Jul 25, 2023 | Anthropomorphism, Articles about the lab, Awards, Catie Nielson, Education, Intuitive Biology, Presentations, Psychology Department, Science Education, Uncategorized
This past Friday, CORE Lab member Catie Nielson became Dr. Catie Nielson after defending her dissertation! Catie presented her talk titled, “Is This About Me? Understanding Anthropocentrism in Undergraduate Biology Learning,” to a large crowd consisting of...
May 9, 2023 | Articles about the lab, Collaborators, Education, John Coley, Presentations, Uncategorized
This past April, our very own Dr. John Coley and our collaborator Dr. Brian Helmuth from Northeastern’s Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences gave a flash talk at a Northeastern event intended to spark collaboration between Northeastern members and...
Apr 27, 2023 | Anthropomorphism, Articles about the lab, Catie Nielson, Conferences, Education, Joan Kim, John Coley, Presentations, Psychology Department, Undergraduates
The CORE Lab had a great showing at Northeastern’s 2023 Research and Creative Endeavor, Innovation, Scholarship and Entrepreneurship Expo (RISE). This was a great opportunity for our undergraduates to design posters and talk about what they have been working on...
Feb 22, 2023 | Anthropomorphism, Articles about the lab, Collaborators, Education, Intuitive Biology, John Coley, Science Education
This past Thursday, Catie Nielson, 6th-year graduate student in the CORE Lab, visited a biology class at Queensborough Community College (QCC) to collect data about biology students. More specifically, Catie, in collaboration with Regina Sullivan, an Associate...
Nov 2, 2022 | Conferences, Education, Science Education
The CORE lab’s 6th-year doctoral candidate, Catie Nielson, presented at ERIDOB- The Conference of European Researchers in Didactics of Biology at the University of Cyprus this past August. In a conference full of European Researchers, Catie was one of two Americans...
Dec 17, 2020 | Collaborators, Education, essentialism, Intuitive Biology, John Coley, Nicole Betz, Publications, Science Education
Recently, Nicole Betz, Ph.D., a former doctorate student candidate in CORE Lab and current postdoctoral researcher at Yale University, and Dr. John Coley, the principal investigator of CORE Lab published a study in Frontiers in Psychology, examining how developmental...