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Fri., May 17, 2013 6:42am
In the popular Harry Potter series of novels, the boy wizard often uses an invisibility cloak he inherited from his farther. Atlanta high-school senior Julia Abelsky is working to make such vestments a reality. NASA hopes to return Americans to the moon and eventually build a permanent colony. Junior Sergio Parra from Auburn is working to make that cheaper by making concrete from materials on the moon’s surface. Both students are competing this week at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix.
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Thu., May 2, 2013 6:44am
Georgia celebrates science, technology, engineering and math education with the first-ever governor-declared “STEM Day” Friday. A tech-industry leader says Georgia is showing lots of potential in those areas.
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Sat., January 26, 2013 3:00pm
The Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries has named the Tellus Science Museum as its institution of the year.
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Fri., August 17, 2012 7:56am
Georgia Southern University has established a new institute for interdisciplinary science, technology, engineering and math education. The institute plans to create a wide variety of partnerships across academia, business, education and research centers in southeast Georgia.
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Thu., May 24, 2012 9:00am
The Goizueta Foundation is providing a $5 million grant for Georgia Tech to encourage Hispanic K-12 students to get involved in science, technology, engineering and math fields.
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Thu., May 3, 2012 10:30am
Up to a dozen science teachers will get to build and pilot underwater robots under a grant program intended to improve teacher quality.
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Fri., October 22, 2010 4:36pm
The creator of the Segway and founder of the student robotic challenge is building excitement for invention in another way.
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Thu., August 12, 2010 11:17am
A Georgia scientist makes the case for a disease-spreading parasite. "I don't subdivide nature into useful and non-useful animals. For me, everything has to be there," says Lorenza Beati of Georgia Southern University. Researchers hope to prevent disease by studying that bane of summer, the tick.
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Mon., July 5, 2010 12:00am
Georgia's underwater national park, Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, studies fish on a recent voyage.
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Wed., May 12, 2010 3:46pm
Results from this year’s high school graduation tests are in and state scho
