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Bugscope 'cyberlearning' project earns Science journal prize for assistant professor

Michele Korb

Michele Korb

  • July 29, 2011 1:00am

Michele Korb, CSUEB assistant professor in teacher education, has earned the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) from the journal Science, along with her co-author, Umesh Thakkar, senior research scientist in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois.

SPORE encourages innovation and excellence in education, as well as the use of high-quality online resources by students, teachers and the public. Essays from the SPORE winners are published each month in Science.

In their essay, "Facilitating Scientific Investigations and Training Data Scientists," featured in Science, Korb and Thakkar outline their work on Bugscope, a cyberlearning project that allows school kids and their teachers to conduct scientific investigations in insect adaptations by remotely controlling an electron microscope housed at the University of Illinois.

Read the full essay online.

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