Education & Outreach

Education

CSPO takes seriously the long-term value of promoting outcome-based science policy through education and research opportunities. We have already launched programs that bring post-doctoral scholars, graduate research assistants, and undergraduate interns to the Consortium to participate in research projects and experience the federal policy-making process directly. We have implemented a module for Arizona State University graduate students working in science and engineering to learn about science in society through lectures, seminars, and direct participation in policy activities in Washington, DC. These programs aim at expanding the number of scientists, decision makers, and other citizens who can participate in the development of outcome-based science policies.

Outreach

Central to CSPO's activities is fostering dialogue among various stakeholders in the science policy process, and disseminating the Consortium's ideas and products in a wide variety of venues and media. Through its outreach activities, the Consortium is beginning to build a community of researchers, analysts, and policy makers unified by their involvement in outcome-based science policy. Using our website, conventional and electronic newsletters, briefings, and other mechanisms, in combination with our personal interactions with policy makers at the national and state levels, we are committed to being at the center of national discourse on science, technology, and society.