Category Archive for "Bioscience" |

Arizona bioscience leaders meet with members of Congress

A 22-member delegation of Arizonans visited U.S. Senators, Representatives, and their staffs, bringing them up to date on Arizona's progress in building a bioscience research infrastructure, laying out next steps, and thanking them for their continued support. The group also traveled to Bethesda, Md., to meet with NIH officials, including members of the National Cancer Institute.

HP grants headed to three Arizona schools

[Source: The Business Journal of Phoenix] — Three Arizona schools, along with 167 other schools across the United States and Puerto Rico, will share in more than $7 million in mobile technology, cash and professional development grants as part of the 2006 Hewlett-Packard Co. Technology for Teaching grant program. Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Mohave Community College […]

Implementing Arizona’s math/science standards aim of July academy

On July 11-13 (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) at the Black Canyon Conference Center, 9440 N. 25th Ave. in Phoenix, the Arizona Department of Education will provide training and tools for county, district, and school teams of teacher leaders to implement a standards-based system using the Mathematics and Science Standards and current research-based practices. This […]

DNA Interactive offers teachers online and classroom resources

At DNA Interactive, register free to join an online teaching community, create personalized web pages, and use the Lesson Builder tool (available only to myDNAi members). With the DNAi Teacher Guide, download 15 lesson plans for use in your classroom. Plans include objectives, national education standards, student worksheets, and more.

Maricopa Co. Educational Services Agency offers program for middle school math/science teachers

The Maricopa County Educational Services Agency, a division of the County School Superintendent’s Office, is pleased to announce its Math and Science for Middle School Teachers program. Consisting of academies in either the science or math content areas, participating teachers will be eligible to earn six undergraduate credits in the content area at no cost, […]

AzTEA publishes newsletter on learning and teaching in a digital world

Hot off the press! The AzTEA Spring 2006 Newsletter, “Learning & Teaching in a Digital World,” is available online. Click here to download your copy (Adobe Reader format).

College/graduate level students urged to apply for drug discovery internship in Tucson

For the fourth year, the sanofi-aventis Combinatorial Technologies Center internship program will take place this summer, part of a new biotechnology training program of the UA Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics in collaboration with Molecular & Cellular Biology and Chemistry. BIO5 Institute provides administrative support for the program. The emphasis is on doing drug […]

C-Path to open Phoenix, and Washington, D.C., offices

Tucson's C-Path is expanding its national presence, opening up offices in Phoenix and Washington, D.C. Jeffrey Cossman, an internationally recognized expert in molecular pathology, has been hired as C-Path's chief scientific officer, and will help set up a C-Path office in Washington, D.C. Ellen Feigal, vice president of clinical sciences at TGen, will take a sabbatical to lead C-Path's Phoenix office.

Call in by May 10 to learn about availablity of SMART grants for students

On May 3, 2006 Tom Luce, Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy for the U.S. Department of Education hosted a conference call to outline guidelines for new Academic Competitiveness Grants and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grants. These new grants encourage students to take more challenging courses during high school […]

May 1 is registration deadline for 8th-graders interested in Phoenix Bioscience High

[Source: Arizona Republic] — Eighth-graders interested in science can apply to attend the Phoenix Union High School District’s newest school, Bioscience High. Applications are being taken through Monday, May 1, 2006. Enrollment the first year is limited to 100 freshmen already living in the Phoenix Union area. The school will eventually hold 400 students. The […]