NISE Network Blog

ASTC to Announce Support for a PES Community of Practice

October 5, 2011
Larry Bell
ASTC is going to announce its support for a Community of Practice around Public Engagement with Science at the upcoming ASTC conference in an open session on Sunday, October 16, at 10:30 AM in room 315 at the convention center...

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...

Risk, Uncertainty, and Sustainable Innovation: New perspectives on emerging challenges

September 20, 2011
Larry Bell
We scientists and innovators should just accept the idea that when it comes to new and emerging technologies that at some point along the way we are going to “cock it up.” The public knows it will happen and we...

Growing Interest in Networks

September 12, 2011
Larry Bell
The National Science Foundation has asked CAISE ( Center for the Advancement of Informal Science Education ) to explore creating a focus on networks at it's PI Summit in the spring. CAISE is using the ASTC session that NISE Net...

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...

Program Adaptation: Horton Senses Something Small

September 12, 2011
Vrylena Olney
The "Horton Senses Something Small" activity While I was talking to Betty Jones at Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) a few weeks ago about their summer camp program, she described an interesting adaptation to the "Horton...

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...

NISE Network announces new 2012 Mini-Grants for partners - due November 1, 2011

September 8, 2011
Catherine McCarthy
What’s a Mini-Grant? The NISE Network is making available a limited number of small, one-time awards to support initiatives by NISE Net partners to engage their local audiences in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology topics. Requests can be made for...

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...