Broadening Math Outreach

Outreach, outreach, outreach.

In the warm afterglow of the magnificent Kyoto Congress, readers of Physiology might well imagine the officers and council of IUPS taking a relaxing break. Certainly, some congratulations are in order. As the documentary videos on the IUPS website show, it was a brilliant event, all the way from the opening by the Crown Prince of Japan, through the often amazing quality of the science presented...

Relevant Education in Math and Science (REMS): K-12 STEM Outreach Program using Industrial Engineering Applications

Relevant Education in Math and Science (REMS) is a university-led STEM outreach program designed to use real-world industrial engineering problems to make 5 – 12 grade math and science fun and meaningful for students. In this work, we present the nine current engineering lab activities, developed in both in-lab and on-line format consisting of three different real-world contexts: competitive ma...

Iterative Broadening

Conventional blind search techniques generally assume that the goal nodes for a given problem are distributed randomly along the fringe of the search tree. We argue that this is often invalid in practice, suggest that a more reasonable assumption is that decisions made at each point in the search carry equal weight, and show that a new search technique that we call iterative broadening leads to...

Outreach and social inclusion: Outreach for social cohesion

In this paper, I will provide a broad overview of outreach and student engagement strategies used in Australian universities and raise key issues in regard to improving access to higher education for disadvantaged and under-represented students.

Animal Rights: Broadening Our Perspective; Broadening Our Base