The Southampton Bargate located in the midst of downtown shops, is part of the old town walls dating back to the Saxon era.
The Third Annual Open Repositories Conference (OR08) opened at the University of Southampton, UK, on April 1, 2008 with an observation by conference co-chair Les Carr. He suggested that the collective efforts […]

A key question pondered by many presenters at the Computation + Journalism Symposium at Georgia Tech in Atlanta was trying to get at what the combination of those two concepts meant. Georgia Tech does not have a school of journalism, but invited speakers from many well-respected news organizations to weigh in about how they saw […]

The One Laptop Per Child logo is as bright, hopeful and open as the project itself. OLPC is laying the groundwork for a world where every child will have the opportunity to take advantage of cyber learning opportunities.
AAAS’s tag line, “Advancing science, serving society,” was evident in many presentations at their Annual Meeting in […]

A Stylaster Elegans (Elegant Lace Coral by Teresa Zubi (Sept. 2005).
Anyone who has been fortunate enough to see Lace corals up close and underwater might remember their delicate form and color. Researchers from the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Stanford University, and the Scottish Association for Marine Science have discovered unexpected connections between shallow-water coral and […]

The intersection of science and the human condition as a “global enterprise” was the subject of AAAS President Dr. David Baltimore’s opening address to attendees at the Annual Meeting Opening Ceremony on Feb. 14, 2008 in Boston. Baltimore is a leading biologist and a California Institute of Technology Professor of Biology who was co-recipient of […]

Cutting edge issues related to climate change, health, energy, the environment, development, and education are the focus of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) that begins under sunny skies today in Boston Read an overview here. Audio highlights of the meeting will be available for sale here.
The Hynes Convention Center located in […]

It’s not too late to register for the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), set to begin tomorrow, February 14-19, in Boston. Stay tuned to the NSDL Road Reports blog for meeting highlights.
NSDL will be featured in two free conference sessions on Sunday Feb. 17 in Room 209 of […]

Dr. Brian McLaughlin spent a long time as a teacher before he went back to school himself. He taught history, math and science in Borneo in grades 7-9 while he was a Peace Corps volunteer and has held many other teaching positions all the way from nursery school through college. He now directs a […]

The Conference Center in Washington, D.C was the site of the NSF Workshop. Robert Payo, NSDL Outreach Specialist speaking with an attendee.
A friendly-looking person, often laden with SWAG (stuff everyone gets at conferences) approaches the NSDL exhibit booth. Opening pleasantries commence—“Where are you from? What do you do?”— before demonstrations and conversation about the […]

Each year Lee Zia, NSDL’s program director, sums up our collective Annual Meeting experience with a few elegant lines of haiku. This year’s offerings have been published in Zia’s new Expert Voices blog entitled, “A View from NSF.” Read his blog introduction here.
The 2006 Zia Annual Meeting Haiku can be found here.