October 2020
ONLINE – WHUT Preview and Panel Discussion of ‘Finding your Roots’
WHUT - Howard University Television is organizing a free community season preview of "Finding your Roots". The screening will be followed by a panel discussion joined by Nadine.
Find out more »ONLINE – Boston Day & Evening Academy
Robin has been invited for an online conversation about the science and ethics of genome editing and CRISPR.
Find out more »ONLINE – Invited Speaker at HudsonAlpha Beacon
HudsonAlpha Beacon was started this year to "help educators find life science content from a distance". As part of this initiative, pgEd has been invited to host a 1-hour webinar to introduce teachers to our lesson materials on personal genetics in health, history, and society, by looking at our lesson: "Genetics, History, and the American Eugenics Movement" For other HudsonAlpha Beacon events as well as our webinar registration: click here.
Find out more »ONLINE – ASHG Career Day: How to Have Difficult Conversations
Nadine will be joining ASHG's 2020 Virtual Meeting as a panelist for the Professional Development Session "How to Have Difficult Conversations" during Career Day.
Find out more »November 2020
ONLINE – Virtual SciEd conference
Science educators funded by the NIH SEPA program have moved their annual meeting online, with sessions focuses on how our projects are navigating our work during the pandemic. Marnie will be facilitating a session on successes and challenges in providing professional development for teachers.
Find out more »ONLINE – PD for Pembroke Public Schools
pgEd will be meeting with teachers at Pembroke Public Schools to discuss pgEd's 'Introduction to Personal Genetics' lesson plan.
Find out more »December 2020
ONLINE – WQPT PBS The Gene Teacher Training
Nadine will be leading a virtual professional development workshop with science teachers in collaboration with WQPT PBS to share distance-learning-ready resources. Please click here to register for this event.
Find out more »ONLINE – The Learning Center for the Deaf (virtual course)
Marnie and Dana will be joining scientist Derek Braun and bioethicist Teresa Burke (both from Gallaudet University) to teach part of a course organized by Jeanne Reis and Rachel Boll, who run the Center for Research and Training at The Learning Center for the Deaf (TLC-CRT). Derek, Teresa, Dana, and Marnie will be presenting a two-week session on genetics, eugenics, and the Deaf community, as part of TLC-CRT's 10-week course on "Activism: Engagement and Resistance" for middle- and high-school students who…
Find out more »ONLINE – Meeting the Moment: How can scientists contribute to a broad conversation on genetics and society?
This is the launch event of our partnership with the Genetics Society of America to build public dialogue about genetic technologies. Please click here to learn more about this project and to register for this event.
Find out more »ONLINE – The Learning Center for the Deaf (virtual course)
Marnie and Dana will be joining scientist Derek Braun and bioethicist Teresa Burke (both from Gallaudet University) to teach part of a course organized by Jeanne Reis and Rachel Boll, who run the Center for Research and Training at The Learning Center for the Deaf (TLC-CRT). Derek, Teresa, Dana, and Marnie will be presenting a two-week session on genetics, eugenics, and the Deaf community, as part of TLC-CRT's 10-week course on "Activism: Engagement and Resistance" for middle- and high-school students who…
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