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Have exciting news about your institution, an instructor, or student related to Tiny Earth? From instructor teaching awards and local student or institution recognition to special grant recipients, Tiny Earth is proud to represent our network of students and instructors. Share your news by providing us with a link to your press release and/or a description to tinyearth@wid.wisc.edu. Feel free to include photos.
88 Instructors around the globe join Tiny Earth in fighting the antibiotic resistance crisis in 2022
Instructors picking and patching isolates for isolate bioassay at the Johns Hopkins TEPI Training in July. Since the formation of Tiny Earth network in 2017 and its prior development, [...]
YVC students gain educational, career benefits during summer research
Students from Yakima Valley College participate in Tiny Earth research with TEPI Matthew Loeser (trained in June 2022 at UW-Madison). Exposure to hands-on research has given students an opportunity [...]
TEPI Jennifer Kerr for the Leading Women Under 40 Award
Tiny Earth Partner Instructor (TEPI), Dr. Jennifer (Jenn) Kerr, was selected for the Leading Women Under 40 Award, recognizing her excellent contributions to teaching and research. The award honors [...]
Achieving STEM diversity: Fix the classrooms
Lead author Dr. Jo Handelsman, with Executive Director Sarah Miller and collaborators, published a new article in Science focused on evidence-based practices and approaches to creating inclusive STEM learning [...]
Tiny Earth students discover antibiotic-producing bacteria in ocean plastics
Tiny Earth students Andrea Price and Allison Leask investigate microbes in ocean plastics as an alternative source for antibiotic discovery under the guidance of TEPI Ana Barral at National University. Dr. [...]
Tiny Earth Summer Research Course welcomes four students at UW-Madison
The Tiny Earth Summer Research Course (TESRC) was launched in late May at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tiny Earth Partner Instructors (TEPIs) from partnered institutions Baton Rouge Community College, [...]
Recent Pursuits of Tiny Earth Partner Instructors
The Tiny Earth Network and its vision, formed in 2012 and established as we know it in 2018 by founder Dr. Jo Handelsman, has been a challenging and rewarding [...]
A New Look into Tiny Earth: Our Website
Dear Tiny Earth Community, You may notice a few new changes on our website. In the last couple of months, Tiny Earth headquarters has been developing and slowly rolling [...]