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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...
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NanoDays Highlights: Involving Industry
November 2, 2011
Vrylena Olney
Looking for ideas for NanoDays 2012 ? I'll be highlighting some examples of NanoDays activities from the 2011 NanoDays reports in the NISE Net blog over the next few weeks. I encourage you to get in touch with the partners...
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Nano Bite: October 2011
Welcome to the October Nano Bite, the monthly e-newsletter for the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net). What's new? → New Resources A number of new programs have been added to the NISE Net Catalog . Some highlights include
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NanoDays 2012 Physical Kit Applications Now Available
October 5, 2011
Catherine McCarthy
Apply now for NanoDays 2012 physical kits! March 24 through April 1, 2012 is NanoDays, a week of community-based educational outreach events to raise public awareness of nanoscale science, technology and engineering throughout the United States. NanoDays kits are currently...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Nano Bite: September 2011
Welcome to the September Nano Bite, the monthly e-newsletter for the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net). What's new? → Mini-Grants! The NISE Network is making available a limited number of small, one-time awards to support initiatives by NISE
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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...
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