{"id":1210,"date":"2026-02-09T12:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:25:22","slug":"departmental-faculty-students-bring-biology-activities-to-local-middle-school-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/news\/departmental-faculty-students-bring-biology-activities-to-local-middle-school-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Departmental Faculty and Students Bring Biology Activities To Local Middle School Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mississippi University for Women students Kane Petty, Maddie Guerin and Brooklyn Ward joined biology faculty Dr. Travis Hagey, Dr. Brian Burnes and Dr. Ben Onyeagucha at the New Hope Middle School STEAM Night, Tuesday Feb. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0677-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Dr. Hagey and departmental students behind a table with human bones.\" class=\"wp-image-1212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0677-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0677-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0677-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0677-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0677-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>STEAM Night is an annual event put on by the New Hope Middle School in which community members present fun activities and demonstrations related to science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics topics. The Department of Sciences and Mathematics faculty and students participate every year, spreading the word about science and about The W.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0675-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"MUW faculty and students on one side of a long table, with individuals on the other side viewing displays and activities.\" class=\"wp-image-1211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0675-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0675-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0675-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0675-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0675-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Activities the faculty and students brought to the event included anatomical models and activities that modeled natural selection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0673-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"A long table with bones, activities, and an anatomical model of a cat, with kids and adults examining various items.\" class=\"wp-image-1213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0673-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0673-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0673-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0673-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/02\/IMG_0673-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Activities the faculty and students brought to the event included anatomical models and activities that modeled natural selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi University for Women students Kane Petty, Maddie Guerin and Brooklyn Ward joined biology faculty Dr. Travis Hagey, Dr. Brian Burnes and Dr. Ben Onyeagucha at the New Hope Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[47,89,39,57,33,21],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-burnes","tag-community-outreach","tag-hagey","tag-onyeagucha","tag-sciences-mathematics","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}