The target audience is primarily faculty from undergraduate institutions as well as conservators and forensic, biomedical, and public health scientists with significant educational responsibilities. Approximately 36 workshops will be held at the consortium institutions in the three-year period. The first, taking place in May or June 2001, will most likely be on Laser Technology and Forensic Science. The National Microscale Chemistry Center, located at Merrimack College in North Andover, MA, will offer several hands-on workshops in spring, summer, and fall 2001. Workshops for elementary school teachers assume no science background.
Early registration is advised.
Interdisciplinary Conference on Visual Communication MIT will host the conference Image and MeaningEnvisioning and Communicating Science and Technology June 13-16, 2001. The conference will promote new collaborations among scientists, imaging experts, and science writers. It will encourage new ways of thinking to visually communicate science within the research community and to the public. The chair of the conference is Felice Frankel. Funding and support of the conference have come from the National Science Foundation, Eastman Kodak Corp., American Chemical Society, The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., Polaroid Corp., Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Lynch Family Foundation, Research Corp., and the Museum of Science.