Carol Lynn Alpert
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Real name : Carol Lynn Alpert
C. L. Alpert joined the staff at the Museum of Science, Boston in 1999 to build the Current Science & Technology Center, an award-winning live stage, exhibit, cablecasting and multimedia production facility designed to engage public audiences with current research. She now leads the Museum's Strategic Projects Group, which fosters partnerships with research centers and produces live programming, media, and workshops. Alpert is a Co-PI of the NISE Network, and heads up the Network's new Research Center / Informal Science Education partnering efforts (RISE). The Strategic Projects group is also producing short videos and multimedia on topics in nanotechnology and nanomedicine. Alpert also serves as PI for an NIH-funded SEPA Health Science Education Partnership and as director for informal science education for the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center headquartered at Harvard and for the NSF Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing headquartered at Northeastern and UMass-Lowell. Before coming to the Museum of Science, Alpert developed and produced documentaries for the NOVA Science Unit, Frontline, the American Experience, Scientific American Frontiers, and the American Museum of Natural History. She earned her BA Magna Cum Laude in History of Science at Harvard University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, AAAS, ASTC, and the Cambridge Nanomaterials Advisory Committee.
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The Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ESI-0532536.