{"id":597,"date":"2024-01-23T11:16:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T17:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/?p=597"},"modified":"2024-01-23T11:16:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T17:16:55","slug":"biology-major-travels-to-new-orleans-for-science-teachers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/news\/biology-major-travels-to-new-orleans-for-science-teachers-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology major travels to New Orleans for Science Teachers Conference."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/01\/Dodson_Wilkins_ASTE_poster.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Dodson and Ethan Wilkins presenting a poster at the ASTE International meeting.\" class=\"wp-image-598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/01\/Dodson_Wilkins_ASTE_poster.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/01\/Dodson_Wilkins_ASTE_poster-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethan Wilkins, sophomore biology major and MUW Honor\u2019s College student, and Michael Dodson, Instructor of Biology in the Dept. of Sciences and Mathematics, co-presented a poster at the <a href=\"https:\/\/theaste.org\/meetings\/2024-international-conference\/\">Association of Science Teacher Education (ASTE)\u00a0 Annual Conference<\/a> in New Orleans, LA, held 10-13 Jan 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/01\/Wilkins_ASTE_poster.jpg\" alt=\"Ethan Wilkins presenting his poster.\" class=\"wp-image-599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/01\/Wilkins_ASTE_poster.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/01\/Wilkins_ASTE_poster-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The poster was titled \u201cHispanic Heritage Month: An Opportunity for Informal STEM (and Humanities) Education and Ethnoscience\u201d and reported on a project done by Ethan in \u00a0partnership with Mr. Dodson and Dr. Reyna Vergara, Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Dept. of Literature, Languages, and Philosophy at MUW, as part of a Hispanic Heritage Month event held on campus in Sept 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"741\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/01\/ASTE_2024_group-1024x741.png\" alt=\"Group of students and faculty at the ASTE annual meeting, 2024.\" class=\"wp-image-600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/01\/ASTE_2024_group-1024x741.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/01\/ASTE_2024_group-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/01\/ASTE_2024_group-768x556.png 768w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/01\/ASTE_2024_group.png 1232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In his presentation to the ASTE international conference, Ethan was able to interact with educators across many universities and honed his ability to communicate science. The benefit of learning across disciplines, as practiced at MUW, was well demonstrated in Ethan\u2019s work to teach people about culture and medicine and shows that interdisciplinary collaboration at the W benefits our students whatever their chosen fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Wilkins, sophomore biology major and MUW Honor\u2019s College student, and Michael Dodson, Instructor of Biology in the Dept. of Sciences and Mathematics, co-presented a poster at the Association of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,46,49,33,50,21,23],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-biology","tag-conference","tag-dodson","tag-sciences-mathematics","tag-student-travel","tag-students","tag-undergraduate-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/scimath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}