by Darlene Cavalier | Apr 26, 2011 | Blog, Citizen Science, Science Education, Science Policy
Changing Planet is a series of three, televised Town Hall meetings, hosted by Tom Brokaw and Anne Thompson of NBC News, on what climate change means. The first event was held at Yale on 1/25 and the just-broadcast video of that program is posted above. It first aired...
by Darlene Cavalier | Apr 14, 2011 | Blog, In the News, Science Education
Come meet the Science Cheerleaders and the folks who run SciCheer’s sister site, Science For Citizens, on Saturday 4/16 at the Philadelphia Science Festival!! SciCheers will join the Mayor of Philly, Saturday at 11:30 am on the Ben Franklin Parkway, to kick off...
by Darlene Cavalier | Mar 30, 2011 | Blog, In the News, Science Cheerleader Performances and News, Science Education
As featured on the BBC this week. Reporter Jane O’Brien profiles the Science Cheerleader event at NASA: NASA has put men on the moon and robots on Mars…but getting girls interested in science remains a struggle. Across America the gender gap is widening...
by Darlene Cavalier | Mar 26, 2011 | Blog, Science Education, Science Policy
This is part of a series I’m working on with Discover Magazine, the National Science Foundation, NBC, Planet Forward, and Science For Citizens. The first event, held at Yale on 1/25, was moderated by NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and featured a lively discussion...
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 17, 2011 | Blog, Brain Makeover, Science Education
Check this out. The full report, Science and the Educated American: A Core Component of Liberal Education, may be downloaded free of charge at http://www.amacad.org/publications/scienceSLAC.aspx Chapter 7 features the insights of SciCheer collaborator and friend,...
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 15, 2011 | Blog, Citizen Science, Events, In the News, Interviews, Science Cheerleader Performances and News, Science Education
Science literacy is crucial to understanding the inner workings of things in our day-to day lives—weather patterns, Smart Phones, genetically modified foods—but many adults lack the tools to understand and discuss how science affects them (full disclosure: that...
