by Darlene Cavalier | Jul 12, 2012 | Events, USA Science and Engineering Festival 2012, video
The Science Cheerleaders (current and former NFL and NBA cheerleaders who are pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and math), performed for more than 100,000 people at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. (April 2012)....
by Darlene Cavalier | May 13, 2010 | In the News, Science Policy, Writings
Excerpted from a piece I just posted on DiscoverMagazine.com: Prizes: This old idea is making a sweeping comeback and it is changing the way government, industry and foundations help revolutionize future discovery. It’s high time we offer prizes to motivate and...
by Darlene Cavalier | May 7, 2010 | Science Policy
On the heels of this announcement about a new effort to involve citizens in technology assessment, comes this word from David Sittenfeld at the Boston Museum of Science, one of the five founding partners of this initiative known as ECAST: Expert and Citizen Assessment...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 12, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science, In the News
A very thoughtful person from Switzerland, Joanie, sent this newspaper article (about moi) to me this morning. It’s written in French so she translated it to English. (Thanks, Joanie!) Hello Darlene, I read this article in the newspaper yesterday. The paper is...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jun 10, 2009 | Blog
From the White House: “Look for a blog post on participation beginning on June 10th and get involved! We improve citizen participation by demonstrating its effectiveness in practice.” SC Note: Of course this came from the White House. Will we live to see...