Durham, NC – November 10, 2007 –Dr. Robert M. Panoff, president and executive director of Shodor, a Durham, NC nonprofit serving students and educators nationwide, is being honored today by a computational science award given in his name at the Education Program of SCO7, an international conference for high performance computing being held in Reno, […]

The 2007 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware was awarded to Kirk Martini of the University of Virginia for Arcade: Interactive Non-linear Structural Analysis and Animation.

Arcade is a computer program for the simulation and animation of physical structures. Arcade uses a physics engine to model structural behavior. The physics engine models a collection […]

Shodor, a Durham, North Carolina-based nonprofit organization serving educators and students and the NSDL Computational Science Pathway partner, has been recognized by Cisco, Inc. for its innovative use of technology to improve math and science education nationally. Shodor was named a grand prize winner in the Nonprofit category of the Cisco Growing with Technology Awards […]

The Engineering Pathway has teamed up with JETS (Junior Engineering Technical Society) to feature a K-12 resource every month in the Pre-Engineering Times newsletter. The resource highlight this month is Manufacturing Technologies: Making a Picture Frame, a TeachEngineering resource that complements the feature article “Automation Engineers Control the World”.

NSDL and its Biological Sciences Pathway BiosciEdNet (BEN). share a problem. “I am always meeting people who say, ‘It’s too bad there isn’t a website that offers peer reviewed biological material for teaching,’” says Terry McGuire, associate professor of genetics at Rutgers University. In fact, BEN and NSDL offer thousands of these sources.
Terry McGuire […]