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The roster of leading Arizona scientists, economic developers, policy leaders, and others working to implement Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap—the state's long-term plan to achieve prominence in the biosciences—expanded broadly in 2005.
Three years into a 10-year plan to bring Arizona to national competitiveness in the biosciences, initial measures of progress show encouraging signs that Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap is on track.
The Arizona Technology Council and its partner organization, the Southern Arizona Tech Council, unveiled their mutual 2006 legislative agenda.
Phoenix Union High School District officials are looking for eligible students with a deep interest in science to become the first class of students enrolled at the new Bioscience High School in downtown Phoenix.
On Nov. 22, more than 100 Valley school superintendents, principals, and science curriculum coordinators attended "Translating TGen 2005: A Symposium for Educators."
Ajit Divakaruni ('01) was named one of 40 recipients of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship. Two other Flinn Scholars, Liz Dreeland and Michelle Hertzfeld, were included among the 17 finalists for the scholarship in the Los Angeles region, an honor that places them at the top of a pool of more than 90 applicants.
For information about Bioscience, please contact:
bioscience@flinn.org or (602) 744-6831
