Mentor Profile: Dr. Kristy Lamb
Mentor profile: Dr. Kristy Lamb Education: BS, Microbiology, North Carolina State University, 2006 BA, The Public Understanding of Science, North Carolina State University, 2006 MPhil, Genetics, Yale University, 2009 PhD, [...]
Empire State of Mind: NSF Grant Update
In August 2012, the Academy and the State University of New York received a $2.95M grant to scale up the Academy’s Afterschool STEM Mentoring Program across New York State from [...]
Beyond Career Day: Integrating STEM Professionals into the Science Classroom
The National Science Teachers Association has chosen the Academy’s K-12 Education Team to present at this year’s annual conference in San Antonio, TX. The conference, titled “Next Generation Science: Learning, [...]
Black Holes and Astrobiology at the Academy
Astrobiology—the search for and study of non-Earthling life—is not exactly like Hollywood presents it to be, where aliens infect space ships or little green men from Mars stare back at [...]
The Academy and SUNY Recieve NSF Grant
The State University of New York (SUNY) and the New York Academy of Sciences (the Academy) were recently awarded a $2.95 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to scale [...]
Games in the Classroom
Since their inception, video games have been steadily invading our screens, playing increasingly significant roles in all aspects of American life. Known for their entertainment value more than for their [...]
Do I Stay or Do I Go?
“When I was teaching, I found myself in love with teaching, but completely disgusted by the education system that we were working in,” remarked Meghan Groome, Director of the K-12 [...]
A Thought for Food: My Dinner with my Dinner
How do we know what’s really good for us in an age of information overload? The first installment in our new podcast series on nutrition follows the journey of food [...]
Matchmaking in the Digital Age
As Internet dating gains popularity, millions of singles are turning over huge amounts of personal data to computers, hoping that an algorithm will find them the perfect mate. OK Cupid’s [...]
Virtual Humanity – Part One and Part Two
In the world of online gaming, natural reality often blends and blurs with virtual reality. This November, anthropologist Thomas Malaby and game designer Lee T. Guzofski spoke at the Academy [...]
