TITLE: Scientists, Research Centers, and K-12 Science and Mathematics Education

SPEAKER: Professor David G. Haase,

TIME: Thursday Jan. 24, 2002 at 4 PM

PLACE: George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall, (Olin 101)

The American K-12 education system is not producing the numbers of qualified graduates needed for our scientific and technological economy. Increasingly, we scientists are compelled to support K-12 education - to improve the quality of K-12 math and science and to encourage students to seek science careers. I will discuss how we can approach this situation, what the literature says about scientists' and K-12, and provide examples from The Science House, a K-12 education outreach program at NC State University. I will also discuss how K-12 outreach balances with the many other roles of the scientist or professor and how K-12 involvement can benefit the university or laboratory.