[ASC-list] Public Lecture - The Science Centre of the Future
Glen Moore
gkm at uow.edu.au
Thu Sep 25 02:46:45 UTC 2008
Fee Public Lecture - 'The Science Centre of the Future'
10th October - 7.30pm
Robert 'Mac' West - Editor, Informal Learning Review
Bookings required - Call 02-42865000 (Kim) to RSVP
Science Centre and Planetarium
Innovation Campus (Fairy Meadow)
University of Wollongong
Mac West has been involved with informal education in a variety of museums
for thirty years. In addition to his extensive teaching experience in the
Biology Department of Adelphi University (NY) and the Department of
Geophysical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he has
chaired the Geology Department of the Milwaukee Public Museum (WI) and has
directed two major science museums: The Carnegie Museum of Natural History
(PA) and Cranbrook Institute of Science (MI).
He has been active as an AAM MAP site visitor, as an ASTC Full Member site
visitor, as an AAM accreditation evaluator, and as a consultant to museums,
scientific associations and funding agencies throughout the U.S., as well as
in China, India and Nepal. His background as a university teacher,
scientific researcher, and museum programmer and administrator equips him
uniquely to work with various issues ranging from feasibility, evaluation
and governance to finance and development to programs, exhibits and
collections. He oversees the Traveling Exhibitions Database for ILE, and
coordinates the twice-annual Traveling Exhibitions Roundtable at ASTC and
AAM meetings.
Mac has a B.A. in Geology from Lawrence College, an S.M. in Geophysical
Sciences and a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Chicago,
and did postdoctoral work at Princeton University. He received the Arnold
Guyot Prize from the National Geographic Society in 1981 for his
paleontologic research in the Canadian Arctic and was named Man of the Year
in Science in Pittsburgh for 1986 in honor of his efforts on behalf of The
Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Mac has published more than 130 papers
and abstracts on paleontology, museum science and science education. He
participated in Chamber of Commerce community leadership programs in
Pittsburgh and Detroit. He has served on the Board of Directors of the
Association of Systematics Collections, and the Association of
Science/Technology Centers, and was Vice President of the Association of
Science Museum Directors. He served as the U.S. natural history museum
representative on the Indo-U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture. He
currently serves on the boards of the National Center for Science Education
and the Visitor Studies Association. Mac is a charter member of The Museum
Group.
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