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In this article, Pete Conroy, Curator of Natural History at the Anniston Museum of Natural History (Anniston, AL), summarizes an article written by George Weiner (Supervisory Exhibits Editor at the...
DATE: January 1st, 1986
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In this paper, Glen Kaye of the National Park Service, Southwest Region, discusses advice on planning, researching, writing, designing and installing effective labels....
DATE: January 1st, 1994
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We've created a selection of useful products to help members of NISE Network promote the network within their own institution or with potential collaborators. These materials are updated regularly....
DATE: January 1st, 2005
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In this article, Alan J. Friedman, Director of the New York Hall of Science, analyzes why museums don't participate in formal evaluation and looks to science and technology centers for...
DATE: May 1st, 1996
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Parents committed to bringing their children to zoos ascribed the value of the visits to promoting altruism to prepare their children for future social encounters; transferring their own environmental values;...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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As a form of public engagement, science festivals have rapidly expanded in size and number over recent years. However, as with other domains of informal public engagement that are not...
DATE: October 31st, 2012
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"We can only appeal to society, considering that governments and parties have fallen constantly short of expectations since the late eighties. The public must know that without research there is...
DATE: June 21st, 2002
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Why should we care about science books? After all, we live in a "new media" world where students, researchers, and the public use the World Wide Web for all their...
DATE: March 21st, 2007
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This article summarizes key findings of the American Association of University Women (AAUW)'s research report, "Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics" (2010). The report profiles research...
DATE: April 14th, 2011
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Women have made tremendous progress in education and the workplace during the past 50 years. Even in historically male fields such as business, law, and medicine, women have made impressive...
DATE: January 1st, 2010
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In an information free-for-all why should scientists bother to add their voice? In this commentary piece I argue there is an increasingly important role for scientists amongst the growing ranks...
DATE: March 28th, 2017
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Research indicates that young children, unlike adults, have a generalized tendency to view not only artifacts but also living and nonliving natural phenomena as existing for a purpose. To further...
DATE: January 1st, 2005
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In this article, Cliff Abrams, principal of Abrams Associates Design, LLC, shares his frustrating experience with the RFP process. Abrams argues for much simpler, more honest approach.
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DATE: January 1st, 2007
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Since 2005, the IMLS Office of Museum Services has funded research projects under the auspices of the National Leadership Grant program. These grants support projects that âraise the barâ in...
DATE: February 24th, 2009
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Federal support for museums through the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is based on the premise that museums are valuable community organizations providing rich opportunities for learning and...
DATE: November 19th, 2008
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To find out if zoos and aquariums successfully promote conservation, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) formed strategic partnerships and undertook a three-year, nationwide study of the impacts of...
DATE: May 4th, 2007
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During 2007, the Exhibits Department conducted a summative evaluation of Wild About Otters to document visitors' interest in and their responses to this temporary exhibition. This study was conducted in...
DATE: May 24th, 2013
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Morehead Planetarium and Science Center has just started working on WILD BLUE: Using Fulldome Technology to Illustrate Aeronautics Principles, targeting school audiences from grades 3-8 as part NASA's CP4SMP+ program....
DATES: September 30th, 2012 - September 29th, 2016
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We use the acronym WILD to refer to Wireless Interactive Learning Devices. WILD are powerful and small handheld networked computing devices. The smallest handheld computers fit in one hand easily....
DATE: January 1st, 2006
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The New York Hall of Science, the Institute for Learning Innovation, Hunter College of the City University of New York, and a consortium of five regional science center/zoo partnerships will...
DATES: September 1st, 2009 - August 31st, 2013
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Professionals from the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI), New Knowledge Organization, and faculty from Hunter College developed Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think (WM) as a traveling exhibition with...
DATE: September 1st, 2012
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In this article, Wendy Pollock, ASTC's Director of Research, Publications, and Exhibitions, and J. Shipley Newlin, Program Director for Physical Sciences at the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM), discuss "Wild...
DATE: August 3rd, 2007
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Miami University - Ohio/Project Dragonfly is developing "Wild Research," a multi-faceted collaborative project with the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden and with a consortium of ten zoos and aquariums around...
DATES: October 1st, 2006 - August 21st, 2007
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Presentation on NSF grant DRL-0610409 (Wild Research: A Whole-Zoo Exhibit and Inquiry Program) presented at the CAISE Convening on Sustainability Science and Informal Science Education, February 6th, 2012....
DATE: February 6th, 2012
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In 2007 Miami University, in partnership with the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden (Zoo) and the Institute for Learning Innovation (ILI), received a National Science Foundation Grant to develop, create,...
DATE: December 1st, 2011
