November 10, 2018
2018 T.H. Huxley Award Winner ‘Making evolution stick: using sticky notes to teach the mechanisms of evolutionary change’
Three Emory University instructors won for a student-centered, active learning approach they developed using sticky notes to teach evolutionary mechanisms of natural selection, gene flow, population bottlenecks, and genetic drift.
October 15, 2014
USA Today: Emory University students developing fast-acting Ebola detection strips
Two freshman pre-med Emory University students developed Rapid Ebola Detection Strips (REDS), a portable test strip kit, that will be licensed for distribution in 2015.
October 1, 2014
Saporta Report: Field test for Ebola devised by Emory students who now seek crowdfunding
As the nation focuses on a case of Ebola in a Texas hospital, two students at Emory University are raising money to develop a test they think could identify the virus in the field.