Outreach

Our work has been featured on national and international news and popular science channels on TV. (Check the news section for the latest updates.) We’ve been a question in popular quiz show JEOPARDY!, featured in two comic strips in PhD Comics, and even contributed to the Disney Movie G-Force.

We also collaborate with the North Carolina Department of Environment & Natural Resources through their activities under the public museum, NC Museum of Natural Sciences. This is the largest museum in the Southeast, hosting about 700,000 visitors annually. We regularly participate to BugFest. This is an annual one-day public event with 30,000 participants from many different areas of NC. We also present at the Science Café Raleigh a monthly event hosted by the museum.

We collaborate with The Science House and their Imhotep Academy under NC State to reach out to students from underrepresented minority communities, their parents, and teachers through various activities such as the Expand Your Horizon (EYH) Conference. We attend this one-day conference every year to have poster presentations to 100 students (all underrepresented minorities from 6th to 8th grade) and their parents.

We also visit local public schools for presentations and host K-12 students in our lab. We have even had kindergarteners visiting us. We are continuously contacted by students and teachers all around the world who let us know about the science projects and art products in their school inspired by our work.