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Education and Outreach

  • In collaboration with MSU undergraduates and R. S. Chivukula, EHS has developed a set of outreach materials for use with K-12 students, teachers, and the general public.
  • EHS participates in the annual Lyman Briggs College outreach event, Spartan Science Day, described in this talk on student-led outreach.
  • EHS was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Summer Science Program, Inc. in 2006.
  • EHS became a member of the National Advisory Board of the QuarkNet project in 2005.
  • Workshop on Education and Outreach at the Aspen Center for Physics.  EHS co-organized a 2-week workshop for physicists and educators in July 2004.  The web site is here.
  • Women in Science: EHS founded the Pathways Program for high-school girls in 1994.   Here are a few of the articles published about Pathways in Boston University Today, the Daily Free Press, and the BU Bridge.
  • Snowmass 2001 Educational Outreach:  EHS organized a 3-week program of educational outreach for K-12 students & teachers and for the general public in conjunction with the Summer Study on the Future of Particle Physics.   More information is available through the web pages (click on Education & Outreach) and the transparencies & streaming video of her  July 2001 presentation about the program before the High-Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) to the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy.
  • Boston University's ATLAS Education Web page.
Photos from June 2004 visit to  LBS Tropical Biodiversity study-abroad program in Panama (credit: G. Urquhart).
These are from a night-time outing to a pond in the Canal Zone.