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Marian Koshland Science Museum forms partnership with Science Center Singapore

WASHINGTON – In a new collaboration, the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences is licensing several components of its global warming and infectious diseases exhibits to the Science Centre Singapore. The partnership marks an expansion of the Koshland Science Museum's efforts to bring its work to international audiences by teaming up with other museums and science centers around the world.

Philippine Science Letters a new science journal is launched - STAR SCIENCE By Gisela P. Padilla-Concepcion, PhD, and Eduardo A. Padlan, PhD

We have started Philippine Science Letters (PSL). PSL is a peer-reviewed, online journal that showcases science done in the

National Research Council Aims to Improve Science Education

Anew publication from the National Research Council (NRC), Ready, Set, Science! is an educational tool that explains how the latest research on learning and teaching can be put into practice in K-8 science classes. The book provides teachers with summaries from the recent NRC report, "Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8." The summaries include results from the learning sciences and provide case studies to make the implications of research clear, accessible and stimulating for science educators. The book aims to use these real classroom experiences as examples teachers can use to help improve the learning process within their own classrooms. Teachers are shown how to select and design engaging instructional tasks and conduct productive discussions as well.

South Africa: Science Week to Encourage Youth to Pursue Science

Science and Technology Minister Mosibudi Mangena will on Thursday officially open the National Science Week (NSW) aimed at persuading the youth to pursue careers in the science field.

Smart Home Exhibit at Museum of Science and Industry Showcases ComEd Environmental Programs

CHICAGO, May 9 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its ongoing environmental commitment, ComEd is sponsoring the new Museum of Science and Industry's Smart Home: Green + Wired, Powered by ComEd and Warmed by Peoples Gas exhibit, which showcases the utility's electricity-saving programs for customers and other ways to practice green living. The exhibit is open today through Jan. 4, 2009. The Smart Home demonstrates the latest offerings in sustainable living and environmentally-friendly technologies and offers Museum patrons simple, practical ways they can incorporate green living into their lifestyle. Guests will go on tours of the 2,500-square-foot, modular and contemporary home, located on the east side of the Museum. "At ComEd, we are proud to serve as a key sponsor of this innovative exhibit and to partner with the Museum of Science and Industr

Increasing Science Awareness and Application Among National Youth

SCIENCE OLYMPIAD, SCIENCE EDUCATION, SCIENCE STUDENTS, BIOLOGY, EARTH SCIENCE, CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS, TECHNOLOGY, BENJAMIN CARSON, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Smart Home Exhibit at Museum of Science and Industry Showcases ComEd Environmental...

Smart Home Exhibit at Museum of Science and Industry Showcases ComEd Environmental Programs Exhibit features consumer programs to conserve energy, save money, help the environment CHICAGO, May 9 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its ongoing environmental commitment, ComEd is sponsoring the new Museum of Science and Industry's Smart Home: Green + Wired, Powered by ComEd and Warmed by Peoples Gas exhibit, which showcases the utility's electricity-saving programs for customers and other ways to practice green living. The exhibit is open today through Jan. 4, 2009. The Smart Home demonstrates the latest offerings in sustainable living and environmentally-friendly technologies and offers Museum patrons simple, practical ways they can incorporate green living into their lifestyle.

Science Centre Inauguration Today

PATNA: The stage is set for launching the long-awaited Aryabhatt Centre for Creative Learning in Science at Patna Science College. Aimed at motivating the science teachers of Bihar colleges towards laboratory works, the centre is going to be formally inaugurated by science and technology minister Shahid Ali Khan on Monday.

New Speak Up Report Shows Hands-on Activities Integral to Science Education

SAN ANTONIO, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- PASCO scientific and Project Tomorrow today announced a new report on science education that is based upon the authentic, unfiltered views and ideas of over 367,000 K-12 students, teachers, parents and school administrators collected through the annual Speak Up online surveys. This report documents for the first time the disconnection between how students in kindergarten through 12th grade want to learn science, what tools they want to use to explore science, and what is actually happening in their science classrooms.

Caliper Life Sciences' Optical Imaging Technology Selected to Aid Tuberculosis Research Efforts by the Texas A&M Health Science Center

HOPKINTON, Mass., April 28 -- Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALP) today announced that the Texas A&M Health Science Center Research Foundation (HSCRF) is using the IVIS Spectrum imaging system to speed the development of more effective therapeutic treatments for tuberculosis. Research efforts and the purchase of the IVIS system are funded through a grant to the Texas A&M Health Science Center from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

BASF: BASF Plant Science and Academia Sinica (Taipei) to cooperate on gene discovery; Focus on yield increase and stress tolerance in crops such as rice and corn; Third plant biotech agreement by BASF Plant Science in Asia within eight months

BASF: BASF Plant Science and Academia Sinica (Taipei) to cooperate on gene discovery; Focus on yield increase and stress tolerance in crops such as rice and corn; Third plant biotech agreement by BASF Plant Science in Asia within eight months

Stanford Blood Center Partners with Cantor Arts Center to Give Art Lovers Opportunities...

Stanford Blood Center Partners with Cantor Arts Center to Give Art Lovers Opportunities to Donate Blood STANFORD, Calif.--(Business Wire)-- The Stanford Blood Center invites the public to view a special installation at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and to donate blood this summer. This unique exhibition, titled, "Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art," showcases 80 pieces of world-class art that escaped the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. In keeping with the focus on surviving tragedy, the blood center's bloodmobile will be on location at Cantor Arts Center on selected Thursday evenings through early September. Art lovers and members of the community are encouraged to donate blood as a way to offer a lifeline to patients in local hospitals--especially now.

Science Museum's climate change exhibition

If you need to find an outlet for your hyperactive kids, the Science of Survival exhibition at the Science Museum is just the thing. But will it get them thinking about the environment?

Closing The Achievement Gap In Math And Science

The latest results from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program show not only improved proficiency among all elementary and middle school students, but also a closing of the achievement gaps between both African-American and Hispanic students and white students in elementary school math, and between African-American and white students in elementary and middle-school science.

Statement by Dr. Arden Bement, Acting Director, National Science Foundation, On Nobel Prizes in Science and NSF Connections

Arlington, Va.--I am pleased to congratulate this year's Nobel laureates in science for their much-deserved recognition. On behalf of the American public, the National Science Foundation (NSF) takes great pride in the remarkable achievements of this year's laureates who have been supported by NSF grants throughout their careers.

Children's science museum to take part in learning study

The Children's Museum of Science and Technology in North Greenbush will be one of 15 museums nationwide to participate in a study of how young children and their parents explore science.

Outdoor Science Talks at the Cantor Arts Center - Global Warming: How Do We Manage the Risks? (Talk 2)

Please join us for Stanford's acclaimed Summer Science Lecture Series on the lawn adjacent to the Cantor Arts Center on four Thursday evenings. You are invited to come early and wander through the art museum, buy dinner in the Art Center's Cool Cafe or bring your own picnic, and then settle on the lawn outside to hear informal lectures about cutting-edge research from four of Stanford's most esteemed professors.

Fun Science gallery at Visvesvaraya museum

Rising bubbles, wave motion, floating ball, chaos and order, lazy coins, air cannon are some of the exhibits at the newly-added Fun Science Gallery of the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum (VITM). Fun Science Gallery, fully developed by VITM and spread over an area of 700 sq mtrs, consists of 50 interactive exhibits and a state-of-the-art digital 3-D theatre.

National Science Board Approves UCAR Proposal to Manage NCAR

The National Science Board has authorized the National Science Foundation to negotiate a new cooperative agreement with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) to continue to manage and operate its flagship weather and climate center, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

National Science Board approves UCAR proposal to manage NCAR

BOULDER--The National Science Board has authorized the National Science Foundation to negotiate a new cooperative agreement with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) to continue to manage and operate its flagship weather and climate center, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

More students attend science centres

Speaking during Science Week in Potchefstroom in the North West, Science and Technology Minister, Mosebudi Mangena, says the number of students attending science centres has increased over the last three years. However, he says they have not been able to increase the number of members of the public visiting the centres across the country.

Nanotechnology Made Simple: The Penn Science Caf Visits Washington, D.C.

The Penn Science Café lecture series, free and open to the public, takes science out of the laboratory and treats it to a night on the town. The Café is your chance to ask a leading expert your questions about science. Dr. Carpick will explain nanotechnology, give some examples of what it can be used for and talk about unique efforts to help university research in

Posse Makes Science Fun

These members of UW's Science Posse help junior high and high school students get excited about science. They visit students and teachers throughout Wyoming to help make them more aware of science and scientific research.

India to set up science innovation hubs

India will set up seven Regional Innovation Science Hubs for Inventors in areas like robotics, ocean science and bio-medical engineering, Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal said Thursday.

India to set up science innovation hubs

India will set up seven Regional Innovation Science Hubs for Inventors in areas like robotics, ocean science and bio-medical engineering, Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal said Thursday.

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