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The Wright Center for Innovative Science Education is housed at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, as part of its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Created in 1992 to honor the entrepreneur H. Dudley Wright, the Center is baseline funded by the Fondation Wright de Geneve, Switzerland, and currently directed by Eric J. Chaisson since its founding. We stress innovation and dissemination in science education, as articulated in the following mission statement:
The Wright Center is dedicated to the creation and sharing of novel instructional techniques and interdisciplinary resources for pre-college teachers. Through its fellowships, workshops, seminars, and a variety of public-outreach activities, the Center provides leadership in the training and retraining of science teachers to use innovative methods to stimulate young minds.
To this end, the Center's goals are fivefold:
- to improve the teaching of science at the pre-college level
- to encourage young people to pursue science as a career
- to explore innovative methods to communicate natural science
- to test and disseminate novel educational products and activities
- to share the excitement and wonders of science with the general public.
The Wright Center, including its Teacher Resource Room and Science Visualization Lab, are headquartered within Tufts' Science & Technology Center. Here, among more than a hundred scientists and engineers, a group of about a dozen dedicated professional educators implement a variety of programs and activities of value to pre-college teachers of science and mathematics. Interdisciplinary science and multi-media visualization are hallmarks of its many programs.