Mark Sarvary – Einhorn Center for Community Engagement

Mark Sarvary

Director

Investigative Biology Teaching Laboratories

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences | Profile

Einhorn Center Activities

STORIES of TIDES, Engaged Opportunity Grant

Minor in Applied Science Communication and Public Engagement, Engaged Curriculum Grant

Spreading Science Literacy with Science Cafés, Engaged Opportunity Grant

Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program, 2018-19 Faculty Fellow in Engaged Scholarship

Fellows come from all over the university, bringing their particular passions and living out the public purpose of their discipline through teaching and researching in, with and for community.
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By engaging non-technical audiences in discussions about scientific discoveries, public science events have the potential to gradually increase community scientific literacy. Mark Savary is assessing the effect of Ithaca’s Science Cabaret on community science literacy over its more than 12 years of offering free, informal talks by graduate students and faculty. In collaboration with undergraduate students and Kitty Gifford, the program director and lead curator of the Science Cabaret, Savary is surveying the program’s effect on individuals, the community and local decision-making on science-related issues. In addition, Savary is developing how-to guides to assist other communities in starting and sustaining effective public science events.

Teaching with Community Partners, Engaged Opportunity Grant