Sentences with phrase «science education efforts»

NorthJersey.com posted a story about New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy and her recent tour of PPPL, where she learned about the Lab's science education efforts.

I had been teaching and promoting science education efforts for more than 10 years, through interactions with underrepresented minority students from elementary school to postdoctoral levels, with the assistance and mentorship of caring people who extended countless opportunities to me throughout my career.

Although Congress has approved plenty of mandatory spending programs — the National Science Foundation (NSF), for instance, gets a regular stream of money from visa fees for science education efforts — lawmakers are often loath to approve them, because they are perceived to reduce congressional control over spending.

Not exact matches

As much as recent efforts to encourage women in STEM education and STEM jobs have helped move the needle a bit, the culture of science has often made life for women scientists harder than it already is — excluding them from clubby publishing and peer review networks and sometimes outright snubbing their achievements.

They find it offensive that people like you discuss their endeavors, which required years of education, research and effort, in the same breath as the wild and baseless allegations of religion (at least as science views it).

Science education is becoming a key part of what it means to be a well - informed and well - educated citizen of today; therefore, any effort to temper science education in order to placate a vocal religious group cheats the students, cheats society, and cheats our Science education is becoming a key part of what it means to be a well - informed and well - educated citizen of today; therefore, any effort to temper science education in order to placate a vocal religious group cheats the students, cheats society, and cheats our science education in order to placate a vocal religious group cheats the students, cheats society, and cheats our future.

As the pioneer in concussion education for sports parents, MomsTeam and I are thrilled to have Impakt on our team as we continue to dedicate our efforts to do everything possible to keep the kids of America playing sports as safe as science, technology and equipment make possible.»

Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Fariña Celebrate Computer Science Education Week Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña today visited PS 241 in Brooklyn to celebrate Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 5 - 11), a national and global effort encouraging schools to engage students in computer science (CS) education by teaching an «Hour of Code» or hosting other CS activities and Science Education Week Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña today visited PS 241 in Brooklyn to celebrate Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 5 - 11), a national and global effort encouraging schools to engage students in computer science (CS) education by teaching an «Hour of Code» or hosting other CS activities anEducation Week Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña today visited PS 241 in Brooklyn to celebrate Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 5 - 11), a national and global effort encouraging schools to engage students in computer science (CS) education by teaching an «Hour of Code» or hosting other CS activities and Science Education Week (Dec. 5 - 11), a national and global effort encouraging schools to engage students in computer science (CS) education by teaching an «Hour of Code» or hosting other CS activities anEducation Week (Dec. 5 - 11), a national and global effort encouraging schools to engage students in computer science (CS) education by teaching an «Hour of Code» or hosting other CS activities and science (CS) education by teaching an «Hour of Code» or hosting other CS activities aneducation by teaching an «Hour of Code» or hosting other CS activities and events.

Fariña kicks off computer science education week Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has launched Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 4 - 10), a global effort encouraging computer science education, and she has announced New York City's new CS4All Hack League, a citywide coding compescience education week Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has launched Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 4 - 10), a global effort encouraging computer science education, and she has announced New York City's new CS4All Hack League, a citywide coding comeducation week Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has launched Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 4 - 10), a global effort encouraging computer science education, and she has announced New York City's new CS4All Hack League, a citywide coding compeScience Education Week (Dec. 4 - 10), a global effort encouraging computer science education, and she has announced New York City's new CS4All Hack League, a citywide coding comEducation Week (Dec. 4 - 10), a global effort encouraging computer science education, and she has announced New York City's new CS4All Hack League, a citywide coding compescience education, and she has announced New York City's new CS4All Hack League, a citywide coding comeducation, and she has announced New York City's new CS4All Hack League, a citywide coding competition.

She provided attendees with historical context on AAAS's involvement in education since its 1848 inception its commitment to science literacy for all students that Project 2061's efforts are working to realize.

It is widely recognized as the first step toward ambitious national standards in science for all students and a major influence on current efforts to reform science education in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve iscience for all students and a major influence on current efforts to reform science education in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve iscience education in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieveeducation in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve iScience Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by AchieveEducation (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve iScience Standards released by Achieve in 2013.

This led to a years - long effort that Wyndham spearheaded in which AAAS established 17 multidisciplinary organizations seeking to outline ways scientific organizations, across disciplines, could consistently deliver quality education in the field of science, technology, engineering and medicine and boost the diversity of those participating in the field.

AAAS presented Kokabee with the 2014 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award in absentia «in recognition of his willingness to endure imprisonment rather than apply his scientific expertise for destructive purposes and for his efforts to provide hope and education to fellow prisoners,» said Alan Leshner, then AAAS CEO and executive publisher of Science in a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei requesting Kokabee's release.

She also led Project 2061's evaluative studies of science and mathematics textbooks and currently serves as principal investigator on curriculum development efforts funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administscience and mathematics textbooks and currently serves as principal investigator on curriculum development efforts funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministScience Foundation, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

This is a fellowship program designed for genetics professionals with an advanced degree who are early in their careers and interested in the development and implementation of national genomics literacy efforts, informal science education, science education policy, program development, or science education research.

He also follows efforts to improve science and math education, as well as the factors that shape the U.S. and global scientific workforce.

CREATE is a joint effort between the College of Natural Science and the College of Education to improve the teaching and learning of science and mathematics K — college teScience and the College of Education to improve the teaching and learning of science and mathematics K — college tescience and mathematics K — college teaching.

After the passage of the American's With Disabilities Act in 1990, the Project on Science, Technology and Disability turned their efforts to encouraging science education among handicapped students and the publication of the Resource Directory of Scientists and Engineers with DisabiScience, Technology and Disability turned their efforts to encouraging science education among handicapped students and the publication of the Resource Directory of Scientists and Engineers with Disabiscience education among handicapped students and the publication of the Resource Directory of Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities.

In his keynote talk at the 2015 Forum titled «Continuing Efforts to Improve Science Education in the U.S,» DeBoer reviewed the history of science standards development in the U.S. and the role of Project 2061 for an audience of several hundred science teachers from various Chinese provinces, many of whom were being recognized for excellence in teScience Education in the U.S,» DeBoer reviewed the history of science standards development in the U.S. and the role of Project 2061 for an audience of several hundred science teachers from various Chinese provinces, many of whom were being recognized for excellence in tescience standards development in the U.S. and the role of Project 2061 for an audience of several hundred science teachers from various Chinese provinces, many of whom were being recognized for excellence in tescience teachers from various Chinese provinces, many of whom were being recognized for excellence in teaching.

As U.S. officials consider new education standards in mathematics and English, a long - term AAAS science literacy initiative continues its efforts to encourage a standards - based approach to science education and set specific learning goals for K - 12 students.

Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phescience education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific pheScience Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.

Graduate STEM education committee chair Alan Leshner, the CEO emeritus of AAAS (which publishes Science Careers), emphasized the importance of the effort — which he humorously termed «report number 26» — actually contributing to change.

Some years ago, when AAAS launched an effort to reform science education, it said that true reform will take about as long as Halley's Comet's orbital period [of about 76 years]-- that's why they labeled their initiative Project 2061.

One effort was the National Science Foundation's Postdoctoral Fellowships in Science, Mathematics, Education and Technology Education (PFSMETE) program, offered from 1997 to 1999.

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Numerous federal agencies that historically have focused their minority recruitment and retention efforts on universities, including NSF, NIH, and the Department of Education, are now implementing or expanding programs to fortify science education at community colleges, to facilitate 2 - year students» transfer to universities, and to encourage those students to continue toward advancedEducation, are now implementing or expanding programs to fortify science education at community colleges, to facilitate 2 - year students» transfer to universities, and to encourage those students to continue toward advancededucation at community colleges, to facilitate 2 - year students» transfer to universities, and to encourage those students to continue toward advanced degrees.

He says he will build on his predecessor's efforts, Ian Chubb, to promote STEM education and push for a national science and education strategy.

«We must maintain R&D and science education funding, or we'll waste investments over the last decade in infrastructure improvements and efforts to make research careers attractive to young scientists.»

At a higher education and science policy roundtable in New York City, University of Colorado at Boulder chancellor Philip DiStefano talked about his institution's efforts to attract science majors to teaching K - 12.

Not surprisingly, several of these top employers, including Actelion, Syngenta, and Regeneron, also make science education a focus of their social responsibility efforts.

Amendment 2 «is a lawyer's dream» because of its vagueness, says Joshua Rosenau, programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California, which tracks efforts by groups that oppose evolution.

«If the committee could pull together what we already know... and make very strong recommendations» regarding changes in science and engineering education, the effort would be worth it, says Elaine Seymour, who works in the Bureau of Sociological Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

The effort builds on the latest buzzword in science education: partnerships.

She is a leader in efforts to improve access for girls and women to STEM education and careers, serving as the co-chair of the Gender Advisory Board of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development.

The original COMPETES Act, passed in 2007, endorsed major budget increases for NSF, NIST, and research programs at the Department of Energy as well as bolstered federal efforts to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education.

(There's also an Office of Education at NASA headquarters that runs agency - wide programs such as scholarships and research opportunities for students and efforts to attract more minority students into space science.)

But there's a glimmer of hope for bipartisan agreement in the U.S. Senate on legislation affecting programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and federal efforts to improve science and math eduScience Foundation (NSF) and federal efforts to improve science and math eduscience and math education.

In an effort to increase its enrolments, the University of Saskatchewan?s College of Education actively encourages people with math and science degrees to enter teacher training by lowering the admission standards for this group of applicants (which are ordinarily very stringent — see below) and by giving applicants who choose math, physics, or chemistry as their main subject first preference for program openings.

The physics Nobelist who recently stepped down as point person for the Obama Administration's efforts to improve U.S. science education told Congress yesterday that many federally funded programs don't draw upon current research about how people learn and, therefore, haven't managed to boost student achievement.

An inventory by the Bush Administration of federal efforts to bolster science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education was too simplistic to be useful, according to a White House official.

With continued efforts, education and recruiting programs should soon bear fruit, bringing new power to the life sciences.

Leshner has previously noted that efforts to compromise U.S. science education threaten American innovation, competitiveness, and young people's ability to compete for jobs in the future.

A thoughtful and comprehensive study is likely to mollify the powerful legislator, who traditionally has been very supportive of NSF's efforts in science education.

The efforts of some members of the Texas State Board of Education to mandate the teaching of creationism is the latest chapter in the ongoing struggle between science and religion in the US (5 October, p 7).

Gary Orfield, professor of education, law, political science, and urban planning at UCLA, said opponents of the UT admission policy claim there are nonracial alternatives that do the job just as well, including the 10 % plan that UT now uses as its first phase for admission; approaches using socioeconomic status rather than race as a factor; and special outreach and recruitment efforts.

Activities supported by the Fund include the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition's Student Essay, Poster, and Digital Media Competitions; efforts to promote the integration of human rights into STEM education; technical training of human rights practitioners in innovative applications of science and technology; collaborative partnerships between scientists, engineers and human rights organizations; and policy engagement on issues at the nexus of science and human Science and Human Rights Coalition's Student Essay, Poster, and Digital Media Competitions; efforts to promote the integration of human rights into STEM education; technical training of human rights practitioners in innovative applications of science and technology; collaborative partnerships between scientists, engineers and human rights organizations; and policy engagement on issues at the nexus of science and human science and technology; collaborative partnerships between scientists, engineers and human rights organizations; and policy engagement on issues at the nexus of science and human science and human rights.

COMPETES authorizes scientific education efforts, manufacturing research, and, crucially, spending for the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy (including its ARPA - E high risk research program), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

I shared my thoughts, aspirations, and dreams with her and it was through this conversation that she recognized my sincerity and dedication toward efforts in the area of diversity, and my long - standing interest in promoting science education.

AAAS, the world's largest general scientific organization, is stepping up its efforts to attract visiting scholars to work with the association in its programs that engage topics as varied as science diplomacy, nuclear disarmament issues and science education.

Administration officials hope that shining a light on the numerous private - sector efforts already underway to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education will enhance existing federal programs.