Parent-Daughter Engineering Exploration Day, for girls grades 7-11 and their parents, will be held Saturday, Feb. 23, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m., in GLRC 202.
For more Information: Joan Chadde at 7-3341, jchadde@mtu.edu .
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Rocio Garcia-Retamero, advanced associate professor from the University of Granada, Spain, is an expert in the psychology of stereotype formation, gender issues, medical decision making, and risk communication. Garcia-Retamero will present, “Communicating Risks to Diverse, Vulnerable People,” from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m.,Thursday, Jan. 31, in the MEESE Center, Room 110. She will be reviewing a collection of studies investigating the benefits of using visual aids for communicating health risks to diverse and often vulnerable individuals. Theoretical mechanisms, open questions, and emerging applications will be discussed.
Garcia-Retamero has published nearly 100 articles and chapters on these topics including two recently completed books. She is funded by grants from the “Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation” and the “Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making” in the US. Send questions to Edward Cokely at ecokely@mtu.edu.
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What You May Not Know About Africa
Associate Professor Kedmon Hungwe (CLS) will present a talk on “What You May Not Know About Africa” from 6 to 7 p.m. tonight (Tues. Jan. 29) at Hancock High School. The event is in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Admission is free.
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Shari Stockero’s CAREER award was the focus of Those who can, teach in Michigan Tech Research 2012.
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The Michigan Tech Research magazine for 2012 featured Good Cop, Better Cop. The article focused on research by Paul Ward concerning the understanding of police performance in the field.
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School children in grades one through six will be able to take hands-on, after-school science classes at Michigan Tech during January and February.
Classes will be limited to 15 children each and will be taught by Tech students and staff of the Western UP Center for Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education, based at Michigan Tech.
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Amanda Carlson, Holly Koehn, and Lauren Dupey
Tech graduates 482 at midyear commencement
Tech President Glenn Mroz said Tech graduates are involved with the development of many existing and emergent technologies working with governments and companies all over the world.
Read more at the Mining Gazette, by Kurt Hauglie.
The Department of Cognitive and Learning Sciences will host Dr. Michael Kalish on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 11:05–11:55 in Meese 109. Kalish will provide a Research Presentation: “Learning and Cultural Transmission.”
Dr. Michael Kalish is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Louisiana – Lafayette. His research, which aims to answer fundamental questions about the structure of human knowledge, mixes computational modeling with behavioral experiments in the context of basic cognitive skills such as function learning, iterated learning, and interacting systems underlying category learning.
For more information, contact Associate Professor Susan Amato-Henderson at slamato@mtu.edu.
What can you do with your family to celebrate winter and nature? Thursday, Dec. 13, K-6 students and their parents are invited to turn off their electronics and enjoy a fun evening together making snowflakes and taking a night hike at the Nara Nature Center and Park.
The snowflake-making and night-hike activities will each be offered from 6 to 6:45 p.m. and from 6:50 to 7:30 p.m. Families may participate in one or both indoor and outdoor activities, with a suggested donation of $1 per person (children under 5 years are free) to cover materials and refreshments.
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Science and Children, a magazine published by the National Science Teachers Association, ran an article about Michigan Tech’s Family Engineering program in its December 2012 edition. One of the article’s authors is Joan Chadde, K-12 education and outreach program coordinator for the Western UP Center for Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education at Michigan Tech.
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