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Roots of Wisdom: Reflections and Ideas about Collaboration with Integrity

Reflections and Ideas about Collaboration with Integrity explores the work Generations of Knowledge: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Science (National Science Foundation DRL-1010559), a six-year collaborative project between OMSI and Native partners from diverse tribes, cultures, and ecoregions that co-created traveling exhibits and programs for science and tribal museums. This legacy document reflects on and shares what we learned on this journey, including our detours and course corrections. The legacy document strongly reflects the work of the whole project both in its
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TEAM MEMBERS: Victoria Coats Cecilia Nguyen Molly Schmitz Jaclyn Barber Tim Hecox Marilyn Johnson Kyrie Thompson Kellett Tim Steeves Leah Gibson (Oglala Lakota) David Begay Diné [Navajo]) Inez Bill (Tulalip/Lummi) Karen Kitchen (Osage) Katherine Krile Herb Lee, Jr. (Hawaiian) VerlieAnn Malina-Wright (Hawaiian) Nancy Maryboy (Cherokee/Diné [Navajo]) Randall Melton (Seminole/CTUIR) Wenix Red Elk (CTUIR) David Cozzo Vicki Cruz (Cherokee) Deana Dartt (Chumash) Jill Stein Shelly Valdez (Laguna Pueblo) Pamela Woodis (Jicarilla Apache) Tessa Campbell (Tulalip)
resource project Exhibitions

Expanding the Reach: Creating Capacity for Understanding RACE

The Science Museum of Minnesota will create a 450-square-foot version of its award-winning "RACE: Are We So Different?" exhibition for distribution to rural areas and communities in Minnesota, and adjacent regions in Iowa, eastern North and South Dakota, and northern Wisconsin. The museum will produce four replicas of the exhibition for museums and partner organizations, and collaborate with community groups to develop supporting programming specific to identified community needs. Programs will include facilitated reflective dialogues for groups of adults and students; a leadership institute with representatives from each host community; an educator guide for secondary school teachers; and a variety of workshops and arts presentations to extend conversations about race and racism. Like the original RACE exhibition, these condensed exhibitions will encourage visitors to explore the science, history, and everyday effects of race and racism through a combination of artifacts, historic and contemporary photography, multimedia components, and interactive activities.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Evelyn Ronning
resource evaluation Websites, Mobile Apps, and Online Media

Marcellus Matters: EASE - MarcellusByDesign Evaluation Findings Brief

Summary brief describing summative evaluation associated with the MarcellusByDesign component of Marcellus Matters: EASE. Marcellus Matters: Engaging Adults in Science and Energy (EASE) was a program of Penn State University’s Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research (MCOR), in collaboration with other experts across the university. The first year of program activities took place in 2012, and the project continued through September 2016. EASE was a multidisciplinary initiative that provided adults in rural Pennsylvania with opportunities to increase their knowledge of science and energy
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TEAM MEMBERS: Joe E Heimlich Donnelley (Dolly) Hayde Rebecca Nall
resource evaluation Public Programs

Marcellus Matters: EASE - Community Science Volunteers Evaluation Findings Brief

Summary brief describing summative evaluation findings from the Community Science Volunteers component of the Marcellus Matters: EASE project.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Joe E Heimlich Donnelley (Dolly) Hayde Rebecca Nall
resource evaluation Public Programs

Marcellus Matters: EASE - Marcellus Citizen Science Network Evaluation Findings Brief

Summary brief describing findings from summative evaluation for the Marcellus Citizen Science Network component of the Marcellus Matters: EASE project.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Joe E Heimlich Donnelley (Dolly) Hayde Rebecca Nall
resource evaluation Public Programs

Marcellus Matters: EASE - Marcellus Citizen Science Network

Summative evaluation of one of four pieces of the Marcellus Matters: EASE project. This study examined the effectiveness of a program developed to immerse adult learners in the processes of scientific research by teaching participants to locate and report orphan and abandoned natural gas wells.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Joe E Heimlich Donnelley (Dolly) Hayde Rebecca Nall
resource evaluation Public Programs

Marcellus Matters: EASE - Community Science Volunteers Summative Evaluation Report

Summative evaluation of one of four pieces of the Marcellus Matters: EASE project. This study examined the effectiveness of a ten-week adult/community education program about topics related to natural gas development.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Joe E Heimlich Donnelley (Dolly) Hayde Renae Youngs Rebecca Nall
resource evaluation Public Programs

Marcellus Matters: EASE - Community Conversations Summative Report

Summative evaluation of one of four pieces of the Marcellus Matters: EASE project. Formative evaluation of one of four pieces of the Marcellus Matters: EASE project. This study examined how effective a series of "Community Conversations" theater and dialogue/discussion events was at a) communicating natural gas development-related science content and community issues, and b) promoting audience members' openness to dialogue about natural gas development-related issues.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Joe E Heimlich Donnelley (Dolly) Hayde Renae Youngs Rebecca Nall
resource evaluation Public Programs

Marcellus Matters: EASE Overall Summative Evaluation Report

Summative evaluation of the Marcellus Matters: EASE project. Marcellus Matters: Engaging Adults in Science and Energy (EASE) was a program of Penn State University’s Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research (MCOR), in collaboration with other experts across the university. The first year of program activities took place in 2012, and the project continued through September 2016. EASE was a multidisciplinary initiative that provided adults in rural Pennsylvania with opportunities to increase their knowledge of science and energy systems and engage in scientific inquiry and investigation
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TEAM MEMBERS: Joe E Heimlich Donnelley (Dolly) Hayde Renae Youngs Rebecca Nall
resource project Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks

Enhancing the Success of Women in Vision Science: Females of Vision, et al. (FoVea)

The goal of Women in Cognitive Science is to improve the visibility of women scientists by fostering an environment that welcomes and nurtures young women scholars, to contribute to the professional development of scholars throughout their career, and to facilitate creation of a network that will provide contacts and connections to other women in science. Several workshops are designed for women in cognitive science, especially women in the early stages of their academic career. The workshops focus on negotiation techniques to create opportunities and optimize mechanisms to sustain research visibility and productivity. A second focus is on grant application writing for predoctoral, postdoctoral, and early career scientists. Workshops will take place at meetings of the Psychonomic Society, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Association for Psychological Sciences. The workshops will take the form of a public forum with invited speaker-panelists to initiate discussion about best practices for the professional advancement of women in cognitive science at the individual and institutional level. By partnering with these established societies, the workshops will maximize the outreach potential to a group that continues to be underrepresented in senior academic positions in the cognitive sciences.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Mary Peterson Diane Beck Karen Schloss
resource evaluation Media and Technology

Formative Evaluation of Ironbound Films Informal Science Education Project: The Anthropologist

From October 2015 to July 2016, Smart Start Evaluation & Research conducted a formative evaluation of a full-length film festival cut of the film The Anthropologist in order to provide feedback that improves decision-making capacity for the film’s final edit, production design, and distribution strategies in line with the project’s goals (see p. 5). SmartStart conducted focus group interviews with participants to 1) measure their initial impressions of the film and its content, and 2) provide feedback on content, edits, target audience, website, and ideas for distribution. SmartStart then
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TEAM MEMBERS: Seth Kramer Lisa Kohne Joshua Penman Erica Watson Dayo Majekodunmi
resource research Public Programs

Poster: How do Indigenous languages shape relationships to environment?

Mongolia’s Darhad Valley and regions of Montana can be considered bioregions. A bioregion “encompasses landscapes, natural processes and human elements as equal parts of a whole” (BioRegions.org). Indigenous people live within both regions, and they respectively consider holistic interactions between landscapes, natural processes and humans. Both are faced with change related to developmental pursuits and globalism. Understanding and documenting language and mode of expression is an important way for community members to recognize the value of place and tradition, and how these things are
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TEAM MEMBERS: Kendra Teague