COPUS Student Hub
Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science
The Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS) is a growing grassroots network of universities, scientific societies, science centers and museums, government agencies, advocacy groups, media, schools, educators, businesses, and industry—basically, anyone who cares about science and is concerned about national scientific literacy. All participants agree to the following characterization of science:
• Science is a way of learning about what is in the natural world and how it works
• Science involves a process for testing ideas
• Science proposes broad natural explanations for how the natural world works
and tests those explanations by making observations of the natural world
• Scientific explanations must be predictive and hence, falsifiable or testable
• Science is an intellectual and social endeavor
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| Goals of COPUS
• To develop a shared appreciation of science and its contributions to the
quality of life.
• To inform and engage the public in and about science, its process and nature.
• To make science more accessible to everyone .
To find out more about COPUS or the COPUS Student Hub, email Kendra Rand at krand@aip.org. |
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