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Larry Bell and I received a grant from NSF to create a catalog of Public Engagement with Science 
(PES) programs, exhibits, and activities carried out by science centers and museums, non-profits, 
universities, community organizations, and media. We’d like to include in the catalog any work 
that includes at least one of the following aspects: 

• The content focus moves beyond topics about understanding of science and the natural world to 
topics such as science and technology processes, societal and ethical impacts, personal or 
community values, decision making, or policy related to science and technology.
• Audience involvement moves beyond passive learning through reading and lectures to active 
engagement by asking questions of experts, sharing views with other participants, participating in 
deliberation and problem solving, providing recommendations, or taking part in research activities.
• Scientist/expert involvement moves beyond providing information or giving lectures to 
communicating with the public, seeking information or viewpoints from participants, or acting on 
participant feedback.

Through this catalog, we hope to increase the informal science education field’s awareness and 
knowledge of current PES projects and help foster future PES collaborations. To encourage future 
collaboration, a subset of the people who fill out a case summary survey will be invited to 
participate in a two-day workshop about future directions of PES programming at the Museum of 
Science in the late spring or early summer 2011, with travel expenses paid by the grant. If your 
institution has been involved in any of these activities, events, or exhibits, we encourage you to 
submit a case summary through our online survey, which can be found here:

http://survey.mos.org/public_survey/Checkbox/Survey.aspx?s=d181a967e64248cebee3c9f95534e109

Submissions for the catalog are due by January 31, 2011. If you have any questions or would like 
further information about the PES project, please contact me by email [log in to unmask]

We look forward to hearing about your projects!

Thanks, Liz.  

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Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann
Senior Research & Evaluation Associate
Research and Evaluation Department
Museum of Science, Boston
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phone: (617)589-0467
http://www.mos.org
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