Events

Two presenters discuss poster with an attendee at the 2025 Mini-Conference

CREATE for STEM hosts, sponsors and supports STEM education research happenings around MSU. Please let us know if there are conferences, workshops, presentations, 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. In the spring, 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. Plans are underway for next year's series; we will share more information later in the summer.

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. Two exciting things about this year's program: 1) we're hosting our first ever mathematics scholar as keynote speaker and 2) 'lightning talks', or three-minute speed talks, will be part of the mini-conference experience prior to the poster session. For a researcher, having a three-minute 'elevator pitch' at-the-ready is one of the most important tools to keep in the toolbox. We are hoping that this practice session will help researchers get comfortable summarizing their work succinctly and in lay-persons language.

Thank you for a great year of gatherings in CREATE!  We hope to see you on Tuesday, May 12, whether you are presenting a poster or lightning talk, or attending to learn about colleagues' research.

 

Past Events

  • 24 Apr 19:00

    Israel Touitou, April 24, 2019

    Presentation: Designing NGSS aligned, PBL curriculum to support students' understanding, engagement and socio-emotional learning.
  • 27 Mar 18:00

    Tammy Long and Bethany Gettings, March 27, 2019

    Tammy Long is an Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Biology at MSU. Bethany Gettings is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Plant Biology and an NRT-IMPACTS fellow at MSU. Their presentation was titled "Stuck in the Middle with You"
  • 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."