Visions and Voices:
Educational Leadership in the Research Center Environment

A workshop of the National Science Foundation Research Center Educators Network (NRCEN), in support of the educational activities of Science and Technology Centers (STC's), Engineering Research Centers (ERC's), and Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC's).

October 26-28, 2002
Santa Cruz, California

Agenda, Workshop Details

Presentations

Early Challenges Session Presentations:

• Science and Technology Centers: Education and Human Resources Development, Dragana Brzakovic, NSF Office of Integrative Activities

• Strategic Planning at the Center for Adaptive Optics, Lisa Hunter, Center for Adaptive Optics

• Partnerships, David Haase, The Center for Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes

• Diversity in Science: What Can Centers Do?, Pat Marstellar, The Center for Behavioral Neuroscience

Center for Adaptive Optics Education Open House Presentation:

• Panel Presentation, Lisa Hunter: CfAO, Barry Kluger-Bell: Exploratorium, Lynne Raschke: UCSC, Ann Metevier: UCSC, Seth Hornstein: UCLA, Jason Porter: University of Rochester

Keynote Presentation:

• What Does it Mean to Integrate Research and Education and Why is it so Important?, Judith Ramaley, Assistant Director, Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation

Workshop Presentations:

• Education in a Research Context, Peter Bruns, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

• Challenges in Diversifying our Graduate Students and Faculty, David Burgess, Boston College

• How to Make Research Discoveries Approachable, Carl Batt, Nanobiotechnology Center, Cornell University

• Integrating Nano into PreK-12 Education, Anna Waldron, Nanobiotechnology Center, Cornell University

• RET and REU Programs: Impact on Teachers and Students, Jay Dubner and Alison Biuso, Columbia University

• Education, Human Resources, and Outreach, Christine Morrow, Colorado University

• Science Education Reform: Pipelines, Partnerships and Pathways, Pat Marstellar, The Center for Behavioral Neuroscience

• NSF STC for Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes (CERSP), Mary Louise Bellamy, The Science House

• NSF Research Centers: An Opportunity for Catalyzing Change in Doctoral Education, Lisa Hunter, Center for Adaptive Optics

• Determining Educators' Needs in Secondary Science Educations, Rachel Zimmerman and Robert de Groot, California Institute of Technology

Workshop Chair: Lisa Hunter, Associate Director for Education and Human Resources, Center for Adaptive Optics, (831) 459-2416, hunter@ucolick.org.

Funding for this workshop has been provided by the National Science Foundation, as a Supplement to Cooperative Agreement No. AST-9876783.