Opportunities and Resources
New book! SENCER Ambassador Sara Tolbert (University of Canterbury, NZ) has a new, edited volume out from Palgrave Macmillan: Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene Maria F. G. Wallace Jesse…
NCSCE AND SENCER LEADERS IN THE NATIONAL NEWS!
NCSCE Associate Director, Davida Smyth (Texas A&M-San Antonio), and her collaborator Monica Trujillo (Queensborough Community College-CUNY) are garnering national recognition for their groundbreaking wastewater research on SARS CoV-2 in New…
Liberal Art of Science — A New NSF Funded Initiative
NCSCE and SENCER is proud to host a collection of essays commissioned by James Collins (Arizona State University) and Gordon Uno (University of Oklahoma), who were funded by the National…
Submitting a recorded slide presentation or poster to NCSCE
Creating your Video Presentation Most presenters opt to do a recorded Slide Show Presentation: Recording a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation as a video is easy (in PPT the “record” function…
The SENCER Community Responds to COVID-19
Over twenty years ago the SENCER initiative was launched. The idea was simple, to use complex public problems as a curricular frame to teach rigorous science content, thus improving both…
New Role for Bob Franco and GOTV Efforts for STEM Students:
SENCER Senior Fellow Bob Franco, of Kapiolani Community College, has been named Campus Compact Senior Fellow for Sustainability and Resilience. He will be working to Support and expand the Community…
NCSCE Announces New Appointments and 2020 Bennett Award
At the “virtual” SENCER Summer Institute in August three new appointments to NCSCE leadership were announced. Davida S. Smyth, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences in the Department of Natural Sciences…
SENCER Models that Address Infectious Diseases and Epidemics
The COVID-19 pandemic is an example of the complex global civic challenge that SENCER approaches were developed to address. The foundational idea was that by using a real-world problem as…
Free, Open-Source Biology Career Series
According to National Geographic, species are alarmingly going extinct 1,000 times faster than previously recorded due to humans. With such a detrimental situation upon us, we must encourage individuals to…
Resources for Teaching On-Line
As campuses move to on-line instruction in response to COVID-19, generous colleagues have been passing along resources for teaching on-line and we will post them as the come in: