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Those who can do can also teach, and with improved results
Jan 4, 2010 — “Kids know what’s up. Ninety percent of middle- and high-school science teachers have never had to solve an honest-to-god science problem using the tools of science,” Dr. Samuel C. Silverstein told me. He is a professor of physiology and medicine at Columbia University in New York. “Without that sort of experience, most of them are simply repeating what the textbook says. Kids know immediately who’s authentic and who’s not.” Silverstein runs the Summer Research Program for Science Teachers...
‘Watching the Detectors ...’
Nov 10, 2009 — Demand for infrared detectors is growing in a variety of industries, especially in military, medical and environmental monitoring applications. In this article, Photonics Spectra News Editor Gary Boas looks at how two recent developments in infrared...
Letters to the Editor
Nov 1, 2009 — The science sex gap I read Gary Boas’ article (“Understanding the ‘sex gap’ in science and math,” September, p. 45) with interest. I have been interested in science since I was a child. While in middle school, I remember my math instructor teaching...
Optics in Space
Nov 1, 2009 — The origins of free-space optical communications can be traced back to the late 19th century, with the introduction of Alexander Graham Bell’s “photophone” and the optical telegraph. Both of these technologies went the way of the daguerreotype, but...
The UK Fights Back
Nov 1, 2009 — The UK economy has had a tough slog in the past year and a half. At the end of September, the government reported that the gross domestic product shrank by 0.6% in the April to June period, marking five consecutive quarters of contraction. The 5.7%...
FiO: Notes from the Crucible
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 15, 2009 – “Whoa, whoa, whoa,” I thought. “Whoa.” I had just stumbled across a page on the Frontiers in Optics Web site collecting blog postings about the (then) upcoming meeting. “We can’t have people just running around writing stuff for the Internet. About...
FiO: Notes from the Crucible
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 15, 2009 – ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa,’ I thought. ‘Whoa.’ I had just stumbled across a page on the Frontiers in Optics website collecting blog postings about the (then) upcoming meeting. ‘We can’t have people just running around writing stuff for the internet. About...
Science in the City of Angels
Oct 15, 2009 — As an extension of his article titled, “The value of discovery” in the Oct. issue of Photonics Spectra, Gary Boas blogs about his experience at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. He takes us into the museum and shares some of his hands-on...
Small (and Big) Talk at FiO
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 15, 2009 -- The superbig and the supersmall were the subjects of two plenary sessions Monday at Frontiers in Optics 2009. In the first session, Andrea M. Ghez, professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA, a leading expert in observational astrophysics, explained...
Small (and Big) Talk at FiO
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 15, 2009 -- The superbig and the supersmall were the subjects of two plenary sessions Monday at Frontiers in Optics 2009. In the first session, Andrea M. Ghez, professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA, a leading expert in observational astrophysics, explained...
The Power of Spectra
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 15, 2009 – “I have contributed all my knowledge to laser research, yet I still get no RESPECT! But that’s going to change after I get my hands on that girl and harness her power…” I was sitting in the lobby of the Fairmont San Jose, surrounded by...
The Power of Spectra
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 15, 2009 – “I have contributed all my knowledge to laser research, yet, I still get no RESPECT! But that’s going to change, after I get my hands on that girl and harness her power…” I was sitting in the lobby of the Fairmont San Jose, surrounded by...
A Singular Problem
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 13, 2009 – I should know better. Watching movies or TV shows I revered as a child can only end badly. As with so many things in life, the reality can never equal the paramnesia built of fading memories and unattainable ideals. And yet I revisit old favorites...
A Singular Problem
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 13, 2009 -- At a plenary session at OSA's Frontiers in Optics, Dr. Andrea M. Ghez, professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA, described a decade of observations using the Keck telescopes and the latest advances in adaptive optics, demonstrating an object at...
An Evening at the Races
SAN JOSE, Calif., Monday, Oct. 12, 2009 – One of the kickoff events for the 2009 Frontiers in Optics meeting in San Jose was the preliminary races of the First International Optical Society of America (OSA) Student Chapter Solar Mini-Car Competition. All competitors were given a solar car...
An Evening at the Races
SAN JOSE, Calif., Monday, Oct. 13, 2009 -- Two or three of the contestants tricked out their tiny solar-powered cars, hoping to gain an advantage in speed and thus edge out the competition. They introduced, for example, magnifying sheets and complicated gear assemblages. Gabrielle...
Letters to the Editor
Oct 1, 2009 — Benefits, not danger I read with interest the article by Gary Boas titled, “Just how dangerous are foreign researchers?” (June 2009, p. 62). I came to the US many years ago as a postdoctoral fellow from Germany and experienced firsthand the many...
The value of discovery
Oct 1, 2009 — More than 40 years ago, Frank Oppenheimer, a physics professor at the University of Colorado and the younger brother of American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, proposed a science museum to be housed in the vacant Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina...
Donors and Acceptors: New Developments in FRET
Sep 1, 2009 — Förster resonance energy transfer, or FRET, has contributed to advances in a host of applications and the development of the technique is ongoing. In recent years, FRET has benefited from a variety of new components and methodologies. In this Web...
Understanding the “sex gap” in science and math
Sep 1, 2009 — The assumption that boys are naturally drawn to – and inherently skilled at – math and science while girls are predisposed to the more liberal arts is deeply embedded in our culture. And it is continually reinforced and perpetuated by observations...
SPIE O+P Blog: Hornet's Nest
Aug 3, 2009 — Features Editor Gary Boas documents his experience at SPIE Optics + Photonics 2009, including special events marking the 400th birthday of the telescope and the 40th anniversary of the moon landing.
NIH Review Changes Outlined
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2, 2009 -- NIH’s James Bjork outlined upcoming changes to the institute’s peer-review process, which he said is essentially to "fund the best science, by the best scientists, with the least amount of administrative burden."
NIH Review Changes Outlined at Conference
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2, 2009 -- During a lunchtime talk at the Human Brain Mapping meeting last month, James Bjork, a program officer with the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), outlined recent and upcoming changes to the NIH...
Boas Blog: Brain Mapping
Jun 22, 2009 — Gary at Large San Francisco, June 23, 2009 The concierge didn't think I could do it. Or would do it, anyway. "Walk from Union Square to the Presidio?" he asked. (Did he just suppress a chortle?) "There are a lot of hills here, you...
Boas Blog: ISMRM
Apr 20, 2009 — ISMRM Day 4: Dale a Tu Cuerpo Alegría Honolulu, April 23, 2009 It wasn't the first Dancing MR Tech video I'd ever seen. But it was probably the best. And I almost missed it. Thursday morning. The excellent Lauterbur Lecture (including...
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