[ad_1] The issue of college and university funding, building consensus on different interests, and navigating a system that balances campus autonomy and government leadership was announced Thursday by state higher education supervisors in an area for potential new commissioners. This is one of the pressure points I emphasized when I started narrowing it down. In ...

[ad_1] Some of us old enough remember the excitement and amazement of the launch of the two Voyager spacecraft in 1977. These two of his craft traveled into interstellar space. If you’re wondering how their equipment works, Voyager 2’s thruster backup system was launched in 1994 after waiting 17 years for it to be needed. ...

[ad_1] In a rising tide of citizen science, engineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a fin-shaped surfboard attachment. This allows the popularity of surfing to benefit scientific research. The device, called Smartfin, is equipped with temperature and position sensors. Attached to a surfer’s longboard, it gives scientists access to relatively difficult ...

[ad_1] Towards the end of the 2021-22 social season — a season that never ends — party planners at Cox Science Center and Aquarium have found a way to end the season that never ends. A party to celebrate the coming season. More Palm Beach Society news here. More than 200 people agreed and gathered ...

[ad_1] Matthew Wooller of the University of Alaska Fairbanks poses among the tusks of a woolly mammoth at his college. (Photo courtesy of JR Ancheta) Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks want to know when a woolly mammoth last fell into the bush in Alaska. He seeks help from an unusual source: people like ...

[ad_1] For the past eight years, I’ve spent at least two weeks each summer on a small island off the coast of Maine called Northeast Harbor. Surrounded by the deep blue Atlantic Ocean and beautiful Acadia National Park, summer days are spent on the tennis courts, hiking trails or on the boat. At night he ...

[ad_1] A disparaging attack on teacher professionalism was made at a recent Tennessee Education Conference hosted by Dr. Larry Earn, president of ultra-conservative Hillsdale College in Michigan. In a meeting with Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, Earn said, “Teachers are trained by the dumbest part of the dumbest colleges…” I have a degree in education because ...

[ad_1] Did you know that virtual reality is coming to global adoption soon? Did you also know that Metaverse is one of the most influential blockchain projects for VR and AR? It is true that the Metaverse is not as well known as other blockchain projects. But the potential to change the world of digital ...