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 is the Curriculum Lead for Tiny Earth at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A self-described “Swiss army knife,” she brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the Tiny Earth community, including a decade of experience in teaching, curriculum design, and AJEDI. She will receive her Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies with a minor [...]
Under the mentorship of TEPI Angelo Kolokithas, two Tiny Earth students, Justyna Kakol and Mainor Vang, at the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College published their Tiny Earth research under microPublication Biology, indexed in the National Library of Medicine. Their research focuses on the antimicrobial activity of the bacterium Paenarthrobacter nicotinovorans. Read the press release » [...]
Dr. Jodi Enos-Berlage, TEPI at Luther College, presented a TEDx talk about the soil crisis and related equity issues in agriculture. “The Power of the Unseen” elevates soil as a central life force and highlights the catastrophic degradation that is occurring in the Midwest and the world. Blending scientific elements with personal story, the story [...]
Photo from Dr. Anitori's expedition to Mt. St. Helens Every summer, Dr. Roberto Anitori, a Tiny Earth Partner Instructor (TEPI) at Clark College, visits Mt. St. Helens in Washington State to pursue hardy microorganisms called extremophiles, which live in extreme environments. Mt. St. Helens is abundant in extremophiles due to its unique [...]
The Tiny Earth Summer Symposium Committee, led by co-chairs Dr. Heather Pelzel (UW-Whitewater) and Dr. Brian Merkel (UW-Green Bay), hosted the annual summer research symposium at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Tiny Earth is headquartered. The in-person conference returned to WID for the first time since 2019, reigniting the [...]
Dr. Joanna Klein, a TEPI since 2014 and Tiny Earth Science Committee Chair, brought her Tiny Earth course to the University of St. Thomas this year and has already made an impact on St. Thomas students and the Department of Biology. Dr. Klein equipped her students with the skills to carry out their own [...]
Dr. Enid González-Orta, Professor of Biological Sciences, the Director of the Science Educational Equity Program at Sacramento State, TEPI, and Tiny Earth Curriculum & Instruction Committee Chair, presented a STEM Scholar Lecture on instructing Tiny Earth at CSUS. Learn about how Dr. González-Orta implements her Tiny Earth Course, supports her students in making discoveries [...]
The National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) recently awarded Dr. Davida Smyth, a Tiny Earth Partner Instructor (TEPI) since 2019 and previously a member of the Tiny Earth Symposium committee, the Four-Year College & University Section Biology Teaching Award. The award recognizes innovative research and creativity in undergraduate biology and education. Dr. Smyth is [...]
