ESF Take our Kids to Work Day

You might have made “hand mold” paper during Kids’ Day—but how does that get scaled up for the paper we use everyday?

How It's Made: Paper | Explained by Paul Sausville Our paper engineering students learn how to make paper at Walters Hall! Here, student Paul Sausville takes us through the process. _____Keep up with us 🌱 I...

Summer soccer at Schiller park

Guessing game: can you identify these ESF spaces? Can you name all the ESF employees and alumni depicted?

Hey, older and former Kids Day kids! You can come back tomorrow for a completely different set of sessions than yesterday!

Our annual Girls' Summit will return TOMORROW at SUNY ESF 🌿

This event will feature a series of workshops, a keynote address, and a women in business panel focused on opportunities in science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math!

WHEN: Saturday, April 20 | 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

WHERE: SUNY ESF (GATEWAY)
1 Forestry Dr. Syracuse, NY 13210

WHO: Grades 5th-10th

COST: $5.00
Participants can pay at the door. Walk-ins welcome!

Inspire young minds early by registering today at www.ywca-syracuse.org/girls-summit-2024

🗣 For more information, contact Caitlyn Copfer at 315-424-0040 or [email protected]

Water is important for many things. Our faux water is hard to keep in the pipeline-how much harder for the real thing?

Multidisciplinary discussion of climate change, with a 7 generation look( forward or back) depicted in zine form. With SUNY ESF Landscape Architecture’s Jean Yang andSUNY ESF Environmental Studies’s Maddy Nyblade

Deconstruction of PCs with ITs Jenn Webb

Hidden in Plain Light with SUNY ESF Chemistry. After checking out how sun screen blocks UV light, kids are making bracelets with a few UV sensitive beads, and a few others to make them all different

has begun! scientific Method with Dr Gary Scott. What do you think will happen? What did happen? What might have caused the difference? What should we try next?

Eclipse glasses are made of mixed material and do not belong in your home recycling bin. But, they may be reusable if they don't have scratches or holes.

City of Syracuse - Office of the Mayor is holding a citywide collection effort for donations. Way to go! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Solvay Public Library is accepting eclipse glasses for donations to areas preparing for future eclipses, if you’re looking for a drop-off point.

Frameology Optical on Bridge Street has posted that they’ll take them.

SUNY ESF is setting up donation boxes for their students. ♻️

Students at SU can drop them off at E.S. Bird Library at Syracuse University for an upcoming donation.

Three cheers for the Museum of Science and Technology in Syracuse where glasses used during their 2024 Solar Eclipse Festival could be returned by guests for a donation to South America for an annular solar eclipse in October. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Shout out in the comments for other groups that did the same or are accepting drop-offs!

Inquire with Astronomers Without Borders program if you have a large number of glasses and would like to ask about shipping them for reuse. By chance, if you're heading to Albany or Rochester soon, Warby Parker stores are also collecting them for AWB.

Reduce - Reuse - Recycle

Readily for the eclipse? Instructions for pinhole cameras and projectors

Bring the Solar Eclipse Home | KiwiCo People have been fascinated by eclipses for at least 5,000 years — and they haven't gotten old yet! Eclipses occur when the Moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth. This blocks the Sun's light, casting a moon shadow on the surface of Earth below. Very rarely, the Sun and the Moon line up pe...

Want to learn how to plant a tree? Join us for a tree planting workshop at Thornden Park in Syracuse May 14. Attendees will learn how to correctly plant a tree, the different ways young trees come from nurseries, and most importantly – how to take care of a newly planted tree to help it through its first year.

ℹ For more information and to register: https://nysufc.org/releaf-workshops/

A nod to ESF’s history, in honor of women’s history month

In honor of International Women's Day, we're sharing some facts about the history of women at ESF. Thanks to PhD student Autumn Elniski for sharing her research on the subject!

Did you know ESF's first female student enrolled in 1915? Hazel Clere enrolled in the general forestry curriculum but did not finish her degree at the school.

More women enrolled in 1938--a graduate student in Forest Recreation--and in 1943--an undergraduate--who also did not complete the programs.

The first woman to graduate from ESF was Ruth Worret, who transferred from SU in 1945 and was also the first woman to attend the required 'summer camp,' with the declaration, “I can take anything the boys can.” She proved herself right, graduating in 1947. Barbara Hennessy and Mildred Kocic joined the Pulp and Paper department for the fall semester of 1944, and graduated the year after Ruth, in 1948.

In 1993, ESF President Ross Whaley signed off on an official action plan to improve the climate for women on campus. By 1994, the number of female faculty had increased from three women to eight, and the Women's Caucus was established.

Still active, the Women's Caucus is a group of female students--both undergraduate and graduate--faculty, staff, and other members of the ESF community. It serves as a mentoring network, and sponsors seminars, coffee breaks, speaker series, and other opportunities to support the professional development of women.

As of 2016, 809 undergraduate women were enrolled at ESF, comprising 46.2% of the undergraduate population at the college. ESF currently employs 28 female Assistant and Associate Professors, or 37.8% of the population of such Professors at ESF, which is a 4X increase from 1994.

In 2010, Forbes released a special edition of their higher education rankings, in which ESF placed 3rd in the country for supporting women students in STEM.

There are still improvements to be made: increasing women and particularly women of color in college leadership and faculty positions, and improving their distribution throughout our academic departments, and providing our female students with more preparation and tools to succeed in their professions, where in many cases the number of employed women remains low. But we're proud to have come so far and to stand as a leader for women in STEM!

Maple weekend! Yum!

It's the most delicious weekend in March 🍁 Our Maple Weekend events at Heiberg Forest are full of fun. We've got sugar bush and sugar house tours on Friday and Saturday, plus a delicious pancake breakfast and Timbersports on display!

🍁 Friday & Saturday hours are 9-3
🍁 Sunday's breakfast is 8-11

See you there!

Hey, 8-11 yr olds with an ESF student or employee: Registration for Take our Kids to Work Day (April 18, 2024) is now open! Https://www.esf.edu/womenscaucus/kids.php

Take Our Kids to Work Day Career Exploration for kids ages 8-11! Activities encourage confidence, inquisitiveness, and resilience through participation in activities that introduce them to the broad range of science-, environmental-, and engineering-based careers fostered at ESF.

Kids 8+ interested in puppetry? Free workshop on 3/24.

Educational Workshops
PUPPETRY
FREE • March 24, 3-4:30pm‍

Led by Caitlin Friedberg, Syracuse-based theater artist and graduate of Cazenovia College!

Caitlyn has experience acting, directing, designing, and puppeteering, with favorite credits that include: Amahl and the Night Visitors (Puppeteer Kasper) and 39 Steps (Clown 2) with Open Hand Theater, A Syracuse Christmas Carol (Puppet Designer and Builder) with Redhouse Arts Center, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Stage Manger). She currently teaches Theater at Most Holy Rosary.

Workshop is designed for Students Ages 8+ (ideally ages 8-14).

Register Today: https://conta.cc/43mjsfS

On this International Women's Day... take time out to learn about a vitally important member of the women's suffrage movement, who was basically written out of history.

Her name was Matilda Joslyn Gage. Born in Cicero, lived in Fayetteville.... she is as important as Susan B. Anthony (Gage wrote many of her speeches) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. But because of her progressive beliefs, she was seen as far too radical... and disappeared from the history books.

Gage is a fascinating woman. Many of her influences come from the Haudenosaunee women of the area. She was part of the underground railroad, she spoke at the National Woman's Rights Convention (IN SYRACUSE) in 1852, and she is the mother-in-law of L. Frank Baum. Baum, of course, the creator of one of American literature's first female hero's: Dorothy Gale.

Gage's influences touched so much of our culture and society, and yet so little is known about her; even in her own hometown. You can learn more about Matilda Joslyn Gage by reading the nearly 40 books written about her that are available here in the OCPL.

You can also visit the Matilda Joslyn Gage Center on East Genesee Street in Fayetteville.

A little bit about the group that brought Kids’ Day to SUNY ESF!

The Women's Caucus, originally starting in the 1990s, serves as a resource for women and woman-identifying people, as well as anyone with a family in need of resources.

Putting on anticipated events is a hallmark of the group, such as Take Our Kids to Work Day, CNY Girls' Summit, Coffee Break, the Speaker Series, and more. This group is inclusive and always looking to connect with more people!



🔗 https://www.esf.edu/womenscaucus/contact.php

TACNY - Technology Alliance of Central New York

Missed this weekends' Jr Cafe Scientifique? Recording is now available!

Weather Too Nice to Join Us Live? Now Available On-Line!

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/1120737006722258448

A Special Joint Webinar

Beyond COVID-19: How Do Engineering and Technology Transform the Microbiology Landscape

Presenter: Douglas Yung, PhD
Douglas Yung is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Syracuse University and the Director for the Bioengineering undergraduate program. He earned his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from UCLA in 2003 and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Caltech in 2008. He worked as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California on sensor development, microfluidics, and bacterial spore viability. His work includes the anthrax smoke detector, spacecraft surface sterilization, and determination of life longevity by detecting spores in extreme environments.

Douglas has long been intrigued by the interfacing of microbes with engineering tools on a micro- and nano-scale. He is unraveling methods to rapidly assess the viability of superbugs and harness energy from extremophiles using a combination of electrochemical, optical techniques and MEMS devices. He is an advocate of a hybrid teaching and learning environment replete with project-based hands-on work, experiential activities and peer collaboration, a style departing from traditional top-down expository pedagogies.

Wishing peace, good health, and happiness to our friends and community members celebrating the holy month of Ramadan.

For families with young children that observe Ramadan and/or those who want to learn more about it, the Community Library of DeWitt and Jamesville recommend these children's books available to download for free as ebooks on Hoopla.

The Gift of Ramadan by Rabiah York Lumbard- (https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12315629)
Under the Ramadan Moon by Sylvia Whitman- (https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12332424)

Citizen science is a great family activity!

For Earth Week and beyond, this is a great time to get involved in citizen science! With many of us at home, we're getting to observe the life cycles and wildlife of our own back yards in detail we never have before. ESF has several ongoing citizen science projects you can get involved with:

* Canid Camera: Help our researchers identify the wildlife in their trail cam photos! https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/sylvilagus/canid-camera/about

* NY Breeding Bird Atlas: Held every 20 years, this important citizen science-driven survey provides detailed information about population and distribution of the wild birds of NY state over time. https://ebird.org/atlasny/about

* NY H**p Atlas: Your observations can help create a detailed snapshot of NY state amphibians and reptiles! https://nyherpatlas.org/about