Events

Attendees talking and looking at posters on tackboards

CREATE for STEM hosts, sponsors and supports exciting events during the academic year; we are delighted to help promote other STEM education events at Michigan State University and in the larger STEM education research community. Please let us know if you are having an event that we can help advertise.  

We have one more science seminar series event planned for April 16; Rebeckha Fussell from Cornell University will be visiting the PERL lab and spending some time in CREATE on April 17.  The annual mini-conference is scheduled for Wednesday, May 14, 2025. We are excited to welcome our keynote speaker, Dr. Noah Feinstein, from the University of Madison-WI. The format this year will be different than years before - watch for more information coming soon! 

 

Past Events

  • 12 Dec 19:00

    Matthew Kloser, December 12, 2018

    Matthew Kloser is an Associate Professor and Fellow at the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the founding director of the Center for STEM Education at the University of Notre Dame. His talk was titled "Is Biology Education Evolving? Critiquing Three Cases of High School and Undergraduate Biology Education Reform."
  • 29 Nov 19:00

    Marcy Towns, November 29, 2017

    Presentation: Blending chemical and mathematical knowledge as solve problems in chemical kinetics. Answering recent calls for discipline-based education research and interdisciplinary work
  • 28 Nov 19:00

    Christa Haverly, November 28, 2018

    Christa Haverly is a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University. Her talk was titled "Developing Urban Elementary Teachers' Responsiveness to Students' Scientific Sense-Making."
  • 14 Nov 19:00

    Kevin Haudek, November 14, 2018

    Kevin Haudek is an Assistant Professor in the department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Michigan State University. His talk was titled "Using Automated Analysis to Reveal Student Thinking."
  • 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."