User talk:Nkuldell:COPUS

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Established communities who might "rally around" COPUS and/or YoS2009

• Educational: MIT, HMS, Wellesley
• Scientific Societies: IBE, ASM, AAAS
• Educators: MC at Davidson, SM at BU, PoETs, TaC, STS, Office of Faculty Support
• Advocacy groups:BioBricks
• Media: MoS, BUR, OWW, MIT Museum
• Industry: Codon, MathWorks

activities

from Judy: One of the things that we will be doing on the website is providing an events tool kit that will help organizations and institutions to get started on particular kinds of activities. The database (which will be up and running within the next 6-8 weeks) will also allow folks to search for activity type and find best practices to emulate. Europe has been having such celebrations for some time now and one of the things that I particular like about their approach is that they bring science to the people - shopping malls, etc. So feel free to think outside the box a bit and partnering with some of the informal folk in your area will, I am sure spark a few new ideas. Have you set up any kind of Cafe Scientifique ( http://www.cafescientifique.org/)? We are doing this now at Berkeley and it is great fun.

Contacts

• TR at IBE 02.25.07
  • will put it on the agenda for IBE’s executive committee teleconference week of 03/03, and anticipate a positive response. IBE is a small (especially financially) organization, but this effort is very consistent with its vision.
• PE at Office of Fac Support 02.26.07
  • Dr. John Durant (Director of the MIT Museum/STS?): a proposal from him last year (co-authored by the Public Service Center and Jim Paradis) for support of a "Cambridge Science Festival". Also has had experience running big science festival events in the UK and is interested in MIT doing more such things.
  • Sally Susnowitz, who heads up the Public Service Center.
  • Professor Kim Vandiver (Mech Eng and director of the Office of Experiential Learning)