Why Area Teachers Are Using Lab Experiments Rather Than Textbooks To Teach Evolution
April 11, 2019
A local news outlet wrote a story on the benefits the EvolvingSTEM program grants to students who take the course.
2019
EvolvingSTEM on NPR
January 20, 2019
EvolvingSTEM was featured yesterday on the third segment of the The Confluence, a daily news show in the Pittsburgh area.
2018
ASM COMS: outreach and greater transparency
July 13, 2018
Position Statement
New NSF Grant
July 12, 2018
We are thrilled by a new NSF award “Role of tRNA base modifications in genetic code accuracy and cellular fitness”, in collaboration with Rebecca Alexander o...
The root of pan-adaptationism?
July 08, 2018
There’s been a fair bit of recent discussion about why most biologists are (uncritically) adaptationists. I don’t dispute this but think it’s worth reconside...
2017
PITTMED Feature
September 01, 2017
The Cooper Lab would like to extend a thank you to Elaine Vitone who wrote a feature, Untangling Darwin, focused on the lab’s research in the University of P...
Michelle’s T32 Award
August 01, 2017
Michelle was recently awarded a Prestigious trainee position on the Molecular Microbial Persistence and Pathogenesis National Institute of Health T32 Institu...