Record in research dollars: UH receives $12.3 million in November
... is utilizing other funding sources to upgrade its classroom and research facilities in its campaign to join th...to fund a new $51 million science, engineering and classroom building on the UH main campus. And in November, the UH System Board of Regents gave the go-ahead to...Mutations may yield clues to heartbreaking childhood disease
...ur own experiments. That doesnt always happen in a classroom course. As one of 42 Johns Hopkins students who received Provost's Undergraduate Research Awards in the 2001-2002 academic year, Douglas will present an overview on her project during an upcoming awards ceremony. It will run from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on ...Spinal cord injury and Alzheimers risk among topics at American Chemical Society meeting
...ofessional chemists, chemical engineers and former classroom science teachers, will share chemical demonstrations and interactive experiments with participating children and their families. (Saturday, April 6, noon - 2 p.m., Orlando Science Center, 777 East Princeton Street. For immediate release .) Sund...Howard Hughes Medical Institute awards $80 million for undergraduate science education
...laboratories and other teaching aids to supplement classroom instruction in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular, cell and developmental biology. Six interactive, Web-based units in physiology, already developed under a previous HHMI grant, will be made available to the public. • At the University of Cal...UMass researcher helping the EPA to determine health effects of spent rocket fuel
...Zoeller's efforts with the EPA will reach into the classroom next fall, when he teaches endocrinology to undergraduates. The laboratory component will require students to design and perform an experiment using modern molecular techniques that address specific issues not addressed in the studies evaluated by th...Singapore's Ministry of Education to improve life sciences education
... provides pre- and in-service teacher training and classroom support), with the aim of improving genetics education throughout Singapore. "The collaboration represents a unique experiment in science education - to see just how quickly a school system the size of Chicago's can gear up for the gene age," Mr. Mi...Families with two or more children with autism sought for $10.2 million study
... autism," said Dawson. "Some go on to the regular classroom in school while 25 percent never develop any kind of spoken language. There may well be many subtypes of autism, just as it appears there are different types of Alzheimer's disease. "In our genetics research we are trying to locate between five and...Agronomy, Crops and Soils Annual Meetings' papers, symposia searchable online
...iversity level: how schools promote science in the classroom Media representatives and public information officers can apply to receive complimentary registration for access to all technical sessions and the Press Room. Please e-mail, fax, or mail your name, company, address, phone, and e-mail address to: Sar...Transforming textbooks: AAAS and partners target K-12 science materials for improvement
... "Research clearly shows that textbooks and other classroom materials are a lynchpin of effective student learning, yet we know from our evaluations of textbooks that most materials available today aren't serving the needs of students or teachers," he added. In a series of standards-based evaluations, AAAS's ...Walleye fishery threatened; Puerto Rico aquaculture, calling ALVIN on ocean bottom
...research, Delaware Sea Grant is helping to sponsor classroom materials that will allow students and teachers to participate in the action. While the research team explores, students can tune in to an interactive website that will be updated daily throughout the 24-day voyage. More than 450 schools from acros...AAAS urges opposition to 'intelligent design theory' within U.S. science classes
...ntelligent design being included as appropriate in classroom discussions in addition to other scientific theories." The Ohio State Education Board is inviting further public comment through November. In December, board members will vote to conclusively determine whether alternatives to evolution should be inc...UMass team to study bioremediation of acid, heavy metals from collapsed mind
... and fall, taking what they learn for use in their classroom teaching. "Participation in active research projects is often cited as the best way to learn science and the ways in which scientists think," Feldman said. Surveys and interviews of the teacher-scholars will be used to evaluate their perceptions of t...Antarctic ice seals life's fate
...search because the Lake Vida ecosystem serves as a classroom of sorts, providing lessons for launching Martian ice probes that may yield frozen microbes. "It's pretty much common knowledge that Mars had a water-rich past and likely went from a warmer to a colder climate, although this last point is coming und...Science picks-leads, feeds and story seeds (January 2003)
...al Corps of Discovery II, a multi-agency traveling classroom that will retrace the route of the Lewis and Clark expedition. At many stops along the route, USGS scientists will talk about ongoing USGS investigations, explaining changes in river systems and pointing out advances in scientific instruments and und...EMBO to coordinate EU funded project to support science teachers
...ource centre and archive that will offer practical classroom materials to teachers and students. "One goal is to make projects developed within the facility and during the workshops accessible to teachers throughout Europe," says Russ Hodge, head of the Office of Information and Public Affairs at EMBL. "Anothe...Carnegie Mellon, NASA to develop robot illustrating how to seek life on distant planets
...ling students to experience the mission from their classroom computers. EventScope's team is directed by Peter Coppin, a research scientist at Carnegie Mellon's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and includes experts in software engineering, interactive art and educational technology working to develop next generat...Obesity prevention program aimed at second graders
...l 11-14, 2003. Methodology A diverse team of classroom activity leaders (biomedical scientists, health pr...throughout the school year. During year 1, weekly classroom (60 min) and physical (30 min) activities and a 90 min after school program and occasional science m...Executive functioning in children prenatally exposed to alcohol
...ental to children's social and academic success in classroom and daycare environments. If, as this study suggests, children exposed prenatally to alcohol find it more difficult to inhibit inappropriate behaviors, this might help explain part of the reason why such children are at greater risk for social and a...Highway deaths highest for males Male urban squirrels, that is
...fective teaching medium for students learning in a classroom about the population dynamics of wildlife species." Lopez said the research, the first of its kind on urban squirrels in the United States, is important because urban sprawl is pressuring wildlife to adapt to lifestyles and surroundings just to surv......ft as the human skin and mineral as fragile as the classroom chalk. The key finding of this research is that there exists a critical nanometer size at which the particles found in biocomposites become insensitive to flaws: They maintain strength equivalent to a perfect crystal despite inherent defects. This ph...