Category: outreach

• Alyse Larkin shares research and teaching tools with local educators

  Alyse Larkin participated in the Scientific Research and Networking (SciREN) event hosted by the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences at the Pine Knoll Shores Aquarium.  Alyse shared her presentation, “Plankton Power: How Phytoplankton Shape our World,” with over 65 elementary, middle, and high school teachers from all over North Carolina and Virginia.   The purpose…

  May 30, 2013

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• Maggie earns 2nd place at State Science Fair

  Maggie C., a sixth grader at Saint Francis Xavier School in Utah (and Johnson Lab member in abstentia), is interested in math and science and in particular how things are interconnected.  She used a series of randomly generated numbers to select a city, a university offering a PhD, a department, then a professor. All of…

  March 29, 2013

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• Alyse Larkin inspires fledgling scientists at Havelock Middle School

  Second-year PhD student Alyse Larkin recently participated in the “Invite a Scientist” program, which is organized by the North Carolina Science Festival.  Alyse visited Mrs. Kathleen Marshall’s 6th grade science classes at Havelock Middle School where she spoke to the students about her research, how she became a scientist, and what she was like in…

  March 8, 2013

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