May 16, 2019 | Articles about the lab, Collaborators, Education, Emily Dahlgaard Thor
This summer, the CORE Lab has begun an exciting new project with the Center for Translational Science Education at Tufts Medical School. The team at the CTSE strives to mitigate the knowledge gap between science researchers and teachers who are educating high school...
May 9, 2019 | Emily Dahlgaard Thor
Last week, May 2nd, the CORE lab’s Emily Dahlgaard Thor, a 2nd year doctoral student was awarded her Masters Degree in Psychology. Congratulations to Emily and Northeastern’s other graduates with Masters Degrees in Psychology! We can’t wait to see what Emily continues...
Mar 15, 2019 | Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Presentations, Psychology Department, Science Education
Today, Emily presented her Master’s thesis to the psychology department, during the annual Master’s Convention. Her talk was on the role intuitive language plays in the comprehension of science readings. She hopes to use this research to inform science writers on how...
Feb 4, 2019 | Collaborators, Education, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Presentations, Science Education
At the end of last semester, we had the honour of being visited by Dr. Berri Jacque at one of our CORE Lab weekly meetings. Dr. Jacque is an Associate Professor at Tufts Medical School and the Director of the Center for Translational Science Education at Tufts...
Dec 18, 2018 | Conferences, Ecology, essentialism, Jess Leffers, Yian Xu
Dr. John Coley, together with CORE Lab graduate students Yian Xu and Jessica Leffers travelled to New Orleans for the 59th Psychonomics Society annual meeting. The psychonomics society is a professional organization of cognitive psychologists. Members are cognitive...
Nov 15, 2018 | Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Presentations
Last week, Emily, a CORE Lab second year PhD student, had the pleasure of forming part of the Linguistics Alumni Panel hosted by the College of Science at Northeastern University. During the panel discussion, several alumni came to campus to talk about their careers...