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The kids aren’t alright: what exactly is resilience?
The topic of resilience has lately received a lot of attention on Twitter. We hear that kids have resilience when it comes to bouncing back from Covid lockdowns, or that we need to 'build' their resilience, which typically means that someone well-...
Post · November 05, 2021
How to Write an IRB Proposal
First, what is the IRB? The Institutional Review Board (IRB) is a committee that reviews and monitors all research involving human subjects. Their job is to protect human rights and welfare in research. When performing research involving children,...
Post · November 02, 2021
Mt. Hope Family Center Research Spotlight
Working at the renowned Mt. Hope Family Center has been absolute joy. Mt. Hope and the families it serves have been integral to my research.
I recently wrote a Research Spotlight to inform the Mt. Hope community about my newly published work on m...
Post · October 22, 2021
"I'm a Scientist" public engagment
I'm participating in I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here... an online, student-led STEM enrichment activity. It connects school students with scientists through energetic real-time text based chats.
Students ask scientists questions via a live-c...
Post · October 19, 2021
Upgrade to Rails 6 and more
I upgraded the many libraries and frameworks that Owlstown is built on. I will list them below and leave some notes about them. This will be a boring post, but I want to document the upgrades. Upgrading is often an invisible task, but necessary be...
Post · October 19, 2021
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