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 12, 2019 | Education, Presentations, Science Education
Last week, the CORE Lab was visited by the wonderful Lillian Asiala! Lillian recently received her doctorate in cognitive and instructional psychology from Northern Illinois University. The central themes of her research are discourse processes, text comprehension,...
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...
Jan 2, 2019 | Collaborators, Ecology, Education, Grant, Intuitive Biology, John Coley, Presentations, Uncategorized
At the end of the Fall 2018 semester, Dr. Coley made a whirlwind visit to Norway, where he gave a talk on CORE Lab research on Intuitive Biological Thinking and Science Education, spend many enjoyable hours working with good friend and CORE Lab collaborator Dr. Imac...
Dec 6, 2018 | Awards, Conferences, Nicole Betz, Presentations
Kristhy Bartels and Allyson Lowitz presented at the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, an annual conference for honors students where hundreds of students presented their research and innovations to professors from all around the country. This year, the...
Nov 26, 2018 | essentialism, Presentations, race
Dr. Tara Mandalaywala visited the CORE Lab to present during our weekly lab meeting where she talked about her research on psychological essentialism and racial prejudice. Dr. Mandalaywala is a principal investigator and assistant professor at the University of...