PROFILE

Larry Bell

Sr.V.P. for Strategic Initiatives

Museum of Science

About informal science

Projects

Building Capacity for Co-Created Public Engagement with Science National Informal STEM Education Network: Space and Earth Informal STEM Education (SEISE) Project ChemAttitudes: Using Design-Based Research to Develop and Disseminate Strategies and Materials to Support Chemistry Interest, Relevance, and Self-Efficacy

Maximizing Collective Impact Through Cross-Sector Partnerships: Planning a SENCER and NISE Net Collaboration Testing the Theory Science is an Activity: A New Approach to Exhibits in Science Museums Making Natural History Exhibits Multi-Sensory; Improving Learning for Disabled Visitors Traveling Exhibit on Technology, Imagination and the Future Using the Fantasy Technologies in the Star Wars Movies as Examples VSA Mid Career Education Program for Informal Learning Evaluators Building with Biology: Multi-Site Public Engagement with Science - Synthetic Biology (Innovations in Development) Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network Provocative Questions: Supporting Effective Dialogue about Societal Issues Informed by Human Biology in a Changing World Dimensions of Public Engagement with Science Workshop to Explore Engaging Broader Publics in Conversations About Assessment of the Societal Implications of New and Emerging Directions in Science and Technology Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network Aging Exhibit Making Models

Research

2023 AISL Awardee Mini-Poster: 1811118 2021 Poster - Train-the-Trainer Workshops as a Strategy to Extend Project Outcomes Focused on Interest, Relevance, and Self-Efficiency to Diverse Audiences? 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: Multi-Site Public Engagement with Science

2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: Building Capacity for Co-Created Public Engagement with Science Public Engagement with Science A guide to creating conversations among publics and scientists for mutual learning and societal decision-making Poster - Multi-Site Public Engagement with Science – Synthetic Biology (The Building with Biology Project) Dimensions of Public Engagement with Science poster Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net) presentation The Latest in Exhibit Trends (From the Designer's Perspective) Many Experts, Many Audiences: Public Engagement with Science Clusters of Informal Science Education Projects: From Public Understanding of Science to Public Engagement with Science

Evaluation

Conference Evaluation: Maximizing Collective Impact Through Cross-Sector Partnerships Provocative Questions: Supporting effective dialogue about societal issues informed by human biology in a changing world: Exploratory Research Study