The Committee on the Public Understanding of Science or Copus was founded in 1985 by the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS), the...
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the general public or lay society as a whole to scientific knowledge and organization. This concept is also known as public understanding of science (PUS)...
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Café Scientifique (redirect from Science Cafe)
on the Public Understanding of Science (organised by the Royal Society and the British Association for the Advancement of Science), thought that the public...
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upshot of the publication of the report was the creation of the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS), a collaboration between the British...
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the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science, or COPUS, to promote public understanding of science. Professor Sir George Porter became the president...
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It is also a subfield of political science where studies of policy processes and the structures, functions, and behavior of public institutions and their...
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children's writer Committee on the Public Understanding of Science, UK organisation Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science, US organisation COPUS...
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pulmonary disease COPE – (a) U.K. Committee On Publication Ethics COPUS – (p) U.K. Committee on the Public Understanding of Science cor – (s) Cornish language...
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George Porter (redirect from George, Baron Porter of Luddenham Porter)
president of the British Association in 1985 and was the founding Chair of the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS). He gave the Romanes...
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David Robert Grimes (category Date of birth missing (living people))
range of research interests and is a vocal advocate for increased public understanding of science. He was the 2014 recipient of the Sense about Science/Nature...
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Center for Inquiry (redirect from Robert Green Ingersoll Memorial Committee)
CFI announced that it was merging with the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. Through the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), and its...
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Walter Bodmer (category Presidents of the British Science Association)
starting the movement for the public understanding of science. The report was instrumental in leading to the creation of the Committee on the Public Understanding...
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Science education is the teaching and learning of science to school children, college students, or adults within the general public. The field of science...
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Lewis Wolpert (category South African science writers)
the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science between 1994 and 1998. He was the recipient of the Michael Faraday Medal and Prize for science communication...
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Somerset Space Walk (category Science and technology in Somerset)
positions and sizes of the planets. Funding for the project came from the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS), the initial advertising...
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Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of...
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contributions to the public's understanding of science and scientific principles" and to "reward sound science television programming". The Snuffed Candle...
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The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is a standing committee of the U.S. Senate charged with leading foreign-policy legislation and...
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Eugenie Scott (category Science activists)
published in Science entitled "Public Acceptance of Evolution", an analysis of polling on the acceptance of evolution from the last 20 years in the United States...
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The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs is an international organization that brings together scholars and public figures to work toward reducing...
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contributions to public knowledge of engineering and science. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy House Committee on Science, Space, and...
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The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) is a non-governmental, international scientific organization. IASC was founded in 1990 by representatives...
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Pseudoscience (redirect from Pseudo science)
from the original on 22 August 2010. National Science Board (2006). "Chapter 7: Science and Technology Public Attitudes and Understanding: Public Knowledge...
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awards the medal. Unlike other prizes awarded by the society, the committee has not always publicly provided a rationale. This has occurred five times—in...
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This list of politics awards is an index to articles that describe notable awards related to politics. It includes awards for political science, for governance...
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Carl Sagan (redirect from Sagan (unit of measurement))
Archived from the original on March 2, 2020. Retrieved March 2, 2020. "Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science". Council of Scientific Society...
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Richard Dawkins (category Simonyi Professors for the Public Understanding of Science)
zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science at the University...
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consensus, and in an effort to manipulate public policy. Many factors can act as facets of the politicization of science. These can range, for example, from...
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the 'Public Service Advertising Improvement Advisory Committee' on February 7, 1983, the name was changed to the current name on July 1, 1988. As of 2020...
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The March for Science (formerly known as the Scientists' March on Washington) was an international series of rallies and marches held on Earth Day. The...
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