It’s really summer. Classes are over for the semester and students are hopefully at home recuperating from a whirlwind semester. For the Schuylkill Small Worlds Tiny Earth Program, this means that we are in a bit of a lull. This lull doesn’t mean that we are really resting. Simply it means that the large group goals of the program are down for now. Research continues with certain students who are doing limited work with this pandemic. We also have the task of storing the bacterial strains that students found this past semester.
Beyond our campus community, the large community of one of our partner groups, Tiny Earth, is having their yearly symposium. Thanks to the COVID19 pandemic, the yearly symposium has been moved online. The symposium will be held June 10-12, 2020 from 10am-3pm online with sessions held via Zoom. If you are interested in learning more, then please visit, Tiny Earth Symposium 2020. Registration is required, but it is free for students with guests not associated with the program or an educational institution costing up to $28.16. We are hoping that several Penn State students register and present at the symposium to show what we have been able to do even while staying safe at home.
The number of posts for summer will be limited, but we hope you tune back in for fall when the CDC will be hosting its annual U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week, which coincides with other antibiotic awareness campaigns globally and Schuylkill Small Worlds Tiny Earth Program will be spreading the word about antibiotic use and resistance.
In the meantime, if you are looking for other projects that are helpful to the planet, check out Penn State Schuylkill’s Sustainability page and Schuylkill Phages another research group from Ms. Smith.
Happy Summer! Be safe. Stay healthy friends until we meet again.