Events of NM EPSCoR Partners
WATER & ENERGY IN NM: CONVERSATIONS ON OUR COMMON FUTURE
WHEN: Most Wednesdays from Sept 2nd to Nov 11th • noon-1pm (except as noted)
WHERE: Pearl Hall (Stanford & Central, across from Frontier) • Room P133, lower level
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Overview:
- Designed for 5th-8th grade teachers
- Place-based science for mountain schools near
Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Los Alamos
Content:
- Interaction of people, water, trees, and fire in
Southwestern ecosystems - Basic climate science
- Simple data collection techniques for students
Included:
Celebrate New Mexico women in STEM on Saturday, August 1st at 3PM at the UNM Domenici Building, room 3010 to celebrate with 17 top New Mexican women who have been selected to highlight a 16 month calendar. The calendars will be distributed to classrooms throughout the state. It will serve a dual purpose, with each feature page including the woman's accomplishments and stories that can also be used as a tear-off promotional poster to encourage young women to make STEM choices for education and careers.
Adult Night debuted at Explora in November 2004, and has grown into an evening popular with college students, young professionals, parents and grandparents on their night off from the kids, meet-up and singles groups, folks on date night, active retirement groups, and more.
Dr. Jennifer Raymond, Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Associate Dean of the Office of Diversity and Leadership at Stanford University's School of Medicine, will discuss the neuroscience underlying unconscious bias, how and why such biases are formed, how they affect your behavior and what can you can do to counter them. This event is co-sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute.
Creative Startups will be hosting several information sessions this month, both online and in-person, to discuss the 2015 Creative-Startups Accelerator opportunity. Register now to meet with the Creative Startups team and past participants to ask your questions about the program and applications. Here are the online info sessions:
Online:
Creative Startups will be hosting several information sessions this month, both online and in-person, to discuss the 2015 Creative-Startups Accelerator opportunity. Register now to meet with the Creative Startups team and past participants to ask your questions about the program and applications. Here are the in-person dates:
In Person:
Provenance and DataONE: Facilitating Reproducible Science
Bertram Ludäscher, Chris Jones, Lauren Walker
Hear the story of the state’s fossils from an expert on fossil mammals from the last 35 million years, Curator of Paleontology Gary Morgan, and learn what they can tell us about New Mexico’s past.
With support from the Google CS4HS program, Santa Fe Institute’s Project GUTS: Growing Up Thinking Scientifically is offering a free online course that provides eight weeks of free online instruction to educators who are interested in embedding computer science within regular school day science classes through the integration of computer modeling and simulation.