News
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.
Dr. Aarti Raja—25th Annual STUEY’s Professor of the Year
Congratulations to TEPI Dr. Aarti Raja for receiving the 2023 Student Life Achievement Award (STUEY’s) for Professor of the Year! STUEY’s is an annual celebration of Nova Southeastern University’s [...]
Digging for Answers: Microbiology Research Tackles Antibiotic Resistance
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 [...]
Discovery of Potential: Tiny Earth and Antimicrobials — STEM Scholar Lecture with Dr. Enid González-Orta
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 [...]
Badger Herald highlights Tiny Earth’s efforts towards inclusive curricula
A University of Wisconsin-Madison independent student newspaper, Badger Herald, highlights the network's strides toward establishing AJEDI (antiracist, just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive) principles and practices in the classroom. The article [...]
Featured TEPI: Davida Smyth — 2022 Four-Year College & University Section Biology Teaching Award
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, [...]
Tiny Earth Celebrates 10 Years
Before Tiny Earth was established as a global network in 2018, the idea of studentsourcing antibiotic discovery emerged from “Microbes to Molecules”—An undergraduate biology course developed and taught by [...]
Cerillo’s Stratus plate readers now available in purple!
Looking for a new plate reader for collecting and analyzing sample data in your Tiny Earth classrooms? Cerillo is offering an affordable, compact portable plate reader in a new enchanting [...]
Tiny Earth to develop AJEDI-focused open-access Scientific Teaching Course for college instructors
Tiny Earth Partner Instructors observing plates at an instructor training Tiny Earth will collaborate with Codon Learning and the National Institute on Scientific Teaching (NIST) to develop, [...]