Students Discover Update
Overview: Over the last five years we have worked to develop citizen science projects that reach out to the public but also that, more specifically, [...]
12 Questions from students about the (Wild) Life of Our Bodies
Today we have a special Q & A from Kelly Allen and her East Chapel Hill HS Biology II (Human Biology) students. Each year Allen's students participate in [...]
Meet Your Mites: Family Style
Over the last few months, our first cohort of Students Discover Kenan Fellows have been busy in their classrooms piloting and refining the citizen science [...]
Our Bodies Are a Habitat
Thanks to PBS Digital Studios and YouTuber Coma Niddy we can now add face mites to the list of subjects featured in a science parody [...]
Good News: We’ve all got mites!
Over the last year and a half, hundreds of you volunteered to have your faces scraped for science. In looking at the contents of your [...]
Behind the Science: A Meeting of Scientists and their Mites at Evolution 2014
Once a year, thousands of evolutionary biologists, students, and educators from all around the world converge on a single city for the annual Evolution meeting. [...]
The Future of Discovery
In March 2014, Rob spoke at TEDxSantaCruz, explaining how much we don’t know about the species living on us, in us and around us – [...]
The Cosmos of Your Body
Inspired by some recent visualizations of the solar system and the return of COSMOS, we decided to jump into our own "Ship of the Imagination." Our [...]
Delayed Gratification, Citizen Science and Why You Might Not Have Received an Email about Your Sample Yet
But, If You Are So Willing, You'll Receive Emails and Updates for the Next 10 Years. Also, Did I Tell You about the Cats? I [...]
Looking ahead to 2014 — We want to hear from YOU!
Time sure flies when we’re having fun, doesn’t it? With 2013 winding down, we think it’s a good time to pause and take stock of [...]
Time to Meet Your Mites!
May we scrape your face for SCIENCE? I imagine this is not a question one generally expects to be asked when visiting his or her [...]