Improving the quality of life in Arizona to benefit future generations.
From processing forensic evidence to exploring climate change through tree rings, teachers will participate in a wide variety of hands-on workshops at the third annual Arizona K-12 Science Teacher Symposium being held on Saturday, April 18, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The Dana Foundation will support promising new investigators who are beginning careers in patient-based immunology research as Dana Scholars.
Human problems persist as part of ongoing social interactions.
Geneticist Winifred Doane, Professor Emerita of Arizona State University receives award from the Association for Women in Science.
When Phoenix natives Alan Nelson and Joshua LaBaer graduated from high school, they followed a path typical in the 1960s and 1970s for many bright young scholars in Arizona: they left for California. Now they’re back.
Arizona science and math teachers had high praise for a weekend short course held at Biosphere 2 called "Discovering Darwin Days: Teaching Evolution in the K-12 Classroom." A big part of why the short course was so effective is that teachers themselves organized and ran it, Biosphere 2 educators say.
Learning.com has completed a rigorous psychometric and standards-setting evaluation for its new 21st Century Skills Assessment, giving educators assurance this new assessment provides a valid assessment of students' 21st century skills, aligned to the ISTE NETS-S 2007 standards.
“I am amazed at how the panel with diverse backgrounds really had a common vision of educational technology,” says Nan Williams, a member of the review panel and Director of Educational Technology, Arizona Department of Education.
The U.S. Department of Education has several bioscience related grant deadlines coming up.
A summary of National Science Foundation STEM education related grants, including links, for Arizona's education community to review and consider.
Three states, Arizona, Delaware and New Mexico, announced that they have signed on to the recommendations of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce (www.skillscommission.org) in its "Tough Choices or Tough Times" report.
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