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improvscience created the Living Improv Experiment, or LIVE, to explore what it's like for scientists to improvise -- and be improvised about. You can now watch clips of the event online!

Holmes of improvscience welcomes NASA, Alan Alda Center and more in June.

The Living Improv Experiment (LIvE) will take place Monday, March 30, at 6:30 at Ned Devine's in Fanueil Hall, Boston. The LIvE event is the first of its kind, drawing from improvscience & friends, to bring an improvised performance about science to the public. Raquell Holmes, creator of LIvE, will emcee the evening and involve the audience as co-researchers in the experiment.

A less often mentioned quote of Martin Luther King from his Western Michigan, 1963 talk:

            "I must say there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good‐will will be maladjusted... I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to segregation. and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few...

The Sloan Foundation awarded a three year grant to the Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center of ASU for its Program in Exemplary Mentoring. The award funds improvscience workshops and coaching to advance faculty's mentor skills and students' ability to direct their careers. Workshops begin this summer with the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI). If you're interested in a faculty training or mentoring group during the year, sign up for more information.   

On May 17th, I have the opportunity to participate in the Ph.D. Career Conference in San Diego representing Ph.D.s that have  a start-up company. I am excited to share the process of creating improvscience and what I have learned from colleagues along the way.