Blog: Partner Highlights

Partner Highlight: Arizona Science Center

February 7, 2012
Frank Kusiak
The Arizona Science Center , a NISE Net Partner since 2009, has been a model partner to those of us in the Southwest Region. With a lot of help from staff like Rei Cameron, Laura Martin, Joshua Sheehan, and Sari...

Partner Highlight: International Partner - El Laberinto de las Ciencias y las Artes, San Luis Potosí, México

January 3, 2012
Rashmi Nanjundaswamy
We would like to welcome the science center Laberinto de las Ciencias y las Artes (Labyrinth of Science and Art, by its name in Spanish) as a NISE Net international member. Since Laberinto opened in 2008, their visitors have had...

Partner Highlight: Imaginarium of South Texas

December 30, 2011
Aaron Guerrero
The Imaginarium of South Texas in Laredo, TX has been an involved member of the NISE Network since 2008 when they first started hosting NanoDays events. This past year they took their programming to a new level by adopting the...

Partner Highlight: Las Cruces Museum of Natural History

November 22, 2011
Tim Hecox
Located within a public school system where 73% of the students are Hispanic, the Las Cruces Museum of Natural History (LCMNH) in Las Cruces, New Mexico strives to find new and successful ways to reach their vastly diverse and often...

Partner Highlight: Port Discovery Children's Museum

November 9, 2011
Jayatri Das
Did you catch the new Nano mini-exhibition on display in the NISE Network booth at ASTC this year? After the exhibit hall closed down, the mini-exhibition made its way to its new home at Port Discovery Children’s Museum in Baltimore...

Partner Highlight: Helping Blind Students Explore Leading Edge Nanoscience

October 4, 2011
Brad Herring
In July 2011, about 150 blind high school students from all over the United States gathered for one week to learn about science and technology at the biannual Youth Slam summer camp organized by the National Federation of the Blind...

Partner Highlight: Cool Science Week at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History

October 4, 2011
Vrylena Olney
Our NISE Net partners at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History recently organized a number of events with Yale materials scientist and NISE Net advisor Ainissa Ramirez as part of their "Cool Science Week." "Cool Science Week" is...

Partner Highlight: International Partner - NanoDays - The Italian Way!

September 12, 2011
Rashmi Nanjundaswamy
Dozens of children participated in the second annual Nano Piccola event in Gagliato, Italy, in July, which gave kids a chance to learn about nanotechnology and nanomedicine through hands-on activities and (little) talks by researchers from The Methodist Hospital Research...

Partner Highlight: ECHO and UVM

September 12, 2011
Vrylena Olney
In 2008, Dennis Clougherty , a physics professor at the University of Vermont , called up nearby ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center to see if they’d be interested in working together to host a NanoDays event. In the three...

Partner Highlight: MOST, Syracuse, New York

July 26, 2011
Vrylena Olney
What do 17th-century Japanese literature and a science summer camp in Syracuse, NY have in common? Haiku! The Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) in Syracuse, New York has been working to incorporate nano content into their...