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AAAS is working in partnership with The National Council of Teachers of
English on The National Gallery of Writing, which will be launched on
October 20, 2009 with a National Day of Writing. As a partner, AAAS is
curating its own gallery. We invite you to submit an original piece
about why or what science writing has inspi...red you.
You can find the AAAS gallery at: http://www.galleryofwriting.org/gallerie
Please
note that you will need to create an account either when you click
*contribute to this gallery* on the AAAS gallery page or *contribute
your writing* on the National Gallery of Writing main page http://www.galleryofwriting.org/
Your contributions will be visible on October 20, 2009 when NCTE launches the National Gallery.
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The Writing About Science Writing consists of personal stories about great science books that have inspired readers of all ages to take a closer look at the world around them.
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Van Phillips is an amputee who invented the Cheetah foot, a carbon graphite prosthetic that recently gained approval for use in track and field competitions.
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Nadia Ibrahim, a policy adviser for the Labor Department, gets to work from her Rockville home by taking MetroAccess, a paratransit service operated by Metro. Ibrahim, who has cerebral palsy, uses a wheelchair and a service dog.
International student wants to stay in U.S. to help others with disabilities | Gainesville.com | The
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A University of Florida student may soon face deportation, ending his arduous road to law school a year short of graduation.Rafal Strzalkowski, a 28-year-old international student, has submitted documentation attempting
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Pursuing a career in the sciences can be a daunting endeavor. From the challenges of coursework both in and outside the lab during postsecondary studies, to the challenges posed by the work a new scientist or engineer faces when entering the workforce, there is no question the learning curve can be ...
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In addition to providing a platform for discourses, the Resability Forum will soon set up an administrative and organizational service for the realization of personal study and research projects.
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News about David A. Paterson. Commentary and archival information about David A. Paterson from The New York Times.
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ENTRY POINT! has announced a new partnership with CVS Caremark to provide competitive summer internships for science and engineering students with disabilities.
Vasana AAAS Entrypoint! Program: "Doing science nowadays is partly like a business, so you need not to be intimidated and you need to focus on something that you can do better than anyone else and lead off with that," he advises. "Once you're going, doing good science is key to doing everything else, and taking the time to do it. Certainly people shou...ldn't be intimidated by hard work, either."
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Anne Swanson can't think of a time when she wasn't fascinated by science. "I remember my father waking me up in the middle of the night in the winter and wrapping me in a blanket and hustling me out the door so I could see a dazzling display of the aurora borealis," she recalls. ...
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When Jennifer Walz was a biomedical engineering undergraduate at the City College of New York (CUNY), a professor told her that her disability -- epilepsy -- would prevent her from becoming a scientist.âHe ...