Category Archives: Education/Outreach

Middle School Girls Have STEM Adventures!

Posted on July 2, 2014 by admin

In elementary school, 74 percent of girls say they are interested in math and science classes, but women make up only 26 percent of the STEM workforce. Finding ways to retain girls’ interest in STEM to close this gap is the … Continue reading →

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Earl Talks Math Ecology to Fisk REU

Posted on June 23, 2014 by admin

NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow Julia Earl traveled to Nashville recently to present her work on movement ecology to undergraduates participating in Fisk University’s summer Research Experience for Undergraduates program. A rewarding experience, Earl said her talk, “Animals as ecosystem connectors: Does their movement path matter?” particularly … Continue reading →

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Fireflies, Modeling, Programming & More: NIMBioS SRE is Underway!

Posted on June 18, 2014 by admin

NIMBioS Summer Research Experiences (SRE) for Undergraduates and Teachers is in full swing with abundant opportunities for learning and play. During the first week participants were oriented to NIMBioS, learned about university library services, math modeling, collaborating, and programming. Students … Continue reading →

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Bender Receives Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Award

Posted on May 16, 2014 by admin

Congratulations to 2013 NIMBioS REU student Nicole Bender for receiving a 2014 Mathematical Association of America Outstanding Poster Award. Nicole, a senior at Marist College, presented her NIMBioS work “Automatic Detection of Rare Bird Species Using Neural Networks” at the … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS Helps Ignite Kids’ Interest in STEM at National Festival

Posted on May 14, 2014 by admin

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. What does math have to do with mushrooms? Hundreds of kids and their families found out by visiting the interactive NIMBioS and University of Tennessee-Knoxville’s “Fungus Among Us” booth at last month’s USA Science and Engineering … Continue reading →

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Prizes for Young Scientists: Mold Growth and an App Predicting Seizures

Posted on April 14, 2014 by admin

Congratulations to this year’s winners of the Junior and Senior NIMBioS Prizes for Research at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology, presented annually at the Southern Appalachian Science Engineering Fair, held at the Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville. This year’s Junior … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS and University of Tennessee to Exhibit at ‘Superbowl of STEM’ in DC

Posted on March 28, 2014 by admin

NIMBioS and the University of Tennessee hopes to inspire the next generation of innovators at the 3rd USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo and Book Fair, to be held April 26-27 in Washington, DC. The Festival Expo, which takes place … Continue reading →

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Lend Your Ears to the Sounds of Howls

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Catherine Crawley

Attention scientists and citizen scientists! NIMBioS is supporting a new project that aims to source the crowd for help in analyzing thousands of howls from wolves, coyotes, dogs and other canid species. At the new Canid Howl Project website, volunteers … Continue reading →

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Congratulations to SRE 2014 Undergrads and Teachers!

Posted on March 24, 2014 by admin

NIMBioS is pleased to announce the 20 participants selected for the 2014 Summer Research Experience (SRE) for undergraduates and teachers program. The program will run for eight weeks this summer from June 9-August 1. Participants will come from all over … Continue reading →

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Postdoc Puppeteers: NIMBioS Supports Darwin Day 2014

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS postdocs Clemente Aguilar and Jiang Jiang (pictured incognito, left to right) donned Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace costumes and braved the frigid temperatures on Market Square in Knoxville on Friday to celebrate Darwin Day. The life-sized puppets were … Continue reading →

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