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Events: The Robert C. Barnard Environmental Lecture
2009 LECTURE:
Climate Change Science and the Utility of Assessments
Dr. James J. McCarthy
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography
Harvard University
When Lisa Suben went back to school as part of a AAAS-sponsored program to train middle school teachers in mathematics, she recalled being “a little skeptical of the idea that I would become a better teacher by spending time as a student.”
A National Science Foundation (NSF) program designed to increase the number of students receiving post-secondary computer science degrees, with special emphasis on underrepresented minorities, has found dramatic success, says a AAAS report.