What are the advantages of joining COPUS?
• Participation in a national effort to promote the public understanding of science in a year-long celebration: Year of Science 2009. • Your organization’s activities highlighted on the COPUS website in a format for public searching and browsing, plus push technology including RSS newsfeeds. • Access to COPUS communication resources and network, including an online national database of events and programs (now available), plus an online collaboration site, called the COPUS Commons (coming soon), where participants can engage in group discussions with each other and the COPUS organizers, share successes and best practices, and break off into smaller groups for special projects, regional hubs, etc. • Receipt of COPUS email alerts and newsletter. • A role in growing the COPUS community, providing input on COPUS direction and activities.