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Student Spotlight: Yale entrepreneur hopes to instill confidence in young scientists

By Guest PostNovember 29, 2014Education, Science, Technologyceo, confidence, george konidaris, multi step tasks, perceptual abstractions, procedural abstractions, roboticist, stem careers, unsichtbare molekuelen, vincat projekt, young scientists

It’s the first day of school in a brand new city for Ava Margaret Avignoli, and something strange is going on.

The third-grader notices muddy footprints that lead to a secret door in the back of Corridor C. Ava decides to figure out what’s going on, and her pursuit involves asking some pointed questions, conducting science experiments, and putting together a bunch of clues. She does so wearing colorful rhinestone-studded lab goggles and a multi-colored, patterned lab coat. (more…)

A composer, a president, and a dean share in conversation about creativity and expression

By Guest PostOctober 22, 2014Education, Scienceagenda setters, alex fouirnaies, amy shober, anti semitism, artificial drainage, auf sex verzichten, elvira hoerandl, geographische parthenogenese, industry related donations, kathryn turner, peter salovey, pflanzenreich, phosphorus index, reproduktionsform, russia, sexuelle fortpflanzung, stefan dullinger, subsurface phosphorus, tibetan uplift, water tables

While working on a new piece, composer John Adams sometimes has to experience a deep sense of failure before his ideas really start to flow.

“You can win every prize in the book … but when you are alone with yourself in that room and what you are doing is not even worthy of a five-year-old — you can’t imagine how humiliating that is,” he told an audience in Sprague Memorial Hall on Oct. 16. “You have to get to that level of abject humility to finally get to point of being receptive, then ideas come. Usually when they come they’re dressed in extremely shabby clothes. You just have to go with it.” (more…)

Creative Classroom: The ticks ‘come marching in’ in singing professor’s microbiology class

By Guest PostOctober 8, 2014Education, Sciencealon kosloff, anita voigt, creative classroom, diversitaet an bakterien, drehdynamik, falk hildebrand, fernando patolsky, gabriel danovitch, hamden, jeffrey veale, julia kleinteich, kidney donation, lifesaving transplants, markus arndt, mohammad bahram, polarregion, songs, tuberculosis, voucher cases

At the end of a recent “Medical Microbiology” class taught by Dr. Sheldon Campbell, students clapped, cheered heartily, and stomped their feet on the floor. A couple of them even shouted “Encore!”

It’s not quite the reaction one would expect from medical students who just spent 45 minutes learning about the symptoms and treatments for various vector-borne diseases, but in their case, something unexpected happened. (more…)

Metal particles in solids aren’t as fixed as they seem, new memristor study shows

By Guest PostJuly 31, 2014Planet IQ, Scienceconjugated polymer, current fuel standards, electrical power, gas prices, integrated circuits, pedot, planet iq, random access memory, ryan kellogg, solid material, us cars, vehicle fuel standards

ANN ARBOR — In work that unmasks some of the magic behind memristors and “resistive random access memory,” or RRAM—cutting-edge computer components that combine logic and memory functions—researchers have shown that the metal particles in memristors don’t stay put as previously thought.

The findings have broad implications for the semiconductor industry and beyond. They show, for the first time, exactly how some memristors remember. (more…)

Stem pipeline problems to aid STEM diversity

By Guest PostJuly 19, 2014Education, Sciencebmw, brad love, brown university, climate, critical mass, culture, data, david rowley, mira abed, pacific subduction zones, peter riefer, plate dynamics, underlying force

Educators and policymakers have spent decades trying to recruit and retain more underrepresented minority students into the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) pipeline. A new analysis of disappointing results in the pipeline’s output leads two Brown University biologists to suggest measures to help the flow overcome an apparent gravity.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Decades of effort to increase the number of minority students entering the metaphorical science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) pipeline, haven’t changed this fact: Traditionally underrepresented groups remain underrepresented. In a new paper in the journal BioScience, two Brown University biologists analyze the pipeline’s flawed flow and propose four research-based ideas to ensure that more students emerge from the far end with Ph.D.s and STEM careers. (more…)

Interview with Baban Mohamed: ‘Code-switching’, a research project on Kurdish community in Austria

By BlogArenaJuly 16, 2014Culture, Education, Interview, Mediaaustria, baban mohamed, bicultural acquisition, bilingualism, child code switching, code switching, community, kurdish immigrant, kurdish immigrant children

Baban Mohamed received his Master’s degree in English and American Studies (General/Applied Linguistics) from the University of Salzburg in Austria. He has B.A. degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Sulaimania (the Kurdistan Region of Iraq). Since 2005 Baban is living and studying in the beautiful Mozart’s City of Music, Salzburg. His research interests cover the areas of bilingual/ bicultural acquisition, child code-switching and sociolinguistics. (more…)

Improve grades, reduce failure – undergrads should tell profs ‘Don’t lecture me’

By Guest PostJuly 16, 2014Education, Sciencebarbara jacak, fission physics, great oxidation, infected tissue, k12 classrooms, lee bernstein, level of oxygen, luke haywood, neutrophils attack, nuclear data gaps, sticky dna strands, stuart daines, tendrilous hyphae, umwege, university of washington, wege

A significantly greater number of students fail science, engineering and math courses that are taught lecture-style than fail in classes incorporating so-called active learning that expects them to participate in discussions and problem-solving beyond what they’ve memorized.

Active learning also improves exam performance – in some cases enough to change grades by half a letter or more so a B-plus, for example, becomes an A-minus. (more…)

‘Life as Research Scientist’: Anna Troupe, Creative Designer and Social Thinker

By BlogArenaJuly 6, 2014Education, Interview, Mediaanna marie troupe, anna troupe, Bangladesh, boundaries of creativity, clothing industry, creative designer, creative solutions, garment industry, social thinker, textile, unusual projects

Anna Marie Troupe was born in Mississippi in 1977 and grew up in Huntsville, Alabama. The fifth daughter of a mechanical engineer and an administrative assistant, Anna made a point of pushing the boundaries of her creativity. She studied furniture design at Savannah College of Art and Design and had the honor of exhibiting a chair at the Salone del Mobila in Milan, Italy. Her work was also published in a book called, “Creative Solutions for Unusual Projects.”
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