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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…

Nanotechnology gurus Jameson Wetmore and Ira Bennett educate Geoff Notkin of The STEM Journals on some of the basics of Nanotechnology. What is the scale involved and why is there so much buzz about what huge improvements Nanotechnology might deliver?…

Americans have not always desired new sources of energy. Demand has needed to be created, and this has never been easy. by Christopher F. Jones, Assistant Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, ASU. George…

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…

All of us at the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University mourn the passing of our colleague, assistant research professor David Conz. Dave’s kinetic curiosity and unshackled imagination focused on how things get made and who…

By Clark Miller As I write, Nate Silver has updated his 538 model to show a 92.2% probability that Obama wins easily. The reason? His model calculation concludes that Obama will win Ohio with a 3.8% margin, Nevada by 4.7%,…