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

  • 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."