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The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach
The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach — the new journal promoting the accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience — is now published. The theme for the issue (volume 5, number 1) is Evolution in the Museum, edited by Monique Scott.…
Mann honored by EGU
Michael E. MannNCSE is delighted to congratulate Michael E. Mann on receiving the European Geoscience Union's Hans Oeschger Medal for 2012, in honor of "his significant contributions to understanding decadal-centennial scale climate change over the last two millennia and for…
NCSE's Scott honored by AAPA
Eugenie C. ScottNCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott was presented with the Gabriel W. Lasker Service Award by the American Association of Physical Anthropologists at the organization's 81st annual meeting, held April 11 through April 14, 2012, in Portland, Oregon. The…
RNCSE 32:2 now on-line
NCSE is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education is now available on-line. The issue — volume 32, number 2 — features Michael W. Hart and Richard K. Grosberg's essay-review of Frank Ryan's The Mystery of Metamorphosis and Kelly C. Smith's "I…
NCSE at USA Science & Engineering Festival
NCSE will be participating in the Science Expo of the USA Science & Engineering Festival, April 28 and 29, 2012, in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC. The culmination of a month-long celebration of science and engineering, the Science Expo is a giant science party in…
Freshwater appeals again
John Freshwater, the middle school science teacher in Mount Vernon, Ohio, who was fired over his inappropriate religious activity in the classroom — including teaching creationism — is now taking his case to the Ohio Supreme Court. In 2008, a local family accused Freshwater of engaging in…
Continued calls for "monkey bill" veto
Bill HaslamWith Tennessee's "monkey bill" still on Governor Bill Haslam's desk, columnists in the state's newspapers continue to criticize the bill and call for a veto. House Bill 368, would, if enacted, encourage teachers to present the "scientific strengths and scientific…
Project Steve: n > 1200
With the addition of Steven Piantadosi on April 6, 2012, NCSE's Project Steve attained its 1200th signatory. A tongue-in-cheek parody of the long-standing creationist tradition of amassing lists of "scientists who doubt evolution" or "scientists who dissent from Darwinism," Project Steve mocks…
Governor petitioned to veto "monkey bill"
A petition urging the veto of House Bill 368, signed by thousands of concerned Tennesseans, was delivered to Governor Bill Haslam's office on April 5, 2012, MSNBC reports (April 5, 2012). Nicknamed the "monkey bill," HB 368 would, if enacted, encourage teachers to present the "scientific strengths…

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