Teaching & Outreach

Science Education/Outreach

I work with a couple of educational initiatives in Boston. I love the challenge and fun of communicating science to non-scientists.

- CfA public observatory nights - I’m always at the telescopes, and last year

I also ran observing nights for kids on first Thursdays. Check here for more

information, including some ideas for cloudy night activities.

- Museum of Science, Boston - I volunteer in the exhibit hall interpretation

program, doing physical science demonstrations and introducing visitors to critters

from the live animal center. I have also been a guest on their weekly podcast.

Introducing dazed youngsters to sunspots at the MoS

Teaching

Sometimes I venture into the realm of formal teaching as well. Here’s a list of my teaching activities so far:

- Teaching Fellow for A-36 (Observing the Sun & Stars), fall 2008

- Teaching Fellow for Ay 218 (Radio Astronomy) at Harvard, fall 2007

- Teaching Fellow for Ay 2 (Celestial Navigation) at Harvard, fall 2006

- Teaching Assistant at the Summer Science Program, summer 2005

- Yale College Dean’s Office Physics & Astronomy tutor, 2003-2005

Diversity

I’m also interested in issues of diversity in science, particularly those that are gender-related. To that end, I’m an astronomy department representative to HGWISE and I participate in an undergrad-grad women in science mentoring program. These are great fun and greatly rewarding.