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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Science outreach"”.
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Graduate students' motivation to teach plant sciences to K-12 audiences
… informed by their beliefs and perceived value of science literacy outreach. Graduate training programs in academia integrate outreach teaching components to equip future scientists with a variety of communication skills, which may reflect either a transmission of knowledge to the learner or …
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Authentic Scientific Inquiry, Student Engagement, and Transformational Learning: Are They Related?
… Source (CLS). Canada’s synchrotron is a national science research facility that generates intense beams of x-ray and infra-red light to probe the structure and function of matter. The nature of the SotB program, involving high school students in authentic scientific inquiry, and observation of …
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Stress eating? Causes and consequences of variation in foraging behavior in a challenging world
… metrics. In Chapter 5, I describe a bird biology outreach program I developed while a graduate student at Cornell University, outlining how we adapted the program for virtual instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. I encourage others to explore similar outreach options to increase access to …
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Studies of protein folding on membranes and in crowded environments and bridging the research-teaching gap in K-12 science
This work deals with three important problems in membrane protein folding studies, namely the preparation and storage of homogeneous small unilamellar vesicles (SUV), the development of an algorithm for selecting soluble trans-membrane helices from known membrane proteins, and the characterization …
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Spatial confinement of metallodielectric eutectic alloys and related outreach curriculum studies
… optical applications and the second focused on outreach curriculum understanding for increased female engagement in STEM fields. Spatial Confinement of Metallodielectric Eutectic Alloys There is a large drive to develop new fabrication techniques for metamaterials; a subclass of materials with …