by Lev Horodyskyj | 3 May 2022 | News
3 May 2022 Lev Horodyskyj Founder We’re happy to premier our new podcast, Global.Science, this Thursday, May 5th. Done in collaboration with Dr. Fabia Battistuzzi, this podcast will explore the many diverse approaches towards science education and public...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 19 April 2022 | News
19 April 2022 Lev Horodyskyj Founder We’ve completed revamps across the website to prepare for a number of upcoming projects. We have a new About page with basic information about the organization. We’ve also updated our Personnel page, as we’ve...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 22 March 2022 | News
22 March 2022 Lev Horodyskyj Founder We are continuing to keep tabs on our colleagues in Ukraine, who remain safe in western Ukraine. Meanwhile, I am settling down here in Brazil where we’re starting to recruit students for our Amazon River schools project. We...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 1 March 2022 | News
1 March 2022 Lev Horodyskyj Founder Our thoughts and prayers are with our colleagues in Ukraine as they suffer under a brutal assault and indefensible invasion. We have been in regular contact with our faculty contacts, who are located in western Ukraine and mostly...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 18 January 2022 | Course Design
Negotiating International Classrooms My resolution passed. That’s pretty much all I remember from my Model UN days. That, and how nervous I was to get up in front of a crowd of other high school kids to propose a formal resolution to save the rain forests. The...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 11 January 2022 | News
11 January 2022 Lev Horodyskyj Founder Happy New Year everyone! I hope you’re excited for the upcoming year and all the potential that it holds. We’ve taken a well-deserved break during the holidays (while also pushing forward on a variety of new...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 30 November 2021 | News
30 November 2021 Lev Horodyskyj Founder Today is Giving Tuesday! Your support during the end of the year helps propel our work into the new year. We have a number of exciting projects lined up, from implementing Agavi in Amazon rain forest schools and...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 9 November 2021 | News
9 November 2021 Lev Horodyskyj Founder End-of-year giving is just around the corner. Mark your calendars for November 30th and December 13th-17th for matching opportunities through GlobalGiving! We have active projects in Ukraine, Indonesia, Brazil, and the US...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 28 September 2021 | News
28 September 2021 Lev Horodyskyj Founder As we kick off fall here in the northern hemisphere, it’s time for some updates on a slew of projects, including Agavi, Greenworks, and our recently re-awakened public outreach projects. Agavi On the Agavi front, we...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 3 August 2021 | Field Notes, University of the Virgin Islands
Lack of Curiosity Killed Schrödinger’s Cat Tags: US Virgin Islands | USA The grand finale of my modeling lab sequence at the University of the Virgin Islands in spring 2021 was going to be a 3D model of the orbitals of the hydrogen atom. Although often...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 15 June 2021 | Field Notes, University of the Virgin Islands
@Home Modeling Tags: US Virgin Islands | USA Imagine that you’re taking a movie-making course. On the first day, you learn that movie-making requires writing a script, auditioning actors, framing your shots, editing, audio remixing, special effects,...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 8 June 2021 | News
8 June 2021 Lev Horodyskyj Founder We’ve been busy behind the scenes over the past few months. First, a heartfelt thank you to all our new donors who joined us for the GlobalGiving Climate Action Campaign 2021 (we finished number 34) to help fund our Indonesian...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 8 June 2021 | Course Design
Rethinking Explaining Science One of the most aggravating statements for a scientist to hear is that any scientific idea is “just a theory”, as if a theory is a random half-baked guess. Of course, we jump to correct anyone who says this by describing how...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 24 March 2021 | News
24 March 2021 Lev Horodyskyj Founder This week, we’ve kicked off the next iteration of our Greenworks program. In this program, students from multiple universities work together to learn about the science behind various environmental challenges as well as...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 31 January 2021 | News
31 January 2021 Lev Horodyskyj Founder Today we celebrate Science Voices’ 2nd birthday! Over the past couple of years, we’ve completed teacher training in Ukraine and public outreach events with the Ak-Chin Indian Community in Arizona, USA. In the past tumultuous...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 12 January 2021 | Field Notes, University of the Virgin Islands
Home Labs Tags: US Virgin Islands | USA Labs. They are often a dreaded component of science courses. They tend to be long, highly technical, and not particularly creative either in terms of experimental approaches or report write-ups (not if you want a good grade,...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 5 January 2021 | News
5 January 2021 Lev Horodyskyj Founder Happy new year everyone! I hope the new year treats you better than the previous one did. This year as we work to develop our Agavi and Greenworks projects, we’ll also be working on building their associated communities. ...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 5 January 2021 | Field Notes, University of the Virgin Islands
Observation Journals Tags: US Virgin Islands | USA A new chapter begins at the University of the Virgin Islands on St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. Quality online science teaching has always been difficult, even more so during a global health emergency. What can make...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 1 December 2020 | News
1 December 2020 Lev Horodyskyj Founder Welcome to the revamped Science Voices website! We’ve been hard at work during the past year on pivoting in the face of global crisis. In our earlier incarnation, we were focused on training teachers in the developing...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 21 April 2020 | Field Notes, Universitas Khairun
Infrastructure Gap Tags: Indonesia My Fulbright field location, Khairun University in North Maluku, Indonesia, was a deliberate choice. When I initially applied for the program, I had intended to work on an island on the outskirts of mainstream Indonesian society,...
