Dr. Robert M. Panoff, founder and Executive Director of Shodor, poses with the Partnership Award for Science, Math and Technology Education.

Today in History – April 4, 1975 – The Microsoft Company founded.
Well actually, Microsoft’s archivist has no record of a noteworthy Microsoft event that might have happened on April 4. The closest event appears to be a hand written tax form dated on April 1 that may have reached the IRS on April 4. […]

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 […]

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 […]