A new activity has been added to the Activities page: “Modeling How Antennas Transmit/Receive Electromagnetic Wave Signals Using Mechanical (Water) Waves.” The activity was developed by middle school teacher Katie Leary during the 2013 Research …
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RSEC travels to Puerto Rico for Nano Days 2014
In April of 2014, MRSEC center director Nicholas Abbott, MRSEC education director Anne Lynn Gillian-Daniel, and NSEC Education Director Andrew Greenberg traveled to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico for NanoDays 2014. They worked with University of Puerto …
Science of Badger Athletics
On Saturday, February 2nd, the UW MRSEC, in collaboration with the WARF and Beyond the Game, trained UW athletes to teach members of the general public about the wonders of materials science in the world …
RET Participant Melissa Hemling publishes activity in J. Chem. Ed.
Melissa Hemling, a chemistry teacher at Beaver Dam High School and participant in our RET program from 2011-2012, has published one of the teaching modules she created in the Journal of Chemical Education. The activity, …
Bogota
On October 8, 2013, MRSEC Education Director Anne Lynn Gillian-Daniel visited Bogota, Columbia to talk about working with teachers to inform their students and the general public about nanoscience, materials science, and nanotechnology. You can …
MRSEC Education mentioned on Listverse.com
The UW-MRSEC Education Group has been mentioned on Listverse.com’s “10 Amazing Man-made Substances” List for an introductory video of Memory Metal! The video stars Wendy Crone and illustrates the wonders of new materials and the …