December 10, 2009
From Lisa Guisbond
Dear Teachers,
Thanks to all of you who expressed interest and/or came to the Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye Symposium in honor of the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. All of us at Science of the Eye: Bringing Vision into the Classroom were proud to present this program in conjunction with the Massachusetts Association of Biology Teachers, Whitehead Institute’s Partnership for Science Education, the Darwin Bicentennial Project, and Citizens for Public Schools.
We were pleased that so many of you could attend, and gratified at all the positive feedback we received.
If you are interested in sampling the talks from our morning session for the MIT community, videos are now available at
http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/2f8146e6cb652c0fc9652feb93f8fe12147df4d0/private
Whether or not you were able to attend our Nov. 20 event, we plan to keep you informed of upcoming professional development workshops, symposia and resources you can use.
Science of the Eye: Bringing Vision into the Classroom is funded by the National Eye Institute, an institute of the National Institutes of Health, and based in Prof. Jonathan King’s lab in the MIT Biology Department. In addition to Professor King, our staff includes Dr. Ishara Mills-Henry, a biochemist working on science curriculum and professional development, and Lisa Guisbond, our outreach coordinator, a writer with a longstanding interest in supporting and strengthening public education.
In the coming months, we will be offering a series of regional workshops and events that aim to bridge the gap between those who do important vision research and you, the people who nurture our emerging scientists, whether they go into research, become eye doctors or perhaps become artists with a deep appreciation of the importance of science and the natural world.
Best regards,
Lisa Guisbond, on behalf of The Science of the Eye Team
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