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Media 2022
Earth Patterns From Afar: A Challenging Perspective, Michigan State University, 2015
Michigan State University
In November 2015, Dr Bondar visited Michigan State University’s Geography Awareness Week to deliver both classroom and large group lectures. She covered topics in Earth Patterns From Afar that ranged from the role of remote sensing to the readiness of human beings to make their first Mars visit.
WEB FEATURE:
Human connections with Earth: How one woman links geography, outer space, sustainability, and the human mind
PODCAST:
WKAR Greening of the Great Lakes host Kirk Heinze interviews Dr Bondar
Woodstock Art Gallery hosting photography exhibition by former astronaut Dr. Roberta Bondar in February 2017
A TELE, one of our customized and carefully curated Travelling Exhibition and Learning Experiences, is heading to the Woodstock Art Gallery in February 2017! As with each TELE, The Roberta Bondar Foundation and the host centre get into some heavy planning to make the TELE as vital an experience as possible for its visitors. The plan? To make Fusions of Art and Science dance in their heads!
Read on: In the Woodstock Sentinel Review
Stay tuned!
Roberta Bondar’s ‘naked’ truth
MacLean’s writer Genna Buck continues her Question and Astronaut series pursuing answers with Question and Astronaut: Roberta Bondar article. Finally, she exposes Dr Bondar’s ‘naked’ truth revealed to the Cosmos!
Canadian Geographic Names Top 100 Canadian Explorers
We are proud our President is featured in Canadian Geographic‘s great list of modern-day trailblazing Canadian Explorers.
Through its programs, The Roberta Bondar Foundation is committed to encouraging participants to explore, record, and discuss new views of their natural environment.
Napanee students get the picture
Read Kingston Whig-Standard reporter/photographer Julia McKay’s feature on two 2014 School-Based Bondar Challenge winners, their teacher and school — Napanee students get the picture
The students’ winning images are presently featured with The Roberta Bondar Foundation’s new exhibition Savannah Survivors at Toronto’s First Canadian Place.
Savannah Survivors, First Canadian Place
Wednesday April 15, 2015, First Canadian Place hosted Dr. Roberta Bondar’s Savannah Survivors exhibition, her public lecture sponsored by BMO, & the exhibition’s opening reception in the FCP Gallery.
To celebrate Earth Month, The Roberta Bondar Foundation presents a unique exploration of the shrinking African Savannah through fine art photography. With extraordinary images from The Foundation’s biome collection, 26 large fine art prints connect the viewer to the extraordinary and poignant savannah life as it lives in its natural environment. Highlights include “secretaries” who eat snakes for breakfast and savannah survivors who will eat your lunch.
The exhibition runs April 1- May 29, 2015 and forms part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.
Foundation Partners with Wood Buffalo NP
The Roberta Bondar Foundation now partners with Wood Buffalo NP on Whooping Crane education and will continue to update our field work news on Grus americana, the North American Whooping Crane, from this Whooper Link.
Dreams & Realities—Human Sensitivity of Place
A selection of The Foundation’s Travelling Exhibition and Learning Experience collection appears in the Dreams & Realities—Human Sensitivity of Place in which Dr. Bondar’s large scale Earth landscape photographs join Carole Sabiston’s exploration of environmental concerns through textile assemblage — both artists inspired by the same childhood view of Sputnik!
Enthusiasts explore new galaxies at Dark Sky Festival
Northern Journal
Dr. Bondar joined fellow Dark Sky enthusiasts in the intense and event-packed 5-day Wood Buffalo National Park Dark Skies Festival!
Photo: Dali Carmichael
Within the Landscape ~ Art Respecting Life, TELUS Spark
Calgary’s TELUS Spark the new science centre hosts The Roberta Bondar Foundation’s Travelling Exhibition and Learning Experience on the theme of Biodiversity and Extinction: “Within the Landscape ~ Art Respecting Life”
The opening also coincided with the anniversary of Dr. Bondar’s flight aboard the First International Microgravity Laboratory, as the world’s first neurologist in space.
Photo Gallery HERE!
RELATED MEDIA:
Jan, 2014
BT Calgary
Tara Slone interviews Dr. Roberta Bondar during this special January week
Feb 22, 2014
Avenue Magazine Calgary
“Astronaut, neurologist and adventurer Roberta Bondar’s travelling exhibit comes to Telus Spark” Roberta Bondar on Photography, Finding Luck and Dangerous Sandstorms
Feb 8, 2014
Calgary Herald
Roberta Bondar’s breathtaking photos on display at Telus Spark
Within the Landscape — Art Respecting Life