News and Updates

Do you know about IDEAL?

May 29, 2007

IDEAL (Integrated Data to Enhance Arizona’s Learning) is an online, personalized, lifelong learning environment available to every Arizona K-12 student and certified teacher. Through a partnership between the Arizona Department of Education and alt^I, The Applied Learning Technologies Institute at…


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Tucson school recognized for its gains in math

May 29, 2007

[Source: Andrea Rivera, Arizona Daily Star] — Sonoran Science Academy was awarded the Pedagoguery Award from the American Mathematics Competitions, or AMC, and the Mathematical Association of America. The award recognizes a school for its improvement in the AMC 10…


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Going to great lengths for math (Business Week article)

May 28, 2007

[Source: Moira Herbst, Business Week] — A few years ago, when she was a Catholic school teacher in the city of Cebu, Philippines, Juditha Capa started looking for a change. She loved her work, but she had grown restless after…


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BNI’s Dr. Pipe to serve on International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Board of Trustees

May 27, 2007

Jim Pipe, Ph.D., of the Barrow Neurological Institute and St. Joseph


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According to ASU, there’s a new wrinkle in evolution — man-made proteins

May 27, 2007

Nature, through the trial and error of evolution, has discovered a vast diversity of life from what can only presumed to have been a primordial pool of building blocks. Inspired by this success, a new Biodesign Institute research team, led…


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Two Scottsdale teachers earn national math, science award

May 26, 2007

[Source: Amanda Keim, East Valley Tribune] — Two Scottsdale-area teachers have received the nation


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Biodesign Institute scientists offer new view of photosynthesis

May 26, 2007

A research team led by Neal Woodbury, at ASU’s Biodesign Institute, has come up with a new insight into the mechanism of photosynthesis, which involves the orchestrated movement of proteins on the timescale of a millionth of a millionth of…


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