This item caught my eye a few weeks ago–indicative of some energy flowing between the STEM movement and the move to incorporate the arts more explicitly into STEM instruction. And the schools in question are right here in Forsyth County. From the article: ” . . . Adding arts to the rest of a...
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I loved reading this little item in playwright Gwydion Suilebahn’s blog: ” . . . The budgets of most research laboratories are immense… and the struggles that scientists live through to achieve significant results can be (I’m understating here) quite dramatic. As a counter...
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FROM ARTICLE: ” . . . Science communication is not a one-way street between researchers & journalists to the lay public. From the Science Art Feed you can see the array of conversations non-scientists are starting through visual media. There’s a response, an echo...
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Next week, a group of ten UNCSA and RJ Reynolds HS faculty members begin the Meaning of PROOF project. And Matt Fussell sends word from RJ Reynolds that Engineering Aesthetics begins next week. More later. Share on Facebook
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The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Science and Technology Project stages an annual festival of science-themed plays. Associate Director of the EST/Sloan collaboration, of course, is Linsay Firman, who visited UNCSA with playwright Anna Ziegler in February. “When a new telescope focused on...
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A spate of recent arts/medicine convergences have caught my attention, and has me thinking about the potential of ARTStem collaborations between our arts institution and the medical research and healthcare sectors of Winston-Salem. Here’s a short article out of Drexel University about a current...
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A remarkable upstart program of conversations at LSU’s Theater Department. Read about it HERE. ” . . . Our first one, which we just called ‘Silk’, had an entomologist talking about the evolution of spiders and spider silk along with a choreographer and two...
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This is a very cool new program of the Imagine Science Film Festival. “Imagine a filmmaker interested in genetics immersing himself in the life of a biotechnology lab, to observe the research process and talk with research scientists. Together the filmmaker and a geneticist...
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How did “thinking” change in the Age of Enlightenment? That’s Wayne McGregor’s query in his newest ballet, FAR. This is worth several minutes of viewing: Some good additional reading: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/wayne-mcgregor-giant-leaps-in-the-studio-ndash-and-in-the-lab-2135922.html Share on Facebook
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ARTStem’s successful collaboration with UNCSA Composer-in-Residence Lawrence Dillon, the UNCSA Wind Symphony and Conductor Michael Dodds, and Wake Forest University’s Eric Carlson landed it on the front page of the most recent edition of In Tune. Here’s the story: Music and science converged at...
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Joe Lopina, animation faculty in the UNCSA School of Filmmaking, offers this update about the progress of his ARTStem Faculty Project, “Science Giants.” ARTStem has supported Lopina’s continuing work with students at Winston-Salem’s Brunson Elementary School—which combines puppetry, animation, storytelling, and STEM education. Joe...
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The Brooklyn-based “investigative theater” company, The Civilians, continues to develop the play—The Great Immensity—that emerged out of its collaboration with Princeton University’s PEI (Princeton Environmental Institute) in 2010. Read about it HERE. Here’s a line from the article, from the PEI’s associate director: “We...
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