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Receive an award of up to $500 for unique classroom teaching

Grant Title: 2007 Kids in Need Teacher Grants Eligibility: K-12 educators Value: Multiple awards of $100-$500 Deadline: September 30, 2007 The purpose of these grants is to provide funds for classroom teachers who have innovative, meritorious ideas. Projects may qualify for funding if they make creative use of common teaching aids, approaches the curriculum from […]

First cohort of TGen Helios Scholars concludes summer of research

At a conference-style symposium on Aug. 3 concluding a summer of research, TGen's interns revealed both the fruits of their labors and the often deep-rooted passions that sparked and sustained their scientific interests. The interns represented the first TGen class dubbed Helios Scholars, beneficiaries of a $380,000 grant from the Phoenix-based Helios Educational Foundation.

“National action plan” approved for STEM education

The National Science Board on Wednesday approved a draft

Collaboration looks to produce hothouse tomatoes so good they could become the ultimate cure-all

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More math, science pose worthwhile challenges (Tucson Citizen editorial)

[Source: Tucson Citizen editorial board] — We urge the state Board of Education to enact more stringent high school math and science requirements when it meets Friday. A requirement for four years of high school math and three years of science may sound excessive, even counterproductive, to some. It isn’t. Consider: Math is like muscle; […]

Pima C.C. offers two biotech courses

This fall, Pima Community College West Campus will offer two courses that are highly relevant to the biotechnology community. BIO 135, Genetics, Biotechnology, and Human Affairs is a non-majors, general education course which would be highly appropriate for someone wanting to understand more about biotechnology and get a taste of key techniques. BIO 206 is […]

State may add more math and science classes to graduate

[Source: Ryan Gabrielson, East Valley Tribune] — Mathaphobes beware: You may never escape quadratic equations before you graduate. The State Board of Education is to consider today dramatically increasing the number of math and science classes high school students must pass to graduate. If approved, the proposal would double the number of math classes required […]

High school students participate in cutting-edge research at ASU

[Source: Julie Kurth, ASU, 480-727-9386] — A group of researchers at ASU

NAU researchers develop new device for finding bacteria

[Source: Northern Arizona University] – Infection-causing bacteria can’t hide from researchers at Northern Arizona University, who recently helped develop the first diagnostic tool to detect them. A patent is pending for the new Lateral Flow Assay device to detect the microorganisms bound together in a protective wall, known as biofilms, which attach to inanimate substances, […]

NIH awards UA nearly $1M for mass spectrometer

[Source: Deborah Daun, BIO5] – The National Institutes of Health awarded a $924,995 High-End Instrumentation (HEI) grant to The University of Arizona for a mass spectrometer that will assist a wide range of UA scientists, from those working on the prevention and cures for diseases such as colorectal cancer and Valley Fever to those researching […]