NISE Network Blog
Nano Haiku: Fingernail
November 5, 2009
Vrylena Olney
After you read this Your finger nail will have grown a nanometer by Troy Dassler , first grade teacher at the Aldo Leopold School in Madison, WI, and a MRSEC RET Fellow .
Nano 101 Adaptation for Seniors
October 20, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Greta Zenner of the University of Wisconsin- Madison MRSEC recently adapted her Nano 101 presentation for a workshop with a group of about 50 seniors. The workshop attendees were members of PLATO (Participatory Learning and Teaching Organization) , a University...
Fall Mixers for Prospective Partners
October 19, 2009
Carol Lynn Alpert
We've already had snow in Boston, and the fall conference season is upon us, with some excellent opportunities for those interested in learning more about researcher - ISE partnership craft. First up on the schedule, the Association of Science-Technology Centers...
Senior (Nano) Science Mondays
October 19, 2009
Vrylena Olney
I wrote about this in the February 2009 Nano Bite e-newsletter, but it didn't make it onto the Nano Bite blog until now. The Da Vinci Science Center in Allentown, PA hosted two Senior Science Monday workshops last January using...
Celebrate Halloween Nano-style
October 6, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Anders Liljeholm gets scary in the Intro to Nano video Halloween is October 31st, and if you're looking to celebrate nano-style, here are some links for activities or costume ideas: The Science Theater play Nano Dreams and Nano Nightmares The...
Annual Meeting Photos!
October 5, 2009
Vrylena Olney
NISE Net members prototyped a new twister-style game about scale at our recent Annual Meeting in San Francisco. We'll have it at the ASTC Conference so you can test your knowledge of macro, micro, and nano scales as well as...
Annual Meeting Photos!
October 1, 2009
Vrylena Olney
The NISE Net recently had our Annual Meeting in San Francisco, and we were joined by some of our partners from around the country. Meeting attendees spent some time helping us think of new, innovative nano programming. In the photo...
Materials Research Society Fall 2009 Meeting
October 1, 2009
Vrylena Olney
If you weren't able to join us at the Association of Science Technology Centers Conference at the end of October , perhaps you can catch up with the NISE Network at the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting in Boston at...
NISE Net Folks at the S.Net Conference
September 8, 2009
Larry Bell
Six members of the NISE Net programs team and four members of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society presented tabletop and stage programs at the Pacific Science Center yesterday and at the S.Net conference today. Jamey Wetmore and Ira Bennet...
NISE Net at the ASTC Annual Conference
August 27, 2009
Vrylena Olney
The Association of Science-Technology Centers Annual Conference is coming up at the end of October and the NISE Net will have a bunch of stuff going on there. Here's a preliminary list of what's happening: Welcome Reception Meet us for...