Dana is headed to Hiram, Maine, to spend the day with biology and history students at Sacopee Valley High School. She is going to tackle a number of issues related to personal genetics - informed consent, patient participation, ancestry and is looking forward to visiting with a history class as well. Several of pgEd's lesson […]
Dana is going to visit with Mrs. Dumont and her students once again, now that they are at a point in their curriculum where they have really started to dig into biotechnology. Dana always looks forward to this visit - seeing familiar students in class, and hoping the staff sticks around to teach her kids […]
Marnie will be attending the Ask For Evidence USA launch hosted by the MIT Museum. The Ask For Evidence campaign in the US is being spearheaded by the Voice of Young Science (VoYS) USA program, which "encourages early career researchers to play an active role in public debates about science."
Lauren is looking forward to her visit with biology students at Urban Science Academy in West Roxbury, MA.
Ting will be speaking at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, MA in the session entitled Personal Genetics: An Intersection between Science, Society, and Policy. Ting's session will run from 8:30 AM-11:30 AM in Hynes Convention Center Room 203.
Ting has been invited to speak at the annual Anthenaeum Luncheon at the Claremont Colleges.
Ting will be at Roosevelt Senior High School in Los Angeles, leading workshops with high school students on personal genetics.
Dana will be giving a school-wide talk to the students at John Bapst in Bangor, Maine. The talk will be a broad introduction to some of the big ideas in personal genetics, and we are hoping to do some question-and-answer as well! This invite came about as a result of the teaching Dana did at […]
pgEd has been invited to the Netherlands for an international workshop on genetics education entitled "Genetics Education for the 21st Century" organized by the Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at the Utrecht University. This conference will bring together educational researchers, teacher trainers, teachers and developers from Australia, USA, UK, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, France and […]