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BIO5 a partner in online science/math grant

[Source: BIO5 Institute] — BIO5 is a partner on a new $250,000 Improving Teacher Quality grant from the Arizona Board of Regents. The grant capitalizes on The University of Arizona’s telemedicine program and delivers content-rich online courses in science and math. It is supported by teleconferencing in order to increase the number of highly qualified […]

TUSD receives funds to improve biotechnology education

[Source: BIO5 Institute] — Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) received more than $99,000 in grant funds to improve biotechnology education in the district

Sign up by Jan. 15 for online course for secondary school science teachers

BIOC 623c, 3-units of graduate credit, is an online course for secondary school science teachers. Taught by instructors Jim Ware, M.S. and Lisa Rezende, Ph.D., this course will focus on recent advances in the understanding of basic biology and on new applications in cellular and molecular aspects of biology. It begins on Wednesday, January 16, […]

Workers in the classroom could benefit students (Opinion Piece)

[Source: Arizona Daily Star] — Problems in the Arizona public education system resonate far beyond any school campus. It’s taken time, but there are encouraging signs that the understanding of community interconnectedness has finally taken root as common wisdom. The case in point is an idea being proposed by Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom […]

State superintendent wants input on making teachers’ lives easier

[Source: Pat Kossan, Arizona Republic] — Arizona teachers have 30 days to tell state schools chief Tom Horne how he can make their life easier. Horne encourages teachers to e-mail him with their ideas at [email protected] in his fifth “State of Education” address, scheduled to be delivered this morning at Phoenix Union Bioscience High School. […]

Life at the jolt: New insights into fuel cell that uses bacteria to generate electricity

[Source: Arizona State University] – Researchers at the Biodesign Institute are using the tiniest organisms on the planet ‘bacteria’ as a viable option to make electricity. In a new study featured in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering, lead author Andrew Kato Marcus and colleagues Cesar Torres and Bruce Rittmann have gained critical insights that may […]

ASU Biodesign Institute hosts Fast Plants Training, Feb. 7 & Mar. 7

The growing of Fast Plants through complete life cycles, seed to seed, can provide students basic biological concepts that can be transferred directly to understanding themselves as individual organisms. Teachers encouraged to attend training on either February 7 or March 7, 2009 at ASU Biodesign Institute.

Alzheimer’s group, drug firm in deal

[ Source: Ken Alltucker, The Arizona Republic] – Banner Alzheimer’s Institute has struck a pact with a British pharmaceutical company to test brain-imaging technology in Arizona that researchers say may yield more clues and treatments to Alzheimer’s disease. Banner scientists will test a molecule developed by London-based AstraZeneca that could help measure harmful protein deposits […]

Why don’t we get cancer all the time?

[Source: ScienceDaily] – The seemingly inefficient way our bodies replace worn-out cells is a defense against cancer, according to new research. Having the neighboring cell just split into two identical daughter cells would seem to be the simplest way to keep bodies from falling apart. However that would be a recipe for uncontrolled growth, said […]

ASU’s law school offering class addressing nanotechnology

[Source: AZCentral.com] – The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Arizona State University is offering Nanotechnology and the Law, a course geared toward graduate students in public policy, bioengineering, biomedicine, justice studies and political science, as well as law. Nanotechnology, a growing science with huge implications for health, safety, quality of life and the environment, […]