Researchers gather at Smith College for science 'boot camps'
...tists and other professionals are returning to the classroom to add to their repertoires the experimental metho...niversity semesters' worth of broad laboratory and classroom instruction in the field. The founding director of the program is Steven A. Williams, Gates Professo...Learning opportunities expand using GIS data
...ending on the license issued, students in a single classroom or throughout a country can generate thematic maps and produce integrated analyses using a large variety of Earth science and geographic data sets and the GIS software included with the product. For more information, visit the AGI web site, http://w...Exploring oil rigs and an ancient shoreline in the Gulf Of Mexico for new disease cures
...participating in the mission. Daily dispatches and classroom activity guides will give young scientists the chance to experience life on a research vessel and learn about amazing treasures beneath the sea. The HARBOR BRANCH mission is the first segment of a three-leg Ocean Exploration cruise. After the team ...National lab trains U. S. customs agents against WMD
...eted the training course. The curriculum includes classroom instruction and hands-on demonstrations and exercises designed to familiarize inspectors with the materials and components associated with weapons of mass destruction and dual-use items. "The priority mission of U.S. Customs and Border Protection i...Agronomy, Crop, and Soil Science Societies to meet Nov. 2-6 in Denver
...ence Education how schools promote science in the classroom For a searchable listing of the 2,500+ papers, click on the "What's Happening" link on the Annual Meeting Web site at www.asa-cssa-sssa.org/anmeet . The schedule is searchable by author, title, keyword, day, and time. The activities begin Sunday e...$51 million research facility, classroom complex breaks ground at UH
...efit for the entire university will be a two-story classroom wing for general academic use. To ensure functionality for the types of research slated for the building, UH scientists and engineers had ample input into what would be optimal for their work. To carry it through, members of Pelli's architectural ...Statistics and biology a natural pair for the classroom
...versions of statistical tools. In addition to the classroom project, the team will follow statistical consultants as they work with clients in health sciences, engineering and public policy to understand statistical reasoning in actual practice. This will be the first time statisticians have been studied acro...Intelligent design: The new 'big tent' for evolution's critics
...n theory will make inroads into the public science classroom and into textbooks is good, Numbers believes. "It ...nces," Numbers says. Either way, the stakes in the classroom are too high, he argues, to ignore the intellectual arguments of intelligent design as an answer to ...Three personal ads for physics
...-largest city in the state and the largest physics classroom in the world. Giant television screens show tackling, kicking and punting while physics professor Timothy Gay introduces the crowd to such physics wonders as Newton's Laws of Motion. "Football fans love to see big hits," said Gay, who uses the physic...New 'Understanding Evolution' Web site provides one-stop-shop for nation's science teachers
... are being challenged to kick evolution out of the classroom or pair it with instruction in non-scientific alternatives, such as "intelligent design." The "Understanding Evolution" Web site ( evolution.berkeley.edu ), funded by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and ...Best way to clean up toxic plumes? Give 'em a pill
COLUMBUS, Ohio A staple of chemistry classroom demonstrations may offer a solution for cleaning up decades' worth of toxic solvents polluting the environment, new research suggests. Potassium permanganate is a disinfectant used by water treatment plants, and is sometimes also used to treat pollut...Clemson launches S.C. DNA Learning Center
...culty on plant genetics and genomics. The theme is classroom activities in plant genetics for college students. The workshop is presented by the Dolan DNA Learning Center. NSF will fund the workshop. Fall, 2004 Center staff will go out to the school districts and publicize programs for middle and high scho...Bye-bye Bio 101: Teach science the way you do science
... to engaging undergraduates in science both in the classroom and the research lab," the HHMI professor explains... inquiry-based labs, web-based programs to enhance classroom teaching, experiments and data about teaching methods, assessment tools, and workshops for science e...MBL researcher and science teacher visit Siberia to study climate, excite children about science
...s students with virtual scientific experiences via classroom activities, Internet-based campfire chats, on-line...are many people who come into an elementary school classroom and talk over the kids' heads and just don't get it. What has been great is the way Max has treated ...Study shows that genes can protect kids against poverty
... ability. "This means that when the children in a classroom or neighborhood differ on behavior problems or cognitive achievement," explains Moffitt, "about half of that variation across the group emerges from the fact that every child has his or her own individual genetic endowment." But as these numbers sugg...Lowly weeds may hold promise for curing host of common health woes
...t people shouldn't experiment on their own. In a classroom experiment with 15 undergraduate students in Georgia, Stepp had about half collect plants from weedy fields and half pick them from a forest. Using a database of major plants developed by Daniel Moerman, an anthropologist at the University of Michiga...APS awards more than $200,000 to middle and high school science teachers
...help them translate their research experience into classroom labs. "For many teachers this summer experience marks the first time they have ever participated in scientific research," stated Dr. Marsha Lakes Matyas, APS Education Officer. "It gives them a new perspective on their teaching and the importance of...South Dakota Tech grad student finds rare whale
...n Program is an example of Tech students combining classroom and real-world experiences to add to the body of scientific knowledge.......nsposable elements are sort of the rowdy kids in a classroom their insertion may disrupt an orderly gene. Jiang offers Indian corn as an example. An ear of Indian corn can be mostly row after row of purple kernels. Then a yellow kernel can show up. That's courtesy of the disruptive transposable element, an el...