Faculty Spotlight and Q&A with: Alena Moon
Get to know Alena Moon, UNL assistant professor of chemistry. She studies the concept of light-matter interactions and the practice of engaging in argument from evidence. Continue reading…
Apply for Central Nebraska's cohort of AIR@NE computer science teachers
Apply now to be a part of CSForAll: Adapt, Implement, and Research at Nebraska (AIR@NE), an NSF-funded grant that examines the adaptation and implementation of a validated K-8 Computer Science curriculum in diverse school districts. The application for Cohort 2 in Grand Island is now open! Continue reading…
STEM CONNECT Scholarship applications now open for Fall 2020
Tell your students about STEM CONNECT, a new NSF scholarship program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Southeast Community College and Western Nebraska Community College. Depending on financial need, the student might receive a scholarship worth up to $8,000 per year. Continue reading…
Celebrate Computer Science Week and Hour of Code in December
Computer Science Education Week is an annual event that encourages and inspires K-12 students to explore coding. Students and teachers are encouraged to participate by using an hour of their week to create computer code as part of the Hour of Code initiative. Continue reading…
New applied research STEM curriculum unit available
“Future Temperature Projections” is a unit plan for grades 9-12 classrooms with access to computers and NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies RStudio software. The goal is for students to learn global future temperature projections based on output from a NASA global climate change model. Continue reading…
Smithsonian researcher visits University of Nebraska State Museum to solve mystery
A researcher from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History visited UNSM to examine the mastodon teeth and fossil collection. He collected evidence to identify a skull in the Smithsonian collection whose specie group is unknown. Continue reading…
Join the STEM Teacher Leadership Network
The NSF invites all teacher leaders, aspiring teacher leaders, as well as researchers and administrators interested in teacher leadership to connect with a new virtual learning community and collegial network: https://stemtlnet.org. Continue reading…
Remote telescope technology allows for night sky images
iTelescope.Net is a large community of members dedicated to remote internet astronomy. There are 19 telescopes available to the public located in North America, Spain, Australia and Chile. This recently developed system allows anyone, anywhere to take astronomical images of the night sky. Continue reading…
Originally published December 10, 2019 -
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