How COVID changed schools outreach

A mental health outreach program for elementary schools.

INTRODUCTION Expanding linkages between mental health services and schools is one strategy to improve early access to help children with emerging mental health problems. However, there are few descriptions of such outreach efforts in Canada. This report describes one model used in Alberta, Canada. METHOD Key aspects of the organization and operation of the Community Outreach in Pediatrics/Psy...

How I found my outreach niche.

unteered and worked at zoos, enamored with watching faces light up when people learned of a new animal or ways they could protect wildlife. Throughout college and into graduate school, I never passed up the opportunity to volunteer at events that introduced children and families to science. The more time I spent working with the public, the more determined I became that, somehow, I was going to...

How the Ecdysozoan Changed Its Coat

1696 M ost people are aware that insects are crunchy on the outside. What they don't always realize is that the external crunchy parts form the animal's skeleton, and that this body design makes the apparently simple process of growing extremely complex. In addition to providing a barrier against desiccation and protection from mechanical injury, an insect's external skeleton (exoskeleton) does...

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...

How the Internet changed science journalism