From the Academy
Resources from the New York Academy of Sciences that can be used by science educators, as well as parents.
Blogger: The New York Academy of Sciences
Title: One of the oldest scientific organizations in the US, and a leader in promoting cutting edge science.
Wrath Goes Viral
This is Part 1 and Part 2 of our podcast coverage of the event Wrath Goes Viral, the first in our Science and the Seven Deadly Sins series. In this [...]
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, [...]
The Art and Science of Robots on Mars
In this podcast, Dustyn Roberts discusses her work on the cutting edge of engineering. Her Sample Manipulation System, part of the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory, is now helping to analyze [...]
Academy and State Department Announce First Cohort of NeXXt Scholars
The New York Academy of Sciences, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of State, has announced that 12 international women and 12 American women will serve as its first cohort [...]
Fractals: Art, Science, Math and Culture
In this podcast, art historian Nina Samuel, biologists Brian Enquist and James Brown, and ethnomathematician Ron Eglash discuss the prevalence and power of fractals from the perspectives of their various [...]
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 [...]
Learning by Play
What does play have to do with learning? More than you may think. Today’s kids are getting less playtime than previous generations, and that may have an impact on later [...]
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 [...]
