5/8/2013 - ScienceInsider
Eugenie Scott has spent 26 years helping teachers do what's right for their students in the name of science. And while the need to defend the teaching of evolution and climate change certainly hasn't disappeared, Scott announced today that she is stepping down later this year as the founding CEO and "the public face" of the National Center for Science Education.
3/28/2013 - NSF.gov
The National Science Board has announced that accomplished educator Jo Anne Vasquez is the recipient of its 2013 Public Service Award for an individual. Vasquez is known nationally and internationally for her efforts to create sustainable change in teaching K-12 science.
3/28/2013 - NSF.gov
The National Science Board has announced that accomplished educator Jo Anne Vasquez is the recipient of its 2013 Public Service Award for an individual. Vasquez is known nationally and internationally for her efforts to create sustainable change in teaching K-12 science.
3/25/2013 - Huffington Post
Having skills suited for a variety of careers helps explain why few women pursue math and science jobs, new research finds.
2/25/2013 - Leesburg Today
Thirty Loudoun County [VA] high school girls who have a knack for science were invited to visit with one of the most respected scientists in the field of theoretical computer science and physics—Jennifer Tour Chayes—at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus last week.
1/29/2013 - Business Day
Redressing the imbalance between the supply of and demand for skilled workers globally requires a unified agenda of the right education, training, and immigration policies. Building a global workforce that can drive economic growth and reduce long-term unemployment can be achieved only by equipping and empowering workers with the right skills. This will require a substantial investment in education and workforce training.
1/27/2013 - HUFF POST: The Blog
You Matter: These two words, when understood and leveraged in the right way, are essential to empowering women who are determined to overcome the subtle and overt biases that militate against their decision to pursue a STEM career.
11/8/2012 - Scientific American
Beset by subtle biases, women are struggling to find their place in academia, with consequences for all of us.
9/25/2012 - The Washington Post (requires free registration)
A new Yale University study shows that bias against women persists in the sciences—in this case, at the university level, where science professors of both sexes were found to rate males as “significantly more competent and hireable” than equally qualified female applicants.
9/24/2012 - STEMinist.com
Imperial College in London student Julie Gould explains why she is pursuing a career in STEM.
9/7/2012 - Discovery News
A different sort of sea of tranquility awaits Apollo astronaut Neil Armstrong, who died Aug. 25 following complications after heart surgery. He was 82.
11/7/2011 - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Psychology students who read about Brenda Milner's seminal work with amnesia patients nearly 60 years ago might not suspect that she is, at 93, still engaged full time in research and teaching.
11/1/2011 - U.S. News & World Report
WNYC's Radiolab host Jad Abumrad began his career as a composer, but he soon evolved into equal parts composer, journalist, editor, storyteller, and scientist. Science, in fact, often provides the undercurrent for many of his on-air tales.
10/17/2011 - National Science Foundation
Twenty-one NSF-funded, NSF-nominated researchers are among the 94 scientists and engineers to receive the Administration's highest honor for early career research and outreach.
10/17/2011 - Scientific American
Just what do these vital stretches of repetitive DNA do? Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn? shares more about her long career with these ever-shortening regions in an interview with science writer Thea Singer.
10/7/2011 - ScienceNews
Top prizes awarded in Broadcom MASTERS science competition for middle schoolers.
10/6/2011 - Education Week
From the early Apple computers to the iPhone and iPad, Jobs, who died Wednesday, influenced students, teachers, and learning.
10/4/2011 - Scientific American
Dark energy wins out in the end: Three U.S. scientists have been honored for their observations that type 1a supernovae indicate that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
10/3/2011 - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Three scientists—one of whom died on Friday—were jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine today for achievements that "revolutionized our understanding of the immune system by discovering key principles for its activation," according to a citation released by Sweden's Karolinska Institute.
9/27/2011 - Education Week
President Obama named testing researcher Roy Levy as the only education-related winner of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
9/13/2011 - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Arthur L. Horwich, a professor of genetics at Yale University, and Franz-Ulrich Hartl, managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, in Germany, have won the Albert Lasker Basic Research Award, one of the most coveted prizes in biomedicine.
9/12/2011 - Scientific American
Called on to reconstruct weather conditions that occurred at a specific time and location in question, the number of cases for storm sleuths to solve is on the rise.
8/17/2011 - Voice of America News
Back in the 1950s few women in the U.S. worked outside of the home. However, as the first chief of astronomy at the U.S. space agency, Nancy Grace Roman is a notable exception.
8/4/2011 - Inside Higher Ed
The U.S. Department of Commerce released new data on Wednesday on the gender gap in science and technology fields. The study noted that women hold almost half of all jobs in the United States, but less than 25% of those in STEM fields.
7/12/2011 - MSNBC
Shree Bose, an aspiring young scientist from Fort Worth, Texas, won the top prize in the Google Science Fair for her project on ovarian cancer's resistance to cisplatin, a common chemotherapy drug.