Mary Dussault

Science Education Program Manager, Science Education Department

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 

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Mary Dussault is a science education program manager at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA), where she directs a number of national astronomy and science education projects. Through her exhibition and curriculum development work at the CfA, and her prior work at Boston's Museum of Science, Dussault has extensive experience researching and developing science learning experiences for a variety of settings: after-school environments and museum exhibitions, classroom and online learning settings, and teacher professional development programs. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Astronomy from Wellesley College, and a Master of Liberal Arts in History of Science from Harvard University Extension School.

 

Dussault is currently Principal Investigator for “YouthAstroNet” and for “Youth Capture the Colorful Cosmos,” two projects that engage pre-college learners in science practices while exploring astronomical images via their own personal use of the CfA’s MicroObservatory online telescopes (https://mo-www.cfa.harvard.edu/MicroObservatory/). She is also Principal Investigator for an NSF-funded research project to develop a next generation browser-based spectra visualization and analysis tool—The Spectrum Lab — that will enable students to pursue authentic inquiry projects using spectra from publicly available research databases.

 

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