Lauren will be presenting a workshop at the Massachusetts Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance spring conference at Endicott College (rescheduled for 3/21 due to snow). Lauren is looking forward to meeting with health teachers from across Massachusetts!
pgEd is looking forward to our fourth presentation for the AP Hinton Scholars, a program organized by the Educational Outreach Programs in the Office of Diversity, Inclusion & Community Partnership at Harvard Medical School. We'll be leading a workshop for high school students and teachers participating in the program, representing several Boston-area high schools.
pgEd will be presenting at the 2013 National Science Teachers Association National Conference in San Antonio, Texas. The theme of the upcoming conference is "Next Generation Science: Learning, Literacy, and Living." For those of you attending, come see pgEd on Saturday, April 13 from 9:30–10:30 AM at the Grand Hyatt San Antonio, Seguin A.
Ting will be summarizing the goals and strategies of pgEd as well as announce Map-Ed as part of her presentation at the Seventh e.g. Conference. The focus of this year's EG will be Everything is Learning – and Learning is Everything.
Marnie will be one of four speakers at the 2013 Stanley N. Gershoff Symposium at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University in Boston, MA.
The 2013 GET Conference is bringing together people working at the frontiers of human biology to discuss the important ways in which new genomic technologies will affect all of our lives in the coming years and to debate their technical, commercial, and societal impacts. pgEd's Marnie Gelbart has been invited to bring a spotlight on education and […]
GETeducated! For a second year, pgEd will be hosting the GETed meeting for accelerating genetics education to prepare our communities for the fast-approaching revolution in personal genetics. This year's meeting will focus on the theme of "Inclusion" and will be held at Harvard Medical School to follow the 2013 Genomes Environments Traits (GET) Conference, which is […]
Dana is looking forward to spending the day at Morse High School in Bath, Maine. Thank you to Amanda Nalls for the invitation - we will be talking about personal genetics and what is new on the horizon, and will also spend a little time debating the scientific and social issues related to genetic […]
pgEd will be presenting at the First Annual Conference on the Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics. This meeting will take place at Arizona State University and will cover the intersection of the GRINN technologies (genetics, robotics, information technology, nanotechnology, and neuroscience) with issues of regulation, governance, law, policy, society, and ethics.
pgEd will be traveling to Washington D.C. to attend the gala celebrating the opening of the Smithsonian's new exhibit, Genome: Unlocking Life's Code. This exhibit will open to the public on June 14, 2013 and will be shown at the National Museum of Natural History through September 1, 2014. The exhibit will then travel around […]