BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT: The NAAS especially urges the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and The
American Association for the Advancement of Science to encourage their members to become involved in state level coalitions or participate in other mechanisms for S&T policy advice.
For the
American Association for the Advancement of Science's Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion, Baker (a "professional plain language writer") worked with theologians and scientists to provide a constructively engaging resource for Christian education.
The AAAS (
American Association for the Advancement of Science) believes that all children, whether they live in Louisiana, Connecticut or Michigan, or any other part of the United States, deserve the best possible education in science and mathematics.
The
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Board of Directors issued a consensus statement on climate change at the association's annual meeting in San Francisco in February.
Integration of technology and thinking skills through problem-based learning (PBL) is supported as an approach to science by standards such as the National Science Education Standards (National Research Council, 1996) the Benchmarks for Science Literacy (
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993) and a recent report on K-8 science education (National Research Council, 2007).
Staff writer Stacey Burling of The Philadelphia Inquirer is among the winners of the 2006 AAAS Science Journalism Awards from the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, for her Feb.
"The American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) all have issued statements in recent years concluding that the evidence for human modification of climate is compelling," wrote Naomi Oreskes of the University of California at San Diego.
The
American Association for the Advancement of Science recognizes an individual who has impacted the climate of a department, college, or institution to significantly increase the diversity of students pursuing and completing doctoral studies or who has mentored and guided significant numbers of students from underrepresented groups to the completion of doctoral studies.
note: At press time AMAA Journal staff learned that Terry Adirim has been selected as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow with the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Says Adirim: "I want to learn how health policy is made and to advise those making the policy, using the knowledge I have gained while working in academia." She will move to the Washington, D.C., area in summer 2006 after being placed in a federal agency.
So read the mission statements of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Association of Biology Teachers, then ask a local resource to sit down and go over the materials with you.
He was elected a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1992, he received the IEEE Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Service.