• Please check out the short talks from the recent Plant Science Outreach Symposium hosted by the North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee (NAASC), at University of California, Davis.
• Of special interest to graduate students and postdocs in particular- Let the real you shine: programs to enhance diversity and inclusion in graduate education (by Ying Sun, Grad student at Stanford)
• The accompanying 2-day workshop, “Broadening the Impact of Plant Science Through Community-Based Innovation, Evaluation and Sharing of Outreach Programs” was supported by NSF* Award #1518280 to PI Siobhan Brady/Co-PI Joanna Friesner

 

 

Seeds Of Change: Using Plants to Broaden the Impact of Science in Society Symposium hosted at UC Davis, 2018 11 07

 

Presentations collectively posted at: https://www.araport.org/community/group/naasc

 

And individually at the NAASC YouTube Channel 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0a5NlGdsj8CgW5_696hX7w

 

Jose Dinneny, Stanford University: Innovative, Inclusive, and Integrative Plant Science Outreach

https://youtu.be/iZWNBNBwY0c

 

Mary Wildermuth, University of California, Berkeley: Developing the next generation of diverse scientists: Be A Scientist program as a model for University-public school partnerships

https://youtu.be/sArxflvTg3U

 

Rick Amasino, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Rapid-cycling Brassica rapa as an educational model plant

https://youtu.be/PHtb7OzGG2s

 

Ying Sun, Stanford University: Let the real you shine: programs to enhance diversity and inclusion in graduate education

https://youtu.be/kLJJM25a3D4

 

Alexandra Schnoes, iBiology: Democratizing science education

https://youtu.be/xgx-9UI5rNc

 

Roger Hangarter, Indiana University: Improving Science Literacy Through Art 

https://youtu.be/srSdb3LVk3s

 

Liz Haswell, Washington University in St. Louis: Podcasting for community-building and community-broadening

https://youtu.be/4ubgD-YZe5c

 

 

*The material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. #1518280. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this event, or in resulting work, are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

 

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North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee (NAASC)