…chair of our board in 2008 to lead the presidential search committee. Penny is co-editor of New Frontiers in Formative Assessment (Harvard Education Press), which includes two chapters by Concord…
Q. What brought you to the Concord Consortium? A. In 1999, I was doing my postdoc in biophysics research in Europe. At that time, Java was the hottest new programming…
A new study has been published disproving the previous explanation for the end of the Marinoan ice age, also known as “Snowball Earth.” That ice age ended abruptly about 600…
On September 12, 2011, a team of scientists announced that the HARPS telescope has identified more than 50 new planets; this is the largest number of planets ever announced at…
…The race is on… Into 2015, FLIR announced a new version of FLIR ONE that supports both Android and iOS and will probably be even more aggressively priced. Figure 2…
…genetics in particular, are rapidly advancing areas that will offer new jobs across the spectrum from technicians to scientists. A new $1.2 million National Science Foundation-funded project at the Concord…
…and CLEAResult launched a Call for Innovation to leverage crowdsourcing to solicit new ideas for saving energy in homes based on smartphone technologies. Modern smartphones are packed with a variety…
…engagement and interest in meaningful learning activities and practices can spur an enduring pursuit of science. Our Learning Everywhere initiative is exploring, prototyping, and creating new learning experiences—including exhibits, mobile…
A new collaborative research project at the Concord Consortium and Michigan State University will develop and research learning materials on the molecular and cellular basis for genetics and the process…
…new two-year project builds off an earlier project by Principal Investigators Sherry Hsi and Michael Eisenberg, which prototyped several Paper Mechatronics design projects, organized activity formats, and piloted the various…