Carnival of Education #159: Briefing the Next US President on 35 Issues

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 19, 2008 |

Dear Mr or Mrs Next US Pres­i­dent, Thank you for stop­ping dur­ing recess for a quick study ses­sion. 35 edu­ca­tors have col­lab­o­rat­ed to present this Car­ni­val of Edu­ca­tion as a use­ful les­son plan for you and your edu­ca­tion pol­i­cy team on what our real con­cerns and sug­ges­tions are. In case this is your first vis­it to…

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ScienceDebate2008 and blog carnivals

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 12, 2008

The move­ment to have US pres­i­den­tial candidates dis­cuss Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy in a devot­ed debate has been pick­ing up steam. Date and place are sched­uled: April 18th at the Franklin Insti­tute in Philadel­phia. — cospon­sored by the AAAS, the Coun­cil on Com­pet­i­tive­ness, the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences, the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Engi­neer­ing, and the Insti­tute of…

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“Cells that fire together wire together” and Stanford Media X

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 18, 2007 |

That is the goal of Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty Media X: to fos­ter deep col­lab­o­ra­tions between indus­try and acad­e­mia, as high­light­ed in Busi­ness Week’s recent arti­cle The Vir­tu­al Meet­ing Room. The 5th Annu­al Media X Con­fer­ence on Research, Col­lab­o­ra­tion, Inno­va­tion and Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty served its pur­pose well for the last cou­ple of days: very fun and insight­ful presentations…

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