https://www.thereachlab.org/research daily 0.75 2025-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/68ef57ac-9ed8-45ac-970a-7ca40e1c7535/plant+illustration-3+rotated.png Research - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/9fed84bf-7d12-4b1b-872f-b119cfb0308e/Lisa+Corwin_IML2021-02723.jpg Research - Community College Biology Instructor Network to Support Inquiry into Teaching and Education Scholarship (CC Bio INSITES) CC Bio INSITES is a network dedicated to helping community college biology faculty develop as biology education researchers. Since 2017, the network has held annual meetings and hosted remote professional development events that help CC faculty define research questions, develop quantitative and qualitative analysis skills, successfully communicate about their work via professional meetings and publications, and most importantly, connect with each other and the broader biology education research community. Participants have engaged in over twenty biology education research projects supported by CC Bio INSITES and have been able to access leadership positions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/cc4b20e2-2bf3-4a59-9e70-a06e816906a2/BATP_Credit+Matt+Talarico+-+Impact+Media+Lab-93.jpg Research - Investigating how community-engaged, course-based undergraduate research enhances opportunities for scientific civic engagement. Our lab is working to understand the mechanisms through which students in CUREs, who do research that specifically aims to serve a community outside of the classroom, develop different aspects of scientific civic engagement. We are looking at whether these experiences change students’ value for engaging with their community using science skills, in addition to their self-efficacy, motivation, and knowledge of how to do so. We are also investigating if engaging in community-serving CUREs helps instructors to develop confidence in their ability to teach research-focused field courses. This work is led by graduate students Irfanul Alam and Amy Dunbar-Wallis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/98c5d1bb-b2a9-4bc5-941c-a14a3c7f3484/unsplash-image-1K9T5YiZ2WU.jpg Research - Understanding students’ experiences with research failure: When do students view failure as epistemological? This study draws upon prior work in our lab that explored how to measure fear of failure and challenge-engaging vs. challenge-avoiding styles of coping. Drawing upon interviews, we are studying how students approach challenges, what they do when they encounter failures, and whether they see these failures as opportunities to learn more about how to do biology (i.e., epistemological). We are curious whether encounters with failure increase their fear of failure and how viewing failure as an opportunity to learn might change this. This study is led by Postdoc Sandhya Krishan and is a collaboration with Jen Heemtra (Emory University), Lou Charkoudian (Haverford College), Meredith Henry (Georgia State University), and Joe Harsh (James Madison University). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/a83bfbf3-bf44-4fa8-a5a7-4f52e66207c3/BATP_Credit+Matt+Talarico+-+Impact+Media+Lab-88.jpg Research - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/1649706521417-3VJBHYZTQZ64E7MVSHKN/unsplash-image-jNKfJ6u78nw.jpg Research - Fostering creativity for problem solving We study how students develop creative and tractable solutions to biological problems. We want to help students use both divergent and convergent thinking in biological contexts, to improve the innovation and quality of solutions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/fd893cf8-5d20-4c50-ab4f-0ac2573c9d9c/plant+illustration-2.png Research - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/1649706476427-MEFLZMD0MM1XZDD1PY8S/unsplash-image-gvT6d_Fe2gM.jpg Research - Building scientific resillience We explore how students develop the ability to confront challenges and cope with scientific setbacks and failures. Our goals is to contribute to the development of the next generation of resilient citizens and scientists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/fd5078dc-9473-42ba-a081-c1d09004c609/Lisa+Corwin_IML2021-03006.jpg Research - Encouraging civic engagement We study how students develop the skills and confidence to improve life for people in their communities, using science. Our goal is to increase students' motivation to engaged with their and other communities to solve socio-scientific problems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/455a9141-97ba-4f81-aecb-afa124e34c99/illustration+3.png Research - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/847b74f0-040e-4d2f-98db-dfc17e1f8420/book-2.png Research - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/1644604883222-BI1T2DQD9PHMNEUVCZL3/unsplash-image-eodA_8CTOFo.jpg Research https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/1644607626345-ACH28SZBJU7RV917SAMC/Lisa+Corwin_IML2021-03056.jpg Research https://www.thereachlab.org/people daily 0.75 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/b352106b-bdcb-428d-abdf-9696bd8385b4/Lisa+Corwin_IML2021-03041.jpg People - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/1ac1cbe6-82fe-44ac-939f-8f4257e4d8d5/plant+illustration-7.png People - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/3f4fd4d8-2005-4a11-b4f9-463843141908/plant+illustration-8.png People - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/e07be1c7-dbf3-43a8-b931-1586d3abf5d9/Lisa+Corwin_IML2021-02354.jpg People - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/1644611132458-CXC140E3K4HWQ925EQAX/unsplash-image-vWFIbUrcK8s.jpg People https://www.thereachlab.org/teaching daily 0.75 2023-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/1644609829150-YS4DSPEMYKT8EWHTKHEG/unsplash-image-ZqaSSLnN4Vc.jpg Teaching - Principles of Ecology Lecture: EBIO2040 This courses focuses on broad principles and practices within ecology. Students investigate topics such as population and community dynamics, interspecies interactions, community composition, and landscape ecology in an active learning environment. This course is unique in that we use active lecture integrated with in-depth case studies. Students engage in learning via short activities supplemented with explanations. This class involves the use of undergraduate learning assistants to supplement instruction and assist students in active learning. Graduate students design and teach the case studies, using real data often related to their own studies within the department. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/1649708722493-W8UFHHOLC5TUVHMBOQ8V/unsplash-image-IgUR1iX0mqM.jpg Teaching - Graduate Seminar in Curriculum Design: EBIO 5460 This course will help students develop the basic skills needed to design a course, start to finish. Students will learn about a variety of active learning strategies, how to choose and articulate learning outcomes and objectives, the “5E model” - engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate for lesson planning, and how to construct a syllabus and complete schedule for a course. They will write a teaching philosophy and discover their own personal active teaching style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/1644609906390-IK86QV85RM29S0WTFI2Z/unsplash-image-FCHlYvR5gJI.jpg Teaching - Introduction to Quantitative Thinking in Biology: EBIO1010 This course provides students with a solid foundation in quantitative thinking and statistical analyses that they will be able to draw upon for their undergraduate career and beyond. In this course we make and support claims through data analysis and visualization. We emphasize using R to perform analyses and construct visualizations, and we use examples from ecology, evolutionary biology, and the social sciences to explain course concepts. Students leave this course with the ability to view the world through a quantitative lens and critically evaluate quantitative information to make and justify claims. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/49ab682f-8bc2-4332-a8c8-8708da64eff9/plant+illustration-4.png Teaching - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/7e6c6e62-8601-4fe9-bbb3-c8e96b46a602/laptop.png Teaching - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thereachlab.org/home daily 1.0 2022-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/212ad681-40fa-4e88-84b3-f3a858747a02/Lisa+Corwin_IML2021-02404.jpg Home - Biology education research We explore how students engage with community-focused research to build a stronger, more creative generation of biology researchers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/fd893cf8-5d20-4c50-ab4f-0ac2573c9d9c/plant+illustration-2.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/a0cdc9c1-0480-4687-a12f-7bf2fe159462/Lisa+Corwin_IML2021-02710.jpg Home - Professional development We work directly with instructors to help them design curricula for resilience and creativity and research the effects of pedagogical changes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/054615a2-da31-4d39-bfc2-6cac851abd9f/Lisa+Corwin_IML2021-03061.jpg Home - Teaching Our teaching focuses on developing undergraduates’ and graduates’ abilities to engage in field research, critical evaluation of data, and biology teaching and learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/2bdb75aa-116c-439d-9979-114f757fd76e/BATP_Credit+Matt+Talarico+-+Impact+Media+Lab-174.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/53d5ca75-7c32-45ba-9bb4-52581625aaaa/book-1.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/4e83cf4f-5705-4c08-99d6-9f9ff4645dd1/plant+illustration-3.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/6d6919aa-8079-4f58-bc85-181a79713b70/BATP_Credit+Matt+Talarico+-+Impact+Media+Lab-16.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/191cb18d-4b2b-4478-b328-b5303feee31e/plant+illustration-1.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/1644603451158-6Y46ODU727S970GPX8LH/REACH+Lab_opener.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/1644604225094-B99FP3Q29YU1UX1HU877/BATP_Credit+Matt+Talarico+-+Impact+Media+Lab-194.jpg Home https://www.thereachlab.org/lab-news daily 0.75 2025-09-02 https://www.thereachlab.org/lab-news/template-pp5b2 monthly 0.5 2025-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/70cbe639-679a-4cb1-a3b2-c0cbd1674fe1/Screenshot+2025-09-02+at+11.17.43%E2%80%AFAM.png Lab news - Manuela Mejia at ESERA Summer School - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thereachlab.org/lab-news/template-fa62s monthly 0.5 2025-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/adee8ee0-2ffe-4d22-8e95-6c0f79921ba6/Apple+orchard+helpers+sm.jpg Lab news - Buff Backyard Orchard Planted! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thereachlab.org/lab-news/template-jdw64 monthly 0.5 2025-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/71bc3994-db3d-40b0-9958-4915cbe40242/hq720.jpg Lab news - Lisa and Sandhya present SABER long talk! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thereachlab.org/lab-news/applernetkickoff monthly 0.5 2022-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/81a5faea-84ae-44bc-94e5-be4ab08f87b8/PXL_20220712_213144673.jpeg Lab news - College instructors from across the west join APPLE R Net - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thereachlab.org/lab-news/amy-dunbar-wallis-publishes-on-apple-preservation monthly 0.5 2022-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/60961123-596c-4db4-8116-c9aea00ceefa/apple-varieties-grouping_1280x960.jpeg Lab news - Amy Dunbar-Wallis Publishes on Apple Preservation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thereachlab.org/lab-news/boulder-apple-tree-projects-community-grafting-day monthly 0.5 2022-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/04faf7d1-472e-44b2-bf7f-a90283bf97ef/BATP_Credit+Matt+Talarico+-+Impact+Media+Lab-93.jpg Lab news - Boulder Apple Tree Project’s Community Grafting Day! 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We introduce the utility of failure as a learning opportunity, share some evidence-based strategies to support students' coping during failures, and use lessons from our research to support instructors in developing course-specific strategies to scaffold students' learning from failure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/7146b4b7-7015-4f29-8e29-588e90e0bdf8/LDC-7-2021.jpg Professional Development - Introduction to Biology Education Research We offer workshops designed to empower scientists and educators as science professionals There is a paucity of biology education research that is authored by community college (CC) instructors, instructors at MSIs, and those at comprehensive and liberal-arts institutions. Through my work with Jeff Schinske at Foothills Community College, we created the Community College Biology Instructor Network to Support Inquiry into Teaching and Education Scholarship (CC Bio INSITES) to increase opportunities for CC instructors to perform biology education research at their own institutions. Through CC Bio INSITES, we offered a variety of professional development workshops and resources. Though CC Bio INSITES has ended, Jeff and I continue to be available upon-request to offer workshops on how to being in BER, how to frame questions, and how to collect high-quality data. Through this work, we hope to expand representation of the various contexts and populations learning biology across the United States and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/2c1068f9-61b4-48cf-b93f-36802efcbaa6/Lisa+Corwin_IML2021-02935.jpg Professional Development - Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) instruction and design We offer workshops to teach instructors to integrate research into their undergraduate courses. These one to three-day workshops help instructors think about course design from a research perspective. I work with instructors on how to accomplish both research and teaching goals at the same time and how to ground the course so that desired student outcomes are achieved. We will explore the outcomes you want to prioritize and how to design a CURE program to get there. I have been studying CURE design and implementation for over a decade. As a postdoc with Dr. Erin Dolan at the University of Georgia, I assisted with professional development efforts surrounding CURE design and implementation, and I continue to do so today. In Fall 2018, I lead a CURE Faculty Learning Community for faculty at CU Boulder who were interested in this topic, and I am always excited to help interested colleagues to refine and assess their CUREs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/9f24dc78-f0b4-4b56-b7ba-6bd484c0a0cc/BATP_Credit+Matt+Talarico+-+Impact+Media+Lab-164.jpg Professional Development - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/aa128794-7a60-4120-985c-96b3a52a621e/book-1-yellow.png Professional Development - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f95cbffb6acc49bc665be2/1644609498821-DT5KWTH0KREK9G4BIMKH/Lisa+Corwin_IML2021-02511.jpg Professional Development https://www.thereachlab.org/past-lab-members daily 0.75 2022-02-03