Engineers design our modern world, and National Engineers Week (February 19-25, 2012) honors their contributions and aims to recruit a diverse community to join their ranks.
Flanked by fervent demonstrations at the start of Egypt's recent revolution, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina was guarded by the linked arms of Egyptian youth protecting what they believed to be a national treasure of science and art.
Women with advanced degrees in math-intensive academic fields drop out of fast-track research careers primarily because they want children not because their performance is devalued or they are shortchanged during interviewing and hiring.
Dan Dungeon Huh was honored for his exceptional podium presentation, A Human Breathing Lung-on-a-Chip for Drug Screening and Nanotoxicology Applications, during SLAS2012.
To broaden and accelerate its efforts at poverty alleviation Berkeley Lab announces the launch of the LBNL Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies (LIGTT, pronounced “light”).
BioTalent Canada was in Kitchener / Waterloo today (Feb. 8) launching an on-line skills transfer tool designed to assist unemployed manufacturing workers in gauging their readiness to work in biomanufacturing.
Students in grades K-12 throughout Idaho will be building robots, designing cities of the future and participating in virtual field trips thanks to an Idaho National Laboratory (INL) grant program.
When the individual’s supervisor offers emotional and instrumental support, a stressed employee is more likely to recover without needing to take that extra afternoon or day off.