by Darlene Cavalier | Nov 16, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science, In the News
Paw Talk, “the online community for pets and pet owners” picked up the SciCheer post featuring Yale’s mascot (Handsome Dan) during his science lesson. And, not quite mainstream, but the National Academy of Engineering Tweeted a note about this post,...
by Darlene Cavalier | Nov 10, 2009 | Blog, In the News
The Coalition for Public Understanding of Science (COPUS) is celebrating Chemistry this month. In this article, widely distributed by COPUS, Paul Shin, Chemical Instrumentation Manager with the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at California State University,...
by Darlene Cavalier | Nov 3, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science, In the News, Writings
In the current edition of the New York Academy of Sciences Magazine, you’ll find a piece co-authored by me and Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. We hope that our op-ed, “The Growth of Citizen Science” helps articulate how “average people” are...
by Darlene Cavalier | Nov 2, 2009 | Dr. John Reports, In the News, Interviews, News
Indulge me (Dr. John Ohab) for just a moment and check out this new story, Armed and Scientific, just released by UCLA Magazine. I was recently interviewed for the “Quick Takes” series, which highlights former students and their work since graduating from...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 24, 2009 | Dr. John Reports, In the News
From Dr. John: Last week, David Meerman Scott, marketing guru and author of “The New Rules of Marketing and PR,” visited the Pentagon to discuss the importance of social media in the Defense Department’s communications arsenal. He spent two hours with the...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 20, 2009 | Blog, In the News
In the news.”Science’s Rah-Rah Gal:Philly’s Darlene Cavalier Cheers for Discovery””A former 76ers cheerleader has taken up the cause for promoting science education among adults, and she is turning the old beauty vs. brains debate into a...