science education:
Category: women in science
Remember Bill Nye the Science Guy, that television popularizer of science for kids? Maybe it's time to give him an update and a facelift. That's the goal of Susan the Scientist, a project of Dr. Susan Reslewic, who is launching...
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Category: publish or perish
My colleague Donna Riley just sent me a way-cool call for papers: inclusive science, for a special issue of the National Women's Studies Association Journal. Get your writing hats on -- papers are due January 15! The rest of the...
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Posted by Alice at 3:48 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: science education
It's the very last day of our DonorsChoose Reader Challenge for 2008. I just want to say how amazed I am by the generosity of our readers. I'm particularly proud that we have far more donors than many of our...
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Posted by ScienceWoman at 3:50 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: philanthropy
This is it, folks - we're coming round into the home stretch of DonorsChoose, with one week left in October. And there is some great news - ScienceBlogs has decided to donate FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS to Donors Choose, distributed among...
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Posted by Alice at 9:27 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: engineering education
Our DonorsChoose blogger challenge ends on Friday, and we've still got a couple of projects left to fund in our challenge. Yes, we've added a few along the way, but there's still a few of Alice's original picks that have...
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Category: engineering education
Hear ye, hear ye! I am looking for an awesome up-and-coming scholar to work with on ADVANCE. See the job advertisement below! Email me with questions! Spread the word! Thanks!...
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Posted by Alice at 3:39 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: science education
When you hear the word "poverty," what do you think of? Starving children in Africa? Subsistence farmers in Asia? Is poverty some distant concept? Something terrible, but far off? Yes, and no. Because, while poverty is terrible, it can also...
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Posted by ScienceWoman at 7:45 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: let's talk about solutions
We got off to a strong start in the Sciencewomen Reader Challenge 2008. In the first 48 hours, we attracted 9 donors who gave a total of almost $400 to our DonorsChoose projects that fund impoverished public school science classrooms....
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Category: goal setting
For the last two Octobers, Janet of Scienceblogs' Adventures in Ethics and Science has organized Sciencebloggers into participating in the DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge. We're doing it again this October, yay! DonorsChoose collects requests for materials, supplies, equipment, money for field...
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Posted by Alice at 8:41 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: women in science
I justed wanted to give a shout-out to my friends at YellowIbis.com, a science t-shirt shop. They specialize in wonderful shirts featuring all sorts of molecules (pick your favorite, they'll make it), sciencey one-liners, and "science varsity" shirts. Minnow and...
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