Events/Announcements
February 10, 2010 STEM Education: Filling the Vessel or Kindling the Flame? Ron Kander, School of Engineering
March 3, 2010 Shaping Policy in Science and Mathematics Education Kyle Schultz, Department of Middle, Secondary and Mathematics Education
March 9, 2010 (snow date, March 10, 2010) The 51st annual Shenandoah Valley Regional Science Fair is scheduled at James Madison University
March 17, 2010 Do Grades Impede Learning? Morgan Benton, Department of Integrated Science and Technology
March 18-19, 2010 The 17th Virginia Junior Science and Humantities Symposium is scheduled at James Madison University.
March 24, 2010 Gender in STEM Education: Tools for Change Gender and the Academy Madison Teaching Fellows Group
April 14, 2010 Taking the Minor out of Minority Programs! Anthony Tongen, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
April 28, 2010 The Trelawney Learning Community: A Unique Research Experience for First-Year STEM Majors. Katrina Gobetz, Department of Biology
October 23-24, 2010 Inaugural USA Science and Engineering Festival on the National Mall in Washington, DC
News
Center Co-Directors Bob Kolvoord and Eric Pyle were part of a panel on science education on the 30 March edition of WMRA's Virginia Insight radio program. Download a recording of the show.
Bridging the Valley: A STEP Ahead for STEM Majors
James Madison University has partnered with Blue Ridge Community College (BRCC), Bridgewater College (BC), Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), SRI Inc., and the Shenandoah Valley Partnership to address the challenges of building additional STEM major enrollments and retaining students to program completion. The National Science Foundation awarded the partners nearly $1.5 million to meet this goal.
News
The Story Behind STEM Sell
Last semester two Physics professors found a new medium for bringing scientific discussion to students’ attention – through their own radio station.
Playing on JMU’s acronym for departments housed under Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, the radio show STEM Sell is the brainchild of professor Dr. Mark Mattson, who came up with the idea for this relatively recent invention while driving.
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