Category Archive for "Bioscience" |

C-Path growth outstrips current office space

Just seven months after its grand opening at St. Philip’s Plaza in Tucson, the Critical Path Institute (C-Path) has tripled its work space to keep up with its growing staff and programs. The leased 4,394-square-foot office suite is located across the street from the institute. C-Path, a nonprofit partnership between University of Arizona, SRI International, […]

Urban Institute issues report on women’s progress in the fields of science, math, engineering, and technology

The purpose of the Urban Institute’s article, Taking stock: Where we’ve been, where we are, where we’re going, is to trace the trajectory of women’s progress in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) over the past decade and suggest directions for the future of women’s participation in these fields. To do this, they track indicators […]

NAU and TGen awarded grant to develop high school science programs

Northern Arizona University and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have been awarded a three-year grant from the Arizona Board of Regents to give Arizona high school teachers the training they need to best educate and advise students who have an interest in the biosciences. NAU and TGen will partner with Arizona high schools to […]

Governor’s P-20 Council emphasizes math and science instruction

The primary goal of Governor Janet Napolitano’s P-20 Council, launched on July 8, 2005, is to improve education in Arizona, as well as to ensure more students graduate from high school, succeed in college, and are ready for the modern workforce. The P-20 Council will work to achieve this goal by: Striving to align high […]

To start off your work week, some bio humor!

Teen girls pursue a passion for science at IBM camp

[Source: Diana Bellettieri, The Journal News] — A group of budding young scientists recently made a discovery that could improve life for millions of women: The perfect formula for lip gloss calls for three parts strawberry, three parts chocolate and as many parts glitter as possible. “Glitter’s cool,” 16-year-old Sarah Drucker said as she carefully […]

State invests $7 million in autism research

Thanks to $7.1 million in state funding, the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and the Southwestern Autism Research and Resource Center (SARRC) will collaborate to develop a diagnostic test to determine whether newborns have autism. There are currently no such tests for autism, which appears in the first three years of life and is the […]

“Water: Our Bio-Engineered Resource” is topic of August 19th 6th grade teacher workshop

Teacher training workshops for middle- and high-school science teachers consist of a full-day workshop on applying the biosciences. Each workshop, held at the Arizona Science Center in downtown Phoenix, covers a set of lesson plans and background information that you can use to bring real life applications of bioscience to students. The first of three […]

Phoenix NPR station holds hour-long segment on Arizona’s biosciences

You know very well the terms “bioscience” and “biotechnology” and strive to teach them to your students. Now you can provide students some local perspective thanks to KJZZ, our National Public Radio station. Why are local and state governments, philanthropists, businesses, and others investing tens of millions of dollars in “bioscience” research? Why is such […]

NASA’s fledgling teacher training program fosters interest in science instruction

[Source: Laura Ascione, Assistant Editor, eSchool News] — With an ultimate goal of drawing more students to careers in science and related disciplines, NASA has announced the creation of a nationwide network of teacher-mentors charged with helping inspire the next generation of explorers. Attended by 22 award-winning teachers from K-12 classrooms across the United States, […]