Tag Archives: STEM education

SCIENCE LITERACY AND NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS

For nearly a week, pundits, analysts and talking heads have flooded the airwaves, adding their two cents to the barrage of information about the unfolding situation at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in quake-ravaged Japan. They have covered the spectrum – from alarmist predictions of a “Chernobyl-like” cataclysm to random use of the word […]

President Obama hosts first White House Science Fair

President Obama today honored some of the nation’s brightest students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and breakthrough basic research during the first-ever White House Science Fair.   The students   – winners of a variety of national STEM and research competitions – represent “the promise of America,” said Obama during a reception held in […]

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