Kristen DeAngelis

I’ve been a pod leader for our local 500 Women Scientists group since 2017 (I think), but only recently have we achieved a quorum and are doing some great things! We registered 100 students to vote ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, and assisted with at least a hundred more in finding their polling places and planning to vote.

This year, we’re planning on monthly Third Thursdays for postcard and letter writing, helping to organize the March for Science (scheduled for April 27, 2019), and more. Join us!

For the Microbiology Honors Colloquium, we take a tour of eight microbiology labs around campus, including sequencing facilities, animal facilities, greenhouses, microscope facilities, or anything that is critical, unique, or just cool. Students take turns hosting each visit by interviewing and then introducing the scientist whose lab we are visiting. They then have an opportunity to ask questions about their profession and career, career paths, and more. We also design the department T-shirts, and take at least one longer microbiology-themed field trip to somewhere else in the area.

Here are some nice things that students said about last year’s class:

This was my favorite course this semester and one of my favorites in college. Meeting professors in their lab and outside of a traditional classroom setting was awesome and allowed the professors to appear like normal people and allow the students to see themselves as a future researcher.

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Continue reading “Thanks to the scientists sharing the next big thing in Microbiology with the UMass Honors Undergraduate Colloquium” →

I summarized my 8 weeks spent with http://stemteachingcourse.org, and presented this to my department in a powerpoint with plenty of citations. Since then, I’ve presented this seminar to the Geosciences Department at UMass, the MBL Microbial Diversity course, and the Dartmouth M2P2 meeting. Here is a link to the slideshare, and here is a link to the powerpoint files.