{"id":562,"date":"2012-02-23T10:31:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T02:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cires.colorado.edu\/blogs\/mongolia\/?p=562"},"modified":"2014-06-05T21:26:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T21:26:12","slug":"aaas-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/mongolia\/2012\/02\/23\/aaas-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"AAAS Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u041c\u043e\u043d\u0433\u043e\u043b X\u044d\u043b<\/a> (Thanks to Oyu Choijamts for the translation!)<\/p>\n

I had the wonderful opportunity to go to the annual AAAS meeting<\/a> held in Vancouver this past week, and man, I’m so glad I did! Here’s a quick wrap-up of some highlights and also links to some of the materials I generated for my visit.<\/p>\n

(1) Carl Wieman’s plenary address on changing undergraduate science education was spectacular. It described a specific methodology that has shown factors of two to three improvement in retention and mastery rates of science objectives in the classroom.<\/p>\n

* Here is a summary of the talk<\/a>.
\n* Here are the slides<\/a><\/span> (with lots of references – pdf)
\n* And a study<\/a> he was involved with and was published last year in Science<\/a><\/em><\/span> that took a veteran teacher and a newbie, gave them the same class size and time, had them devise the same assessments for course mastery, and then just had the veteran teacher teach in a traditional lecture style and and the newbie teach using methods\u00a0based on research in cognitive psychology and physics education. The new methodology blew the traditional lecture out of the water.<\/p>\n

(2) A new science & society fellowship available to soon-to-be and recent science PhD grads through a program called Emerging Leaders in Science and Society. More information is forthcoming, but you can get the gist of the fellowship here<\/a>!\u00a0Speaking of such opportunities, I’ve updated the “Public Service and Your PhD<\/a>”\u00a0post on my home blog several times since it was posted a few months ago, so check it out (and let me know if you have suggestions for additions!)!<\/p>\n

(3) Here’s the poster I presented at AAAS: Science Communication on a Shoestring: Some Simple (and Cheap) Ways for an Individual To Expand Science Communication in a Developing Nation<\/a>”\u00a0(pdf)<\/p>\n

(4) Since I was in the neighborhood, I got a lovely invitation to give a talk in the Mongolia Lecture Series<\/a> at the\u00a0Program on Inner Asia\u00a0Institute of Asian Research<\/a> at the University of British Columbia<\/a>. This opportunity gave me the chance to connect with other researchers whose topics overlap with Mongolia, which was great. Here’s a copy of my presentation: “Clearing the air: The story of the pollution crisis in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia<\/a>” (pptx).<\/p>\n

Lastly, a big thanks to the Joshua E. Neimark Memorial Travel Assistance Award<\/a> for allowing me to participate in this conference.<\/p>\n

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