{"id":137,"date":"2013-02-11T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/?p=137"},"modified":"2017-05-24T21:54:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T02:54:27","slug":"the-broader-impacts-group-kickoff-at-the-mit-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/the-broader-impacts-group-kickoff-at-the-mit-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Broader Impacts Group Kickoff at the MIT Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday February 11, the Broader Impacts Group hosted a Cambridge Kickoff meeting at the MIT Museum. The meeting featured speaker John Bohannon, a creative communicator of science who has engaged the public not only via science writing, but through the cutting-edge medium of dance. About 25 participants attended, coming from a range of MIT departments, from earth science to science writing, and backgrounds, from students to museum curators. Our BIG officers- Sarah, Alice, Guy- and John Bohannon led an active discussion on the merits, challenges and methods of science communication, and on potential collaborations that might arise from a BIG&#8217;s presence in Cambridge. Many ideas made their rounds around the room, including events with the MIT Museum and MIT&#8217;s Public Service Center. Stay tuned for more to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday February 11, the Broader Impacts Group hosted a Cambridge Kickoff meeting at the MIT Museum. The meeting featured speaker John Bohannon, a creative communicator of science who has engaged the public not only via science writing, but through the cutting-edge medium of dance. About 25 participants attended, coming from a range of MIT&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}