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

  • 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."
  • 25 Jan 19:00

    John Krupczak, January 25, 2017

    John Krupczak is a professor of engineering at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. His talk was titled "Progress in the Development of an Engineering Reasoning Assessment for General Education."