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MAKING STUFF Frequently Asked Questions

Last week I posted information about the small grants MRS and WGBH are offering to organize outreach events around the premiere of Making Stuff . Apparently, a lot of folks have had similar questions about the outreach events, so the...

Posters, Presentations, and Broader Impacts

The NISE Net is sponsoring a bunch of professional development opportunities at the upcoming Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco, April 5 - 9. Admission is included in meeting registration for all of these workshops, no additional registration...

Nano Bite: March 2010

Welcome to the March Nano Bite, the monthly e-newsletter for the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net). Happy NanoDays! → Training NanoDays volunteers Karine Thate and Alex Fiorentino, Education Associates at the Museum of Science , graciously shared with

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Grant Opportunity for Materials Science Outreach Program

Richard Souza , who is leading the Materials Research Society' s involvement in the NISE Network, forwarded me this announcement about a small grant opportunity open to our partners. There's more information below, but please note that the application due...

NanoDays Training for Museum Education Newbies

If you're a researcher, there's a big difference between talking about nano with fellow classmates, colleagues, or professors, and talking about nano with hundreds of Museum of Science visitors on a Saturday afternoon. NanoDays at our institution generally means lots...

NanoDays 2010 Participants

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Girls looking at different white substances in SustainAble kit Creative Reinvention sustainability activity

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Real World Nano: Why does nano matter? Surface area.

February 15, 2010

Clark Miller, Arizona State University

Thanks, everyone, for your great comments to the first RWN post! Keep 'em coming. I'll respond there and in future posts. The question for today is: why does nano matter? At the 2009 NISE Net annual meeting, evaluators noted that...

Broader Impacts - A Provocative New Look

February 9, 2010

Carol Lynn Alpert

NSF's Broader Impacts Criterion (BIC) gets a provocative re-examination in a special issue of the British journal Social Epistemology , and in that issue, the NISE Net's focus on science museum - research center partnerships is included as a model...

Kickoff for NanoDays 2010

February 5, 2010

The NanoDays kits have been shipped and the digital resources are ready for downloading. Now it's time to get busy thinking about what you actually want to DO with all this stuff! Whether this is your first time creating a...

Nano Bite: February 2010

Welcome to the February Nano Bite, the monthly e-newsletter for the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net). NanoDays Training Materials NanoDays is next month, and the NISE Net has a number of training materials that might be useful for

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Nano Jobs!

February 1, 2010

Lotus Leaves and Nano Pants at the Too Small To See Opening at the Sciencenter. The Sciencenter in Ithaca, NY, is hiring a project manager and education project coordinator to work on NISE Net programs and exhibits, along with other...

NanoDays Training Resources

February 1, 2010

NanoDays is next month, and the NISE Net has a number of training materials that might be useful for those new to presenting nano content to public audiences: Margaret Glass and Steve Madewell will be running an online training on...

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Real World Nano: Welcome to Real World Nano

January 26, 2010

Clark Miller, Arizona State University

Welcome to Real World Nano , a new space to explore what happens when nanotechnology leaves the laboratory and makes its way into the rest of society. RWN is a partnership between NISE Net and the Center for Nanotechnology in...

Billions and Billions: Translating "billion"

January 25, 2010

Anders Liljeholm , a program developer at OMSI , wrote to me about a challenge in translating our materials into other languages. Did you know that in different countries the word "billion" can mean different amounts? In English, one billion...

Classroom Nano: Middle School Workshop

January 25, 2010

Many of our partners have indicated that they do classroom activities of some type, so I'm going to be highlighting a few examples of partners incorporating nano into classroom programs. Please let us know what you've been doing with NISE...

Mixing Molecules full body immersive exhibit with person in front of large screen

Mixing Molecules

Formative evaluation report of Mixing Molecules full-body immersive simulation exhibit demonstrating the collision of molecules at the nanoscale.

Nano Bite: January 2010

Welcome to the January Nano Bite, the monthly e-newsletter for the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net). Happy New Year! With the end of 2009 just behind us, there are lots of predictions for technological and scientific advances in

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10 Emerging Technologies for the Next 10 Years

December 29, 2009

With the end of the year and decade just ahead of us, lots of people are looking back and compiling their top ten lists (for example, here , here , here , here , and here ). Andrew Maynard (a...

Classroom Nano: Homeschool Workshop

December 17, 2009

Many of our partners have indicated that they do classroom activities of some type, so I'm going to be highlighting a few examples of partners incorporating nano into classroom programs. image by James Sarmiento Jayatri Das of the Franklin Institute...

Nanoscale science gets a new periodic table, Nanopants skew public perception - news from the 2009 NSF NSE Meeting

December 17, 2009

Carol Lynn Alpert

A new systematic framework for unifying and defining nanoscience was put forth at the 2009 NSF NSE grantees meeting last week in Arlington, Virginia. Donald Tomalia, director of the National Dendrimer and Nanotechnology Center at Central Michigan University, presented the...

Nano Bite: December 2009

Welcome to the December Nano Bite, the monthly e-newsletter for the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net). What's new? Winter! Winter officially begins December 21st-- celebrate with snowflakes! The structure of snowflakes results from the nanoscale arrangement of water

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Let it snow: nano structures and self-assembly

December 7, 2009

Designer snowflake video courtesy Kenneth Libbrecht of CalTech, www.snowcrystals.com Between the snow we got on the east coast this weekend and Winter officially beginning on December 21st, it seems like a good time to break out some of our snowflake...

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Advances in Partnerships and Conjugates: the Fall MRS Meeting

December 4, 2009

Carol Lynn Alpert

Partnerships between nano and materials research centers and science museums are well and thriving, as evidenced by a round of talks delivered at the Fall 09 MRS Meeting “Materials Education Symposium,” curated by NISE Net friends Eric Marshall and Julie...