10/13/2008
Iran, Zanzibar discuss expansion of academic cooperation (Islamic Republic News Agency)
Iran - Zanzibar - Science Zanzibar Science Minister Haroun Ali Suleiman said here on Monday that his country needs Iranian instructors for cooperation in the field of basic sciences.
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10/15/2008
TIFR team studying if Indus Valley civilisation understood the stars (IE via Yahoo! India News)
Archaeo-astronomical research project also seeks to fill gaps between Vedic period and Harappa civilisation In a first, a team of four from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) has undertaken an archaeo-astronomical project that will study India's ancient Indus Valley Civilisation sites from a purely astronomical perspective.
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10/15/2008
Kenya: Tough Rule for Varsity Degrees (AllAfrica.com)
Kenyan universities need to review degree classification criteria to meet regional standards, educational experts have said.
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10/15/2008
Sphere of Standardization Expands (Korean Central News Agency)
Pyongyang, October 14 (KCNA) -- A sphere of standardization is steadily expanding in the DPRK.
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10/15/2008
Battery competition brings kids to MCAGCC (Desert Trail)
96 hours. On Friday, Oct. 3 the competition had a second goal, get Twentynine Palms-area elementary school students interested in science and engineering as possible career choices.
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10/14/2008
East Africa: Uniform Science Study for Region (AllAfrica.com)
University science courses in East Africa will soon be taught using a common curriculum. This means students could easily switch from one university to another across the region.
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10/14/2008
Winner Of DoD Wearable Power Prize Competition Announced (Space War)
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 14, 2008 - The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced that the DuPont/Smart Fuel Cell (SFC) Team was awarded a $1 million top prize for winning the Wearable Power Prize competition.
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10/14/2008
HOCC doctor finds niche in medical books (The New Britain Herald)
NEW BRITAIN - Thomas Brown, a physician at Hospital of Central Connecticut, has become an author for the third time.
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10/13/2008
Astronaut Sally Ride and ExxonMobil Invite Girls to Explore Hands-on Science at Louisiana State University (Centre Daily Times)
On Nov. 16, local girls will be inspired to dig into hands-on science at the Sally Ride Science Festival at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. The festival, which is open to the public, runs from 12:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. and is presented by ExxonMobil and Sally Ride Science.
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10/12/2008
Research grants to decline (The Advocate)
As soon as Kurt Svoboda came to LSU in 2002, the clock started ticking on the junior science professor to fight for research funds in the increasingly competitive arena of federal grant dollars.
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