ASTE 2011 International Conference
January 19-22, 2011
Explore the Boundaries

 

 

The ASTE 2011 International Conference theme “Explore the Boundaries” challenges us all to examine the limits imposed by our existing knowledge and practices.  It highlights the need to find new ways to lower the barriers to innovation and to strengthen relationships with our partners in ways that reframe existing problems and open doors to new possibilities. 

Getting around in the skyways - You can go just about anywhere in downtown Minneapolis without ever needing to step outside.

Exhibiting, Advertising, Sponsorship and Commercial Workshop
 ASTE provides many options and opportunities for interaction between industry and our conference attendees. For more information, please see http://theaste.org/meetings/2011conference/commercialpartners

Submit a Proposal
Proposals were due by July 10, 2010.  Acceptance letters have been send out to the principal authors. If you have not received notification on your proposal, please contact Eugene Wagner at executivedirector@theaste.org.

Conference Workshops
Workshop proposal were due by April 30th.  Acceptance letter have been emailed out to the principal authors. If you have not received notification on your workshop proposal, please contact Kate Popejoy at kate.popejoy@uncc.edu .

Highlighted Events
Wednesday

  • Preconference commercial and peer reviewed workshops

  • Registration office opens at 4pm

  • Presider training

Thursday

  • Concurrent sessions

  • Keynote address

  • Welcoming reception

  • Fun run/walk

  • Presider training

Friday

  • Concurrent sessions

  • Keynote address

  • Committee meetings (Note: these meeting will take place in the morning)

  • WISE Evening Reception

Saturday

  • Concurrent sessions

  • Awards luncheon

Host Hotel and Reservations
 Hilton Minneapolis
1001 Marquette Avenue South 
Minneapolis, MN 55403-2440
Tel: 1-612-376-1000  
Fax: 1-612-397-4875

The ASTE room rate of $129 has been established for the conference. To make a reservation go to: http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/MSPMHHH-TSI-20110117/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG
If you call the hotel to make reservations our group code is TSI.

Keynote Speakers
Dr. Andresse St. Rose
Breaking through Barriers: How Research Can Inform Science Education

Dr. St. Rose is a research associate at the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and co-author of Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.  At AAUW, her work focuses on gender equity in education and the workplace and she has been a key contributor to AAUW publications that have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and others.  Prior to coming to AAUW, she worked as an academic counselor at Northeastern University in Boston, MA and taught high school math and biology.  Dr. St. Rose has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Hamilton College, a master’s degree from Boston College and earned her Ed.D. in education policy from George Washington University.  

Dr. Janet M. Dubinsky
Science Educators and Neuroscientists:  A Collaborative Agenda
Dr. Janet M Dubinsky, a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota (UMN), directs the BrainU professional development program for secondary science teachers.  Dr. Dubinsky won the 2009 Society for Neuroscience Science Educator Award and has served on the Society’s Public Education and Communication Committee. In 2008, she co-chaired the Minnesota P-16 Education Partnership Science Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Working Group, aligning K-12 Science Standards with the expectations of the workforce and higher education.   She teaches undergraduate and graduate neuroscience and runs a research program focusing upon metabolic compromise in neurodegenerative disease.  She chairs the UMN Neuroscience Outreach Committee which runs the Brain Awareness Week Program, Minnesota Brain Bee, and Brain Day at the State Fair.  In conjunction with the UMN Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Dr. Dubinsky currently holds a Science Education Partnership Award grant from the National Center for Research Resources, “B.R.A.I.N. to High Schools,” and an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funded Science Education Drug Abuse Partnership Award grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse to train high school science teachers in contemporary neuroscience using classroom experiments and inquiry pedagogy.  Dr. Dubinsky’s most recent science education publication addresses the need for neuroscientists and teacher educators to collaborate in bringing neuroscience to a teacher audience http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/30/24/8057.

Dining out
Minneapolis has many great restaurants near the host hotel.  Check it out at
http://www.minneapolis.org/

Conference Chairs
 George Davis, Minnesota State University-Moorhead, davisg@mnstate.edu
Gillian Roehrig, University of Minnesota, roehr013@umn.edu