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Washington DC Nano News - Nano'$ Federal Fund$
May 15, 2009
Margaret Glass
authored by Margaret Glass, ASTC Budgets have been rolling out all over DC in the past two weeks, and yesterday we finally got a glimpse of what might be in store for nanotechnology funding – more specifically, funding for education...
NanoDays Visualized: Kit Activities vs. Non-Kit Activities
May 15, 2009
Beck Tench
Tabletop Activities and Cart Demos for NanoDays 2009: ( Click for full-sized version ) Institutions reporting as of May 15, 2009: 100 Today I've broken down your responses to the following two questions on the NanoDays 2009 Report . We...
Happy (Belated) Birthday, Richard Feynman!
May 13, 2009
Vrylena Olney
His birthday was Monday, and now it's Wednesday, but better late than never. If you're looking for something to celebrate, Nobel Prize-winner Richard Feynman’s birthday was May 11th. In 1959, Feynman gave a lecture titled There's Plenty of Room at...
Keeping up with the Nanos
May 13, 2009
Vrylena Olney
I've been paying more attention lately to bloggers and tweeters (twitterers?) writing and posting about nano topics. Here are a few that I've been enjoying: 2020 Science , by Andrew Maynard, both a blog AND a twitter feed . The...
NISE Net is the new grey goo!
May 10, 2009
Larry Bell
"The Network is going to grow. I don’t think you can stop it or control it even if you wanted to." So said, Cal Tech nano researcher Mamadou Diallo, a member of the NISE Net’s NSF review panel at a...
Nano Haiku: NISE Net Permeates
May 7, 2009
Vrylena Olney
The NISE Net team at the Museum of Science, Boston is preparing to submit our proposal to the National Science Foundation for another five years of funding, so blog posting will be light for the next few days. Here's a...
NanoDays in Pictures
May 5, 2009
Beck Tench
There are currently 124 pictures from 19 institutions participating in our Flickr NanoDays 2009 pool (opens in a new window). If you have photos from your event, please add yours. If you need help figuring out how to get a...
Calling all scientists, engineers, artists, designers, and creative thinkers
April 29, 2009
Vrylena Olney
The Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland is organizing an exhibit and festival "exploring nanotechnology and its implications for our future," and they're looking for ideas and proposals. They say they want proposals from "scientists, engineers, artists, designers...
Next Year We'll Have to Get a Tour Bus
April 28, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Frank Kusiak of the Lawrence Hall of Science took a NanoDays road trip to southern California and sent me a bunch of information about his travels! Read on for details and photos. San Diego Science Festival " Darrell Porcello and...
Introducing NanoDays: Visualized
April 23, 2009
Beck Tench
Institutions reporting as of April 23, 2009: 50 Beck Tench , here, your friendly NISE Net Online Community Manager. I'll be blogging NanoDays report results as they come in over the next couple of months and visualizing that data so...