[bioundgrd] Fwd: Information session: Museums, Science and Technology IAP and Spring 2019 course (rsvp by 10/29)

[Janice Chang]

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From: Karen L Gardner <kgardner at mit.edu<mailto:kgardner at mit.edu>>
Subject: Information session: Museums, Science and Technology IAP and Spring 2019 course (rsvp by 10/29)
Date: October 19, 2018 at 11:38:18 AM EDT

Museums, Science and Technology
IAP and Spring 2019

Info Session
Wednesday, October 31
1:00-2:00 pm
E51-095

Please RSVP to Carolyn Carlson (carlsonc at mit.edu<mailto:carlsonc at mit.edu>) by Oct. 29. Pizza will be served!

We are exploring an opportunity for up to eight graduate students to take a 5-day trip to London during IAP with Professor John Durant, Director of the MIT Museum, and are holding this information session for all students who are interested and will likely be able to participate.

Students who go on the trip would be expected to enroll in STS.454 Museums, Science, and Technology (http://student.mit.edu/catalog/search.cgi?search=STS.454&style=verbatim) in Spring 2019. Participating students should have a genuine interest in the challenges and opportunities of interpreting science and technology in museums in the 2020’s, and a real desire to help shape plans for the new MIT Museum in Kendall Square, which will open to the public in the fall of 2021.

The IAP trip will likely include required enrollment in STS.S91 for 3 units of credit. While in London, students will undertake reviews of four different science-based museums and galleries: the Science Museum; the Natural History Museum, the Wellcome Collection, and the (newly opened) Science Gallery at King’s College. The Science Communication Group at Imperial College will host the IAP enrollees. Students will report their findings in a special seminar to be held there.

While this is mainly intended for graduate students and the classes are graduate-level, advanced undergraduates may apply. The cost of the trip for students will likely be $150.

Best,
Karen

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Karen Gardner
Academic Administrator
MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society
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