The Institute participates in RockEDU, the university’s nationally known science outreach program for middle and high school students and teachers. This outreach initiative sponsors year-round programming, including class visits, research skill-building workshops, accessible science-themed webinars, online science resources, mentorship training, an annual family science festival, and a very competitive, on-campus summer research program for high school students. Since the onset of the pandemic, RockEDU has created special freely available learning resources focused on infectious diseases and the efforts to combat them.
The SNF Institute is collaborating with iMEdD (incubator for Media Education and Development) to create and promote content. iMEdD is an international organization dedicated to supporting transparency, credibility, and independence in journalism.
In addition, an Institute webinar series will be modeled on the university’s COVID-19 webinars, Virtual Discussions with Genuine Experts, which are noted for providing reliable scientific information to a public that is too often bombarded by dangerous misinformation.
