Carol Lynn Alpert Email & Phone Number

Science communication consultant, educator, coach.Clients include: Harvard Quantum Initiative, University of Massachusetts Lowell SWIMMER NSF Research Training Program, NSF Science and Technology Center for Integrated Quantum Materials, Science Foundation Ireland, Institute for Learning Innovation / Astronomy Society of the Pacific "Partnerships for Broader Impacts Design," Rowland Institute, MIT Translation Fellows Program, MIT Microsystems Technologies Laboratories.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Boston

We collaborate with STEM research labs to develop, produce, evaluate, and disseminate innovative public engagement and education experiences. These include Museum presentations, events and activities; science theater; films and other media. We also provide science communication training and coaching for researchers and their students - fostering career communication skills that enhance cross-disciplinary collaboration as well as outreach to public audiences. Current affiliations include...Co-Director, NSF Science and Technology Center for Integrated Quantum Materials (CIQM), headquartered at Harvard. ciqm.harvard.eduPI, NSF Collaborative Research: IDBR: QSTORM-AO - Wavefront-shaping light-sheet microscopy with photoswitchable quantum dots for superresolution imaging in thick tissue. qstorm.orgPublic engagement liaison: NSF Science and Technology Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines (CBMM), headquartered at MIT. cbmm.mit.eduRecent Affiliations...Founding co-PI, NSF Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network, headquartered at MOS. nisenet.org. (Now the National STEM Education Network.)Instructor, Research Communication Laboratory, Research Laboratory for Electronics, MIT.Co-PI, NSF Scalable Nanomanufacturing: Continuous Large-Scale Nanocomposite Production via Micellular Electrospray, based at Ohio State.Director, Public Engagement, NSF Center for Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications, headquartered at Harvard.PI, NIH (SEPA) Health Science Education Partnership, headquartered at MOS, with Massachusetts General Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Center, McLean Hospital, Whitehead Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard School of Medicine.--------------

Headed development and launch of the Museum's Current Science & Technology Center, drawing on prior experience in science journalism and television to create a space in the Museum where visitors could engage in hot science and technology topics, science in the news, science connected to current events, and cutting-edge research - through live presentations, video, interactive media, and short-term exhibits. 2002 Gold Muse Award, from the American Association for Museums Media & Technology Committee 2002 NIST-DOE "Best Practices in Science Communication" Award

PBS - WGBH/NHKJapan/Channel 4 UK: 13-hour series "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age" PBS - WGBH/NOVA: 10-hour series "Race to Save the Planet" with Meryl StreepPBS - WGBH/The American Experience: 4-hour series "The Kennedys" PBS - WGBH/Frontline: 4-hour series "Crisis in Central America" (Peabody Award)PBS - Chedd-Angier: "Scientific American Frontiers" with Alan Alda PBS - IMG: 4-hour series "The Nobel Legacy" WGBH: La Plaza specials on immigration, "In the Shadows" and "Lifeline" American Museum of Natural History: "Life in the Balance" with Tom Brokaw and four short films on biodiversity for the Hall of Biodiversity

A.B. Magna Cum Laude

High School Diploma