Events

Special Workshop, April 15, 2026 at NSTA; Designing 3D Assessments in Partnership with Generative AI, 8:15am - 3:15pm, Register today

CREATE for STEM hosts, sponsors and supports STEM education happenings around MSU. We are working to help bring attention to STEM education related events around the country; please let us know if there are any conferences, workshops, etc... that you would like posted on the CREATE Events page and we will do our best to help. 

We hosted Dr. Sara Vogel from City University in New York, and Qian Wu from East China Normal University during Fall 2025. A new series called CREATE Community Talks was launched in an effort to give opportunities to junior researchers to share their work, offer support and advice, and allow for open conversation around current research projects. There will be one more session of Community Talks on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. Watch for details!

If you will be in Anaheim for NSTA in April, you might be interested in a pre-conference workshop on April 15. Dr. Tingting Li, Dr. Joe Krajcik, and Dr. Selin Akgun, will work with participants to create three-dimensional (3D) science assessments, supported by a powerful generative AI tool and guided by your teacher's expertise.

Our eleventh mini-conference is just around the corner! Please plan to join us on Tuesday, May 12th, in the STEM Teaching & Learning building, where we have held the event the past two years. See below for more information about our keynote speaker and registration. We hope to see you this spring.

 

 

Past Events

  • 07 Nov 19:00

    Marilyne Stains, November 7, 2018

    Marilyne Stains is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her talk was titled "Important of Characterizing STEM Faculty Members' Instructional Mindsets and Practices in an Era of Instructional Transformation."
  • 24 Oct 19:00

    Louise Mead and Alexa Warwick, October 24, 2018

    Dr. Louise Mead is the Education Director at the BEACON Center at MSU, and Dr. Alexa Warwick is the Evolution and Outreach Postdoc at the BEACON Center at MSU. Their talk was titled "ConnectedBio Curriculum: Three-Dimensional Learning from Molecules to Populations."
  • 18 Apr 19:00

    Barbara Hug, April 18, 2018

    Barbara Hug is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her talk was titled "Using Ecosystem Models to Examine Students' Developing Understanding of Vector-Borne Disease."
  • 28 Mar 19:00

    Kristen St. John, March 28, 2018

    Kristen St. John is a professor of Geology at James Madison University. Her talk was titled "Building a Stronger DBER Community: Disciplinary and Cross-Disciplinary Examples."
  • 24 Jan 19:00

    Mary Besterfield-Sacre, January 24, 2018

    Mary Besterfield-Sacre is a Nikolas A. Dececco Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and Director of the Engineering Education Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh. 

  • 29 Nov 19:00

    Marcy Towns, November 29, 2017

    Marcy Towns is a Professor of Chemistry and Director of General Chemistry at Purdue University. Her talk was titled "Blending Chemical and Mathematical Knowledge as Solve Problems in Chemical Kinetics."
  • 12 Apr 19:00

    Michelle Wilkerson, April 12, 2017

    Michelle Wilkerson is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her talk was titled "Putting Student Ideas to Work: Tools to Support Scientific Expression and Progress in K-12 Classrooms."
  • 22 Mar 18:00

    Ayush Gupta, March 22, 2017

    Ayush Gupta is an Assistant Research Professor in Physics and Keystone Instructor in Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. His talk was titled "Integrating Emotions in Models of Students' Reasoning."
  • 05 Feb 19:00

    Erin Furtak, February 5, 2017

    Erin Furtak is an Associate Professor of Science Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her talk was titled "Dilemmas of Three-Dimensional Science Assessment."