Live Blog: Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap
Welcome to the Flinn Foundation Bio Blog where you will receive the latest news throughout 2025 (and beyond) on the next iteration of Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap.
The Roadmap is the nation’s longest-running, statewide bioscience strategic plan. Bookmark this page for regular updates on the biosciences in Arizona and the development of the new Roadmap coming this fall.
Live Blog: Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap
News and Updates
C-Path to open Phoenix, and Washington, D.C., offices
May 04, 2006
Tucson's C-Path is expanding its national presence, opening up offices in Phoenix and Washington, D.C. Jeffrey Cossman, an internationally recognized expert in molecular pathology, has been hired as C-Path's chief scientific officer, and will help set up a C-Path office…
Call in by May 10 to learn about availablity of SMART grants for students
May 03, 2006
On May 3, 2006 Tom Luce, Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy for the U.S. Department of Education hosted a conference call to outline guidelines for new Academic Competitiveness Grants and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent…
May 1 is registration deadline for 8th-graders interested in Phoenix Bioscience High
April 29, 2006
[Source: Arizona Republic] — Eighth-graders interested in science can apply to attend the Phoenix Union High School District’s newest school, Bioscience High. Applications are being taken through Monday, May 1, 2006. Enrollment the first year is limited to 100 freshmen…
New website to share success stories of public schools in Arizona
April 26, 2006
Arizona teachers and students are making a difference and creating success stories in our public schools each and every day. Parents and the general public likely know that great things are happening in their neighborhood school, but they may not…
Today is National DNA Day!
April 25, 2006
National DNA Day will be celebrated once again on April 25, 2006. Click here for details on new materials, a new webcast, and the return of the live chatroom, all courtesy of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Washington,…
Expand the pool of America’s future scientists (opinion piece in Christian Science Monitor)
April 24, 2006
[Authors: Kevin Carey and Andrew J. Rotherham, April 6, 2006] — The conventional wisdom among business leaders and politicians is that vast hordes of highly trained Chinese engineering students are poised to descend, Khan-like, upon the plains of the global…
Breaking the gender line in science (Arizona Republic article)
April 22, 2006
[Source: Karina Bland, Arizona Republic] — Girls at Lowell Elementary School in Phoenix have designed a new toy called a springboard, a skateboard on springs instead of wheels. They dreamed it up during an after-school science club and are working…
