[Source: National Academy of Sciences] — Higher education organizations should look into creating an inter-institution monitoring organization to help eliminate gender bias in the academic sciences, a report released today by The National Academy of Sciences recommends. The recommendation is…

Internship programs at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), and BIO5 at University of Arizona take science education out of the classroom and into the research lab. The result: Arizona students—from high school…

The NIH Curriculum Supplement Series are interactive teaching units that combine cutting-edge science research discoveries from the National Institutes of Health, one of the world’s foremost medical research centers, with state-of-the-art instructional materials. Each supplement is a teacher

Robert Shelton, University of Arizona's 19th president, brings experience as a student, scientist, professor, and administrator to Arizona. He comes to UA at a time when state funding is at an all-time low, but many UA programs — especially those…

The countdown to choosing the nation’s top young scientist entered its final phase today as Discovery Communications announced the 40 middle school students from around the country selected as finalists in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC). The…

Following the success of the Human Genome Project, the National Institutes of Health has launched a The Cancer Genome Atlas Project, a collaborative effort to map the genomes of most forms of cancer in order to determine what triggers and…

The fundamental progress of Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap has been captured since the beginning of 2003, when the 10-year plan’s implementation began. At the Progress web page, gain a “30,000-foot look” at progress made find further detail in each of the…