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The Joy of Learning and Sharing: Grand Challenges to Society and Scientists

Explore the vital role science plays in addressing global challenges such as population growth, climate change, and societal progression. Join the movement towards a more informed and engaged society for a sustainable future.

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The Joy of Learning and Sharing: Grand Challenges to Society and Scientists

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  1. www.scifun.org

  2. The Joy of Learning and the Joy of Sharing Professor Bassam Z. ShakhashiriWilliam T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin IdeaDirector, Wisconsin Initiative for Science LiteracyDepartment of ChemistryUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Friday, May 22, 2015 Khorana Bose Scholars Program Chicago, Ilinois

  3. Grand Challenges to Society and to Scientists Help sustain Earth and its people in the face of: • Population Growth • Finite Resources • Malnutrition • Spreading Disease • Deadly Violence • War • Climate Change • Denial of Basic Human Rights, especially the right to benefit from scientific and technological progress

  4. What differentiates our society now from all previous societies?

  5. Science

  6. Industrial RevolutionElectronic Revolution

  7. Science-rich SectorScience-poor Sector

  8. ScientificCompetenceScienceLiteracy Scientific Expertise

  9. Science Literacy is for Everyone Chemists, Artists, Humanists, All Professionals, The General Public, Youth and Adults Alike

  10. Science is Vital to Democracy

  11. “Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.” >> Abraham Lincoln

  12. Respect Trust Confidence

  13. CONNECTIVITY

  14. Family Friends Neighbors Community

  15. Grand Challenges to Society and to Scientists Help sustain Earth and its people in the face of: • Population Growth • Finite Resources • Malnutrition • Spreading Disease • Deadly Violence • War • Climate Change • Denial of Basic Human Rights, especially the right to benefit from scientific and technological progress

  16. Grand Challenges to Society and to Scientists “Science and society have what is essentially a social contract that enables great intellectual achievements but comes with mutual expectations of benefiting the human condition and protecting our planet.”

  17. “In a free and civil society people must be virtuous as well as technically skilled.” “We must assure that the next generation of scientists is both highly skilled technically and properly educated to carry on their scientific and educational work for the common good of society.”

  18. The Strongest Forces in Society Religion Science

  19. Evolution Climate Change

  20. Our planet has changed and continues to do so. Winters have gotten milder.

  21. Our planet has changed and continues to do so. It’s gotten warmer locally.

  22. Our planet has changed and continues to do so. Ice has melted. Grinnell Glacier, Glacier Nat’l Park 1940 2006

  23. Our planet has changed and continues to do so. Human activities change the composition of the atmosphere.

  24. ACS Climate Science Toolkit Which gas is responsible for the largest fraction of the Earth’s atmospheric greenhouse warming effect? A. methane B. ozone C. water vapor D. carbon dioxide

  25. ACS Climate Science Toolkit Tools to better understand and communicate climate science www.acs.org/climatescience

  26. Scientist-Citizen

  27. “Is it enough for a scientist simply to publish a paper? Isn't it the responsibility of scientists, if you believe that you have found something that can affect the environment, isn't it your responsibility to actually do something about it, enough so that action actually takes place? …If not us, who? If not now, when?” >> F. Sherwood Rowland

  28. Scientist-Citizen

  29. SCIENTIST-CITIZEN

  30. www.scifun.org

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