Bioscience
Sign up now for BSCS Keys to Science; early registration deadline is 5/11
Time to reinvigorate your passion for science and teaching? Join us in beautiful Colorado Springs this summer for an engaging experience that will enrich your understandings of scientific inquiry and/or evolution and will provide a professional learning community among you and your fellow Keys participants to extend your professional development and support across the school […]Learn about the Genome Consortium for Active Teaching (GCAT)
The purpose of GCAT is to: Bring Functional Genomic Methods into Undergraduate Curriculum Primarily Through Student Research Use Centralized Chip Reader to Make Microarray Experiments Affordable Create a Clearing House of Information for Teachers to Use when Teaching Genomics Create Large Database of Raw Data and Analyzed Results for Pedagogical Use Develop a Global Network […]Sun Health Institute opens research building, adds staff
Source: Erin Zlomek, The Arizona Republic Along with opening a second 36,000-square-foot medical research building, the Sun Health Research Institute announced the hirings of four new employees expected to investigate the puzzles presented by Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. At the new research center’s unveiling April 9, the company announced these new staff additions: Paul Coleman, […]Yuma leaders: More math, science education would aid kids, work force
[Source: Sarah Reynolds, Yuma Sun] — Employers and educators say high school students, locally and nationally, will need to do more to prepare themselves with the math and science skills they’ll need to compete in the global economy. “The general gist is the fact that America has been a superpower for a number of decades […]Governors make case for expanded technical education
[Source: Minneapolis, MN Star-Tribune Editorial] — America once was unrivaled on patents produced and its information technology exports. But no more. With India and China graduating three to four times more engineers than the United States, the next great ideas and innovations are likely to come from there. If this country is to remain competitive, […]Southwest Airlines Adopt-A-Pilot Program celebrates 10 years
[Source: PR Newswire] — What if you could inspire struggling students to believe in themselves — and in their future careers? What if you could ignite a students’ desire to pursue a degree in science, math, writing, or other fields? What if you could look back on the past ten years and see that you […]U.S. cancer group launches mass cancer study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The American Cancer Society said it was looking for half a million volunteers willing to let researchers watch them for the next 20 years to see if they get cancer. The aim is to match similar big studies in Europe and Asia that are looking on a large scale for the environmental […]UA tech park, tenants plan GenNext Career Day on April 26
[Source: Arizona Daily Star] — The University of Arizona Science and Technology Park and its tenants are holding the fourth annual GenNext Career Day, also known as Take Our Kids to Work Day, on April 26. The day’s events will include the Physics Factory, magician Bruce Spell and interactive booths hosted by IBM, Hughes Federal […]Arizona DOE to award math/science partnership grants
The Arizona Department of Education will award Mathematics and Science Partnership Grants focusing on Science and Literacy K-6. There will approximately $2 million available for this specific focus. The Request for Proposals will be posted on the MSP webpage on May 1, 2007. Click here for dates and locations for the required Grant Application Workshops.For information about Bioscience, please contact:
bioscience@flinn.org or (602) 744-6831
