On Monday, September 26, ASTC honored the winners of the 2016 Roy L. Shafer Leading Edge Awards at ASTC 2016 in Tampa, Florida. The “Edgies” recognize exemplary accomplishments during the past three years. As Linda Conlon, ASTC’s board chair, remarked, “We don’t have a red carpet out there but these are very firmly the Oscars […]
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On Wednesday, May 25, at 2:00 p.m. ET, for ASTC on Air featured Robert Frodeman, field philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of North Texas. Field philosophy emphasizes working with scientists, engineers, and policymakers rather than pursuing an extensive focus on writing and working with other philosophers. Frodeman works in the areas of
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Linda Conlon, chair of ASTC’s board and chief executive of the International Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, was made a Member of the British Empire in Queen Elizabeth II’s New Year Honours List on December 31, 2015. The New Year Honours List recognizes the achievements and service of extraordinary people across the United
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“We now live in an age of cities. Cities are the engines of global innovation and the drivers of global change. A sustainable planet is not possible without sustainable cities, and this will require enormous innovation and creativity,” remarked Patrick Hamilton, the Science Museum of Minnesota’s director of global change initiatives, at the ASTC 2015
ASTC-member MadaTech—Israel National Museum of Science, Technology, and Space, located in Haifa, is working to help those affected by the fire that broke out in the nearby Carmel Forest on December 2. The fire raged for four days, killing more than 40 people, displacing 17,000 residents, and destroying 10,000 acres of forest. Ronen Mir, MadaTech’s general director and
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Who stole the theater tickets out of the school dressing room? And what dastardly villain drank that cream soda? Over the past three summers, 160 girls, ages 10 to 14, have used science and advanced technology to solve such mysteries at Click!, a camp designed by the Girls, Math & Science Partnership (GMSP), a program of
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As the 5th Science Centre World Congress (5SCWC) came to an end, delegates looked to the future with the unveiling of the Toronto Declaration. It is the international science center field’s first unified statement of its goals and beliefs. The document was read and endorsed at the 5SCWC closing ceremony in Toronto on June 19.
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