nanoscience
neuroscience
science and society
computational science
materials science
Marian E. Koshland Biographical Memoir by Ruth Levy Guyer (National Academy of Sciences)
Interdisciplinary Programs
Research Opportunities &
Scholarships
Ongoing Outreach Programs
Computer Science Education Summer Institute, Haverford College: With funds from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant, and in collaboration with Bryn Mawr College, K-12 teachers are invited to participate in a week-long workshop. Activities include interactive presentations and lab experiences to provide a venue of discovery to learn about computers, information technology, networks, and various software applications, as well as discuss the implications of computing in the classroom.
Cascade Mentoring Program, Haverford College: Through a Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant, Philadelphia science high school teachers and high school students participate in an active research lab during the summer months. This program utilizes a "cascade mentoring" approach by creating a four-member team, consisting of a Haverford College faculty member, a Haverford College student, and the high school teacher/high school student pair (ideally from the same home school). This team works together on a specific research project, learning current scientific techniques and studying cutting-edge research problems.
Center for Science and Society, Bryn Mawr College: The goals of this center include facilitating broad conversations that involve scientists and non-scientists as well as academics and non-academics. Discussions explore the natural world and humanity's place in it, the nature of education, the generation, synthesis, and evaluation of information, technology and its potentials and the relationships among forms of creativity and understanding.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute: The Institute is a nonprofit medical research organization that employs hundreds of leading biomedical scientists working at the forefront of their fields. In addition, through its grants program and other activities, HHMI is helping to enhance science education at all levels and maintain the vigor of biomedical science worldwide.MAST, Haverford College: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has supported this long-standing program outreach program that provides laboratory experience and writing tutorials for 40-50 high school and middle school students from the Philadelphia area who are under-represented in the sciences. Haverford College students prepare the course curricula, devise and teach the scientific labs, and work one-on-one with high school and middle school students as tutors.
Math Science Project Partnership of Greater Philadelphia, Bryn Mawr College: Forty-six school districts and 13 institutions of higher education in Pennsylvania and New Jersey (outside of Philadelphia) have joined to facilitate and grow partnerships between grades 6-12 teachers, and administrators, and faculty from higher educational institutions to focus on improving secondary mathematics and science, grades 6-12.
Summer Institutes for K-12 Teachers, Bryn Mawr College: Bryn Mawr faculty and K-12 educators share perspectives on how to enhance science and mathematics education thorughout the curriculum and at all levels of the educational enterprise.K-16 Collaborations in Science and Mathematics Education, Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College have long and successful histories of working with K-16 educators to improve science and mathematics education. A central principle of both programs has been a collaborative approach, one in which college and precollege faculty and students work together to share experiences, perspectives, and expertise as a means to developing richer and more effective learning experiences in science and mathematics at all levels of the educational system.
Center for Peace and Global Citizenship