Welcome to the Center for Science in Society's blog site hosted on Serendip. The Center's mission is to facilitate the broad conversations, involving scientists and non-scientists as well as academics and non-academics, which are essential to continuing explorations of:
  • the natural world and humanity's place in it
  • the nature of education
  • the generation, synthesis, and evaluation of information
  • technology and its potentials
  • the relationships among forms of creativity and understanding.

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Activities of the Center for Science in Society

This year, the Center is sponsoring several activities—First Friday Lunches where you can hear from your colleagues about the work they are engaged with, supplementary colloquia funds for departments to bring to campus speakers relevant to issues of science in society, several faculty Working Groups, a Brown Bag Series on Risk-Taking in Academia, as well as a Visiting Fellows program. See below.

We are also sponsoring a Faculty Opportunity Program intended to foster and support new collaborative initiatives between faculty to develop and implement research, teaching and institutional stewardship ideas. Click on the link above for more information about these opportunities and at the left in the side bar to download a template for making requests to the Center.

Please also join us for these continuing working groups (click links for info and schedules):

Emergence Group

 

Graduate Idea Forum

Elementary Science Education

First Friday Faculty Lunches Risk Taking in Academia Seeing through Different Eyes

Symposium in Math and Science Education SENCER Symposium
Science in Society Fellow: Joanna Underwood



Send in your suggestions

Work is continuing on the Center for Science in Society pages, to make them interesting, useful, and dynamic. Feel free to email me with any suggestions on what you'd like to see here. -- Liz McCormack, Center for Science in Society