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Overview
Below is quick thumbnail overview of the 12th National STS Meeting and
Annual Conference for NASTS.
- Details of Plenary presentations can be accessed directly from the
conference home page.
- For a condensed listing of all Concurrent Sessions, go to the home
page and click on "Lectures". For a more detailed description of
all conference activities and sessions, click on "Schedule". See
important information concerning session numbering sequence,
assembly and location codes below.
- For additional information, e-mail jmwilkes@wpi.edu (John Wilkes)
or call (508) 831-5578.
THURSDAY 6 MARCH 1997 (Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel)
4:00 - 6:00pm STS Orientation Workshops
7:30 - 8:30pm PLENARY I: James Hamos, Director of the University
of Massachusetts Medical Center Office of Sci. Educ.
FRIDAY 7 MARCH 1997 (Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel)
8:00 - 8:30am WELCOMING REMARKS:
John Wilkes, WPI; Bob Yager, President, NASTS
8:30 - 9:30am PLENARY II: Dava Sobel, author of "Longitude"A
10:00-11:00am CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1.*
11:15-12:15pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS 2.*
12:15- 1:30pm LUNCH SPEAKER: Harry Cox, Harvard Divinity School
1:30 - 2:30pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS 3.*
2:45 - 3:45pm PLENARY III: Jerry Schubel, Pres., New Eng. Aquarium
4:15 - 5:15pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS 4.*
evening BANQUET: John Truxal, "Information Tech. & Ergonomics"
SATURDAY 8 MARCH 1997 (Location: WPI)
9:00 -10:00am PLENARY IV: Mary McCaulley, Center for Applications
of Psychological Type
10:30-11:30am CONCURRENT SESSIONS 5.*
11:45-12:45pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS 6.*
1:00 - 2:15pm NASTS Assembly Luncheon
2:30 - 3:30pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS 7.*
4:00 - 5:00pm PLENARY V: James Kunstler, author of "The Geography
of Nowhere"
SUNDAY 9 MARCH 1997 (Location: WPI)
9:00 - 10:00am CONCURRENT SESSIONS 8.*
10:15- 10:30am NASTS Membership Mtg./Closing remarks by Bob Yager, Pres.
10:30- 11:30am PLENARY VI: Keith McCormick, Comprehensive College
Preparation Services
11:45am Special breakout sessions following McCormick's Plenary
Planning for STS-13
--------SESSION NUMBERING SEQUENCE, LOCATION AND ASSEMBLY CODES--------
Session descriptions include session number, type (paper, panel, workshop,
or roundtable discussion), assembly, and location in accordance with the
following:
SESSION NUMBER PREFIX: Date/Time | SESSION NUMBER SUFFIX: Assembly
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1.* Fri 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | *.0 Values & Religion [V&R]
2.* Fri 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | *.1 Interdisciplinary Scholarship
3.* Fri 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | & Research [IR/S]
4.* Fri 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM | *.2 Applied Science, Technology
| & Engineering [T&E]
5.* Sat 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | *.3 Public Policy [PP]
6.* Sat 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM | *.4 Education-Curriculum [E]
7.* Sat 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM | *.5 Education-Biology [E]
| *.6 Education-Elementary [E]
8.* Sun 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | *.7 Education-WPI/Learning Styles [E]
| *.8 Education-Tchr. Educ./Internet [E]
| *.9 Education-General [E]
Note: A second decimal place in an assembly number indicates more than one
presentation for a given assembly during that time period. (e.g. 2.41, 2.42)
SESSION LOCATION INFORMATION:
Thursday and Friday Sessions/Activities will be at Worcester's Crowne
Plaza Hotel in the following rooms:
Worcester ballroom [Wor] Vermont room [VT]
Springfield ballroom [Spr] Massachusetts room [MA]
Boston ballroom [Bos] Maine room [ME]
Cambridge ballroom [Cam] Rhode Island room [RI]
New York room [NY] Connecticut room [CT]
New Hampshire room [NH] Board room
Saturday and Sunday sessions will be held on the campus of WPI
(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) in the following buildings:
Atwater Kent Labs [AK] Salisbury Labs [Sal]
Fuller Labs [Ful] Stratton Hall [Str]
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