Fueling Educational Reform: Bio2010—Biology for the Future

Fueling educational reform: the HHMI professors.

Is fundamental change possible in the tradition-bound world of college and university science education? The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) believes it is and recently announced new grants to empower individual scientisteducators—the HHMI Professors—to develop innovative approaches for changing the way they teach biology to undergraduates. Central to the Professors program is the goal o...

Fueling the Future Through Plant Biology

Submissions Agenda Accommodations Maps and Parking ESF HOME > OUTREACH > NEASPB The 71st Annual Meeting Northeast Section American Society of Plant Biologists Fueling the Future Through Plant Biology This meeting provides an excellent venue for beginning scientists, especially undergraduates, graduate students, and post-docs, to present their research in a collegial atmosphere, close to home. D...

Fueling the Future with Semantic Web Patterns

I will claim that Semantic Web Patterns can drive the next technological breakthrough: they can be key for providing intelligent applications with sophisticated ways of interpreting data. I will picture scenarios of a possible not so far future in order to support my claim. I will argue that current Semantic Web Patterns are not sufficient for addressing the envisioned requirements, and I will ...

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The Future Is in the Margins: the Role of Technology and Disability in Educational Reform

In a remarkable work of social history called More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave, Ruth Cowan examines the effects of new technologies in the kitchen. Her main conclusion: new technologies like stoves (which were invented in the 18 century and replaced traditional cooking on the open hearth) did not generally make less work for mother....