Yaela will give a talk about “Science from the bottom up: Action research for promoting public engagement with science” at the conference entitled “Action Research: Participation, Public Sphere and Communities” at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion, on November 29th, 2016.

The Biologists’ Talk (Siyaẖ Biologim), an annual professional development seminar for high school biology teachers, will take place on Tuesday, December 27th, 2016, at 9:30 A.M., in the auditorium of the Faculty of Science and Technology Education at the Technion. This year, the seminar will be organized by Aviv, just like last year.

Ayelet and Bruce Lewenstein (Cornell University) have a chapter about assessment in the newly published book, Science and Technology Education and Communication: Seeking Synergy (Sense Publishers). Hooray!

Check out the wonderful coverage of the CERN social media study (in Hebrew) by Amitai Ziv in a special edition of TheMarker earlier this month.

This story was published in the Yom Kippur Eve special issue about inspiring scientific studies.

Here’s a PDF version of the story as it appeared in print.

Check out Rony and Ayelet’s new blog post about how scientists tell (their) stories on the Public Understanding of Science blog.

Our study about public engagement with particle physics on CERN’s social media platforms has been covered on the Technion website, on the Times of Israel (in English) and on nrg, News1 and Zman Tsafon Sharon (in Hebrew)!

Check out this coverage of Yaela’s Ph.D. project and related air quality research on the Zavit website, in a story entitled “There’s Something in the Air” (in Hebrew).

Sophie gave this fascinating interview to Ynet, published a few days ago (in Hebrew). Here’s a key quote:

Q: What message do you want to convey to parents who discover that their child has a hearing impairment?
A: “The top message I want to convey is a sentence I once ran into: Behind children who believe in themselves, there are parents who believed in them first.”