Recent News
December 6, 2017: Today I worked how to used an iframe to display the interactive R Shiny apps I've been working on for the Mason Farm Butterfly Project on the website! For now, you can view them there, but I'll try to post them on here soon.
October 7, 2017: My husband and I met in graduate school and I worked very hard to incorporate our research into our wedding decor so I've added some photos of my handiwork to the website. We had our reception at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and it was a FANTASTIC venue for a reception as well as for SciREN :)
September 21, 2017: Thanks to everyone who attended our 4th annual SciREN Networking and Educator Open House at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC. What a great night. As always, special thanks to Megan Chesser and Melissa Dowland from the Museum. SciREN Triangle wouldn't be able to pull off this event without their help!
August 22, 2017: The results from my first ever field study in graduate school are finally published in Biological Invasions today! You can check it out here! If you want the short version, my amazing former field assistant Kati Moore also wrote a song about it here. Big thanks to everyone who helped with this study/writing/publication process, especially to my research advisor/coauthor Joel Kingsolver for all of his help.
April 22, 2017: It was so good to see everyone enjoying the UNC Science Expo again this year! It was a little too hot for the caterpillars but it was much more pleasant for the humans of the Kingsolver lab who were chilled by the cold wind at last year's Expo.
March 3, 2017: Joel and I and our 18 coauthors were published in Science today! The paper entitled "Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection" came out of a National Evolutionary Synthesis Center working group we were both a part of in 2014. Congrats to first author Adam Siepielski on his hard work in getting this published in Science! I'm so grateful to have been a participant in the working group. It was a really great learning experience for me. We have another manuscript in the works too so stay tuned.
February 17th, 2017: I recently returned from my first Gordon Research Seminar and Conference about Plant-Herbivore Interactions in Ventura, California. It was a super fun and I really enjoyed being a Discussion Leader during the first ever Plant-Herbivore Interactions Research Seminar. I also finally got to meet a lot of amazing scientists who I've corresponded with and cited over the years. Shout out to my labmate Elizabeth Moore who still did outreach without me at Darwin Day while I was traveling!
January 4th, 2017: I spent some of my holiday break in New Zealand enjoying summer and visiting my future in laws. I also had fun catching Pieris rapae while I was there for the Pieris Project! I hope my samples make it back to the USA intact!
September 23rd, 2016: I will be presenting my poster titled "Geographic variation in the responses of insect herbivores to nutrient balance and temperature" in the Frontiers of Entomology Graduate Student Poster competition at the International Congress of Entomology in Orlando, FL on Monday Sept. 26th. My poster will be up from 9-5pm, and I will be presenting from 12:30-1pm. Come check it out! Also, follow me on Twitter (@Kate_Augustine) or on Instagram (kaugustine34) as I post about the conference all of next week.
September 9th, 2016: Thanks to all of the 86 researchers and 133 educators who attended our 3rd annual SciREN Networking event and Educator Open House at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC. What a great night. Special thanks to Megan Chesser and Melissa Dowland from the Museum. SciREN Triangle wouldn't be able to pull off this event without their help!
August 27th, 2016: SciREN Triangle held it's 3rd annual Lesson Plan Writing workshop at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC. Thanks to all of our educators volunteers who helped our researcher attendees with their lesson plans. Our network wouldn't exist without these teachers who are willing to give up a Saturday afternoon right before school starts to help educate researchers on lesson plan design.
August 5th, 2016: I recently completed a massive open online course (MOOC) offered through the Center for the Integration of Research Teaching and Learning (CITRL) called Advanced Learning Through Evidence Based STEM Teaching. I can't wait to put the concepts I learned to use in my Fundamentals of Ecology lab (BIOL 461L) this upcoming fall semester at UNC-CH.
August 3rd, 2016: I recently participated in the national Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) meeting on June 25th, 2016 in Raleigh, NC. I presented a poster and brought the Caterpillar Experiment to the outreach showcase and my photo with the Manduca is featured on the Research Triangle GWIS website! Check it out here.
March 16th, 2016: My friend and Biology colleague Becca Adikes and I presented a lecture and demonstration about butterfly scales entitled "Butterfly wings - why are they so pretty?" using paper microscopes called foldscopes at the Culbreth Middle School Science Day in Carrboro, NC. Check back soon for the lesson plan we are writing.
February 13th, 2016: My labmate and fellow graduate student Elizabeth Moore, myself, and our undergraduate research assistant Laura Hamon brought our fan favorite Caterpillar Experiment to the NC Museum of Natural Sciences's Darwin Day. This is an annual event and this year's event was the highest attendance ever!
October 7, 2017: My husband and I met in graduate school and I worked very hard to incorporate our research into our wedding decor so I've added some photos of my handiwork to the website. We had our reception at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and it was a FANTASTIC venue for a reception as well as for SciREN :)
September 21, 2017: Thanks to everyone who attended our 4th annual SciREN Networking and Educator Open House at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC. What a great night. As always, special thanks to Megan Chesser and Melissa Dowland from the Museum. SciREN Triangle wouldn't be able to pull off this event without their help!
August 22, 2017: The results from my first ever field study in graduate school are finally published in Biological Invasions today! You can check it out here! If you want the short version, my amazing former field assistant Kati Moore also wrote a song about it here. Big thanks to everyone who helped with this study/writing/publication process, especially to my research advisor/coauthor Joel Kingsolver for all of his help.
April 22, 2017: It was so good to see everyone enjoying the UNC Science Expo again this year! It was a little too hot for the caterpillars but it was much more pleasant for the humans of the Kingsolver lab who were chilled by the cold wind at last year's Expo.
March 3, 2017: Joel and I and our 18 coauthors were published in Science today! The paper entitled "Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection" came out of a National Evolutionary Synthesis Center working group we were both a part of in 2014. Congrats to first author Adam Siepielski on his hard work in getting this published in Science! I'm so grateful to have been a participant in the working group. It was a really great learning experience for me. We have another manuscript in the works too so stay tuned.
February 17th, 2017: I recently returned from my first Gordon Research Seminar and Conference about Plant-Herbivore Interactions in Ventura, California. It was a super fun and I really enjoyed being a Discussion Leader during the first ever Plant-Herbivore Interactions Research Seminar. I also finally got to meet a lot of amazing scientists who I've corresponded with and cited over the years. Shout out to my labmate Elizabeth Moore who still did outreach without me at Darwin Day while I was traveling!
January 4th, 2017: I spent some of my holiday break in New Zealand enjoying summer and visiting my future in laws. I also had fun catching Pieris rapae while I was there for the Pieris Project! I hope my samples make it back to the USA intact!
September 23rd, 2016: I will be presenting my poster titled "Geographic variation in the responses of insect herbivores to nutrient balance and temperature" in the Frontiers of Entomology Graduate Student Poster competition at the International Congress of Entomology in Orlando, FL on Monday Sept. 26th. My poster will be up from 9-5pm, and I will be presenting from 12:30-1pm. Come check it out! Also, follow me on Twitter (@Kate_Augustine) or on Instagram (kaugustine34) as I post about the conference all of next week.
September 9th, 2016: Thanks to all of the 86 researchers and 133 educators who attended our 3rd annual SciREN Networking event and Educator Open House at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC. What a great night. Special thanks to Megan Chesser and Melissa Dowland from the Museum. SciREN Triangle wouldn't be able to pull off this event without their help!
August 27th, 2016: SciREN Triangle held it's 3rd annual Lesson Plan Writing workshop at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC. Thanks to all of our educators volunteers who helped our researcher attendees with their lesson plans. Our network wouldn't exist without these teachers who are willing to give up a Saturday afternoon right before school starts to help educate researchers on lesson plan design.
August 5th, 2016: I recently completed a massive open online course (MOOC) offered through the Center for the Integration of Research Teaching and Learning (CITRL) called Advanced Learning Through Evidence Based STEM Teaching. I can't wait to put the concepts I learned to use in my Fundamentals of Ecology lab (BIOL 461L) this upcoming fall semester at UNC-CH.
August 3rd, 2016: I recently participated in the national Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) meeting on June 25th, 2016 in Raleigh, NC. I presented a poster and brought the Caterpillar Experiment to the outreach showcase and my photo with the Manduca is featured on the Research Triangle GWIS website! Check it out here.
March 16th, 2016: My friend and Biology colleague Becca Adikes and I presented a lecture and demonstration about butterfly scales entitled "Butterfly wings - why are they so pretty?" using paper microscopes called foldscopes at the Culbreth Middle School Science Day in Carrboro, NC. Check back soon for the lesson plan we are writing.
February 13th, 2016: My labmate and fellow graduate student Elizabeth Moore, myself, and our undergraduate research assistant Laura Hamon brought our fan favorite Caterpillar Experiment to the NC Museum of Natural Sciences's Darwin Day. This is an annual event and this year's event was the highest attendance ever!
