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Tiny Neah Bay school a finalist in national science competition

A group of Native American students from tiny Neah Bay, on the Olympic Peninsula, are finalists for a national $100,000 technology and software prize.

The “Solve for Tomorrow” competition, sponsored by Samsung, aims to honor students who best show how science or math is helping the…

2012-03-09
Western's Scott Linneman named state's higher ed science teacher of the year

Scott Linneman, a professor of geology at Western Washington University, has been selected as the state’s higher education science teacher of the year by the Washington Science Teachers Association.

He received his award Thursday, Dec. 8, at National Science Teachers Association…

2011-12-09
Western's Scott Linneman named Washington's Higher Ed Science Teacher of the Year 2011-12-07
Shorten the school year: Give advocates an 'F' grade

Budget crises are a breeding ground for bad ideas. A particularly bad one is spreading and is in need of stomping out before getting embedded -- the idea that we can save money by shortening Washington's school year.
"It reminds me of the sheriff scene in Mel Brooks' movie…

2011-11-17
Burgess has article published in Journal of Natural History Education and Experience 2011-11-03
NSF funds $2.9M study of elementary science teacher prep at Western 2011-09-06
Pinky Nelson looks back fondly on three shuttle trips into space

As a member of the astronaut corps, George "Pinky" Nelson made three trips into space aboard three different crafts in the space shuttle fleet in the 1980s.
The Harvey Mudd College graduate who is now the director of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education at…

2011-07-11
FOR KIDS: End of an Era

At the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral, Fla., the space shuttle Atlantis awaits its last liftoff. In June, it will be rolled to the launchpad, within sight of the white sands of the Atlantic coast. In the past 30 years, 134 previous space shuttle missions have launched from the same swath…

2011-05-26
Connelly: KUOW should bring back Cliff Mass

Cliff Mass can be as quirky and blustery as those late fall frontal systems and winter snow squalls whose arrival onshore the University of Washington atmospheric scientist is so adept at charting and predicting.

Mass has long been an essential prelude to weekends when this hiker doesn…

2011-05-25
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