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NSF-Funded “Design Squad Nation” Wins Emmy
Posted by on August 14, 2012 at 3:24 PM EDTThe interactive web site for the PBS series “Design Squad Nation” took home an Emmy in June for “outstanding new approaches” in children’s daytime television. An extension into broadband media by the producers of the WGBH TV show, the website serves as a destination for creative ‘tweens and teens that encourages youth to “dream big,” be creative, solve problems and make things that help people.
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President Obama Congratulates the Curiosity Team
Posted by on August 13, 2012 at 2:00 PM EDTPresident Obama calls the team that landed the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars.
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@Whitehouse Celebrates the 2012 Olympic Games in London
Posted by on August 13, 2012 at 11:44 AM EDTLike people all over the world, the White House has been using Twitter to celebrate the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
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NSF Innovation Corps: From Science Lab to Startup
Posted by on August 10, 2012 at 11:09 AM EDTSophie Lebrecht is a joint post-doctoral researcher in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) and the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). She is also an entrepreneur, thanks to the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (or I-Corps), a program created to allow researchers the opportunity to apply their research to the commercial world. I talked with Lebrecht about I-Corps and her experience as a scientist-turned-entrepreneur.
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Curiosity Takes Us Back to Mars
Posted by on August 6, 2012 at 10:30 AM EDTNASA lands the Curiosity Rover on Mars, where it will investigate whether conditions have favored development of microbial life on the Red Planet
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Celebrating 3,000,000 @WhiteHouse Twitter Followers
Posted by on August 4, 2012 at 5:34 AM EDTTo celebrate three million Twitter followers, we want to hear from you! Tell us why you follow @WhiteHouse and check out a new behind the scenes video with President Obama answering questions on Twitter.
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Senate Confirms Four Nominees to Privacy & Civil Liberties Board
Posted by on August 3, 2012 at 4:55 PM EDTLast night, the Senate advanced the cause of protecting Americans’ privacy and civil liberties by unanimously confirming four of the President’s five nominees to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB): Rachel Brand, Elisabeth Cook, Jim Dempsey, and Judge Patricia Wald.
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Inventing Solutions to The World’s Challenges
Posted by on August 3, 2012 at 1:53 PM EDTPatents for Humanity, a new pilot program developed by the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), seeks to encourage inventors who develop and help make availablepatented technologies that address the world's humanitarian challenges and improve the lives of the poor. As an incentive, winners will receive a certificate for expedited processing of certain matters before the USPTO, as well as public recognition for their contributions.
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NASA Announces Next Steps in Launching Americans from U.S. Soil
Posted by on August 3, 2012 at 11:56 AM EDTToday, NASA announced the selection of three companies for the next phase of our efforts to keep us on track to launch American astronauts from U.S. soil.
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Skilled Volunteers and Mentors Helping Improve Student Performance
Posted by on August 1, 2012 at 3:47 PM EDTPresident Obama is committed to raising America’s game in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. I recently spoke with Eric Schwarz, co-founder and CEO of Citizen Schools, and Leo Flanagan, principal of the Clarence Edwards Middle School in Charlestown, MA. Since 2006, Citizen Schools has partnered with the Edwards Middle School as an expanded learning time partner to lengthen the school day by three hours a day and bring in a hundreds of volunteers to teach apprenticeships.
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