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    Tiny Earth: A Big Idea for STEM Education and Antibiotic Discovery
    (American Society of Microbiology, 2021) Hurley, Amanda; Chevrette, Marc G.; Acharya, Deepa D.; Lozano, Gabriel L.; Garavito, Manuel; Heinritz, Jen; Balderrama, Luis; Beebe, Mara; DenHartog, Martel L.; Corinaldi, Kamiyah; Engels, Renee; Gutierrez, Alyssa; Jona, Orli; Putnam, Josephine H., I; Rhodes, Brody; Tsang, Tiffany; Hernandez, Simon; Bascom-Slack, Carol; Blum, Jessamina E.; Price, Paul A.; Davis, Debra; Klein, Joanna; Pultorak, Joshua; Sullivan, Nora L.; Mouncey, Nigel J.; Dorrestein, Pieter C.; Miller, Sarah; Broderick, Nichole A.; Handelsman, Jo; University of Wisconsin Madison; Harvard University; Boston Children's Hospital; Harvard Medical School; Mitchell Hamline School of Law; Colorado State University; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa; Yale University; University of Rochester; Tufts University; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Eastern Michigan University; Wingate University; United States Department of Energy (DOE); Joint Genome Institute - JGI; University of California San Diego; University of Connecticut; Johns Hopkins University
    The world faces two seemingly unrelated challenges-a shortfall in the STEM workforce and increasing antibiotic resistance among bacterial pathogens. We address these two challenges with Tiny Earth, an undergraduate research course that excites students about science and creates a pipeline for antibiotic discovery.