The Museum held two major outreach events last week. The first event was on Monday with the Living-Learning Community for exploratory/undecided VT students. Graduate student Rose McGroarty led this tour and inspired many students as she spoke to them about various geoscience disciplines. The exhibits, such as the Omniglobe, fossils (especially VT rex), and gemstones, fascinated the students. One student plans to volunteer at the Museum after her experience. On Wednesday, the Museum hosted another Hokie for a Day event, in collaboration with CENI at the Moss Arts Center. Sixty-one students and seven chaperones from Floyd County schools visited the Museum. To learn more about geosciences, they rotated through five different stations: Omniglobe, Fossil/Paleo Prep Lab, Geochem Lab, Rock Cycle, and Scientific Method stations. Alix Ehlers, Sofia Kryder, Sydney Munsell, Eddie Nino, Tarisa Ross, Alina Valop, Mark Caddick, and Vicki Yarborough helped make this event successful.
Grad students Brandon Hatcher and Hana Thurman led a GEOS Tuesday event on "How to Make a Poster," as part of the GSRS workshop series.
Grad students Esther Oyedele, Amy Hagen, Prescott Vayda, and Padmaja Mandadi led a presentation on “Engaging Communities through the Virginia Tech Center for Communicating Science”. The event was hosted by Dr. Rachel Reid.
The Friday Seminar was presented last week by Dr. Jasmina Wiemann of Johns Hopkins University on "Time-integrated molecular biosignatures reveal the past, present, and predictable future of life - on Earth and beyond." The visit was hosted by Dr. Michelle Stocker.