News :: Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach

See an article from the front page of the November 23, 2008 Tennessean about the state of science education and how our office is working to improve the problems facing Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, as well as schools in general.

View the article on the Tennessean's website or view a PDF of the article.

The CSO's Virtual Scientist Interactive Videoconferencing program is back! Read about the program and sign your class up for a session or two before they fill up! If you aren't already on our videoconferencing email list, sign up for it! You'll receive notices of when we have new videoconferences and other programs available. It will not be shared with anyone else.

Take a look at photos from many of our events this summer. Currently, they are housed on our Picasa Web Album.

The CSO sponsored a hands-on activity day in biomedical engineering at the Adventure Science Center on January 14th. Volunteers from Vanderbilt Student Volunteers for Science and graduate students in biomedical engineering from Vanderbilt and Tennessee State University were present with hands-on activities and demonstrations for visitors at the Adventure Science Center. Topics included lasers, quantum dots, and making joints with K'nex pieces.