News and Updates

Science center looks for new blood with exhibit

January 21, 2007

[Source: Chris Page, East Valley Tribune] — It


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UA gives local math teachers lunch, positive feedback

January 21, 2007

[Source: Eric Swedlund, Arizona Daily Star] — More than 300 local math teachers were treated to a conference, lunch and heartfelt thanks Saturday, part of a UA effort to increase the number of high-quality math teachers in middle and high…


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Separating boys from girls; School officials say single gender classes improve

January 19, 2007

[Source: Hazel Lodevico, Independent Newspapers] — Single gender classrooms are making their debut in classrooms at Desert Shadows Middle School, 801 West Southern Ave. School officials implemented the pilot program


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Governor’s budget would increase money for bio

January 18, 2007

Governor Napolitano has proposed $60 million in budgetary funds to support the development of Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz) and to leverage bioscience efforts underway at Arizona universities.


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Sonoran Science students add new laurels in math

January 18, 2007

[Source: Andrea Rivera, Arizona Daily Star] — Geometry isn’t typically a course students take in middle school. But it is if you are seventh-grader Richard Spence and eighth-grader Zac Becker, who are both enrolled in advanced math


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Grant fuels grad student research

January 17, 2007

[Source: ASU Insight] — ASU will receive $1.85 million from the Science Foundation of Arizona (SFAz) as part of the foundation’s Graduate Student Fellowship program. In all, SFAz is giving out $4 million in the Graduate Student Fellowship program, which…


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