[406] National Academy of Sciences' Labov Brings Science-Education Effort to Campus Wednesday

Release date: April 11, 2011

News and Media Relations contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-5616 or jweiler@mtsu.edu

National Academy of Sciences’ Labov Brings
Science-Education Effort to Campus Wednesday

(MURFREESBORO) — The National Academy of Sciences’ Jay Labov will speak Wednesday, April 13, on “Teaching Controversial Topics in Undergraduate Science: The Critical Need for Science as a Liberal Art in the 21st Century.”
The lecture is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. in the Business and Aerospace Building’s State Farm Lecture Hall. A reception will start at 6:30.
Labov is the senior adviser for education and communications for NAS and the National Research Council. His appearance, which is free and open to the public, is part of the MTSU Distinguished Lecture Series.
Labov has directed production of 11 National Academies’ reports focusing on teacher education, advanced study for high-school students, kindergarten through eighth-grade education and undergraduate education.
He oversees the NAS’s efforts to confront challenges to teaching evolution in the nation’s public schools as well as the academy’s work with professional societies and state academies of science on education issues.
An organismal biologist by training, Labov spent 20 years on the Colby College biology department faculty before joining the NAS in 1997. He has received Kellogg, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Woodrow Wilson fellowship appointments.
His MTSU appearance is sponsored by the Distinguished Lecture Fund as well as the Colleges of Graduate Studies, Liberal Arts, Basic and Applied Sciences, and Education; Departments of Chemistry, Biology, Sociology and Anthropology, and History; the American Democracy Project; the Learning Teaching and Innovative Technologies Center; the MTSU SENCER Team; the MTSU WISTEM Center; and the Nashville Local Section of the American Chemical Society.

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Media welcomed.


Media note: A high-resolution jpeg photo of Jay Labov is available. To obtain, contact MTSU News and Media Relations’ Randy Weiler by calling 615-898-5616 or 898-2919.

In Brief

The National Academy of Sciences’ Jay Labov will speak Wednesday, April 13, on “Teaching Controversial Topics in Undergraduate Science: The Critical Need for Science as a Liberal Art in the 21st Century.”
The lecture is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. in the Business and Aerospace Building’s State Farm Lecture Hall. A reception will start at 6:30.



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