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  • Collaborating Across the University/Informal Boundary: Broader Impacts Through Informal Science Education
    Date: 04/06/2016
    Resource Category: Edited Chapter
    In this chapter we present the ways in which institutional cultural differences impact the development and implementation of learning activities in informal settings. Five university-based centers for the study of chemistry worked with informal learning professionals to re-envision educational and public outreach activities about science. The ... »
  • DNA portraits: celebrations of the technoself
    Date: 06/11/2015
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    The representation of self and the nature of our identities often converge through technological forms. This study investigates the promotional techniques of seven companies selling DNA portraits, the objective being to uncover how these images derived from laboratory processes are viewed as valid depictions of the self and scientific knowledge. ... »
  • Xraise, Outreach for the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education
    Date: 04/01/2014
    Resource Category: Project Descriptions
    Xraise provides experiences that empower individuals by making science familiar and accessible. Immersed with scientists themselves, we facilitate hands-on, minds-on activities that involve the direct exploration of physics phenomena. Our relationship with K12 students, educators and community partners provides us with a platform for exploring ... »
  • Embedding NOAA in a Public Learning Laboratory - The Environmental Scientist-In-Residence Program at the Exploratorium
    Date: 10/01/2010
    Resource Category: Project Descriptions
    The Environmental Scientist-in-Residence Program will leverage NOAA s scientific assets and personnel by combining them with the creativity and educational knowledge of the pioneer hands-on science center. To do this, the program will embed NOAA scientists in a public education laboratory at the Exploratorium. Working closely with youth Explainers ... »
  • CNRS researchers’ popularization activities: a progress report
    Date: 09/21/2007
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    We have analyzed the popularization activities undertaken by ten thousand CNRS researchers by means of their annual reports for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006. This is the first time that such an extensive statistical study on science popularization practices is carried out. Our main findings are : - the majority of researchers is not involved in ... »
  • The WYP2005 for physics on the road to extinction
    Date: 12/21/2005
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    From exhibitions to theatrical performances, from fireworks to video games, countless events and ventures have been held all over the world in 2005 to mark the occasion of the World Year of Physics (WYP2005). The year that is drawing to a close has brought physics out into the streets and University campuses, but in a few cases physics has even ... »