TIN TIN HOLDING SEA URCHINS
AT MBL, WOODS HOLE
Tin Tin
received a Laura and Arthur Colwin Endowed Summer Research Fellowship to spend
part of 2008 summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. This
experience was written up for the Departmental Newsletter. The
study is now published (PubMed
Link).
In 2009, Tin
Tin published her first report in education research (PubMed Link) on the use
of peer instruction in large undergraduate lecture classes. This work got
attention from the popular
press. She extended these studies a smaller discussion-based undergraduate
class in 2011 (PubMed
Link). She has just completed a third study to address the hypothesis that
in-class discussion promotes retention. She is also working with an undergraduate
student in the summer of 2011 to test the hypothesis that dying cells protect
the neighbors from further death in the wing imaginal discs of Drosophila
larvae.