How People Learn in Informal Science Environments

Dr. Patrick is an associate professor at Columbus State University and a Fulbright Scholar (2019 & 2022). Her Fulbright project focused on the ways Sumatran (Indonesia) Battra, native healers, passed native medicine, environmental, and ecological knowledge to the next generation. She is the coauthor of  Zoo Talk  (Springer) and Editor of  Preparing Informal Science Educators (Springer). Her research focuses on the importance of communicating science to the public and the relationship between communication and science literacy. Her interest is identifying how families learn and share science knowledge.