Children With AD/HD Have Significant Functional Disabilities Related to Attention Deficit
...children and usually is precipitated by disruptive classroom demeanor. Lock and colleagues felt that if functional deficits of children with AD/HD could be documented outside of school, the results would support the hypothesis that the disorder is, in fact, a disability. To accomplish this, they used ...Early Career Development Grants Foster Faculty Research And Education
...us possible applications. The study will focus on classroom learning where students have access to calculators, computers, and related laboratory equipment. Her work seeks insights into the roles and abilities that are important for learners as they solve problems in new contexts, and modify and extend model...Wake Forest University Study Takes Students In Flight With The Albatross
...r bill with the high-touch, interpersonal world of classroom learning. Each time they pass over the northern Pacific, the Argos System's satellites scan for the signals emitted by the seabirds' transmitters. If a positive contact is made, the satellite notes the strength of the signal and then locks in ......t be taught. Early lab testing and classroom work to teach the Control of VariablesStrategy, or... will be assessed. "Together, the lab and classroom findings will form the basis for thedesign of new curriculum units that are grounded in cognitive th...NSF Scientist Receives Award In Research Training Of Minorities In Microbiology
...r academic pursuit." During hisactive research and classroom years, Dr. Williams trained over 20 graduatestudents, 13 of whom were African-Americans. His commitment to science training and research is evident from thepositions he has held during the past 22 years. In the late 1970's, he servedas Assis...Virginia Tech Offers Biotechnology 2001 Conference for Educators
...tivities for the high school and community college classroom or laboratory. Friday's program also offers several other outstanding scientists. Carole Cramer, Virginia Tech professor of plant pathology, physiology and weed science and vice president of research with Croptech Development Corporation of Black...Raymond Receives $113,000 NIH Grant To Support Cell Cycle Regulation Research
...e types of critical thought that one brings to the classroom as a teacher carry over to research. On the flip side, as researchers, professors bring cutting-edge material to their classes that isn't found in any textbooks." She also cites the strength of Williams' undergraduate research program as a distin......acquisition through growout methods. In addition, classroom lecture topics willcover fundamentals of nutrition, bioenergetics and disease control. The classwill be taught by Dr. Daniel Benetti, July 13-26, with a tuition cost of $1,995. For additional information or to register for this course, please contact...UD Education News: HHMI Award Supports Undergraduate Discovery
...her UD faculty to develop the Virtual Van-a mobile classroom withlaboratory facilities. Teenagers will be introduced to basic principles of human heredity anddevelopment by learning about DNA fingerprinting. First, they will watch a videoillustrating techniques. "Students will then investigate a fictitious mur...Elementary Students Mapping Virginia Wildlife
...life Resources students are continuing tohelp with classroom instruction on wildlife mapping and lead the fieldexpedition groups. The first expedition this fall included nearly 60 CESstudents, parents, teachers, and Virginia Tech students, who gathered at theMontgomery County Frog Pond Park. Kerrie Anne M......es from the White Mountains and to help us develop classroom protocols thatwe'll use with microorganisms from other extreme environments." The microbes will be situated at the White Mountain summit during the 3 harshestmonths of the Northern winter, and then returned for testing in early May 1999.Most of the ...Biomedical engineers working to help kids with special needs
...king" vest enabled her son to bemore mobile in the classroom by not having to stay in a wheelchair that haspre-recorded messages all the time. "Because the vest is made of denim like any teenager would wear, Travisthinks it's really cool," she said. "These students have done something special,and w...MTU researchers develop new software to help clean up contamination sites
...ng it at Texas A&M, MichiganTech, and Stanford for classroom instruction," Hand said. "Both grad studentsand undergrads love it because it's so easy to use." Students aren't the software's only fans. More than 100 clients world wide, ingovernment, research, and private industry, are using ETDOT, which makes Ha...Warner-Lambert Company gift creates bioinformatics program
...S. Omenn, M.D., Ph.D. Computers, staff support, a classroom and newresearch laboratories will be located in the U-M Medical School. Bioinformatics merges recent advances in molecular biology and genetics withadvanced computer science technology. The goal is increased understanding ofthe complex web of intera...ESL classes may help deliver public health messages
...n may be in the English-as-a-second-language (ESL) classroom environment, according to a study that focused on San Diego, CA-based Latino immigrants. "The ESL environment presents an ideal avenue for reaching immigrants and others with limited English proficiency, since people in these classes can be conside...Marine biology course uses Antarctica as its classroom
...to their peers about their research as part of the classroom portion of the course. But in the same way that NSF-supported scientists go out into the field to conduct their Antarctic research, students also use snowmobiles to travel to holes drilled in the sea ice to conduct sampling. They also are helicoptere...Science board honors the Bronx Zoo's Education Division for public service
...ucators. In the mid-1980s, the society pioneered a classroom program for grades 6-12 that used a focus on wildlife to capture students' imagination and motivate them to pursue studies of the life sciences. The program--WIZE (Wildlife Inquiry through Zoo Education)--has been used in classrooms across the U.S. ...APS promotes innovative science teaching practices with "Frontiers in Physiology"
...help them translate their research experience into classroom labs. Midway through the Frontiers in Physiology program, teachers go on a week-long summer retreat, which will take place at the Airlie House Conference Center in Warrenton, Va. This serves as a break in their laboratory activity and allows the t...Food allergy reactions in schools: Improvements needed to reduce and respond
...ing cafeteria errors, food sharing by children and classroom parties where cupcakes, for example, had traces of peanut oil, an allergy- attack trigger for many. The researchers also found that roughly 15 percent of the children had no physician order for treatment or medication. Most schools cannot give epine...Ocean frontier revealed: scientists to describe unexpected discoveries of arctic research cruise
...lsa. Michael will join other Healy researchers, a classroom teacher who worked with the science team, and a Coast Guard representative at the National Press Club to describe the Healy's voyage. Who: Peter Michael, University of Tulsa Tom Pyle, NSF's Office of Polar Programs Michelle Adams, te...