Bioscience
College/graduate level students urged to apply for drug discovery internship in Tucson
For the fourth year, the sanofi-aventis Combinatorial Technologies Center internship program will take place this summer, part of a new biotechnology training program of the UA Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics in collaboration with Molecular & Cellular Biology and Chemistry. BIO5 Institute provides administrative support for the program. The emphasis is on doing drug […]C-Path to open Phoenix, and Washington, D.C., offices
Tucson's C-Path is expanding its national presence, opening up offices in Phoenix and Washington, D.C. Jeffrey Cossman, an internationally recognized expert in molecular pathology, has been hired as C-Path's chief scientific officer, and will help set up a C-Path office in Washington, D.C. Ellen Feigal, vice president of clinical sciences at TGen, will take a sabbatical to lead C-Path's Phoenix office.
Call in by May 10 to learn about availablity of SMART grants for students
On May 3, 2006 Tom Luce, Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy for the U.S. Department of Education hosted a conference call to outline guidelines for new Academic Competitiveness Grants and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grants. These new grants encourage students to take more challenging courses during high school […]May 1 is registration deadline for 8th-graders interested in Phoenix Bioscience High
[Source: Arizona Republic] — Eighth-graders interested in science can apply to attend the Phoenix Union High School District’s newest school, Bioscience High. Applications are being taken through Monday, May 1, 2006. Enrollment the first year is limited to 100 freshmen already living in the Phoenix Union area. The school will eventually hold 400 students. The […]New website to share success stories of public schools in Arizona
Arizona teachers and students are making a difference and creating success stories in our public schools each and every day. Parents and the general public likely know that great things are happening in their neighborhood school, but they may not be aware of the inspiring things happening in public schools throughout Arizona. In the coming […]Today is National DNA Day!
National DNA Day will be celebrated once again on April 25, 2006. Click here for details on new materials, a new webcast, and the return of the live chatroom, all courtesy of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Washington, D.C. In the meantime, take a look at last year’s program and start your plans […]Expand the pool of America’s future scientists (opinion piece in Christian Science Monitor)
[Authors: Kevin Carey and Andrew J. Rotherham, April 6, 2006] — The conventional wisdom among business leaders and politicians is that vast hordes of highly trained Chinese engineering students are poised to descend, Khan-like, upon the plains of the global labor market, leaving the ruins of the American economy in their wake. Ominous reports from […]Breaking the gender line in science (Arizona Republic article)
[Source: Karina Bland, Arizona Republic] — Girls at Lowell Elementary School in Phoenix have designed a new toy called a springboard, a skateboard on springs instead of wheels. They dreamed it up during an after-school science club and are working on a prototype, using a skateboard belonging to 13-year-old Monique Devora’s cousin, with his permission, […]Apply now for Dolan DNA Learning Center summer teacher workshops
The Dolan DNA Learning Center based in Cold Springs Harbor, NY has been offering motivational and challenging high school educator training workshops since 1985, when the DNA Science workshop first debuted. Today, it offers several educational opportunities for teachers and students, as well as for college faculty. From two-day workshops, to two-week fellowships, to a […]For information about Bioscience, please contact:
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