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Glenn Branch
05.01.2015

RNCSE 35:3 now on-line

NCSE is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education is now available on-line. 

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Glenn Branch
04.30.2015

NCSE in Denial101x

John CookJohn Cook

A just-launched first-of-its-kind massive open online course on climate change denial, "Making Sense of Climate Science Denial," is already reaching over ten thousand people around the world — and NCSE is represented. 

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Glenn Branch
04.22.2015

Branch reviews Why Science Does Not Disprove God

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NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch reviewed Amir D. Aczel's Why Science Does Not Disprove God (William Morrow, 2014) for eSkeptic (April 22, 2015).

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Glenn Branch
04.20.2015

Comings and goings at NCSE

Emily Schoerning

NCSE is pleased to announce that Emily Schoerning has joined the NCSE staff as Director of Community Organizing and Research.

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Glenn Branch
04.13.2015

NCSE's latest in Evolution: Education and Outreach

Evolution: Education and Outreach

"Wading into the Undeniable" (PDF), by NCSE's Stephanie Keep, Ann Reid, and Glenn Branch, was just published in Evolution: Education and Outreach.

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Glenn Branch
04.08.2015

Announcing a climate bumper sticker contest!

Ask me how I'm warming the planet bumpersticker

It's time to sharpen your pencils, cudgel your brains, and consult your muse: NCSE is running a bumper sticker contest! This is your chance to help to spread the word about climate change education. Your brilliant idea could end up on the tail end of thousands of (carbon-dioxide-emitting) cars. Your climate change-themed bumper sticker can be funny, fierce, fiery — whatever, as long as it's good. Full details of the contest, and a list of the luscious prizes on offer, are available on NCSE's website. The contest ends on May 31, 2015.

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Josh Rosenau
04.06.2015

Congratulations to the NCSE Grand Canyon Teacher Scholarship winners!

Rafters dwarfed by Vulcan's Anvil, a lump of cooled magma in the middle of the Colorado RiverNCSE rafters examining Vulcan's Anvil, one of Grand Canyon's geological wonders. Photo by Josh Rosenau, 2014.

NCSE is pleased to announce the winners of the first teacher scholarships on our annual Grand Canyon raft trip: Alyson Miller of Nashua High School North, Nashua, New Hampshire, and Scott Hatfield of Bullard High School, Fresno, California. They will receive an all-expenses-paid eight-day raft trip through the Grand Canyon, guided by two members of NCSE's staff and joining twenty other NCSE members and supporters who purchased seats on the trip. The scholarship funds were donated by the generosity of NCSE's members.

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Glenn Branch
03.27.2015

A preview of The Atlas of Climate Change

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NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Kristin Dow and Thomas E. Downing's The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge (University of California Press, 2011). 

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Glenn Branch
03.24.2015

AFT adds its voice for evolution

The chorus of support for the teaching of evolution continues, with a statement from the American Federation of Teachers, adopted in 2014.

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Glenn Branch
03.23.2015

Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet awards for 2015

NCSE is pleased to announce the winners of the Friend of Darwin award for 2015: Neil Shubin, the Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago, codiscoverer of Tiktaalik roseae and author of Your Inner Fish (2008), and Ronald L. Numbers, the Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author of The Creationists (1992, expanded edition 2006).

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