KQED 'Do Now U' Features ​Post ​By ​SMC Students ​On No-Kill Animal Shelters​

A science communication exercise by students in Biology Professor Douglas Long's Bio 50 course was selected for the KQED "Do Now U" science education feature. The post “Do No-Kill Shelters Really Benefit Animals?” which was created by Sarah Downey, Hana Harrell, Megan Hoglund and Jelyn Javier, reports on the benefits of so called "No-Kill" animal shelters, which do not euthanize animals. Long states that in the notification about the students' winning post, the KQED ​representative ​sa​id​ "It’s the most well written Do Now U that I’ve received this semester".  Do Now U is a ​popular ​bi​-​weekly activity for students and the public to engage and respond to current issues using social media.