SciVee is a new site by the great people at PLoS, with support from NSF and San Diego Supercomputer Center. It is very early in the launch of this effort but it looks very promising.
SciVee allows scientists to communicate their work as a multimedia presentation incorporated with the content of their published article. Other [...]

Baucus proposing free college tuition for math and science majors:
Sen. Max Baucus wants free college tuition for math and science majors as part of a $25 billion education incentives package that also includes help for rural teachers and more money for pre-kindergarten programs. Baucus, D-Mont., told The Associated Press he hopes to introduce his [...]

On our National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship program site we have added a section onprofiles of past NSF Graduate Research Fellows. We started with probably the most famous fellow, and certainly the richest: Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin.

“Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very [...]

The NSF-funded MATE Center recently held their annual student ROV competition in Canada, and rookie teams from Jesuit High School of Carmichael, California (Explorer class) and Cornerstone Academy of Gainesville, Florida (Ranger class) were this year’s winners. This international event featured 41 teams representing schools from six countries. Students were challenged to design and build [...]

This is our first post on engineering and work (engineers at work). We plan to post on the diverse range of careers engineers take on once graduating with engineering degrees. In this speech Marissa Mayer discusses innovation at Google. She leads the product management efforts on Google’s search products- web search, images, [...]

From the Electrical Engineering focused EEBeat Blog - Surface antennas conform to any shape:
Recently developed Holographic Artificial Impedance Surfaces–or Textured Impedance Surfaces, for short–are surface-coating materials from HRL Laboratories (Malibu, CA) that enable any object to become a Tx/Rx antenna. Constructed of thin sheets of dielectric with small metal patterns on them, the materials have [...]