Everyone you knew, know, and will know lives on Earth: our home. One of the reasons we are staying home these days is to protect the people we know. But how do we protect the home we all share? In this week’s activities students will open their eyes and minds to observe a small area…
Author: Carol Colaninno-Meeks
Learning about Chemistry
These days, many of us are spending more time in our kitchens cooking. Did you know that many of the things we do to prepare breakfast, lunch, and dinner involve chemistry? This week’s activities are designed to teach students more about the chemistry we encounter every day in the kitchen and elsewhere around the home.…
Congratulations to These Amazing Graduating Graduate Students!
The STEM Center would like to congratulate our amazing graduate students, Katrina, Samantha, and Morgan, who have successfully defended and will be graduating this weekend! All of us at the STEM Center are thankful for the hard work and dedication these three have demonstrated. Their work has moved our research, outreach, and education forward and…
Citizen Science: Small Step towards Understanding the Planet
Today’s blog post is brought to you by Jannatul Ferdous As a young graduate student pursuing my master’s degree in environmental sciences at SIUE, my ideas for the potential careers I could pursue upon graduation are endless. I sometimes think I would thrive as an entrepreneur—I have a number of ideas that might work in…
Informal Teaching – A Youth-Led Citizen Science Network for Community Environmental Assessment
Today’s blog post is brought to you by Sami Murphy. During this difficult time of school closures and social distancing, the Y-CITYSCI staff has worked diligently to produce and share lesson plans for middle-school-aged students. We hope to fill a void in education during this time as well as provide informative citizen science activities that…