November 10, 2017
SSEC Director, Carol O'Donnell, presented on the work of the Smithsonian Science Education Center at a two-day meeting, "Aim, Scope, and Challenges of Research Museums: An exchange between the Smithsonian Institution and the Leibniz Association " on 30-31 October. Organized by Scott Miller, Deputy Undersecretary for Collections and Interdisciplinary Support (DUSCIS), the meeting brought together a number of Smithsonian staff and representatives from a number of the 91 institutional members of theĀ Leibniz Association. The Leibniz Association is a union of German non-university research institutes from various branches of study and has a number of similarities to the Smithsonian Institution. O'Donnell's talk focused on the work of SSEC's LASER program and its impact on the German education program called "TuWAS".
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