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On the road again with NESCent

  • September 17th, 2012

The Darwin Day Roadshow is returning! The Roadshow is a project of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, in which NESCent staff shares their enthusiasm for evolutionary science with students, teachers, and the general public on the occasion of Charles Darwin's birthday, February 12.

NCSE's McCaffrey in The Earth Scientist

  • September 14th, 2012
The Earth Scientist

NCSE's Mark McCaffrey contributed "Teaching controversy" (PDF, pp. 25-29) to a special issue of The Earth Scientist focusing on climate change education.

Congratulations to Douglas J. Futuyma

  • September 13th, 2012
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NCSE is delighted to congratulate Douglas J. Futuyma on receiving the Joseph Leidy Award, which recognizes "excellence in publications, explorations, discoveries, or research in the natural sciences," from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

A second climate staffer at NCSE

  • September 7th, 2012
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Minda Berbeco has joined NCSE's staff to work on its new climate change initiative.

A glimpse of Nature's Compass

  • September 7th, 2012
Nature's Compass

NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould's Nature's Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation (Princeton University Press, 2012).

Progress in South Korea?

  • September 6th, 2012
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A panel overseeing revisions to science textbooks in South Korea "reaffirmed that the theory of evolution is an essential part of modern science that all students must learn in school," according to a report in Nature (September 6, 2012).

NCSE's Scott receives Dawkins award

  • September 5th, 2012
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NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott received the Atheist Alliance of America's Richard Dawkins Award at the group's annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, on September 1, 2012.

NCSE staffers in Nature Climate Change

  • August 31st, 2012
Nature Climate Change

"Science literacy still matters" — a letter by NCSE's Mark McCaffrey and Joshua Rosenau — was published in the journal Nature Climate Change (2012; 2[9]:636; subscription required).

NCSE and the Grand Canyon 2013

  • August 31st, 2012

Explore the Grand Canyon with NCSE! Reservations are now available for NCSE's next excursion to the Grand Canyon — as featured in the documentary No Dinosaurs in Heaven.

Bill Nye video on creationism

  • August 30th, 2012
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A two-and-a-half-minute video with Bill Nye discussing the creationism/evolution controversy went viral, garnering over 2.5 million views in its first week on-line.

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