Did you know a museum dedicated to the brain is being planned in Southern California? The Brain Museum, started by Dr. Manuela Yassa with funding support...
In brief: Dr. Bravo-Rivera discusses how he founded NeuroBoricuas, an education movement dedicated to training the next generation of neuroscientists in Puerto Rico, and the lessons...
In the fifth episode of Season 8 of Questions of the Day, I reconnect with the STEM Unbarred team to ask: what does it take to...
How can participatory science help members of a community understand and communicate the importance of addressing extreme heat? An effort spearheaded by the Oakland, California-based Greenbelt...
This past June, the village of Roscommon, Michigan, held its annual Kirtland’s Warbler Festival, a weekend-long celebration of the songbird. The weekend featured educational events such...
"It felt very important for us to expand on it and continue this role and bringing people together to exchange best practices, knowledge and [build] community...
“Teachers tell us those vignettes are useful and that they want to show the film in class. It gives them a tool for opening the subject...
Some of the key takeaways from two National Academies public sessions on the informal STEM learning workforce and intergenerational learning
“Making a Mini-Forest,” a documentary film directed by Angelina Lee, showcases the wonders of the Miyawaki method in action. The method, developed by Akira Miyawaki, utilizes biodiversity to address afforestation by planting dense, fast-growing miniature forests...
Claire O'Neill: “Some people come and stick because they find their tribe. Because they found, somehow, a language that talks to them, you know, a set...
On this episode (S8E4) of Questions of the Day, I sit down with Dr. Charlotte Vaughn, Assistant Research Professor at the University of Maryland and Founder and...
"The libraries can take a citizen science project and really add those community roots, so people end up taking action more." — Darlene Cavalier
In this episode of Consider This Next, host Kacie speaks with Myiedra Miles Adams, an educator, communicator, and storyteller working to turn a deeply personal project...
In North America, bumble bee populations are shrinking, with over a quarter of all species facing some degree of extinction risk. In Michigan alone, among a...
BROOKLYN, NY – When I first visited Genspace, my goal was to understand the theory of change behind the world’s first community biology lab. I wanted...
Paper at a glance Paper Title From event enjoyment to career aspirations: how inclusive science engagement shapes participant perspectives Author(s) and Year Soumaiya Imarraine and Nicole...
Last year, Boston launched a first-of-its-kind city Sunflower Beautification Grant to address the question: how can cities create and maintain green spaces for the benefit and consumption...
The most consistent takeaway across all our studies is this: when scientists show their humanity, their excitement, their failures, the uncertainty, people relate to them. —...
“One of the most exciting takeaways we can document here is that folks who participate in these participatory science or citizen science projects can benefit from...
In this 8th and final episode of season 1 for Science Engaged, I speak with Meaghan McKasy, who studies how humor affects people’s attitudes and perceptions...
"That all came to be because of an idea of documenting something that’s working somewhere else, importing it here, inspiring others through the power of storytelling...
The founding chief executive officer of Letters to a Pre-Scientist (LPS), Lucy Madden, recently shared on Linkedin that 12 companies put $180k behind the program this school year, more than...
This study explored the goals pursued by science artists in creating their art. The authors identified several themes that ranged from a widely shared goal of...
“Engaging multi-perspective groups in neurotechnology discovery, innovation, and research fosters ethical problem solving, epistemic justice, governance implementation… and cultural sensitivity and reflexivity.” — Karen Rommelfanger
“Every time somebody uploads a photo to iNaturalist or another citizen science project, it is an observation of biodiversity, but it's also an observation of how...
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