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CHICAGO, IL January 19, 2015
Chicago Council on Science and Technology presents: How to be Healthy When You’re Older
It’s not about aging, it’s about how to age well. Hear from local experts on physical and emotional well-being as you age, and how to manage complications from illnesses with your doctor.
By Sally Whitaker
In recent years, there has been movement towards a common, centralized set of standards across the United States which has led to the implementation of the Common Core in 43 states. The emphasis of the Common Core is on math and literacy, which left a need for a set of science standards as well. This led to the development of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), and together these standards are helping to shape modern education, while also spurring much debate over the goals and outcomes of education. Continue reading “Synopsis of Decoding the New Science and Math Standards”
University of Chicago neurobiology processor Peggy Mason’s research on prosocial behaviour among rats could encourage it’s all to “ratten” ourselves up!
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at School of the Art Institute of Chicago Ballroom
The event features a panel of women from various fields, at different points on their career arc, discussing what it means to be a woman in STEM. Continue reading “2014 Women in STEM – E. Graslie, C. Thomas, A. Schlenker, O. Alabi, S. Hallen, and C. Phillips”
By Jeff McMahon, Opinion, Forbes
The real money in engineering and technology is on Wall Street, an emeritus director of Argonne National Laboratory told a roomful of engineering students Monday at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Argonne Director Emeritus Alan Schriesheim was asked whether students should go into nanotechnology because of that emerging field’s future. The question reminded him, he said, of the scene in “The Graduate” in which Dustin Hoffman’s character is told there’s a great future in plastics.
Continue reading “Sage Tells Students: Want To Make Money In Tech? Become A Wall Street Banker”
By Jeff McMahon, Opinion, Forbes
No utility executive could propose a nuclear reactor ”in good conscience” in the U.S. today, the director emeritus of Argonne National Laboratory said in Chicago Monday.
Alan Schriesheim became the first industry executive to lead a national laboratory when he took the helm of Argonne in 1983, after serving as Exxon’s head of engineering and the director of its research lab, which developed more efficient processes for producing components of gasoline.
Continue reading “Another Giant Declares Nuclear Dead In Fracking America”