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The Goodwin research team traveled to East Lansing, Michigan, for SABER National 2026! Danielle set the bar high with a fabulous short talk sharing her work on student co-authorship resulting from CUREs. And YES-- both Emma and Danielle painted their nails to match Danielle's presentation color palette. Highlights also included meeting up with Danielle Pais, who collaborated with Emma at Arizona State University and finally made it to present her work in-person at SABER. It was wonderful to celebrate Danielle Philo's first national talk and Danielle Pais's admission into medical school together!

Emma & Danielle traveled to St. Louis for the 2026 Genomics Education Partnership (GEP) National Faculty Workshop. We had a wonderful time learning from GEP faculty and sharing our early progress on our collaboration with the GEP to study the impacts of student dissemination in CUREs!

Grace graduates with her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Physiology at UGA! But we aren't letting her go just yet! Grace will be continuing as a research assistant to continue her work with us throughout the summer of 2026.

Grace presents her exciting work on exploring student identity in the context of undergraduate research experiences at UGA's Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium.

UGA Microbiology PhD student Danielle Philo officially joins the Goodwin Research Team! She is our first PhD student. Welcome, Danielle!

Emma traveled to St. Louis, Missouri, to present her work on low-income undergraduate researchers at in the Biology Education Research Symposium at the National Association of Biology Teachers Professional Development conference.

Emma presents her work categorizing types of research experiences at SABER National, 2025, in Minneapolis.

Undergraduate Grace Herburger presented her work on faculty motivation to provide accommodations for students with disabilities at UGA's Spring 2025 CURO Symposium.

Go Dawgs!