Science Education & Policy
- DoD New Year's Resolution: I Promise I Will Destroy All My Remaining Stockpiles Of VX Nerve Gas
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Well, it's now a merry Christmas for everyone except Nicholas Cage. The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) announced Monday that as of Christmas Eve, 2008, they've completed the destruction of all munitions carrying VX gas in the possessio ...
Article - Chris Rollins - Jan 17 2009 - 2:16am
- Making new clichés in 2009
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Clichés are soft.. they leave it to your imagination. Clichés are hard.. they leave it to your imagination. Embedded in the clichés are stereotypes. A new cliché: "2009 is years-old." P.S. A Happy 2009 to ALL with peace and love. ...
Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Jan 8 2009 - 10:36pm
- Clickers And Peer Discussion Improve Student Performance
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Across the University of Colorado at Boulder campus students are sharing answers, checking their responses to questions against those of their neighbors and making adjustments to those answers in hopes of earning a better grade. Not surprisingly, the stude ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2009 - 12:33pm
- International Year Of Astronomy 2009 Is The Perfect Chance To Learn Astronomy
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The International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) has been launched by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) under the theme, “The Universe, yours to discover”. Thousan ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 3 2009 - 12:22pm
- The Consequences of Genetic Eavesdropping
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John Hawks discusses how messy the abuse of genetic testing results could get: Imagine a custody battle, in which the father hires a private investigator to get a mother's genome. With two variants that yield a 15 percent higher risk of schizophrenia, ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 6 2009 - 2:08pm
- An-ometer for everything?
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Here at the University of Reading, the good folks of the Association for Science Education have been holding their annual conference, and RU staff members like myself are invited to participate. The event manifests itself by an exhibition marquee taking up ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jan 9 2009 - 2:18pm
- Stimulus package may help scientists too
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The economic crisis may actually help science. Cross your fingers- part of the stimulus package is tagged for expansion of the NSF, NIH and other entities. From Science online: ...
Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jan 14 2009 - 10:07am
- Working Under the Shadow of Big Science
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If you haven't already, you should read this interesting guest post at Olivia Judson's blog: Many of the best-known scientists of our day are men and women exceptionally talented in herding the resources — human and otherwise — required to plan, ...
Blog Post - Michael White - Jan 14 2009 - 12:30pm
- The Obama Effect: Performance Gap In Black Students Disappeared At Times During Presidential Campaign
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Positive racial role models may have an effect on school performance, according to new research by Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management professor Ray Friedman and co-authors who document what they call the “Obama Effect”- namely that th ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2009 - 11:10am
- Good cop, bad cop
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Obama is playing good cop to Bush's bad cop, letting EPA know that his administration will not deny facts but be guided by them. Continuing efforts to overturn more of the last administration's policies, President Obama signed a presidential memo ...
Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jan 26 2009 - 7:16pm
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