The Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS) is a grassroots effort whose goal is to engage sectors of the public in science to increase their understanding of the nature of science and its value to society. A key objective of COPUS is to create new forums for communication and to develop new opportunities for engaging the public with science.

We invite your organization to join this coalition and to work with others in your community to engage the general public in dynamic ways that will make science more accessible, personally meaningful, and locally relevant.

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	USA Science & Engineering Festival The Inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival will be the country's first national science festival and will descend on the Washington, D.C. area in the Fall of 2010. Click here to learn more. COPUS Clarion Download newsletter (November, 115 KB, PDF) Blog $25,000 gift to support COPUS USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. - Join the Celebration The COPUS Core Guardian Insurance supports Year of Science 2009 Green for Real

COPUS is sponsored by the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Geological Society of America, the National Science Teachers Association, and the University of California Museum of Paleontology.