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Washington DC Nano News - It's Lobbying (um... I Mean Advocacy) Season

authored by Margaret Glass, ASTC In DC, there is a special season inserted in the early part of the year. It falls just after the start of a new Congress and runs right up to the Cherry Blossom Festival. No...

Puppets Win in Video Contest

The American Chemical Society just announced the winners of their "What is Nano?" video contest. The singing puppets were hard to beat this year: The Nano Song swept both the Critic's Choice and People's Choice categories. Congratulations to the researchers...

Win Fancy Prizes!

Submit your NanoDays report by May 1st, and we'll enter you in a drawing for a free registration to either the Association of Science-Technology Centers Conference in Fort Worth or the Materials Research Society 2009 Fall Meeting in Boston. If...

Nano Haiku: Societal Implications

On societal implications, by Anders Liljeholm: Tiny Particles are the wave of the future Or they'll kill us all.

Nano Haiku - April

Untitled Margaret Glass Raindrops roll and drop from a hydrophobic leaf leaving it clean (Dew on Nasturtium Leaf image by Elucidate )

Twitter #NanoDays

If you're going to be tweeting NanoDays, use the #nanodays hashtag so we can follow your progress on twitter! Thanks to Andrew Maynard of the Wilson Center for the suggestion! Andrew is speaking at the Lemelson Center (part of the...

Professional Development Opportunities at MRS

Attending the 2009 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting this April? Don't miss their three new professional development workshops : Instructional Seminar -- Mastering Public Presentations Monday April 13th 3:00-5:00 p.m. Moscone West Convention Center Room 2003 2nd Floor Sponsored by...

Nano Jobs

The University of Wisconsin – Madison MRSEC carbon nanotube balloon building activity and the magic sand/nanosurfaces activity . You can check out more examples of their products and resources at http://www.mrsec.wisc.edu/nano. One of the postdoctoral positions available will focus on...

DragonflyTV Nano

Jasmine and Melinda beneath a nasturtium leaf umbrella DragonflyTV , the PBS science show for 'tweens, recently finished six new episodes of DragonflyTV Nano . The season, featuring real kids conducting inquiry-based investigations, was filmed at a number of NISE...

Nano at the Association of Children's Museums Interactivity Conference

A bunch of NISE Net-ers (including Rae Ostman , Steve Hale , Keith Ostfeld , and Krystal Willeby ) will be at the Association of Children's Museums Interactivity Conference. Stop by booth #48 if you're attending ACM InterActivity in Philadelphia...