Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Video – Humanizing Science, Scott McLeod

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Here is a 2–minute video of me talking about CASTLE and my teaching, part of the Humanizing Science series by the College of Human Sciences here at Iowa State University. Happy viewing!

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