New NSF-Supported Effort to Study Successful STEM Networks
Posted: Nov 21 2012
The National Science Foundation has funded the University of Southern California, under the leadership of higher education change and reform expert, Dr. Adrianna Kezar, to examine ways to spread STEM education reform through the use of networks.

Scientific Freedom and Human Rights: Existing Battlegrounds
Posted: Nov 8 2012
Scientific freedom is vital to the development of a robust and productive scientific community. Without the freedom to engage in scientific inquiry, scientists cannot innovate, collaborate, disseminate their work and participate in the scientific process.

Staff Reflection: Greening Education
Posted: Nov 7 2012
As part of a staff reflection series, we'd like to share a resource that has been brought to our attention and we hope is interesting to you. We also invite you to share resources with us that you have found to be beneficial and interesting as a student or an educator so we can pass them along to the rest of our community.

SENCER Alumni Work Published in New Book
Posted: Nov 7 2012
The work of Dr. Gwen Cohen Brown and Dr. Laina Karthikeyan is featured in the recently published Cases on Interdisciplinary Research Trends in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Studies on Urban Classrooms.

Campus Initiative Report: Building Faculty Development Experiences that Matter
Posted: Nov 7 2012
The Innovative Course-building Group, which sprouted from a SENCER sub-award in 2006, is a "grass-roots social network for learning that supports teaching faculty and staff across disciplines in their pursuit of transformative professional development" at Georgia College.

SENCER Presentation Featured at HACU Meeting
Posted: Oct 24 2012
The workshop, titled "Making Science Education Real, Relevant and Effective: A Leadership Imperative," was led by TomÃs Morales, president of California State University San Bernardino; David Ferguson, Distinguished Service Professor of Technology and Society and Applied Mathematics and Statistics; David Burns, SENCER PI; and Danielle Kraus Tarka, SENCER associate director.

Science and Human Rights: Making the Connection
Posted: Oct 24 2012
To the uninitiated, science and human rights have little to do with one another. Yet, there are multiple connections between science and human rights and only through understanding the relationship between them can the benefits of bringing science and human rights together be fully realized.

National Center for Science and Civic Engagement to Resume Making NSF Implementation Sub-Awards
Posted: Oct 24 2012
Awards will be made to support outreach to new institutions, course and program development and improvement, campus-based faculty development initiatives, and/or research that will culminate in the creation of materials, presentations, or publications.

CLAS Conference to Feature Burns and Parravano as Speakers
Posted: Oct 11 2012
The first annual STEM Curriculum, Learning, and Assessment Studies conference (CLAS) will be hosted by the New Jersey Institute of Technology on October 17th.

Freedom and Engineering For All
Posted: Oct 11 2012
The September issue of Mechanical Engineering magazine featured an article, "Freedom and Engineering For All," that considers the implications for engineering concerning international standards for human rights, specifically those laid out by the United Nations General Assembly.

Save the date: SENCER Midatlantic Center for Innovation Regional Conference Bringing SENCER to SEBS
Posted: Oct 11 2012
The Fall Conference for the MidAtlantic SCI will be on November 16, at Rutgers University on the Cook Campus, the location of the School for Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS).

Great Lakes Healing Our Waters Conference Features GLISTEN Undergraduate Stewardship Liaison Panel
Posted: Sep 26 2012
The Healing Our Waters conference in Cleveland, Ohio from September 11 â 13 brought together representatives of US and Canadian state, provincial, and local governments, for-profit and non-profit organizations, and colleges and universities engaged in restoration and stewardship of the Great Lakes.

New Environmental Protection Agency Grant Will Support "STEM Mastery Through Great Lakes Stewardship"
Posted: Sep 26 2012
We are pleased to announce that the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement has received an environmental education grant of $150,000 from Region V of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a project entitled "STEM Mastery Through Great Lakes Stewardship."

Invitation to Submit a Manuscript to the Winter 2013 Issue of Science Education and Civic Engagement: An International Journal
Posted: Sep 26 2012
We invite submission of manuscripts for publication in the Winter 2013 issue of Science Education and Civic Engagement: An International Journal. The deadline for submission is Monday, October 1, 2012.

New England Regional Meeting Planned for Oct. 27 in Boston
Posted: Sep 14 2012
Are you interested in bringing science education out of the classroom and into the community? Then join us!

Midwest Symposium on Sustainability, Quantitative Reasoning, and the Liberal Arts
Posted: Sep 14 2012
SENCER's Midwest Center for Innovation and Beloit College are pleased to sponsor the 2012 Midwest Regional SENCER symposium.

Upcoming CCAS Conference to Feature SENCER Workshop
Posted: Sep 12 2012
This fall, leaders in the SENCER community will offer a workshop at the annual meeting for the Council of Colleges for Arts and Sciences (CCAS) entitled "Removing the Thorns from STEM: A Dean's Guide to Improving STEM Learning and Promoting Civic Engagement."

Leadership Fellows Applications Invited, Next Deadline Oct. 15
Posted: Sep 12 2012
The SENCER Leadership Fellows program recognizes members of the SENCER community interested in taking on more advanced involvement through formal roles in the project.

McGuire's Work to Improve Learning Highlighted by Rutgers
Posted: Sep 12 2012
Terry McGuire, professor of genetics and longtime leader in the SENCER community, is the focus of a piece discussing his work in helping students connect their learning to social issues.

See SENCER in Action at Indiana State University
Posted: Sep 12 2012
Faculty, staff, and students from Indiana State University have been involved with SENCER for several years and have been incredibly impressive in the ways they have applied the approach to the curriculum and across the campus.