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The radio program Science Friday, heard on NPR, recently featured a very strange duo. Black Eyed Peas star Will.i.am has partnered with science inventor and educator, Dean Kamen, to highlight the importance of science education programs.This...
Some say they believe the American college system to be broken. Some argue the costs don't outweigh the benefits. Some feel the rising tuition costs, combined with the economic downturn have created a system where...
Is a quality education possible when budget cuts loom on the horizon?
Yes!
These days, kids have amazing access to information. They can communicate with each other while completing a dizzying variety of tasks. I've seen...
Science teachers and home-school students who pay attention to current events could easily benefit from news coverage of an earthquake in Japan and the resulting tsunami. There is no better way to demonstrate the significance of science, and the...
A recent conference was held at UCLA concerning the sharing of information between physicians and veterinarians. It seems logical for these two fields of science to share and combine data each has collected independently to offer hope in the...
It goes without saying, kids who are different get picked on. The short kid, the distracted kid, the chubby kid - these kids know what bullying feels like. A University of Illinois at Chicago researcher has received a $730...
Today was a bad day for young people and families in the UK, as the British parliment approved a tuition hike plan that could raise tuition fees in England by to up to £9,000 ($14,159.70)per...
A new class of astronauts graduated from the European Space Agency (ESA), a basic training program in Cologne, Germany. In the past, training for astronauts took place primarily in the United States or Russia.
They are the first group of...
There is a new M.A. program directly related to oceanic conservation and policy at a Stony Brook University in New York. This is the first university program in New York to offer such a program, and among only...