Conducted strategic planning meetings to strengthen community partnership with the non-profit Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP). Met with the executive director to discuss developing a partnership with the MSU mathematics departme...

Project director on a Healthcare Resources and Services Administration scholarship grant to support undergraduate training of disadvantaged students to enter the medical laboratory science (MLS) profession. This includes outreach in the form of high ...

Faculty from the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory worked with the director of the MSU Detroit Center to design and conduct focus groups to inform their efforts to develop pipeline projects to expose diverse middle and high school youth to research c...

Pre-college students participating in the Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program were invited for a 2 hour per day two-day workshop at the Plant Reserach Lab. The workshop was on photosynthesis. Students were also given a tour of the lab.

Research with oak savanna restoration throughout the upper Midwest, to provide management recommendations for restoration work in this ecosystem. Among these efforts are long-term experiments at the MSU MacCready Reserve and observations of ~100 oak ...

MDE conducted a revision of the certification standards for receiving a license to teach mathematics in grades 5-12. I was part of the team that worked on both the revision and the implementation of these standards.

Designed and taught curriculum to industrial students at AF Group Insurance through our training partnership with them

Revised standards, designed and implemented launch of the standards with a team of Michigan university mathematics educators under the direction of a consultant from MDE

The U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad is a multi-tiered chemistry competition. I assisted with organizing and administering this event.

Worked as the instructor for a capstone project course for the Certificate in Quantitative Risk Analysis (cQRA) program offered to Accident Fund (AF) Group employees. The 8 week course introduces enrolled AF employees to real data analysis. Each stud...

The Greater Lansing African Female Empowerment Program (GLAFEP) seeks to empower African and African American female students in the Greater Lansing area. This is a partnership with the Woven Vessels International ministry and African Female Empowerm...

Data Nuggets are free classroom activities, co-designed by scientists and teachers, designed to bring contemporary research and authentic data into the classroom. Data Nuggets include a connection to the scientist behind the data and the true story o...

Data Nuggets are free classroom activities, co-designed by scientists and teachers. When using Data Nuggets students are provided with the details of authentic science research projects, and then get to work through an activity that gives them practi...

Review of educational materials directed at middle school and high school age students to raise awareness of chemical toxins in the environments and their impacts. Discussion with high school students about pursuing careers in research that impacts ...

I share my research on sustainable farming with agricultural specialists and managers. I translate my research into webinars, blogs, and extension articles. I also share these materials with the public via social media

ACS-Project SEED, who I have been running at MSU since 2012, gives the opportunity to economically disadvantaged high school students to work for 8 weeks during the summer in a MSU Chemistry lab.

This project addresses the problem of endemic and emerging vector borne (mosquito and tick borne) diseases in the upper midwest. Research addresses the dynamics of emergence and spread of such diseases (West Nile viral encephalitis, eastern equine en...

This activity broadly encompasses the problem of the appearance, emergence, expansion, and spread of mosquito and tick borne diseases regionally and within the state of Michigan; how to survey for these processes meaningfully; how to engage local pub...

Pre-college students participating in the Detrpit Area Pre-College Engineering Program were invited for a 2 h per day two day workshop at the Plant reserach Lab. Workshop was on photosynthesis. Students were also given a tour of the PRL.

Host or participate in after-school STEM and/or math festivals at local elementary schools.

Revision of the materials for Middle School Mathematics Teachers. Professional Learning for the Teachers and Leaders using the materials in field test.

Organized Cystic Fibrosis Art and Science Event at Wharton, Center where local students and faculty presented their research and exhibits featured the work of Dylan Mortimer, an artist with CF. The goal was to merge art and science in celebration of ...

Partnered with Theresa Schwartz from Plainwell High School in Plainwell, Michigan. Met monthly over Zoom between September 2022 and April 2023 to discuss Teri's science curriculum goals and how to achieve them. The Science Coaches Program is a joint ...

Seventh- and eighth-graders completed projects and presented posters to STEM judges who volunteered to come for the day. Served as judges for two events, then spoke to small groups about STEM education and careers.

Gave virtual talk to the International Carnivorous Plant Society (ICPS) entitled “Evolution of Nepenthes Pitcher Diversity and Their Interactions with Symbiotic Insects and Microbes.” Around 20 members attended the live broadcast. The recording i...