Cooper lab goes to SABER (2024)!

The Cooper lab attended the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER) annual meeting at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis!

Tasneem presented a poster titled "Toward Culturally Responsive Mentoring of Muslim Research Mentees in the Sciences."

Carly presented a poster titled "National audit study indicates that undergraduates are not biased against LGBTQ+ instructors."

Felicity presented a poster titled "The next generation is coming out in class: Revisiting the experiences of LGBTQ+ undergraduates in active learning science courses."

Parth virtually presented a poster titled "Science instructors revealing LGBTQ+ identity in class at universities across the US benefited LGBTQ+ students, women, and students with anxiety and depression."

Jynx presented a poster titled "A longitudinal study of depression among a national sample of PhD students in the sciences."

Mary presented a poster titled "Identity Intersections: Examining how identity affects the relationship between undergraduate research and the exacerbation of students' depressive symptoms."

Katey presented a short talk titled "The impact of research, teaching, mentoring, and service on science faculty depression."

Tasneem and Mary co-presented a short talk titled "A proof of concept for Hopelessness Theory of Depression: Attributions help explain why challenges in research can exacerbate depressive symptoms among science undergraduates and graduates."

Tasneem won the Bill Wood Graduate Talk Award!