Bennett Awardees Selected
The William E. Bennett Award for Extraordinary Contributions to Citizen Science is given annually to a person, team or institution whose SENCER and other related activities have made exemplary and…
NCSCE Funds Nineteen Projects with Post-Institute Implementation Awards
The National Center for Science and Civic Engagement will support course redesign and creation, faculty development activities, and assessment projects with SSI 2010 Post-Institute Implementation Awards. Teams from two-year and…
Butler University Accepts Bennett Award at Washington Symposium
Joseph Kirsch, professor of chemistry at Butler University, accepted the William E. Bennett Award for Extraordinary Contributions to Citizen Science on behalf of his team members on April 20th during…
NCSCE Awards 20 Grants to Improve Learning, Faculty Development
NCSCE has granted twenty SSI 2009 Post-Institute Implementation Awards to support projects in course design, faculty development, institutional partnerships, and degree program development. Teams that attended SSI 2009 were eligible…
Award Established in Honor of Bennett
The William E. Bennett Award for Extraordinary Contributions to Citizen Science was established by the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement and named in honor of its first recipient…
NCSCE Awards 20 Sub-Awards to Support Campus Programs
Following a competitive application process, twenty teams received SENCER/NSF Post-Institute Implementation Awards to create or revise courses and curricula, to develop partnerships, and to implement faculty development programs and workshops.…
NCSCE Funds Projects to Improve Teaching and Learning
NCSCE has funded a promising group of projects that emerged from discussions at the 2007 SENCER Summer Institute. Teams of 4-6 people who attended SSI 2007 were eligible to submit…
Three New SENCER Model Courses Address Sustainability, Resources, and the Local Environment
Three courses have been selected to join our SENCER Model Series this summer, bringing the total of our collection of examples of successful, effective methods to address issues of concern…
SENCER/NSF Awardees Plan New Courses, Faculty Development
Awardees of the SENCER/NSF sub-grants plan to infuse new methods into existing curricula and courses in some cases, to revise general education, or to bolster campus-based SENCER dissemination through faculty…
9 Steps to Designing a SENCER Model Course in About an Hour*
by Ellen Goldey, Associate Professor of Biology, Wofford College This exercise is to help teams imagine and design courses, learning communities (LCs), and/or other curricular programs that foster civic engagement…