O’Connell, Alumni Participate in National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Workshop
![Suzanne O’Connell, right, with Ed Laine ’69 and Kerry Brenner ’94 at a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop.](https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/files/2016/04/oconnell-760x570.jpg)
Suzanne O’Connell, professor of earth and environmental sciences, faculty director of the McNair Program, together with Ed Laine ’69 and Kerry Brenner ’94, attended a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NAS) workshop in Washington, D.C. on April 20-21. The three were involved in a report on Service Learning in the Geosciences.
O’Connell presented the report at the meeting.
Laine, recently retired from Bowdoin College, was on the meeting steering committee, while Brenner, a senior program officer in the Board on Science Education in the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (NAS) coordinated the meeting.
A summary of the workshop will be published as a book by the National Academies Press in fall 2016.