of Carleton University are two of only twelve Tiny Earth Partner Instructors (TEPIs) in Canada, and their involvement in the network has grown significantly since they first joined the Tiny Earth network in 2022. In the past year and a half, they implemented Tiny Earth, developed a student poster [...]
My name is Grace and I graduated from UW-Madison with a degree in neurobiology and psychology this past December. I joined the Handelsman Lab in my sophomore year of undergrad, initially working on lab maintenance tasks. I have become more involved in Tiny Earth throughout my time here. Through screening TE isolates against the oomycete P. ultimum, [...]
Mariah A. Knowles is the Curriculum Lead for Tiny Earth at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a self-proclaimed “academic Swiss army knife,” she uses open pedagogy and mixed methods to understand expressivism and human flourishing. Her curiosity extends beyond her degree areas: Computer Science, English Rhetoric, Education Policy Studies, and Information Science. In 2025, she [...]
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