Science Education & Policy

Teachers: Understanding Neuroscience Can Improve Education

Although current teacher training programs generally omit the science of how we learn, an overwhelming number of the teachers surveyed by the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) felt neuroscie ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2007 - 12:50pm

Bella Abramovna Subbotovskaya: Heroine, Mathematician, Soviet Martyr?

Bella Abramovna Subbotovskaya is a little-known heroine of 20th century mathematics who died under mysterious circumstances at the age of 44. She was a mathematician who founded the "Jewish People's University" to help talented young Jews wh ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2007 - 4:17pm

Mediasite By Sonic Foundry Contributes To 2007 Installation Europe Award For VSB Technical University

MADISON, Wisconsin, October 30 /PRNewswire/--- University's Information Technology Centre and system integrator Manta Projection Systems selected as Best Education Project Sonic Foundry(R) Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO), a leader in automated rich media communi ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 30 2007 - 6:54am

Pasteuria Bioscience Taps New CEO David N. Duncan

ALACHUA, Florida, October 30 /PRNewswire/-- Pasteuria Bioscience, Inc. (www.pasteuriabio.com), a Florida biotech company developing biological control products for agriculture's largest unmet pest problem, announced today that David N. Duncan, Ph.D., ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 30 2007 - 9:29am

Dyslexia: Re-wiring The Brain Through Sound

Children with developmental dyslexia confuse letters and syllables when they read. According to a brain-imaging study published this month in the journal Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, some children with dyslexia struggle to read because their bra ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2007 - 11:43am

Thomson Scientific Partners With Australia's Department Of Education, Science And Training As Primary Data Supplier

SYDNEY, Australia, October 31 /PRNewswire/--- Citation Data Will be Used by Australian Government to Determine Funds Allocation and Measure the Quality of Research Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provi ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 30 2007 - 11:02pm

Merck Serono And EPFL Announce Research Partnership In Neuroscience, Oncology And Drug Delivery

GENEVA, Switzerland, October 31 /PRNewswire/--- Three Merck Serono-Endowed Chairs Will be Created at EPFL- Merck Serono and EPFL Open a Major Research Fund Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, and EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), one of ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 31 2007 - 7:19am

Lack Of Communication Regarding Changes In Pricing Tariffs Impacts On Customer Satisfaction With Gas And Electricity Suppliers

- Scottish and Southern Energy Ranks Highest in Customer Satisfaction Among Gas and Electricity Suppliers Scottish and Southern Energy ranks highest in satisfying both gas and electric utility customers, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2007 UK E ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 31 2007 - 7:19pm

Guessing The Carbon Footprint Of US Wildfires

Large-scale fires may have pumped as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in a few weeks as motor vehicle traffic does in a year, according to research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado a ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 1 2007 - 12:27am

New Venture Partners Strengthens Investment Team With New Investment Partner, Dr. David Tennenhouse

SAN MATEO, California, November 1 /PRNewswire/--- Corporate Spinout Team Expands Global Presence into Silicon Valley New Venture Partners LLC ("New Venture Partners"), the global venture capital firm dedicated to corporate technology spinouts, t ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Nov 1 2007 - 3:05am