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 [...]
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 [...]
Have Lobster, Will Travel
Kelly Vaughan isn’t your average middle school science teacher. She’s willing to go out on a limb to engage her students—even if that means wrangling crustaceans now and then. She [...]
#iamscience in the Classroom
Twitter is a medium well designed to share great ideas and that power was put to good use when Kevin Zelnio (@kzlenio) tweeted a 140 character biography of how he [...]
Being a Woman in Science
The Academy recently launched two new initiatives aimed at increasing the number of women and girls in the science pipeline and both aim to provide mentors at a critical and [...]
Finding your (science education) online match
A little over a year ago, I paid my first, giddy visit to the National Lab Day website, now renamed the National Lab Network. I had previously daydreamed, “wouldn’t it [...]
Family Science Night!
A quick update to this post: We created a flickr slideshow with pictures from the event! I’m so excited for our first ever Family Science Night with the Children’s Aid [...]
Experimenting with Summer Science Ed
This year, the Academy launched its new “Summer Matters” mentoring program, which paired grad students with primary school kids for a hands-on brand of science-ed over the summer. S&C [...]
The Heart and Soul of Science
I’m a Virgo. I bring this up not only to promote my own birthday but to make the point that logic and rationality rule my world. I am essentially the [...]
Whose history is science?
A month or two ago, the Dutch government announced that the Museum Boerhaave would have to raise a certain amount of money to fund itself, or it’d be closed. In [...]
