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Exhibit 3 at the Cambridge Citywide Senior Center
The Stories in Science Team recently held its 3rd gallery at the Cambridge Citywide Senior Center in Central Square, Cambridge, MA on Aug 10, 2019. The location selection was strategic in that it engaged a community that is typically overlooked...
Stories in Science Exhibit 2 in New York City
As part of the Cultivating Ensembles in STEM Education and Research Conference (CESTEMER) in New York City, Stories in Science held an exhibit at the New York Institute of Technology between June 20-22, 2019. B CESTEMER Mission Statement “The conference...
Our First Stories in Science Gallery
On Apr 14, 2019 as part of the Cambridge Science Festival, we held our first ever gallery exhibit at the Green Room in Somerville. The exhibit showcased a small subset of the stories that highlight the current diversity of stories in...
Featured in the Top 100 Science Blogs!
We are thankful to be included in FeedSpot’s List of Top 100 Science Blogs! See the full list here: https://blog.feedspot.com/science_blogs/
First Stories in Science Workshop!
Our co-founder Fanuel Muindi was invited by Station1, a new nonprofit education institution based in Lawrence Massachusetts, to lead a workshop about the meta-narrative in science to its 18 summer students. The workshop took place on July 30, 2018. The active...
Parker River Half Marathon Fundraiser
On July 8 2018, our co-founder Fanuel Muindi ran the Parker River Half Marathon to support our work at Stories in Science. The $50 we raised will go towards our overall effort to enhance the website and future events to...
Sunshine Blogger Award Nomination
The award is driven entirely by the community, passed from blogger to blogger in recognition of their inspiring, creative and motivational blogs. Each nominee passes it on to 11 of their favorite bloggers, and round and round it goes
Celebrating 100 Stories in Science!
On June 8, 2018, the Stories in Science team published its 100th story authored by Dr. Qaali Hussein. The journey took almost 1.5 years and we are very excited about the next 100 stories and beyond. We are in this...
Science Seeker Aggregation
We are happy to receive word that Science Seeker is now aggregating our publications. This is an honor and a small encouragement to keep going! You will now notice that we have added the Science Seeker badge to our website....
New Feature: User Reading list
The number of stories in our database will continue to increase with time. As such, it is important to keep track of the stories you read or want to read at a later time. By creating an account, you will...
Meeting with NIH BEST Consortium
As described on their website, “BEST (Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training) is an effort by 17 institutions to explore ways of improving biomedical career development. A fraction of biomedical PhDs will take a tenure-track faculty position, so training programs are...
Year in Review – 2017
It has been an exciting first year for Stories in Science. We are now publishing between 1-2 stories and we anticipate this rate to increase in the next year. We have been blessed with invitations to conferences and meetings both...
Journal of Stories in Science: ISSN# 2575-5129
We applied for an ISSN number several weeks ago and recently heard back with our own number! What is an ISSN? Well, the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is ‘an internationally accepted code which identifies the title of serial publications.’ It...
Invitation to UNESCO’s International Symposium on STEM Education
We were invited to attend and present at UNESCO’s International Symposium and Policy Forum on “Cracking the Code: Girls’ Education in STEM” in Bangkok between Aug 28-30. This event brought together nearly 350 delegates from over 70 countries including: the...
The first stories in science book is published!
We are thrilled to announce that our first book Journeys in Science: Inspiring the Next Generation has finally been published by Elsevier! The book is a conversation between Drs. Fanuel Muindi and Jessica W. Tsai which examines the STEM education pipeline and discusses important...
Invitation to the Derek Bok Center at Harvard University
The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard invited us to discuss our work at The STEM Advocacy Group and talk about the Stories in Science project.
Invitation to ComSciCon 2017 at Harvard University
We were excited to be invited to serve on a panel at the 5th annual ComSciCon National Workshop that took place on June 8th-10th, 2017 in Cambridge, MA. The program for this year’s workshop is available here.
Stories in Science: An Interview with Elsevier
– by Mary Preap (Associate Acquisitions Editor at Elsevier | Originally published on SciTech Connect Elsevier on May 11 2017 – Stories in Science is an online platform where people can share stories about their relationship with science and read stories that have been...