Conveners
Education & Outreach
- kathryn jepsen (Stanford University)
- Kevin Pitts (University of Illinois)
Education & Outreach
- Kevin Pitts (University of Illinois)
- kathryn jepsen (Stanford University)
Description
parallel sessions
Social media is now the dominant means of communications worldwide and one of the most influential. It has also become a powerful channel for dissemination of science information and dialogue in the academic world.
This workshop will identify and explore promising models and practices for social media use in the community of physicists. It will aim to expand engagement throughout the...
The African School of Fundamental Physics and its Applications has been established to build capacity to harvest, interpret and exploit the results of current and future physics experiments and to increase proficiency in related applications, such as theoretical physics, particle physics, nuclear physics, medical physics, Monte Carlo generators & simulations, accelerators & technology and Grid...
Science Storytellers is a new public engagement program with a simple aim: to sit elementary-aged children down to interview scientists in the manner of science journalists, and to then write about and share their stories. In a partnership between Science Storytellers and The Open Notebook and with seed funding from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, we developed and ran the first Science...
International Masterclasses (IMC) have developed since their introduction in 2005. Masterclasses for International Day of Women and Girls in Science (IDWGS) and World Wide Data Day (W2D2) are innovations that began two years ago and are going well. With IDWGS masterclasses, a new pathway has been opened for high school girls to be encouraged in physics. W2D2 establishes new ways to bring...
The American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics annual meeting has a 30-year history of reaching out to local teachers, students and residents about plasmas and related science. Their current outreach includes: a day of accredited teacher workshops; a two-day physics expo of hands-on demonstrations for students; and an evening education event for the over-21 crowd. Ensuring the...
The AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship program provides opportunities for PhD scientists to learn first-hand about federal policymaking while using their knowledge and skills to address today’s most pressing societal challenges. In this talk, I will discuss my experience as a AAAS Fellow in the Office of High Energy Physics at the Department of Energy.
During my two-year...
Since 1984 the Italian groups of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), collaborating with the DOE laboratory of Fermilab have been running a two-month summer training program for Italian university students. While in the first year the program involved only four physics students of the University of Pisa, in the following years it was extended to engineering students. This...
On September 22, 2018, Brown University, together with colleagues from ATLAS and CMS experiment, hosted a science outreach event the “Big Bang Science Fair” during a WaterFire Lighting in Providence. Our goal is to bring science outreach to new audiences and to raise public awareness and appreciation for the role of science in our society at the concrete example of the research at the Large...
If science outreach is about connecting with new audiences, music remains a uniquely accessible form of outreach. However, physics music needn’t be limited to campy parodies. A new project for creating music that is accessible at multiple technical levels will be presented. Using a form of 2D wavetable synthesis, a new form of electronic music uses stereo audio signals, mapped onto an...
We report here progress on a research program at MIT to increase the sense of “belonging” (Walton & Cohen, 2007) for women and under-represented/minoritized undergraduates in the MIT Physics Department, as a means to support recruitment and retention in the physics major and onwards into graduate education. This work builds on social-psychological research to develop social-belonging...
I am president and founder of Academy Communications, a national media-relations firm specializing in higher education institutions. We help faculty researchers at colleges and universities across the country communicate their work and insights more effectively with major news media, in addition to other services.
I am also a writer, editor and speaker, a former on-campus communicator for...
