Today in History - February 17, 1998 - Voyager 1 becomes the most distant human-made object from the Sun. Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 and it passed Saturn in November 1980. It continues a trajectory that takes it out of the solar system, […]

2008 BEN Scholars Application is Now Available for Download
 
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Biological Sciences Pathway invites undergraduate faculty in the biological sciences to apply to become BiosciEdNet (BEN) Scholars. The BEN Scholars Program is one of the grassroots outreach activities of the BEN Collaborative. The goal of the BEN Scholars Program is […]

Today in History – February 3, 1958 – Rachael Carson publishes the Silent Spring. Rachel Carson, a writer, scientist and ecologist, worked seventeen years for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, where she learned about the problems of pesticides on the environment. She is best known for her book called Silent Spring, […]

Registration for the 2008 AAAS Annual Meeting is still open.
The 2008 AAAS Annual Meeting will be held February 14 – 18, 2008 in Boston, MA. The theme for AAAS 2008 Annual Meeting is ‘Science and Technology from a Global Perspective.’ Both online and on-site registration methods are available. Please visit the AAAS Meeting site at […]