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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Can 5th Graders Do Cutting Edge Science?
Giving students opportunities to do experiments and explore the world is important on many levels. It helps them build their science practices. It helps them understand the nature of science [...]
The Science Practices – Analyze and Interpret Data
The next generation science standards strongly emphasize the science practices and the importance of interweaving their development into the science classroom. A critical part of the science practices that sometimes [...]
Iceland in August
I hope you had a wonderful summer filled with adventure! I recently got back from circumnavigating Iceland. It was a science-y vacation filled with a history and culture shaped strongly [...]
Making Scientist Connections
Universities have many resources that are often under-utilized and can be made available for schools. More importantly universities are filled with young people studying science who can serve as powerful [...]
Sugar in the morning…
The battle of wills to resist the last cupcake isn’t the only one being waged over sugar. In fact, sugar—or fructose to be more precise—is one of the most hotly [...]
Science Beach Reading
Despite the weird weather over the winter we’re in full on summer mode here at the Academy which means we’re picking our summer reading material. Whether you have a grand [...]
