Category: Science Education

<a href="http://cspo pop over to this site.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Storify-MargaGualDoler.jpg”> Marga Gual Soler speaking with panel. Photo: Thomas Seager Dr. Marga Gual Soler, Assistant Research Professor at CSPO/School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at ASU and Dr. Mandë Holford, Professor of…

Excerpted from blog post by Eric Kennedy, PhD student “As you move from undergraduate programs to grad school, you begin to learn that there’s more to science than meets the eye. Science isn’t the factoids in introductory textbooks, but rather…

by Heather Ross, HSD Student The White House’s announcement on Friday that it has Ebola “under control” is patently ridiculous. As we witnessed with the case in Dallas last week, and have been reminded by the failure of a properly…

CSPO Professor of Practice Gregg Zachary’s cover story in IEEE Spectrum launches a new public crusade: Engineering needs more heroes. <img class="alignright wp-image-586 size-medium" src="http://cspo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/supergirl-illumistrations1-343×530.jpg" alt="Supergirl-illumistrations" width="343" height="530" srcset="http://cspo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/supergirl-illumistrations1-343×530.jpg 343w, http://cspo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/supergirl-illumistrations1-207×320.jpg 207w, http://cspo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/supergirl-illumistrations1 collaboration tools for business.jpg 400w” sizes=”(max-width: 343px)…

by Aubrey Wigner, a graduate student in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology   The STGlobal Conference is an annual graduate student-led event for presenting in-process or recently completed research. During our panel titled, “Education and Technology” at…

Disclaimer: In this blog post, I not un-ironically level an academic critique of the way the academic conference has lost sight of its competitive advantage. Critics of the modern classroom like to offer a picture of two classrooms separated by…

Normally home to world-class physicists, Canada’s Perimeter Institute also plays host to another high-caliber gathering of thought leaders, change makers, and young visionaries, the Equinox Summit. The 2013 Summit, underway from September 28th – October 3rd, 2013, is focused on…

By Jayanta Chatterjee, An increasing number of parents seem to encourage their kids with adjectives like ‘awesome’ for a very average job. They congratulate children without thinking much if the ‘awesome culture’ increase the chance of future success by boosting…