Place-Based Environmental Civic Science: Urban Students Using STEM for Public Good

Environmental Quality Assessment of Tehran’s Recent Urban Design Projects, Based on Place Check Technique in Experts and Public View Point

Urban space, as a place for social interaction, has a very important role in image of the cities and also in place competition between them. These issues along with the outstanding demands of citizens for the quality of urban spaces have led the urban authorities to reconsider such spaces, as Marvi Alley, Naser Khosrow, and Sabzeh Meidan, through definition and implementation of urban projects ...

The public good of science for health.

April 22, 2017, was the date of the 132nd annual meeting of the Association of American Physicians (AAP). April 22nd was also the date of the March for Science, which was held in 600 cities globally. AAP was a formal sponsor of the march, with 84% of its members endorsing it. Apart from the march, the trisociety AAP-ASCI and American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) meeting offered its u...

The role of place in science learning among urban middle school students: science as a context and tool

An important conundrum that the science education community faces is "why is it so difficult to bridge everyday science with school science?" Drawing upon sociocultural perspectives on learning and critical ethnographic research methods, we examine students’ changing participation within middle school learning science. Our findings reveal the importance of "place" in how and why these youth pur...

University Public-Access Mandates Are Good for Science

A new and better order to make scholarship available for free to all is emerging through deposit mandates like those adopted by Harvard, MIT, and Kansas.

Civic Associations and Urban Communities