Along with co-authors Gina Childers, David Osmond, and Stacy Britton, SLRG’s own Donna Governor has published a new article in Research in Science Education, a prestigious science education research journal.

Science cafés create open, public forums to promote the exchange of ideas between science experts and the public. This innovative research merged perspectives on informal learning
environments based on self-determination theory and the contextual model of learning. In fact, most science cafés attendees said that knowledge and learning;
fulfilled personal needs, but social interactions, with other attendees and science experts also factored heavily in the decision to attend. Exciting work as we seek to understand how to better engage the public in the scientific enterprise!