Category: Education
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Convergence Science Transforming Biomedicine, MIT Report says
“Convergence science has advanced across many fronts, from nanotechnology to regenerative tissue,” says Nobel Laureate Phil Sharp of MIT. “But the funding allocated for convergence research in biomedical science is small and needs to be expanded. In fact, there is no federal agency with the responsibility to fund convergence in biomedical research.”
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Vote for National Convergence Idea Challenge Winner by Thurs, 6/23/2016
Phil Sharp of the MIT Koch Institute invites the public to vote in the first “Convergence Idea Challenge.” Offering $4000 in prizes aimed at challenging emerging researchers to combine the life/physical sciences, information technology, social sciences, and engineering to improve human health.
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Back to college; rape culture concerns; Ithaca Diaries update
Cambridge author Anita Harris updates readers on events and reviews re her latest book, Ithaca Diaries.
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Benefit featuring tech ed experts, honoring visionary Seymour Papert to be held Dec 4, in Kendall Square, Cambridge
New Cambridge Observer’s Anita Harris provides invite to Dec. 4 benefit for OPE, Open Planet Education Network, featuring ed tech gurus and honorin education technology visionary Seymour Papert.
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Journalist/Producer Bill Lichtenstein Wins Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism
Our friend Bill Lichtenstein has won a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for “A Terrifying Way to Discipline Chlldren,” an Op Ed piece he wrote for the September 8, 2012 New York Times. Lichtenstein, an investigative journalist and filmmaker, exposed the largely unknown use of seclusion rooms and physical restraints in schools across the country.