developing the outreach component for a CAREER proposal

Some ideas:

Public presentations

Press release on your research on public or public scientific newspapers/magazines

Educating teachers/students in local schools

Special projects for teachers

Educating local high school students for National Competitions

Siemens-Westinghouse Science CompetitionIntel Science Talent SearchPA Science Fair

Siemens-Westinghouse Science CompetitionIndividual effort (12th grade): local finalists (30), national finalists (6)Team effort (11th or 12th grade): at least two students.

Intel Science Talent SearchNational semifinalists (120), finalists (30) and placement final competition in D.C.

PA Science Fair

Challenge:

Lack of tradition.Try: High schools in Parkland, East Penn and Southern Lehigh.

ten high school students, 6 of them being underrepresented groups (women or minority students), have worked with the PI and became national (Intel or Siemens-Westinghouse) competition finalists/semifinalists, and then were able to enter some of the best universities:

Brandon Imber, Intel national Finalist, top 30 nationwide, now at Harvard; Clara Tow, Intel national semi-finalist, now at Cornell; Mike Bigesno and Matthew Cons, Siemenz-Westinghouse regional finalists, top 30 nationwide, now at MIT and Johns Hopkins, respectively; Heidi Shieh, Siemenz-Westinghouse national finalist, top 6 nationwide, now at Harvard; Dorothy Jean (now at Yale) & Heidi Hsieh, Siemens-Westinghouse regional finalists, top 30 nationwide).

Press Reports about My research:“Singin’ the Blue”, Chemistry – American Chemical Society’s Award-Winning Publication, pp.4, Winter 2003. (USA)“Magnetic Molecules Take Better Pics – Sharper Scans Out of the Blue”, New Scientist, vol. 175, issue 2359, pp. 17, September 7, 2002 (U.K.).“Molybdän und Brombeersoße”, Wissenschaft-online (German edition of the Scientific American), August 28th, 2002.“Rounding Up Nanoclusters”, Materials Today, January 2004 (U.K.).“Unique Molecular Structure Offers Insight Into Nanoscale Self-assembly, Solution Chemistry”, Science Daily, Nov. 6th, 2003 (USA).“Mo’s Better Blues”, Reactive Reports, Issue #35, 2004 (U.K.).“Researchers Track New Solute State”, Tcetoday, September 10th, 2002 (U.K.).“Old Chemical Enigma Solved”, Popular Mechanics, pp. 34, December Issue, 2002 (USA).“Molecular Structure Offers Insight Into Nanoscale Self-Assembly”, Space Daily, Nov. 7th, 2003 (USA).“Metal-oxide nanowheels roll up into vesicles”, NanoTechWeb, Nov. 7th, 2003 (USA).Science & Technology Trends, Dec. 2003 (Japan).“Molibdénkékkel”, Nepszabadsag (Hungary), January 18th, 2003.“Blue Water Mystery Solved – Unique Structures in Molybdenum Blue Solutions Reveal Possible New Solute State”, Brookhaven Bulletin, Vol. 56, No. 33, September 27th, 2002.“Giant Nanomolecules Discovered by Accident”, Brookhaven Bulletin, Vol. 56, No. 9, March 22nd, 2002.“Open-Sesame Time for Nanocapsules – Nanocavity Skeleton Altered by Substitution of Metal ions”, Chemie.de News Center, May 24th, 2007.“Iron Soccerball Unstitched”, SpectroscopyNOW.com, June 1st, 2007.“Making a Molecular Blackberry”, APS Annual Report, Advanced Photon Sources, Argonne National Laboratory, 2008.