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Shodor Offering Spring Online Professional Development Course

Posted Tue, 11/30/2010 - 12:04pm by hstoker

Shodor is offering a Spring professional development course for middle school and high school math, science, and technology teachers.

EcoEd DL seeks an Education Programs Coodinator....

Posted Mon, 11/29/2010 - 7:56pm by eileen

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is advertising an opening for an Education Programs Director.

ChemEd DL launches new portal...

Posted Wed, 11/17/2010 - 5:27pm by eileen

ChemEd DL.jpgThe ChemEd DL, the NSDL’s Chemistry Pathway, has launched a new Web portal. Check out the new site atwww.chemeddl.org.

Shodor Pays Tribute to Mandelbrot

Posted Fri, 11/05/2010 - 2:05pm by hstoker

Shodor takes a moment to remember Benoit B. Mandelbrot (November 20, 1924 - October 14, 2010), a man often considered the father of fractal geometry.

2010 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education announced

Posted Mon, 11/01/2010 - 10:10pm by eileen

NSDL's Engineering Pathway announced the 2010 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware, awarded on Friday, October 29, to two entries: Greenfoot Integrated Development Environment (Greenfoot), submitted by Poul Henriksen, Michael Kölling, Davin McCall and Marion Zalk, and 

Preview site for Research.gov released...

Posted Mon, 11/01/2010 - 10:15am by eileen

The multi-agency Research.gov effort has released a Preview site (http://preview.research.gov/) that lets project personnel, policy makers, researchers, etc. find out information about federally funded research.

New director for NSF named..

Posted Fri, 10/22/2010 - 1:59pm by eileen

NSF logoThe US Senate recently confirmed Dr. Subra Suresh as the new director of the National Science Foundation, for a six-year term. Suresh has served as dean of the engineering school and as Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

USA Science and Engineering Festival Grand Finale this weekend...

Posted Fri, 10/22/2010 - 12:03pm by eileen

USSEFThings will be hopping in DC this weekend!  October 23 and 24, marks the grand finale of the USA Science & Engineering festival in Washington DC, with a free Expo on the National Mall, from 10:00 am - 5:30 pm, on both days.

NSDL Annual Meeting Schedule

Posted Thu, 10/14/2010 - 6:16pm by vangundy

Plan ahead for the NSDL Annual Meeting at the Omni Shoreham Washington, D.C. -- November 1-3.

New portal for informal science educators: howtosmile.org

Posted Tue, 10/05/2010 - 10:10am by eileen

Be sure to check out howtosmile.org - NSDL's Science and Math Informal Learning Educators Pathway - their new web portal debuted recently at the annual Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) 2010 conference in Honolulu.  Howtosmile.org features thousands of freely accessible online interactive activities that include lesson plans, field trips, how-to videos, and online games. You won't be sorry!

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