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Cafe Crowd soaks up nanotech knowledge
Nearly three dozen people packed into the Broad Street Cafe, a coffee house and watering hole in west Durham, to sip beer, munch on hors d'oeuvres and wax scientific. Mike Falvo, a physicist from UNC-Chapel Hill gave a lesson in nanoscience and nanotechnology, followed by a 15 minute lecture on the risks of nanotechnology by Hope Shand, research director at the Carrboro office of the Otawa-based Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration. Science cafes like these have been sweeping the country for several years as a way to bring science out of laboratory settings and into the masses.
Educating small tech's revolutionaries
North Carolina State University was recently ranked as one of the best institutions that teaches skills and nurtures innovation. The university was noted for its outreach to industry, its actively developing academic programs related to nanotechnology, and the research accomplished in the College of Education on nanoscale instruction.
Award Winning Professor
Dr. Gail Jones, professor of science education recently received a $700,000 grant to study what types of experiences improve students' ability to conceptualize size and scale.
