Faced with a legislative effort to remove references of human-caused climate change from the state’s education standards, NCSE Teacher Ambassador Erin Stutzman in 2018 worked with several of her students to testify in opposition.
One of those students, Emily Her, who at the time was a senior at…
Melissa Lau, an NCSE Teacher Ambassador from Oklahoma, was highlighted in a story headlined "Teaching global warming in a charged political climate," which appeared in the Hechinger Report (July 6, 2019) and in the Washington Post (July 6, 2019).
"Schools across the United States are…
The theologian Norman Geisler died on July 1, 2019, at the age of 86, according to Christianity Today (July 1, 2019), which wrote, "Described as 'a cross between Thomas Aquinas and Billy Graham,' Geisler was a prolific author, apologist, and professor, as well as the co-founder and former…
NCSE is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education — volume 39, number 3 — is now available online.
Featured are Ashleigh Papp's report on NCSE's community science education projects aimed at adults, Paul Oh's interview of…
NCSE is seeking to hire a Director of Teacher Support. The Director of Teacher Support will provide expertise and leadership within NCSE and to the larger STEM education community across the US. The Director's primary duty will be the strategic and practical direction of NCSE's …
NCSE is pleased to congratulate Ben Santer, a member of NCSE’s board of directors and a climate scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, on winning the 2019 Sigma Xi William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement, bestowed "to a scientist who has made an outstanding contribution to…
A new report from the Yale Program on Climate Communication offers new data on Americans' beliefs and attitudes about climate change, with a particular emphasis on the influence of political views. "Climate change is now more politically polarizing than any other issue in America," the program's…
NCSE is pleased to announce the winners of the Friend of Darwin award for 2019: Jim Krupa, Professor of Biology at the University of Kentucky; Joe Thornton, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago; and Lacey Wieser, the former director of K-12 Science and STEM in the Arizona…
The NCSE office was recently turned into a time traveling scavenger hunt as a way to prototype a new app-based science outreach activity called Geology Park. This activity breaks new ground for NCSE as it’s specifically meant to help adults as well as young people engage with science, and because…