by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 7, 2010 | Citizen Science, Events, Science Policy
Join us on Thursday, 10/14, at George Mason University. This is a special presentation of GMU, Discover Magazine, ScienceForCitizens.net, and the USA Science and Engineering Festival. For everything from advancing scientific research to improving public policy,...
by Darlene Cavalier | Sep 26, 2010 | Blog, Citizen Science, Events, In the News, Interviews, video
Science Cheerleader’s sister site, ScienceForCitizens.net, is the focus of attention over at MotherboardTV.com (highly recommend subscribing to their site…and ScienceForCitizens.net as well, of course). My partner-in-crime, Michael Gold, and I were...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 25, 2010 | Citizen Science, In the News
Bob Grant, Associate Editor, The Scientist, writes: Meet citizen science’s answer to match.com – http://scienceforcitizens.net/. The new website, brainchild of Darlene Cavalier (AKA – The Science Cheerleader) and colleagues, seeks to hook researchers up with members...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 16, 2010 | Citizen Science, Science Education, Science Policy
Why so few posts from me lately? Truth is, I’ve been swamped. All great stuff, including a summer-long immersion in an incubator program; some very cool upcoming Capitol Hill briefings for Discover Magazine and the National Science Foundation; the launch of...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 15, 2010 | Blog, Citizen Science, Events, OTA, Science Policy
On Sunday, the same day the New York Times featured YOUR future–aka Singularity, read on–on the cover of its business section, I was listening to the head cheerleader of all-things-Singularity, Ray Kurzweil, as he presented the future of humanity at the H+...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 7, 2010 | Blog, Citizen Science
ScienceForCitizens.net, the sister site of ScienceCheerleader that matches volunteers to scientific researchers in need of some help, was among 11 companies selected by GoodCompany Ventures to help “accelerate the growth of early-stage ventures that generate...