Science as Performance: A Proactive Strategy to Communicate and Educate through Theater, Music and Dance

该项目的主要目标是通过创新的方法将多学科的科学带给普通公众，并通过鼓励科学素养和引导越来越多的人从事科学工作的方法，向初中及以上年龄的年轻人--包括少数族裔学生和女孩--介绍科学。实现这一目标的创新媒介是科学和表演艺术的结合，作为通过艺术呈现科学的一种方式。其中一个关键因素是利用目前在科学和艺术系工作的教职员工的可观技能和人才，还利用高校公共表演和会议空间的基础设施，以及当地环境中的校外设施和人才。该项目还将表演艺术的创造力与科学的项目管理工具结合在一起，以确保实现目标的进展是可以理解的，也是可衡量的。

The primary objective of this project is to bring multi-disciplinary science to the general public through innovative methods, and to introduce young people from junior high school age and older - including minority students and girls - to science via methods that will encourage scientific literacy and lead increasing numbers of them into scientific endeavors. The innovative medium used to accomplish this objective is a combination of science and the performing arts, as a way of presenting science through the arts. A key ingredient is to make use of the considerable skills and talents of faculty and staff presently in science and the arts departments, and also utilizes the infrastructure of public performance and meeting spaces at colleges and universities, as well as the off-campus facilities and talent within their local environments. This allows this project to become national in scope.This project also brings together the creativity of the performing arts with the project management tools of science, in order to insure that progress towards the goals are understandable as well as measurable.