Innovative Teaching To Involve Students In Science

june submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (www.medicalnewstoday.com)

Rochelle Schwartz-Bloom, a Duke University pharmacology professor who left the lab bench to focus on science education, has developed a tactic for keeping students hands in the air at the end of class.

"What does get students' attention?" she and her co-authors asked in their new research article on fostering science literacy. "Sex, drugs and rock-n-roll, of course."

Schwartz-Bloom's team describe in the Sept. 28 issue of the research journal Science how they boosted the basic science knowledge of 7,210 high school students by 16 percent

1 comment | Blog It | Email It | Keywords: science and business science and culture Resistance to Science science and history

NY Times Comments on Nature Genetics Article

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.nytimes.com)

This is a plain-language discussion of one of the problems facing the biotechnology industry -- the fact that genes are not discrete units but rather act in networks.

Submit comment | Blog It | Email It | Keywords: molecular genetics Genes industry biotechnology politics economics science and business ethics