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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. Over 30% of our staff statewide are either former Workshop students or parent volunteers. How are Workshop locations selected? The first one was in the Mission. What happened to the ones that folded?

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Confused Senator Rages That Self-Driving Cars Are Woke

Futurism

It's ludicrous," University of Maryland biologist Joshua Weitz, who has previously received NSF grants, told NPR. There's nothing political about wanting students to learn," Miami University ecologist Kylea Garces, whose grant is also on ice, told the public broadcaster "That's not social justice. such, it has researchers dumbfounded.

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The Trump administration should follow its own order on free expression

Fast Company Tech

Under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism, President Trump has threatened to remove non-citizen college students who protested Israels war in Gaza. I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses. The fact is that candidate-Trump was right.

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