My name is Jessica Fries-Gaither, and I am an elementary resource specialist at the Ohio State University, where I serve as project director for Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears. Beyond Penguins is a free, online professional development magazine for elementary teachers dedicated to increasing knowledge of the polar regions and to integrating science and literacy […]

As a teenager, I didn’t know what I wanted to do. But I did know what I wanted to study.
I lived in the Washington, D.C., suburbs until I was 13. So it was a shock to move to rural upstate New York. But soon the woods and lakes and farms won me […]

As our presenter for “Studying Genomes“, Rob DeSalle takes life as one big discovery after another. Here’s an excerpt from his biography from the AMNH Seminars on Science profiles:
As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago in the 1970s, Rob had vague plans of becoming a social worker. But frequent visits to the Field […]

My name is Lynn Diener and I work on the new Chemistry Education pathway. The Chemistry Education Digital Library (ChemEd DL) brings together a variety of innovative electronic resources for teaching Chemistry. We will highlight a number of these resources in our upcoming seminar, Chemistry Comes Alive II: Sticky Molecules and Folding Proteins.
I knew […]

My name is Christina Symons and I am one of the geologists working on the ERESE Project (Enduring Resources for Earth Science Education, http://www.Earthref.org/ERESE). ERESE provides a digital collection rich with state of the art earth science data and images for the classroom, bringing students and teachers onboard virtual cruises and into the field. […]