When you hear 'research' what do you think of?
Is it a mad scientist in a white lab coat pouring a rainbow of chemicals into a beaker? Maybe it's what you had to do before writing an essay, with books and internet browser tabs scattered over a desk?
However, science is so much more than that. Research pushes the bounderies of human knowledge, each day we learn more and more about ourselves, the world, and the cosmos around us. With these discoveries, we have found cures to diseases, invented new materials, learned how we function, and much more. Put simply: Research makes life better.
To embody and enritch these ideas, it is of the upmost importance to build a relationship with the community and elseware to not only create public understanding and literacy of science, but to help foster the next generation of scientists as well. To meet these aims, our lab participates in multiple outreach events per year, as well as pioneering the Hoosier STARS program, which connects young scientists in training to there recent peers in highschool to demonstrate that science can be accessible to them, as well as instilling all important outreach practices in the research assistants.
