STEAM stands for \;Science\,&n bsp\;Technology\, \;Art\, and \;Math. This year\, we are joined by a special group of women who are leaders\, educators\, researche rs\, and creators in the STEAM world. Don't miss out engaging with these b rillant thinkers as they share their journey through a traditionally male- dominated industry and how their work has contributed to communities\, glo bally. \;
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\nFiction-Science Pattern Mapping in L iterary STEM
\nScientists have ma de amazing discoveries about processes and forces in nature. But some phen omena\, such as time dilation\, quantum entanglement\, and wave-particle d uality\, are difficult if not impossible to conceptualize. How should we c ommunicate the complex and counterintuitive&mdash\;whether to colleagues\, students\, or the public? Dr. Trauvitch proposes \;that we do so with a tool that is not an instrument like a microscope\, nor a machine like a particle collider\, but a \;rhetorical \;device: fiction.
\nFiction opens the door to confounding natur al phenomena through a process of fiction-to-science pattern mapping\,&nbs p\;or fi-sci\, for short. \; The fi-sci model runs on analogy-making: it involves identifying commonalities between works of fiction and science processes. Fi-sci analogies suggest that \;our \;capacities to pe rceive strange scientific phenomena can be enhanced by&mdash\;may sometime s turn on&mdash\;our experiences with fiction. As a perceptual framework t hat spurs us to see things anew\, fi-sci pattern mapping has an extraordin ary potential to power students' interdisciplinary fluency and\, beyond ac ademia\, galvanize science communication and accessibility. \; \;< /p>\n
About Dr. Rhona Trauvitch: \;
\nRhona T rauvitch\, Ph.D.\, is an associate teaching professor at Florida Internati onal University\, specializing in cross-disciplinary analogical reasoning at the intersection of literature and STEM. Trauvitch developed the \; fiction&rarr\;science\, or fi-sci\, pattern mapping model\, demonstrating that fictionality has the rhetorical power to promote science accessibilit y and understanding\; her monograph Fi-Sci: Avatars of Science in Fict ion is forthcoming from the Ohio State University Press. The pedagogi cal application of Trauvitch&rsquo\;s research is led by FIU&rsquo\;s \;Science &\; Fiction Lab\, of which she is Founding Director. She has been awarded a $150\,000 Humanities Initiatives grant from the National En dowment for the Humanities (NEH) and a $400\,000 Improving Undergraduate S TEM Education grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in support of the Lab&rsquo\;s projects.
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\nUpcoming talks: \;\n
Wednesday\, Se
ptember 23\, 6-7pm
Dr. Rebecca Clark\, The Past &\; Future of Human-Environment
al Interaction in Florida
Wednesday\, September 30\, 6-7pm \;
Dr. Katarzyna Balug\,
This program is made possible by the Broward Public Library Foundation.
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A Service of the Broward Cou nty Board of County Commissioners. \;
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