Stony Brook New Home to NSF STEM Civic-Centered Learning Program

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Stony Brook New Home to NSF STEM Civic-Centered Learning Program





Assembled after the SENCER presentation at Stony Brook University are SENCER national leaders and Stony Brook faculty involved in the new initiative. From left: Christine DeCarlo, SENCER Engaging Mathematics Coordinator; Danielle Kraus-Tarka, SENCER Deputy Director for Operations, Community Outreach, and Engagement; Eliza J. Reilly, SENCER Deputy Executive Director for Programs; David Ferguson, Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of Technology and Society at Stony Brook, and the University’s Liaison for SENCER; Lauren Donavan of Stony Brook’s Department of Technology and Society; Wm. David Burns is Executive Director of NCSCE, and the Principal Investigator of SENCER; Hailey Chenevert, SENCER Manager of Informal Science Education Partnership Program; and Kyle Simmons, SENCER Faculty Development Events Manager.



STONY BROOK, NY – March 31, 2016 – 
Stony Brook University is the new home to SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities). Formerly located at the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, SENCER is a national initiative connecting “the science of learning to the learning of science,” with the goal to expand civic capacity and connect science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) content to real world problems.
Established in 2001 by the National Science Foundation’s Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement national dissemination track, SENCER is the signature program of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement (NCSCE). It is geared toward strengthening undergraduate student learning and interest in the STEM disciplines by connecting course topics to critical issues of local, national and global importance. The move to Stony Brook comes after NCSCE, with support from the NSF's ICORPS-L program, explored new strategies for achieving larger scale and sustainability for those activities in which NSF has made substantial investments.
“I am thrilled to welcome SENCER to Stony Brook University,” said Fotis Sotiropoulos, Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the college in which SENCER is ...

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