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resource research Media and Technology
This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting in Washington, DC. It describes a media project that created a documentary film about the Pulsar Search Collaboratory, as well as developing programming to be used both in the classroom and in diverse settings throughout the community.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Maura McLaughlin Sara Kolberg Megan Moore
resource research Public Programs
This paper is the first report on an extensive ethnographic study of two professional schools of art and design in the United States. The overall purpose of the study is to identify general principles for how to design learning environments that prepare learners to be creative. First, I document the cultural model of teaching and learning held by the faculty and students, and analyze the pedagogical practices used. This studio model is of interest because it emerged naturally in a community of educational practice. I argue that it is distinct from the two cultural models most familiar to
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TEAM MEMBERS: Keith Sawyer
resource research Media and Technology
This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting held in Washington, DC. It presents the programs in production for Season Three of SciGirls, a series of six episodes following groups of girls and their mentors as they take part in citizen science projects. Season Three is produced in collaboration with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Girls Collaborative Project.
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TEAM MEMBERS: TPT Twin Cities Public Television Richard Hudson
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
This report presents the findings of a two-day invitational workshop held at MIT on September 23–24, 2013 as part of the Evolving Culture of Science Engagement Initiative, an ongoing collaboration between a new nonprofit organization, Culture Kettle, and several MIT departments led by the Program in Science, Technology & Society and the MIT Museum. The initiative explores a new wave of public science engagement activity that appears to be dissolving the once-bright line between science and popular culture.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Peter Linett David Kaiser John Durant Thomas Levenson Ben Wiehe
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
The Delaware Valley Innovation Network (DVIN); a coalition of government, industry and educational institutions, received a three-year $5.1 million federal grant to create a data tool that incorporates economic, research and development, investment and real-time job information to provide a current and accurate picture of the region's life science economy and its assets. The project goal was to expand the talent pool for life sciences companies in southeastern Pennsylvania, South Jersey and northern Delaware. DVIN generated research projects, inventory assessments, cross-disciplinary
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TEAM MEMBERS: Delaware Valley Innovation Network John Hall
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting in Washington, DC. It describes a project that uses the living laboratory model of informal cognitive science education to establish additional museum hubs.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Museum of Science, Boston Becki Kipling Marta Biarnes
resource research Public Programs
This paper was presented at the 10th International Conference on Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST-10). The authors conducted a survey to lay the groundwork for a national survey to determine the relative importance of science communication to university scientists and engineers, to reveal what factors facilitate or impede communication of science to the non-specialist public on communicating their research, and to provide evidence to substantiate where resources should be targeted and to help develop programming for innovative and effective public engagement.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Susi Sturzenegger-Varvayanis Gina Eosco Sara Ball Kelvin Lee Megan Halpern Bruce Lewenstein
resource research Public Programs
If the science research and education community is to increase the number and degree of commitment of scientists who participate in public engagement activities, we must understand their perceptions of values, obstacles, and incentives in the science academic environment. This document contains a preliminary distillation of the results of two surveys (2012, 2014) that begins the process of understanding attitudes of science academics and science administrators.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Nalini Nadkarni
resource research Public Programs
This poster about attitudes toward science communication was presented at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco. (Abstract #ED51C-0768)
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TEAM MEMBERS: Bruce Lewenstein Ayelet Baram-Tsabari
resource research Informal/Formal Connections
This report focuses on the biomedical workforce and has led to programs that include training biology students in science communication.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Biomedical Workforce Working Group
resource research Public Programs
ResearchLink: Spotlight on Solar Technologies was a Collaborative Research Connecting Researchers and Public Audiences (CRPA) Project led by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and Portland State University, funded by the NSF AISL program from 2012-2014. This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting in Washington, DC.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Portland State University and Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Lauren (Russell) Moreno Carl Wamser
resource research Media and Technology
This poster presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting describes a project that uses out-of-home (OHM) media to improve the public understanding of science. It features multimedia installations located in public spaces such as Boston's T.
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TEAM MEMBERS: David Lustick