The first annual BAI was held at the UC Santa Cruz campus from August 16 through August 19, 2003. Sixty CILS faculty, students, and practitioners met to share research questions on August 15, and were joined at a reception that evening by CILS advisors and guests representing related research, policy, and practitioner communities. The goal of this first BAI was to establish a shared sense of the variety of disciplinary, theoretical, and practitioner perspectives of CILS, to explore the possibilities for shared research or practice, and to develop a common identity and sense of "Center-ness" for CILS.

The BAI featured keynote speakers Judith Ramaley, Assistant Director, National Science Foundation, Education and Human Resources Directorate and Bruce Alberts, President National Academy of Sciences. Both spoke about the need to better understand how people learn science in and out of school to develop not only scientific knowledge and leadership, but also scientific literacy in schools and in the public.

2003 Program (PDF file - 760k)
2003 Schedule
Keynote Presentation - Bruce Alberts
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