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| Port Angeles science teacher recognized at education foundation dinner | High school science teacher John Gallagher has been named the recipient of the Port Angeles Education Foundation's Distinguished Service Award. Gallagher received the award at the education foundation's annual fundraising dinner in April. |
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| From Window Magazine: 'Down to Earth' | |||
| Tiny Neah Bay school a finalist in national science competition | A group of Native American students from tiny Neah Bay, on the Olympic Peninsula, are finalists for a national $100,000 technology and software prize. The 鈥淪olve for Tomorrow鈥 competition, sponsored by Samsung, aims to honor students who best show how science or math is helping the鈥 |
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| Western's Scott Linneman named state's higher ed science teacher of the year | Scott Linneman, a professor of geology at Western Washington University, has been selected as the state鈥檚 higher education science teacher of the year by the Washington Science Teachers Association. He received his award Thursday, Dec. 8, at National Science Teachers Association鈥 |
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| Western's Scott Linneman named Washington's Higher Ed Science Teacher of the Year | |||
| Shorten the school year: Give advocates an 'F' grade | Budget crises are a breeding ground for bad ideas. A particularly bad one is spreading and is in need of stomping out before getting embedded -- the idea that we can save money by shortening Washington's school year. |
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| Burgess has article published in Journal of Natural History Education and Experience | |||
| NSF funds $2.9M study of elementary science teacher prep at Western | |||
| Pinky Nelson looks back fondly on three shuttle trips into space | As a member of the astronaut corps, George "Pinky" Nelson made three trips into space aboard three different crafts in the space shuttle fleet in the 1980s. |
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| FOR KIDS: End of an Era | At the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral, Fla., the space shuttle Atlantis awaits its last liftoff. In June, it will be rolled to the launchpad, within sight of the white sands of the Atlantic coast. In the past 30 years, 134 previous space shuttle missions have launched from the same swath鈥 |