Tag: Professor
Disability Activists Urge Princeton University to Denounce Professor Peter Singer’s Comments, Call for His Resignation
Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) June 09, 2015 Disability rights activists from Pennsylvania Not Dead Yet and New Jersey centers for independent living, as well as groups representing parents of people with disabilities, will be marching to Princeton University and holding a protest on June 10, 2015. Activists want Princeton to publicly denounce recent statements by Professor […]
Engineering Professor Pamela McCauley Receives the BEYA STEM Educational Leadership Award
Orlando, FL (PRWEB) November 25, 2014 “Your award comes at a time particularly critical for the United States. Statistics show that science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) enrollments are declining in our country exactly at the moment when our global economy is driving up demand for STEM professionals. The future of America rests in the […]
What can mathematics say about liquid crystals? – Professor Sir John Ball FRS FRSE
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yjYe_o-NBs&fs=1&rel=0] Liquid crystals represent a vast and diverse class of materials which are intermediate between isotropic liquids and crystalline solids. Liquid crystal order…
Effective Fresh Water Policy Requires an Educated Public, Reports OSU Hydrology Professor
Grants Pass, OR (PRWEB) December 31, 2014 People in charge of water resources make better decisions if the public is well informed, according to Michael Campana, PhD, speaking on the Sharon Kleyne Hour™ Power of Water® radio show. Wasteful, expensive and environmentally harmful policies, and “quick fix” solutions, says Campana, occur because the public allows […]
Phoenix College Professor James Sousa Named Arizona Professor of the Year
Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) December 07, 2014 Phoenix College is proud to announce that James Sousa, a mathematics instructor with the college, has been named as the 2014 Arizona Professor of the Year. Awarded annually by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), Sousa […]