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Astronaut Sally Ride Invites Girls to Explore Hands-on Science at Science Festival...

Astronaut Sally Ride Invites Girls to Explore Hands-on Science at Science Festival at Southern Methodist University Sally Ride Science Festival brings science to life and inspires upper elementary and middle school girls to think about the vast range of careers in science SAN DIEGO--(Business Wire)-- On April 26, Dr. Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, will touch down at Southern Methodist University in Dallas to inspire local girls to dig into hands-on science at the Sally Ride Science Festival. The festival, which is open to the public, runs from 11 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. and is presented by ExxonMobil. Ride, the festival's keynote speaker, is currently president and CEO of Sally Ride Science(TM), an innovative science content company dedicated to fueling students' interests in science, math and technology.

From Astronaut to Public Ambassador for Science and Culture

Yi So-yeon is not only Korea’s first astronaut but also a female astronaut. What role will she play after her visit to space? Korea’s first astronaut is a woman, which has occurred only twice in the world, following the U.K.’s Helen Sharman, a British female who became that nation’s first astronaut among 13,000 candidates on December 25, 1989. She later gave science lectures and played a role as a public ambassador after traveling to the Mir Space Station on the Russian space craft Soyuz TM-12.

Busker David Reveals the Appliance of Science to Pupils

A BUSKER made science simple for school students during a visit.David Price, from demonstration group Science Made Simple, showed pupils at Framwellgate School, Durham, how science is at work in everyday situations, as part of the school's celebrations of National Science and Engineering Week.In one of Mr Price's demonstrations, he balanced a cork with two forks sticking into it on the end of pupil Chelsea Hall's nose.Youngsters aged 11 to 19 took part in the sessions.Clare Whitfield, the school's science college co-ordinator, said: "Students found the experiments exciting and were very keen to take part."The theme for this year's science week at the school was food for thought and questions in science. Yesterday, Professor Sir Arnold Wolfendale, the former Astronomer Royal, visited the Science Learning Centre North-East, which is next to

COPUS Participants Gear Up for Nationwide Celebration of Science in 2009

The Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS) is preparing to shine the national spotlight on science in 2009 and beyond. COPUS, an organization established in 2007, is planning events to celebrate the Year of Science 2009 (YoS09). The goal of this national, year-long celebration of science is to engage the public and improve understanding about the nature and process of science.

Astronaut Sally Ride Invites Girls to Explore Hands-on Science at Science Festival at Southern Methodist University

Astronaut Sally Ride Invites Girls to Explore Hands-on Science at Science Festival at Southern Methodist University

Science Comes to New York City

New York City will play host to a World Science Festival at the end of May, reports the New York Times. Universities, museums, and even Muppets will take part in the weekend-long tribute to igniting public conversation around science. "The general public by and large doesn't connect with science in a significant way," Columbia physicist and organizer Brian Greene said in the article. "Science is inspirational, it's exciting, it can influence lives."

Bose Institute is First in India to Choose Thomson Scientific's Century of Science

Bose Institute is First in India to Choose Thomson Scientific's Century of Science Leading Research Institute Purchases 100 Years of Web of Science Comprehensive Backfile and Cited Reference Data PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced that Century of Science(TM) has been purchased by Bose Institute. Century of Science expands Web of Science with the most important scientific bibliographic and cited reference data covering the period from 1900 to 1944. Web of Science is a carefully selected and maintained collection of the world's most influential journals across all disciplines.

Studying Big Science

SOCIOLOGY Studying Big Science Lillian Hoddeson STRUCTURES OF SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION. Wesley Shrum, Joel Genuth and Ivan Chompalov. xiv + 280 pp. The MIT Press, 2007. $35. The continuing growth of "big science" since the 1970s has presented historians and archivists of science with new challenges. The ever-increasing scale of the work has demanded greater numbers of people, larger budgets, longer periods of time, and equipment that grows ever more gargantuan and sophisticated. In writing about science and technology, historians have thus had to expand their scope to include not just scientists working alone or in small teams but the vastly more complex activities of collectives. In this endeavor they have received enormous assistance from anthropologists and sociologists of science-people such as Karin Knorr Cetina, Bruno Latour, Andrew

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.

Science Weekly: science, fiction, and 'lablit'

We're all for blurring the lines between science and the arts, and this week James Randerson and the Science Weekly team discuss science, fiction and 'lablit' with our special guest, Dr Jennifer Rohn.

Privacy and Public Health at Risk: Public Health Confidentiality in the Digital Age

Public health agencies increasingly use electronic means to acquire, use, maintain, and store personal health information. Electronic data formats can improve performance of core public health functions, but potentially threaten privacy because they can be easily duplicated and transmitted to unauthorized people. Although such security breaches do occur, electronic data can be better secured than paper records, because authentication, authorization, auditing, and accountability can be facilitated. Public health professionals should collaborate with law and information technology colleagues to assess possible threats, implement updated policies, train staff, and develop preventive engineering measures to protect information.

NextBio Announces Public Launch of Its Life Science Search Engine

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NextBio (http://www.nextbio.com) today announced the next step in making Open Biology a reality: a free version of the NextBio life science search engine has been made available to the general public. Using NextBio, any researcher or clinician can search the world's public life sciences data and literature - over 10,000 experiments, 16 million articles, and literally billions of data points. Moreover, users can import their own experimental data into the NextBio search engine, share it with the community, and collaborate with others as never before.

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.

'Shopcelebritykids.com,' an Online Destination for Trendy Children's Clothing, Integrates Public Relations With Boutique PR Firm, The Garage Public Relations

LOS ANGELES, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The upscale Fort Myers children's boutique, Celebrity Kids, will pair up with boutique Public Relations firm, The Garage Public Relations, to debut the highly anticipated online counterpart, http://www.shopcelebritykids.com/. Shopcelebritykids.com brings trendy, designer children's clothing to e-commerce shoppers everywhere. Influenced by celebrity culture, shopcelebritykids.com features stylish children's clothing from sought after brands like True Religion, Diesel, Kingsley, Ella Moss, Ed Hardy, Splendid Little, Dr. Seuss, 575 and even designer labels like Dolce & Gabbana and Versace. Little ones can even find up-and-coming labels like Piccino Piccina, No Sugar Added and Flowers By Zoe to name a few.

Religion - the homeland of artist's soul

Speaking today on the theme of culture I would like to refer to the wonderful figure of John Paul II who was so respected in the whole world, especially in the world of Christian culture. Before he became a priest he had been an actor and poet, and that’s why he understood the artistic world well; he knew the role of culture in man’s formation and he also knew the philosophy of culture perfectly well. He often referred to that in his life. In 1980, during the UNESCO meeting in Paris, he said, ‘I am a son of the nation that disappeared on Europe’s maps but thanks to culture it found its place again, among the living and existing nations.’ Culture is a very important carrier of reality. One can speak of fine arts, architecture, literature, music, etc.

Canadian astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason to retire

Canadian astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason is leaving the Canadian Space Agency in June after almost 25 years as an astronaut.Canadian astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason is leaving the Canadian Space Agency in June after almost 25 years as an astronaut.

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.

Laureates Awarded to Australasian Science Journalists

Dr Peter Pockley, who pioneered science media in Australia (ABC, 1964) and has contributed to Australasian Science and its predecessor Search since their inception, has been recognised by Purdue University in Indiana, USA, as one of a select international group of Science Journalism Laureates (2007). The citation reads: "In gratitude for your role in disseminating science knowledge for the good of the world".

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