[Ssnet_list] Presentation: Bruce Lewenstein on "Imagination in Science", April 10th, 9:30am, Miller 320

[Philip Bell]

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Phil
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PHILIP BELL
associate professor of the learning sciences
university of washington
312 miller hall, box 353600
seattle, washington 98195
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The UW Institute for Science and Mathematics Education and the
COSEE-Ocean Learning Communities Center Presents:

Bruce Lewenstein

Professor of Science Communication

Cornell University

“Imagination in Science: Two Books and a Movie"

Friday, April 10, 2009

9:30 am – 11:00 am in Miller 320

What does the public understand about science?  The image of science  
is often one of analytical remove, of "cold, hard facts."  In many  
ways, scientists and engineers encourage this image, as it highlights  
the rigor in science, the banning of individual emotion from the  
drawing of conclusions.  Yet at the same time, scientists and  
engineers struggle with the role of "imagination" in science,  
regularly acknowledging the creative power of imagination in designing  
experiments, interpreting results, and developing theories.  How has  
this tension been portrayed to the public?  This talk will look at the  
work of three classic popularizers -- Jacques Cousteau, Jacob  
Bronowski, and Carl Sagan – to explore the variety of how imagination  
in science has been presented to the public.

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Bruce V. Lewenstein is Professor of Science Communication in the  
Departments of Communication and of Science & Technology Studies at  
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. He works primarily on the  
history of public communication of science, with excursions into other  
areas of science communication (such as emerging issues in open-access  
publishing). He has also been very active in international activities  
that contribute to education and research on public communication of  
science and technology, especially in the developing world. He was co- 
chair of a National Research Council study, Learning Science in  
Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits, edited by Philip  
Bell, Bruce Lewenstein, Andrew W. Shouse, and Michael A. Feder (2009).

He is co-author of  Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Michael M. Sokal, and  
Bruce V. Lewenstein, The Establishment of American Science: 150 Years  
of the AAAS (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1999), editor of When Science Meets  
the Public (Washington, DC: AAAS, 1992), and co-editor of David  
Chittenden, Graham Farmelo, and Bruce V. Lewenstein, eds., Creating  
Connections: Museums and the Public Understanding of Research (Walnut  
Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2004).  From 1998 to 2003, he was editor of  
the journal Public Understanding of Science.  He is a Fellow of the  
American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2010 will  
be chair of the AAAS’s Section on Societal Implications of Science and  
Technology.

For more information on Dr. Lewenstein, please visit his website: http://www.people.cornell.edu/ 
  pages/bvl1

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The Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at the University  
of Washington is working to advance the role and strengthen the  
overall effectiveness of mathematics and science education from early  
childhood through graduate education (P-20) at the University, within  
the state of Washington, and across the nation with a particular  
emphasis on broadening participation of individuals from traditionally  
underserved communities. The Institute brings the strengths of the UW  
community to mathematics and science education by crafting strong  
programmatic solutions, by creating new and substantive partnerships,  
and by generating new knowledge through active research partnerships.

COSEE-Ocean Learning Communities (http://www.coseeolc.net/) is a  
National Science Foundation funded partnership among the University of  
Washington College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences, UW College of  
Education and the Seattle Aquarium. COSEE-OLC cultivates and studies  
Ocean Learning Communities, interdisciplinary collaborations through  
which current ocean research is used to increase ocean literacy,  
helping citizens become better stewards of their marine environment.


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