2009 designated "Year of Science"

[Michaelangelica]

Year of Science 2009 activities will include

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* A national year-long celebration of science to engage the public in science and improve public understanding about the nature and processes of science.

 

* Integration of efforts with the Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS; http://www.copusproject.org), a grassroots effort linking universities, scientific societies, science advocacy groups, science media, science educators, businesses, and industry in a peer network having as its goal a greater public understanding of the nature of science and its value to society.

 

* Creation of a Year of Science 2009 Web site and resource center to coordinate and promote 2009 activities. The Web site will include suggested activities and kits, a searchable database of events, an interactive map of events, a blog, a press room, and links to content in the Understanding Science Web site currently under development at Understanding Science.

 

* Opportunities to mark 2009 as the anniversary of seminal events in the history of science: the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin

and of Abraham Lincoln, founder of the National Academy of Sciences, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.

 

* Collaborations with communications experts on framing scientific communications to promote understanding

by the general public and by particular public constituencies.

 

* Summary reports, other deliverables, and follow-up plans after the end of 2009; opportunities to continue collaborating on public understanding of science projects through the COPUS network

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[Queso]

I love how visually evident evolution is in our generation.