What's New on Serendip
To help keep track of a changing and developing Serendip, major new additions,
with the date added, will be posted here.
- >Math and Sustainability: Helping to make a Green Ribbon School - Summer Institute 2012 Announcement - April 2012
- Comparative Neuroanatomy and Intelligence, an updated version of one of our most popular exhibits, has been published by Riki - February 2012
- Courses for Spring 2012
- The Breaking Project, an evolving space for publishing and exploring writing, artwork, and film that come from experiences of Breaking: choosing radical change in life and thought, Dr. Alice Lesnick, October, 2011
- Revised Osmosis and Yeast Fermentation Hands-On Activities for Teaching Biology to High School and Middle School Students, Dr. Ingrid Waldron, October, 2011
- The DiaBlog, where high school and college students, together with educators and researchers, are exploring issues in education reform today - Fall, 2011
- Courses for Fall 2011
- Revised activity,
Diffusion across a Selectively Permeable Membrane, in Hands-On Activities for High School and Middle School, Dr. Ingrid Waldron, July, 2011
- New section on Cell Structure and Function in
More Minds-on Activities for Teaching Biology, Dr. Ingrid Waldron, July, 2011
- Paul Stories, as told by his friends, July 2011
- Revised Hands-On Activities for Teaching Biology to High School and Middle School Students, Dr. Ingrid Waldron, May, 2011
- Courses for Spring 2011
- Additional Minds-on Activities for Teaching Biology for High School and Middle School, Dr. Ingrid Waldron, December, 2010
- Courses for Fall 2010
- New Versions for Hands-on Activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School Students
- Courses for Spring 2010:
- Evolving Systems - an ongoing discussion, participants welcome. The Evolving Systems project is an exploration of the idea that form, meaning, and esthetics are interdependent emergent characteristics of an ongoing evolutionary process originally lacking any plan, intention, of purpose. And of the implications of such an idea for both intellectual and practical life. - Fall, 2009
- Faculty Learning Community on Science and Math Education - October 2009
- Courses for Fall 2009:
- What would "reality" look like outside the brain?: Variations in Perception and their Significance - July 2009
- The Need for a Science Code of Conduct? - Supplementary materials prepared by E. Hedman - June 2009
- Rorty, non-foundationalism, and story telling: possibilities and problems - with Paul Grobstein and Bharath Vallabha - May 2009
- Evolving Systems: The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics - a discussion - May 2009 and ongoing
- "Reality": Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction - April 2009
- Perception: From Five Senses Through Synesthesia and Beyond - April 2009
- Synesthesia and Perception: The Brain Constructing the World - a collaboration with the Painted Bride Art Center with multiple artists and Anabelle Rodriguez, Curator - April 2009
- Hands-on Activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School Student updates - February 2009:
- Updates to major sections - February 2009:
- Deterministic and Non-deterministic Emergence - Ways of Making Sense of the World: From Primal Patterns to Deterministic and Non-Deterministic Emergence - January 2009
- Courses for Spring 2009:
- Cellular Respiration in Yeast, a new hands-on activity for teaching biology to high school and middle school students, by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Dougherty - December 2008
- Updates to Mitosis, Meiosis and Fertilization, Genetics, Dragon Genetics -- Independent Assortment and Gene Linkage, From Gene to Protein - Transcription and Translation,
and Invertebrate Diversity by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Dougherty - December 2008
- Exploring Disability: Images and Thoughts by David Alan Feingold - October 2008
- Making Sense of Understanding: The Three Doors of Serendip - October 2008
- Courses for Fall 2008:
- The Need for a Science Code of Conduct? by Rebecca Pisciotta and Paul Grobstein - July 2008
- Education: Between Two Cultures - June 2008
- Illusions, ambiguous figures, and impossible figures: informed guessing and beyond - June 2008
- Chance in Life and the World - May 2008
- Creativity, the Mind, and the Brain: From Van Gogh to Indeterminacy and Beyond, by Geetanjali Vaidya - May 2008
- The Brain and Social Organization / Culture, by Ian Morton and Paul Grobstein - May 2008
- Science Education as Interactive Conversation, is available for download, and we have some links to relevant materials, from the SENCER conference in Washington D.C. - April 2008
- Serendip Readers Write Back presents an alphabetical-by-title listing of web paper titles available from the last 10 years of Bryn Mawr College student work - March 2008
- Ambiguous Figures is a fun, interactive experience where you attempt to see multiple interpretations of images, some animated - March 2008
- Exploring depression: drugs, psychotherapy, stories, conflicts, a conscious/unconscious dissociation? a blog post by Paul Grobstein, March 2008
- Courses for Spring 2008:
- The "objectivity"/"subjectivity" spectrum:
having one's cake and eating it too?- thoughts by Paul Grobstein inspired by course discussion - December 2007
- A Visit with Susan Stryker, "I think queer means valuing that which is off-center and against the norm..." - October 2007
- New and Revised Hands-On Activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School
Students, including Diffusion: Molecular Transport across Membranes, and Invertebrate Diversity, by Dr. Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer
Doherty - September 2007
- Courses for Fall 2007:
- Serendip's Bookshelves has 2 new reviews, for The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Probable and The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative by Anne Dalke - July 2007
- Paths to Story Telling as Life: Fellow Traveling with Richard Rorty by Paul Grobstein - July 2007
- Bryn Mawr College Summer Institutes for K-12 Teachers - July 2007
- "Right" and "Wrong" in Science (and Elsewhere?): A Conversation
- June 2007
- Reflections, includes A Feminist If, Weeding, Seeding and Place-Keeping: A Story with Three Steps and a Coda and Standpoint Matters: Keeping the Play in Play by Anne Dalke - June 2007
- The Scientific Mind, the Brain, and Human Culture: Story Telling and Story Sharing, notes for a longer paper by Paul Grobstein - June 2007
- Critical Feminist Studies, a new course announcement for Fall '07, invites Bryn Mawr alumnae to participate online using Serendip's Exchange - June 2007
- Brain Stories's blog gets started with an opening discussion, Childhood Origins of Adult Resistance to Science - June 2007
- The Story Hour: The Use of Narrative Therapy with Families by Sarah Gibbs -June 2007
- The Human Condition As Seen by a Materialist Neurobiologist, a talk by Paul Grobstein at the Building the Scientific Mind conference - May 2007
- Re-Making the Landscape: The Art and Science of Ava Blitz , one of Serendip's first guest exhibiting artists, Ava Blitz, returns to Serendip with "Cooking Up a Storm" and "Beauty and the Beast" - March 2007
- Brain and Education: Thinking About New Directions, issues, perspectives and resources - March 2007
- Theater: The Life of Galileo , a discussion forum about the Wilma Theater production - March 2007
- Different Behaviors, Different Brains?, an exhibit about individual variation of brains, including different species and genders - February 2007
- Serendip's Exchange, a place for conversations, blogs, forums and papers in progress. Please join in! - January 2007
- Courses for Spring 2007:
- Textbooks and Introductory Science Education, a paper examining some of the shortcomings of textbooks - January 2007
- Theater Discussions Online: My Children, My Africa! - December 2006
- 2006-07 Center for Science in Society Working Groups:
- Stranger in a
Strange Land: Grokking in the Americas, Anne Dalke's blog as she
travels in Central and South America during her sabbatical - Fall 2006
- Theater Discussions Online: The Pillowman , a discussion group to explore questions about whether there are certain stories that should never be told? - Fall 2006
- The Nature of Science:The "Problem of Unconceived Alternatives" and its Significance, a discussion between Kyle Stanford and Paul Grobstein about the nature of theoretical inquiry and its predictive qualities - September 2006
- Science and a Sense of Place: Watershed Education for K-12 Students, hands-on activities for environmental studies by Catherine Riihimaki and Kaitlin Friedman - September 2006
- Fall Courses for Fall 2006:
- Susan White in Togo, an update to Serendip's Togo Connection - August 2006
- New Book Reviews on Serendip's Bookshelves in August 2006:
- Empowering Learners: A Handbook for the Theory and Practice of Extra-Classroom Teaching has been updated with student research papers - August 2006
- Geographic (and Human?) Diversity: Exploring Iceland, in Text and Image, a photography exhibition by Anne Dalke - August 2006
- Hands-On Activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School Students, a set of 18 interactive lesson plans, has been updated - August 2006
- Science and a Sense of Place: Learning Where We Are Located in the World, materials and discussions from the 2006 Exploration and Emergence Institute for K-12 educators - July 2006
- Brain and Behavior Institute: Implications for K-12 Education, materials and discussions from the 2006 Brain and Behavior Institute for K-12 educators - July 2006
- Science/Religion Clash, a letter to the New York Times - July 2006
- Ant Colonies: Social Organization Without a Director? - an interactive exhibit motivated by Deborah Gordon's work on ant colonies by Laura Cyckowski and Paul Grobstein - June 2006
- Thinking About an Elementary Science Education Curriculum, A Collaboration between Lansdowne Friends School and the Bryn Mawr College Center for Science in Society - May 2006
- An Inconvenient Truth Forum, an online film discussion moderated by the Bryn Mawr Film Institute - May 2006
- Getting it Less Wrong, further refining the "less wrong" idea
that science and life are both processes not of becoming "right" but rather of becoming "less wrong." - May 2006
- Thinking About Death: Life as a Crapshoot - April 2006
- Theater Discussions Online for Cloud 9, a Caryl Churchill play produced at the Wilma Theater - April 2006
- Thank You for Smoking Forum, an online film discussion moderated by the Bryn Mawr Film Institute - March 2006
- Brokeback Mountain Forum, an online film discussion moderated by the Bryn Mawr Film Institute - Winter 2006
- Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire Forum, an online discussion of a theater production at the Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, PA - February 2006
- Serendip Readers Write Back, an updated list of web papers written by undergraduates taking Bryn Mawr College courses, has been updated with reader responses. Topics such as Bioluminescence, HIV and AIDS, NCAA vs. AIAW, Stuttering and Vasovagal Syncope are open for discussion - February 2006
- Center for Science in Society Blog, Serendip experiments with the blog format for the Emergence course crosslisted in Biology and Computer Science - January 2006
- Spring 2006 Courses on Serendip:
- The Psychoanalyst and the Neurobiologist, a conversation about healing the soul and telling stories of the mind, brain,
self, and culture between Elio Frattaroli and Paul Grobstein - January 2006
- Samorost, an interesting world to explore, a place to wander, to see what there is to see, a creation of Jakub Dvorsky and Vaclav Blin of Amanita Design in the Czech Republic - December 2005
- Serendip's Mailbag, a small sample of email comments on how Serendip is useful in a variety of ways - December 2005
- Courses Near and Far Using Serendip Materials, an incomplete listing of college and universities using Serendip in their courses - December 2005
- Rachel Grobstein Gallery 2005, "Beginning, Muddle, and End," an art exhibition in Brunswick, Maine - December 2005
- Science as Storytelling, an essay by B.R. Bickmore, Dept of Geology, Brigham Young U. and D.A. Grandy, Dept of Philosophy, Brigham Young U. - December 2005
- Science as Storytelling or Story Telling? , a conversation among Bickmore, Grandy and Grobstein - December 2005
- Women, Gender and Culture: A New Initiative, notes from talks, forum, resources, co-sponsored by the Gender and Sexuality Program at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges - November 2005
- Keeping Our Heads Above Water: No Buoys Allowed, a lecture by Anne Dalke, accompanying the exhibition "Building Muscles While Building Minds: Athletics and the Early Years of Women's Education" - November 2005
- Re-presenting Parenting, discussions about balancing work and family without the constraint of cultural stereotypes - November 2005
- The Art Historian and the Neurobiologist: A Conversation About Proprioception, the "I-function", Body Art, and ... Story Telling? by Kristine Stiles and Paul Grobstein - November 2005
- Center for Science in Society's Site Map - November 2005
- Why Words Arise--and Wherefore: Literature and Literary Theory as Forms of Exploration, the working draft of an article by Anne Dalke - November 2005
- Emergence Group Resources, includes notes, readings and podcasts - October 2005
- Interactive Science, a list of interactive science websites created by Yaena Park - Fall 2005
- Things I Didn't Learn, by Rebekah Baglini: People tend to make a lot of assumptions about what it is to be a homeschooler,
many of which focus on what I've missed by not attending school.... - October 2005
- Has a Movie Scene Ever Had Lasting Significance in Your Life?, a survey for a research study - October 2005
- Bryn Mawr Work and Family Project: Summary of Project Findings, a research project examining parents' actual daily experiences of work-family conflict
- October 2005
- The Novelist and the Neurobiologist: A Conversation About Story Telling, by Michelle Herman and Paul Grobstein - October 2005
- "Soul Making": A Project of Intelligent Amendment, by Anne Dalke - October 2005
- Evolution and Intelligent Design: Perspective and Resources - October 2005
- Evolution and Human Antiquity, by James Wright, Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr - October 2005
- Stories of Teaching and Learning: A Conversation, sponsored by the Center for Science in Society - Fall, 2005
- The 'Control' of Nature in New Orleans, a synopsis of a discussion and PowerPoint slideshow by Catherine Riihimaki and Rheanna Bensel - September 2005
- Ahab's Wife Or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel, by Sena Jeter Naslund, a review by Anne Dalke et al - September 2005
- Going Home to New Orleans: The Cats Are Okay, a first person account of a lifelong resident's return to New Orleans by Lili LeGardeur - September 2005
- Susan White in Togo, an update to the Serendip Togo exhibit, features the experience of Susan White going back to Togo - September 2005
- Science As Story Telling in Action: Evolution, notes from a talk by Paul Grobstein - September 2005
- Singapore/Science Connection, a series of accounts by Al Albano, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Bryn Mawr College, during his semester teaching at Singapore Management University in Singapore - September 2005
- Intelligent Design and the Story of Evolution: No Need for Drawing Lines in the Sand, an essay by Paul Grobstein with a forum for ongoing discussion - September 2005
- Fundamentalism and Relativism: Finding a New Direction, an essay by Paul Grobstein with a forum for ongoing discussion - Summer 2005
- Fall 2005 Courses on Serendip:
- Serendip's 10th Anniversary: An Invitation to an Intellectual Playground, an article by Ann Dixon, written for the Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Bulletin, provides an overview of what Serendip's all about - August 2005
- All the Write Moves: Getting Teens to Express Themselves through Writing, an essay from Ellen Orleans, a creative writing teacher, with an emphasis on openness to different sexualities and experiences - July 2005
- The Theory of Play, a collection of links to materials to help think about exactly what play is and what role it has in biology,
education and life - July 2005
- My Great-Grandaddy was a Monkey, a picture book for kids created by Bryn Mawr students in The Story of Evolution/Evolution of Stories course - July 2005
- The World of Langton's Ant, an "exploring emergence" interactive exhibit - July 2005
- What IS Science?, a resource for science as storytelling in action - July 2005
- Brain and Behavior Institute 2005, a local summer institute for K-12 teachers in the Philadelphia area - July 2005
- Film Discussions Online, in partnership with the Bryn Mawr Film Institute - June 2005
- "We Make the Road by Walking": A Panel Discussion About Using the Web for Educational Purposes, at the "Centering on the Edge: Intellect, Spirit, Action" Friends Association of Higher Education conference - June 2005
- Serendip Readers Write Back, comments sent to Serendip append Serendip pages with new insights, factual corrections, and opinions - June 2005
- Empowering Learners: A Handbook for the Theory and Practice of Extra-Classroom Teaching - May 2005
- Health and Medicine in Africa,
a workshop April 13-15, 2005
- Women Living Well,
a short seminar and discussion - March 2005
- Science as Story Telling and Revision,
a locus for the article Revisiting Science in Culture: Science
as Story Telling and Story Revising by Paul Grobstein - March
2005
- The Inclined Plane
of Morality, a short article by Gautam Sen - Feb 2005
- Education and Technology:
Expanding the Conversation, links to educators reflections
- Feb 2005
- The Bipartite Brain and Its Significance
for Idealism, Pragmatism and Other Matters, a presentation
and discussion with the Emergence Group - Feb 2005
- MRI of Human Brain - Feb
2005
- Universe Bar, a gathering
of individuals interested in an informal exploration of questions
that matter - Winter 2005
- Thinking About Science: Evolving
Stories, notes from a talk - Jan 2005
- Biology 202, Neurobiology and Behavior,
an undergraduate course taught by Paul Grobstein at Bryn Mawr
College - Jan 2005
- Philosophy
310: Ideals of Scientific Exploration and the Nature of its Objects,
an undergraduate course taught by Paul Grobstein (Biology) and
Michael Krausz (Philosophy) at Bryn Mawr College - Jan 2005
- Beauty, a Conversation between
Chemistry and Culture, an undergraduate course taught by Sharon
Burgmayer (Chemistry) and Anne Dalke (English) at Bryn Mawr College
- Jan 2005
- The Story of Evolution and the
Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity,
an undergraduate course taught by Anne Dalke (English) and Paul
Grobstein (Biology) at Bryn Mawr College - Jan 2005
- Empowering Learners:
Theory and Practice of Extra-Classroom Teaching, a course,
Education 225, taught by Alice Lesnick (Education) at Bryn Mawr
College - Jan 2005
- Women, Sport and Film,
a six part series taught by Amy Campbell (Athletics) that will
explore the role of women and sport as seen through documentaries
and popular film - Jan 2005
- Education and Technology: Serendip's
Experiences 1994-2004, how we use the web, synthesized by
Paul Grobstein (Biology, Serendip Co-Founder) and Jody Cohen (Education)
- Dec 2004
-
Science, Brains, Humanity,
a seminar with City College of New York students - Dec 2004
- Handel's Messiah Sing-Alongs and
Performances in Philadelphia - Dec 2004
- What Do People Actually Do at
the Trevi Fountain?, a photo essay - Nov 2004
- Blindsight, an interactive
exhibit showing the ability to respond appropriately to visual
inputs while lacking the feeling of having seen them, has a new
version of the applet - Nov 2004
- Science Matters, A weekly
feature connecting Center for Science in Society activities to
what's happening in the world at large - Nov 2004
- Place of the US
in the World Community, a continuation of the forum which
began as a response to the events of 9-11, the forum shares stories
about responses to the U.S. elections. Please join in. - Nov 2004
- Once Upon a Time is Now,
an art exhibition by Elizabeth Catanese, as seen by a particular
man at a particular time - Oct 2004
- Organic Discussions:
Diverse Pedagogies for Diverse Peoples, a diversity discussion
at Bryn Mawr College - Oct 2004
- Women, Sport and Film,
a six part series that will explore the role of women and sport
as seen through documentaries and popular film - Oct 2004
- Hands-on Activities for Teaching
Biology to High School or Middle School Students, by Ingrid
Waldron et al, an updated version with three new labs available
and modified versions of others - Oct 2004
- Theorizing Interdisciplinarity:
The Evolution of New Academic and Intellectual Communities,
a working draft by Anne Dalke (English and Gender Studies), Paul
Grobstein (Biology) and Elizabeth McCormack (Physics) - Sept 2004
- A Series of Friday
Noon Conversations, diversity dialogues at Bryn Mawr College
- Fall 2004
- Leadership in 'Action',
conversations about the nature of leadership in modern societies
- Fall 2004
- Forums Index, list of
all the forums open to the world for conversation on diverse topics
of interest to Serendip - September 2004
-
Science's Audiences,
a brown bag lunch conversation with notes and online discussion
- Fall 2004
- HHMI Science in Society Undergraduate
Fellowship Program, opportunities for Bryn Mawr College undergraduates
- Fall 2004
- K-16 Collaborations in Science
and Mathematics Education, a joint program of the Center for
Science in Society at Bryn Mawr College and the Koshland Integrated
Natural Sciences Center at Haverford College - Fall 2004
- Knowing the Body:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sex and Gender, 2004 - the
core course for the Feminist and Gender Studies Program, Bryn
Mawr and Haverford Colleges - Fall 2004
- Questions, Intuitions,
Revisions: Telling and Re-Telling Stories About Ourselves in the
World, 2004 - a College Seminar course at Bryn Mawr College
- Fall 2004
- Memory and Imagination:
The Self in Story and Society, 2004 - How do our human memories
and imaginations give rise to the stories we tell and to the selves
that we are becoming? In this course we consider the nature of
memory and its relationship to imagination, both in the evolving
life of the individual and in the development of the larger group
or culture. - Fall 2004
- Emergent Pedagogy:
Learning to Enjoy the Uncontrollable and Make it Productive,
a working draft of an article which the authors have submitted
for publication, by Doug Blank, Kim Cassidy, Anne Dalke and Paul
Grobstein - August 2004
- Writing Descartes:
I Am, and I Can Think, Therefore ... , an essay by Paul Grobstein
and an ongoing experiment in story sharing and story evolution
among many colleagues - June - August 2004
- Science In Society in the
21st Century: Interdisciplinarity and Beyond, a talk by Paul
Grobstein at Juniata College - August 2004
- Structures
of Support: Women Negotiating the Corporate Academy, a faculty
workshop - May 2004
- Information?: An Inquiry,
a working group, with online discussion and notes - May - July
2004
- Teaching With/On the
Web, outline for a talk summarizing emerging pedagogy on the
web over 10 years - April, 2004
- What
is Beauty?, an experiment where participants are asked to
rank images - April, 2004
- Serendip's Site Map, information
structure and physical topography - March, 2004
- Women Living Well
Seminar: Mind and Body Connection 2004, a website supporting
a course offering at Bryn Mawr College, with extensive student
contribution, with Amy Campbell - March 2004
- "Information,
Meaning, and Noise: What's the Difference?", a brown
bag series of talks/discussions - spring 2004
- 40th Street Community Forum, a community
discussion to develop citizen-based planning principles - February
2004
- "Not Today," a new poem by Mary Wilson - February 2004
- Emerging Emergence, A Report
on Progress (October 2002-present): From the Active Inanimate
to Models to Stories to Agency (and Back Again) - January 2004
- A Symposium on Beauty, a
series of talks/discussions which will link to speaker notes and
ongoing online discussion - February 2004
- Neurobiology and Behavior,
Biology 202 at Bryn Mawr College, with Paul Grobstein - spring
2004
- The Story of Evolution and the
Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity,
a Biology, English and College Seminar course at Bryn Mawr College
- spring 2004
- Is There Life on Mars?
A Story About ... A Contemporary Chapter of a Story in Progress,
an excerpt of discussions and background from The Story of Evolution
course - January 2004
- Women, Sport, and Film,
a website supporting a course offering at Bryn Mawr College, with
extensive student contribution, with Amy Campbell and Mya Mangawang
- spring 2004
- Education as Applied
Neurobiology: Students and Teachers As Story Tellers/Listeners/Exchangers,
notes for a talk on Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education
- January 2004
- Thinking About Segregation
and Integration, an interactive exhibit where you can explore
why people cluster with others with similar characteristics -
December 2003
- Case Study: Some Thoughts
on Academic Structure (and Socio-Political Structures Generally):
A Biological Metaphor as an Alternative to Both State's Rights
and Federalism at Bryn Mawr College (and Elsewhere) - November
2003
- Emergence and Contingency/Purpose/Agency:
An Exploration of an Intersection Between History and Biology/Neurobiology,
a case study of complex systems and grant proposal by Tim Burke
and Paul Grobstein - October 2003
- Money, Homes
and Trust: Economic Diversity Issues at Wild Sage, an article
by Ellen Orleans to appear in Cohousing Anthology, 2004 - October
2003
- Story-Telling in (At
Least) Three Dimensions: An Exploration of Teaching Reading, Writing,
and Beyond, a working draft of an article by Anne Dalke and
Paul Grobstein - September 2003
- Making Sense of Diversity: An
Exploration and a companion site, Making
Sense of Diversity: A Conversation at Bryn Mawr College -
August 2003
- Psychoanalysis and
Neuroscience: Enemies, Acquaintances, Bedfellows? A Conversation - August 2003
- An Elephant in the
Room: What is Time? by Jan Trembley - August 2003
- Ursula K. Le Guin's Bryn Mawr Commencement
Address (1986) - July 2003
- Serendip's Bookshelves - July 2003
- Rachel Grobstein Gallery,
includes artwork for Serendip and more - July 2003
- Measure for Measure: An Artistic
Exploration of Eating Disorders, Body Image, and the Self,
by Janna Stern - July 2003
- Culture as Disability,
a previously published essay by Ray McDermott and Herve Varenne
in a new web version with an online forum - June 2003
- Theorizing
Interdisciplinarity, a paper in progress by Anne Dalke, Paul
Grobstein and Liz McCormack - June 2003
- Rush Middle School
visit - June 2003
- War is a Bad Metaphor,
a commentary by Paul Grobstein - June 2003
- Off the Shelf Chemistry, a set
of 18 chemistry activities for high school students, using consumer
products for experiments and not requiring a lab and specialized
equipment, developed by Bob Farber - June 2003
- Summer Institute information for 2003 now available - a series of two-week institutes offered during
the summer that bring together Bryn Mawr faculty and precollege
teachers - May 2003
- Random Serendip has been
expanded to include more than 3,500 pages. - May 2003
- A Vision of Science (and
Science Education) in the 21st Century: Everybody "Getting
It Less Wrong" Together, written for the first Dialogue
on The Changing Roles of Mathematics and Science in Society: "Science,
Technology, and Society: Ethical Awareness for Tomorrow's Leaders" - April 2003
- Hands-on Activities for Teaching
Biology to High School or Middle School Students, a set of
hands-on biology activities, developed by Ingrid Waldron, a member
of the Biology Department at the University of Pennsylvania, in
collaboration with both colleagues at Penn and K-12 teachers -
April 2003
- Playground, Serendip's fun interactive
area, has been expanded - April 2003
- Science & Spirit,
a continuing conversation for those interested in exploring common
ground of science and religion - April 2003
- The "Nature" of Desire,
a senior thesis on the neurobiology of love by Rachel Berman BMC
'01 - April 2003
- Transformation,
an exhibit of several dozen original watercolors by Sharon Burgmayer
in a virtual house and garden, has been expanded - April 2003
- Mary Wilson has published her latest poem, "The Deceiver" - March 2003
- Howard Hoffman ... On Life, an exhibition
of more than 100 original, whimsical watercolors with humorous life statements;
also, a link to a random
painting - March 2003
- Science and Education, a website for K-12 teachers,
college professors, and everyone interested in exploring ideas about teaching
and learning, has been expanded - March 2003
- Women, Sport, and Film, a website
supporting joint course offerings at Bryn Mawr College and Smith, with extensive
student contribution, with Amy Campbell and others - spring 2003
- Symposium: A Matter of Time, a series
of talks/discussions based loosely on the September
2002 issue of Scientific American - spring 2003
- Big Books
of American Literature: Gender, Race and Class Explored [GRACE], a (re-?)
turn to the grand old mid-19th-century American literature narratives, (re-?)
reading them through the lenses of contemporary theory and contemporary culture
- spring 2003
-
Philosophy
310: Ideals of Scientific Exploration and the Nature of its Objects, 2003 - examining aims of scientific explanation, the realist/anti-realist controversy
in the philosphy of science and the idea of growth of scientific knowledge
- spring 2003
-
Biology
202: Neurobiology and Behavior - spring 2003
- Biology
103: Basic Concepts - fall 2002
- On Being a "Lonely" Atheist - August, 2002
- The Physical and the Spiritual:
A Conversation About "How To Get Through the Veil", with Jeanne-Rachel
Salomon and conversation/forum - July, 2002
- The Brain's Images: Co-Constructing Reality and Self - Paper and Illustrated talk - May/July, 2002
- Transformations,
an art exhibit, with Sharon Burgmayer and conversation/forum - May, 2002
- Cognition and Consciousness, with Doug
Blank - spring 2002
- Women, Sport, and Film, a website
supporting joint course offerings at Bryn Mawr College and Smith, with extensive
student contribution, with Amy Campbell and others - spring 2002
-
Biology
202: Neurobiology and Behavior - spring 2002
- Mental Health: A Biopsychosocial
Perspective, a Praxis course web site, with Jim Martin and others - spring
2002
- Loopiness As a Pedagogical Methodology,
notes for a College Seminar Workshop at Bryn Mawr College, with Anne Dalke
- spring 2002
-
English
212: Thinking Sex: Representing Desire and Difference, 2002 -
examining our ability to put sexual experience into language, and whether
doing so is an expression of sexual (or some other kind of?) agency spring
2002
- Enhancing Connections: The K-16 Community
and Integrating Science in the Curriculum, resources supporting a Philadelphia
regional Project Kaleidoscope workshop, with Elizabeth McCormack and others
- spring 2002
- Building Two-Way Bridges: A Conversation
About Gender and Science, resources/forum supporting a Greater Philadelphia
Women's Studies Consortium Meeting, with Anne Dalke and others - spring 2002
- Language: A Conversation, resource
and discussion, with Eric Raimy and others - spring 2002
- Education, Science, and the Brain,
notes for an in-service day, Haverford School District - spring 2002
- Introductory Science: Experiments in
Bridging Cultures, notes for a contribution to a tri-college meeting on
science education - spring 2002
- Depression, or (Better?) Thinking
About Mood, notes for a contribution to the Women Living Well Seminar
at Bryn Mawr College - spring 2002
- The Biological Perspective on Mental Health, notes for three sessions of
a Praxis course on mental health at Bryn Mawr College - spring 2002
- Who's afraid of Emily Dickinson, or how
I learned to stop worrying and love the brain, Newsletter of the Psychoanalytic
Center of Philadelphia
- Getting it less wrong, the brain's
way: science, pragmatism, and multiplism. Invited chapter to appear in
a volume devoted to the philosophy of Michael Krausz - November 2001
- Public Policy and
Research Support, resource and discussion, with Xenia Morin - fall 2001
- Questions, Intuitions, Revisions: Telling
and Retelling Stories About Ourselves in the World, web site for college
seminar course which includes extensive student contribution, with Anne Dalke
and Liz Nutting - fall 2001
- Brain, Body, Mind, and
Soul: How Many of These Does One Need, and Why?, a discussion forum -
fall 2001
- Gustav Vigeland ... An Appreciation - summer, 2001
- Brain and Behavior Institute, 2001 -
summer 2001
- Science as Exploration Institute: Developing
Inquiry-Based Methods- summer 2001
- The Two Cultures: A Conversation,
a dialogue with scientists and humanists, spring 2001
- For 2001
- A new look and navigational scheme (see menu bar above)
- A new serendipitous tour of Serendip (click logo to left in menu bar)
- New major section pages (click topics in menu bar)
- New Welcome and Home pages
- New Playground, In the News, About Serendip, et al pages (click items
at top of menu bar)
- Comparative brain organization, exhibit
under development - December, 2000
- Mental Health, an evolving resource
base - December, 2000
- Ambiguous Figures, exhibit under development
- December, 2000
- Seeing More Than Your Eye Does, continued, a
Java applet to map the blindspot (requires Internet Explorer) - December,
2000
- From Random Motion to Order: Diffusion and
Some of its Implications, exhibit under development - December, 2000
- Exploring All Paths:
Collaborative Products and Processes, notes for a talk/exhibit on indeterminacy
in physics - December, 2000
- Parallel Changes in Thinking About
the Brain and About Education, summary figure for a talk - December, 2000
- Genes, Networks, Behavior, and Beyond: Thinking
Backwards About the Brain and Education, notes/figures/links for a talk
- December, 2000
- The Nature of Inquiry: Story Telling and Retelling
in the Sciences and Humanities, a course and conversation - December,
2000
- Biology - A Course and a Conversation -
December, 2000
- The Essential Link Between
Life and the Second Law of Thermodynamics (exhibit in progress) - November,
2000
- Brain Size and Evolution, notes/figures/links
for a talk - November, 2000
- Mary Wilson: Housekeeper/Poet/Story Writer - October, 2000
- Floating World - October, 2000
- Interactive Physics - September, 2000
- The Four Color Problem - September,
2000
- Index of Topics in Brain and Behavior
(updated) - August, 2000
- Genes, Brains, and Behavior (renovation) - August,
2000
- Time to Think? - August, 2000
- Playground (renovation) - August, 2000
- Bryn Mawr Summer Institutes for Philadelphia precollege
teachers - August, 2000
- Computers, Chaos, Robots, and Artificial
Intelligence Institute 2000 - August, 2000
- Science and Non-science:
Bridging the Two Culture Gap - July, 2000
- Diversity and Discovery Institute 2000: Science
and Inquiry Throughout the Curriculum - July, 2000
- Interactive Physics - July, 2000
- Brain and Behavior Institute 2000 - July,
2000
- Neurobiology and Behavior 2000 - June, 2000
- The Third Age in Paris - May, 2000
- Serendip's Togo Connection - March, 2000
- A Hands-On, Interactive Approach to
HTML - March, 2000
- Inquiry, Interaction, and Technology - February,
2000
- Learning, Working, and Playing in the Digital
Age, by John Seely Brown - December, 1999
- Simple Networks, Simple
Rules: Learning and Creating Categories - July, 1998
- Gathering Web Evidence to Think
About Education - June, 1998
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