Lives In Science

wgbh正在制作关于科学家生活的四个两小时的节目。这些节目将是连续播出的一系列杰出科学家的电视肖像节目的开头，这些节目将在黄金时段的科学系列节目NOVA中作为常规节目播出。前四个计划涵盖的科学家是伽利略·伽利莱、查尔斯·达尔文、玛丽·居里和珀西·朱利安。通过介绍这些重要人物的生活和科学事业，这些节目将增进公众对进化、太阳系、化学键和原子结构等基本科学概念的理解。最终，这些节目将给观众一个关于科学发现过程的新视角。这些项目的辅助教育支持将包括NOVA在线网站上的增强内容，以及NOVA教师指南中的课堂支持材料，该指南将邮寄给全国6万名教师。WGBH还与美国图书馆协会建立了外展合作伙伴关系，为家庭、青少年和成年人提供非正式的教育资源。这项特别外联计划的核心是一套图书馆资源包，将提供给所有16,000个公共图书馆。新星的执行制片人保拉·阿普塞尔将担任该项目的PI。咨询委员会成员包括：伊芙琳·福克斯·凯勒，麻省理工学院历史与科学哲学教授；肯尼斯·r·曼宁，麻省理工学院修辞学和科学史托马斯·梅洛伊教授；Noami Oreskes，加州大学圣地亚哥分校历史学副教授；普林斯顿大学生态与进化生物学系主任Daniel I. Rubenstein；和尼尔·d·泰森，弗雷德里克·p·罗斯海登天文馆馆长。

9901978APSELLWGBH is producing four, two-hour programs on the lives of scientists. These programs will be the initial programs in a continuing series of television portraits of distinguished scientists to be broadcast as regular features in the prime-time science series NOVA. The scientists to be covered in the first four programs are Galileo Galilei, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, and Percy Julian. By illuminating the lives and scientific careers of these important figures, the programs will enhance public understanding of such basic scientific concepts as evolution, the solar system, the chemical bond and the structure of the atom. Ultimately, the programs will give viewers a new perspective on the process of scientific discovery. Ancillary educational support for the programs will include enhanced content on the web site at NOVA Online and classroom support material in the NOVA Teacher's Guide that is mailed to 60,000 teachers nationwide. WGBH also has formed an outreach partnership with the American Library Association to create informal educational resources for use by families, youths, and adults. The core of this special outreach plan is a set of Library Resource Kits that will be available to all 16,000 public libraries. Paula Apsell, Executive Producer for NOVA, will serve as PI for the project. Members of the advisory committee include: Evelyn Fox Keller, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, MIT; Kenneth R. Manning, Thomas Meloy Professor of Rhetoric and of the History of Science, MIT; Noami Oreskes, Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego; Daniel I. Rubenstein, Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University; and Neil D. Tyson, Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium.