Global Change Reaches Middle School
April 2010
“How do you communicate with the general public?” asks Sucharita Gopal, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of geography and environment and principal investigator for a grant funding graduate student work in neighboring middle schools. “That’s the hardest part of science.”
Reaching out to Teach
Summer 2008
On the path to science. They had listened to a lecture on the scientific method and had learned a little about the genetics of behavior and how phonemes work. They’d each joined a team with a molecular technician and a principal investigator for their experiments.
Renewable Imagination
March 2008
“Many elementary school teachers don’t have the background or training in the sciences to build the self-confidence necessary to be exploratory teachers in the classroom,” says Bennett Goldberg, a College of Arts and Sciences physics professor and department chair. And, he says, it is exploration rather than textbook explanations that engages…
Welcome to Tech Towers (No Boys Allowed)
July 2007
At her summer job in New Jersey’s Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Heather Barrett (CAS’08, GRS’08) sees plenty of flora and fauna — from endangered turtles that need monitoring and ducks to bait for banding to raccoons awaiting traps and invasive plants requiring removal. But Barrett says that what she hasn’t seen much of, at least among her scientific co-workers, is other women.
Urban Fellow Project wins. $1.6M NSF Grant
November 2006
Most teachers frown on projectiles flying around their classrooms, but Jon Celli actually encouraged physics students at Newton South High School to shoot marbles out of a makeshift spring-loaded cannon. “They got a big kick out of calculating where the marble would land based on the angle of the cannon and the laws of physics,” he says.
BU’s Learning Resource Network Gives High Schoolers a Glimpse of Higher Education
January 1999
The math- and science-oriented activities coordinated by BU’s Learning Resource Network bring several thousand gifted junior high and high school students to the University every year. By exposing so many college-bound scholars to the BU campus and faculty,…