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  • Double Xpression: Darlene Cavalier of Science Cheerleader and SciStarter

    Darlene Cavalier (source) Darlene Cavalier (Twitter) is the hard-working and seemingly tireless founder of Science Cheerleader and SciStarter. She has held executive positions at Walt Disney Publishing and worked at Discover Magazine for more than 10 years. Darlene incorporated her experience and knowledge in serving as the prinicple investigator of a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to promote basic research th…

    Authored by on April 18, 2012

  • Don’t worry so much about being the right type of science role model

    …ned to answer this question but is much weaker in design so it’s difficult to say what it adds to the discussion. They used a similar design but with only the STEM role models, feminine and non-feminine (and only 42 students, 20% of whom didn’t receive part of the questionnaire due to an error). The only difference was instead of asking about students interest in studying math they tried to look at the combination of femininity and math success b…

    Authored by on May 30, 2012

  • Mariette DiChristina

    …om, Scientific American Mind  and all newsstand special editions. She is the eighth person and first female to assume the top post in Scientific American‘s 166-year history. Under her leadership, the magazine received a 2011 National Magazine Award for General Excellence. A science journalist for more than 20 years, she first came to  Scientific American  in 2001 as its executive editor. She is an advisor for the Citizen Science Alliance…

    Authored by on February 17, 2012

  • Double Xpression: Debbie Berebichez, PhD Physicist

    …m.  My femininity allows me to be a voice in a field that has tended to isolate themselves from the public, which is bad. Some of my colleagues have become a little snobbish.  The fact that I have serious credentials (PhD and 2 postdocs) shows that I had to work like crazy – looks and personality can only go so far.  It s hard work that gets you there! Serious science communication has a lot of math and problem solving in order to explain things…

    Authored by on June 2, 2012

  • Double Xpression: Karyn Traphagen, co-founder of ScienceOnline

    …llenbosch (South Africa). She has trained physics teachers through the University of Virginia’s Physics department and traveled to South Sudan to conduct professional development training for local teachers. She has more than 10 years of experience developing and teaching online courses. In addition to her science work, Karyn maintains a freelance graphic design studio. Her latest project was a work on Ancient Near Eastern royal inscriptions….

    Authored by on July 9, 2012

  • Double Xpression: Liz Neeley, Science Communicator Extraordinaire

    …taking a masters, and then going into the non-profit world.  At first, I mostly worked on coral conservation in Fiji and Papua New Guinea, and I did a big project on deep sea corals.  After I left grad school, I started a 20-hour per week internship at an NGO called SeaWeb .  Vikki Spruill, who was the founder and president, has killer instincts and a passion for women’s high fashion that I share. She had noticed coral jewelry coming down th…

    Authored by on June 11, 2012

  • How to find science near you

    …ion that may help you satisfy your science craving. The big one, Science Online, is an annual meeting in North Carolina of scientists, science educators, science communicators, and science enthusiasts. The next meeting (in 2013 as of the writing of this post) has a planning wiki up, and a Twitter account. Science Online has spawned several local science online groups. According to the Science Online Now site, NYC, Seattle, Vancouver, and the…

    Authored by on May 28, 2012

  • Two Science Online 2012 sessions for your consideration

    Tomorrow, I head for North Carolina to attend Science Online 2012. I attended last year as an  an information sponge  and  observer who knew no one and experienced some  highlights and lowlights . This year, I’m attending as a participant and as a moderator of two sessions. The first session, on Thursday afternoon, is with  Deborah Blum , and we’ll be leading a discussion about how and when to include basic science in health and me…

    Authored by on January 17, 2012

  • Planning a science fair project? First, understand their purpose

     Yeoman 1st Class Nicole Oliver, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), asks a student to explain her science project during a science fair at Campostella Elementary School. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joey Morgon/Released) Science fairs. Home of propped up tri-form posterboard and awkwardly placed cutout letters, all announcing scientific breakthroughs that have–let’…

    Authored by on November 22, 2011

  • Double Xpressions: Jennifer Canale, the self-proclaimed "Flamboyant Scientist"

    …Girl Scouts, I was sent to dance school (but, much to my amazement, I enjoyed that until I was 17).  My parents started giving in around 3rdgrade, and I got the panda bear-shaped calculator I wanted, as well as the robot toy 2XL featuring the 8-track tape. My mom would beg me to watch Little House On the Prairie, but I preferred Star Trek (the original Kirk version), Lost in Space (Danger Will Robinson), and Land of the Lost. Of course this was…

    Authored by on November 30, 2012

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