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Hexapod Herald - Vol. 8, No. 16, December 19, 1996

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Hexapod Herald - Vol. 8, No. 15, November 14, 1996

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Public Understanding Of Science As Seen By The Scientific Community: Do We Need To Re-Conceptualize The Challenge And To Re-Examine Our Own Assumptions?, William W. Cobern

Scientific Literacy and Cultural Studies Project

My task is to address the question of how the scientific community views the public understanding of science and whether there needs to be a re-conceptualization of the challenge to foster the public understanding of science, and also whether there is a need to re-examine assumptions. I am compelled to begin by acknowledging a debt to an important book, Inarticulate Science, written by Edgar Jenkins and his colleagues at Leeds. Inarticulate Science is an outstanding contribution on the concept of the public understanding of science and I think of my contribution today on this topic as a footnote. My …

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 8, No. 14, October 23, 1996

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1996 Imsa Founder's Day, Stephanie Pace Marshall

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Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network Newsletter – Fall 1996

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network

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Plans Finalized for NESEN at NATS

NESEN Purchases Digital Camera

NESEN Home Page Overhauled; Improved

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Traditional Culture And Science Education In Africa: Merely Language Games?, William W. Cobern

Scientific Literacy and Cultural Studies Project

I want to begin today with two short personal remarks. My field of research at home is the cultural study of science education. In other words, I am interested in what is commonly called the culture of science and how that becomes interpreted in science education by teacher and curriculum. I am interested in the variation of culture among American students, cultural variations grounded in family and community and brought to the classroom. I am interested in the cultural interactions that are precipitated by the meeting of cultures in the science classroom. In my current work I use worldview concepts …

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 8, No. 13, September 27, 1996

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Hexapod Herald - Vol. 8, No. 12, September 4, 1996

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Everyday Life Is Full Of 'Science Moments' To Teach And Share With Children, Mary Bird, Herman Weller

STEM Faculty Scholarship

The routine business of getting back to school is the easy part. It's much more challenging to figure out how to support children's efforts to learn more about the world and their place in it, and to hone the new skills they are acquiring daily. Even if you have felt comfortable reading with your child or helping with math homework in the past, chances are that you, like the vast majority of American parents, feel stymied when it comes to science.

So what can you do to broaden and deepen your child's learning of science? A lot, and you don't …

1996 Imsa Convocation, Stephanie Pace Marshall

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Hexapod Herald - Vol. 8, No. 11, August 7, 1996

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Hexapod Herald - Vol. 8, No. 10, July 9, 1996

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Sol-Gel Phase Transitions In Thermoreversible Gels: Onset Of Gelation And Melting, Y. Liu, R.B. Pandey

Faculty Publications

A Monte Carlo simulation model is propsed to study the phase transition and the structural evolution of thermoreversible gels with the coexistence of phase separation and gelation processes. Our model includes the mobility of all the species and the reversibilty of bonds of the clusters formed due to cross-linking reactions. These features provide a more realistic depiction of a polymer-solvent system. We attempt to elucidate the effects of interactions, solvents, polymer fraction, etc. on the phase behaviors of the thermoreversible gel. Sol-to-gel transition is studied in detail as a function of temperature, and the related critical exponents are evaluated. Two …

1: "To Know Ourselves", The U.S. Department Of Energy, The Human Genome Project

Genomics: Past & Future

AT THE END OF THE ROAD in Little Cottonwood Canyon, near Salt Lake City, Alta is a place of near-mythic renown among skiers. In time it may well assume similar status among molecular geneticists. In December 1984, a conference there, co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, pondered a single question: Does modern DNA research offer a way of detecting tiny genetic mutations—and, in particular, of observing any increase in the mutation rate among the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and their descendants? In short the answer was, Not yet. But in an atmosphere of rare intellectual fertility, …

Making History: Quarks, Neutrinos, And Virtual Perfection: Interviews With Robert W. Galvin And Leon M. Lederman, Timothy J. Gilfoyle

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In 1986, Leon Lederman helped establish the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, one of the nation's first residential secondary schools created specifically for gifted students in the sciences. "Kids hate to be different," Lederman recognizes, "and very bright kids know they're different when they're in normal schools, and they react to that differentness in many different ways. But here, they're all the same. They're all . . . academically gifted and work together and collaborate and . . . have excellent teachers. While the building was a hand-me-down from the overbuilding of schools in the early '70s, it works, and …

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network Newsletter – Summer 1996

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network

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NESEN at NATS 96 to Present on Plate Tectonics and Remote Sensing

'96 Guide Follows NESEN Homepage, Critical to Members Not Yet Online

NESEN Summer Workshop Series Completed

STEDII Project Hires Additional Summer Help

Severe Weather Information Kit (SWIK)

NESEN Membership Breaks 300

HomePage Update (http://nesen.unl.edu/nesen.html)

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 8, No. 9, June 20, 1996

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Hexapod Herald - Vol. 8, No. 8, June 7, 1996

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1996 Imsa Commencement, Stephanie Pace Marshall

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Hexapod Herald - Vol. 8, No. 7, May 22, 1996

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Hexapod Herald - Vol. 8, No. 6, May 8, 1996

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Obituary: J. Knox Jones, Jr., 1929-1992, James S. Findley, Clyde Jones, Hugh H. Genoways, Elmer C. Birney, Robert J. Baker

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

J. Knox Jones, Jr., was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, March 16, 1929, the eldest of the three sons of Virginia Bowen Jones and James Knox Jones. Knox passed away at his home in Lubbock, Texas, on November 15, 1992, after a two-year battle with cancer.

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network Newsletter – Fall 1996

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network

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Third edition of the NESEN Resources Guide and Membership Directory coming soon!

NESEN Membership

NESEN Electronic Communication Update

NESEN/CSD at Childrens Groundwater Festival - March 5, 1996 - Grand Island

NESEN/CSD at Earth Wellness Day - March 22, 1996 – Lincoln

NESEN/CSD at Science Olympiad – Lincoln

NESEN Teacher Coordinates Expanded Lesson Plan Share-A-Thon at 1996 NATS Conference

First STEDII Focused Measurement Period (FMP)

Summer 1996 Workshop Schedule

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 8, No. 5, April 18, 1996

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Hexapod Herald - Vol. 8, No. 4, April 8, 1996

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The Physics Of Motocross, Jeffrey R. Giles, Charles D. Ross

Chemistry & Physics Faculty Publications

The article describes how the laws of physics allow the motocross rider to control the flight of a motorcycle.

Museum Studies Programs Are Not Prepared For The Ph.D., Hugh H. Genoways

University of Nebraska State Museum: Programs Information

This article represents a response to the Committee on Museum Professional Training’s (1995) inquiry about establishing a Ph.D. in museum studies. It is also a partial response to Alan Friedman’s call for a Ph.D. program in informal science education in Curator volume 38, number 4 and Samuel Taylor’s editorial note in the same issue saying that a broader program should be considered covering all public programs. I will address the larger field of museum studies primarily because the problems faced by all of these areas of study are very similar.

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 8, No. 3, February 8, 1996

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Hexapod Herald - Vol. 8, No. 2, January 22, 1996

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