Three Billion Birds – It’s a Big Number
Three billion birds – It’s a big number A recent report published in the journal Science indicates that there are 3 billion less birds flying around North America today than there were in...
Monthly Archive: February 2020
Arduino Environmental Sensor Systems
In partnership with the University of Oregon STEMCORE program and the Oregon Science Teachers Association, the Price Science Commons hosted a workshop on building environmental sensors. I led the session with the help...
Gaming for Conservation
MIT’s App Inventor is an amazing tool for education. We are exploring its use in our Visual Communication and Technology class that I am teaching with an independent study student. One of the basic...
The UO Media Center for Science & Technology
The University of Oregon has a new center in the School of Journalism and Communication. It’s called the Media Center for Science and Technology. The goal of the center is to train journalists, communicators,...
Planting Trees with Eugene Parks, AmeriCorps, Friends of Trees and UO Holden Leadership
Active Learning is the best way to learn. In January, on Martin Luther King Day, a large contingent of Eugene, Oregon community members, including students from the University of Oregon, got the chance to...