Space Agencies: An Update However, Germany has a history of collaborative space flight activities with NASA . European Space Agency microgravity Database Web site. http://lifesci.arc.nasa.gov/lis2/Chapters1_3/Space_Agencies.html
Extractions: Chapter 2 of discussed the history of NASA's international cooperation in space life sciences, from its origins through the early 1990s. In the intervening years, the scope and character of collaborative activities undertaken by NASA Life Sciences has expanded internationally to include additional space agencies and domestically to include other federal organizations. This chapter provides an updated overview of these activities and their participants. The budget and implementation for the U.S. space life sciences research efforts is administered by the headquarters of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington, DC. Management of research and development programs is handled by program offices that are governed by NASA headquarters. Ames Research Center Kennedy Space Center Located on the central Atlantic coast of Florida, KSC is NASA's primary base for space launch, landing, and payload processing operations. Center responsibilities include ground and support operations, prelaunch checkout, and launch of the Space Shuttle and its payloads; the landing and recovery of the Shuttle orbiter and payloads; the recovery of the reuseable solid rocket boosters; and subsequent turnaround operations in preparation for future missions. KSC also provides launch support and oversight for NASA activities related to expendable launch vehicle (ELV) missions, primarily from adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
NASA - NASA Glenn Educational Resources microgravity Education A collection of resources and activities for teachers and OAI promotes collaborative research, graduate and continuing education, http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/education/EducationalResources_GRC.html
Extractions: + Center Home preLoad('/templateimages/navigation/leftnav/centers/glenn/nav_left_home,/templateimages/navigation/leftnav/centers/glenn/nav_left_about,/templateimages/navigation/leftnav/centers/glenn/nav_left_business,/templateimages/navigation/leftnav/centers/glenn/nav_left_education,/templateimages/navigation/leftnav/centers/glenn/nav_left_events,/templateimages/navigation/leftnav/centers/glenn/nav_left_missions,/templateimages/navigation/leftnav/centers/glenn/nav_left_multimedia,/templateimages/navigation/leftnav/centers/glenn/nav_left_news,/templateimages/navigation/leftnav/centers/glenn/nav_left_projects'); A major part of the NASA mission is "To inspire the next generation of explorers . . . as only NASA can." Aeronautics and space programs provide unique opportunities to stimulate and inspire young minds to excel in science and math skills. Many students dream of being pilots, astronauts, or world-renowned scientists and engineers. We encourage these dreams as we work to capture young people's interest in science and math, as we'll need an adequate pool of young people to assume the jobs necessary to take us into the 21st century. Educational Products and Resources
Extractions: Some of Glenn's Bioengineering and Bioscience activities are done in collaboration with organizations outside of Glenn. These partnerships, or collaborative agreements, are formalized through documents called "Space Act Agreements." These agreements allow NASA to partner with industry, foundations, universities and other non-Government organizations, as well as other Government agencies. In these agreements, NASA provides data, facilities, services, coordination and personnel to the partner, and in return, the partner shares research results and may provide funding to pay for part or all of NASA's efforts. The following table is the subset of Glenn's Space Act Agreements which are focused on Bioengineering or Bioscience efforts. GRC Bioscience and Engineering Space Act Agreements AGREEMENT TITLE PARTNERS GLENN POINT OF CONTACT Glennan Microsystems Joint Sponsored Research Agreement
NASA Telemedicine - Centers NASA has a number of activities in telemedicine being conducted at several of its collaborative activities with Ukraine; EastWest Space Science Center http://www.quasar.org/21698/nasa/centers.html
Extractions: Centers NASA has a number of activities in telemedicine being conducted at several of its field centers. Below you will find a comprehensive inventory of these activities. The activities include test beds for evaluation of technology; prototype and operational hardware; medical informatics and information systems for medicine; telemetry from sensors; and technology in a variety of disciplines that have potential applications to telemedicine. This inventory summarizes the Agency's activities since 1994. The inventory is based on input provided from the following centers: Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Headquarters, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Johnson Space Center, Langley Research Center, Lewis Research Center, and Marshall Space Flight Center. In several instances NASA has partnered with academia, industry and other government agencies to develop technology and testbeds to evaluate the potential for applications to space flight medical operations and biomedical research. This inventory was compiled under the direction of Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications at NASA Headquarters.
2000 USSS Submission -- Washington University, St. Louis Through these Aria missions, K12 students perform real microgravity experiments, Washington University first attended the 2000 Symposium; collaborative http://usss.engr.scu.edu/usss01/wustl/wustl.htm
Extractions: http://aria.cec.wustl.edu/ Project Aria at Washington University in St. Louis, is in its fourth year of space systems education and outreach. Past projects include passive experiments flown on the Space Shuttle and technology demonstrators for balloon flights. Currently, Project Aria is pursuing several robotic missions, including more Shuttle flights, a robotic control network, and operations support for the Sapphire microsatellite. These projects have also been included in previous Symposium activities. This program is seeking collaborators for future Shuttle experiments, as well as joint operation of robotic vehicles and a long-term solar sail development project. This paper provides highlights of some Project Aria missions, results from previous Symposium activities, and suggests possible collaborative activities to be developed at the 2001 Symposium. Project Aria began in 1998 as an outreach program at the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) at Washington University; it was chartered to connect St. Louis-area school districts with hands-on science and education projects with the goal of encouraging students to pursue scientific careers. As a secondary goal, Project Aria provides undergraduate education opportunities and faculty research experiments through its programs. Recent missions include:
Extractions: ASGSB 2004 Annual Meeting Abstracts SEEDEX, Classroom Activities on Seed Development in Microgravity. K. A. Bateman and M.E. Musgrave Biology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 and Department of Plant Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269. During the Collaborative Ukrainian Experiment (CUE) on STS-87, it was found that the inclusion of an outreach project, CUE-TSIPS, in which students could mimic spaceflight experimental procedures in the classroom, was an excellent way to stimulate student interest in space biology research. A new mini-curriculum, LEO then Beyond, provides students with background information about the proposed use of plants in bioregenerative life support systems. The curriculum introduces students to some of the horticultural problems that must be solved in order to grow plants well in microgravity. The new lesson module, called SEEDEX, is designed to accompany an experiment planned to take place on a future Shuttle mission, and provides opportunities for students to track the experiment aboard the STS Orbiter, while participating in classroom experiments that imitate those taking place in microgravity. The experiment involves growth of Brassica rapa seed pods in a tissue culture system and sampling of internal gases surrounding the developing seeds. Students will plant
Collaborative Projects How do collaborative projects impact teaching and learning? How do I findcollaborative projects? Join live webcasts where experts discuss microgravity. http://fc.thompson.k12.co.us/~pdd/collaborative.htm
Extractions: FAX: (970) 613-5089 Collaborative Projects What are collaborative or networked projects? Collaborative projects, also known as networked projects, enable students in separate locations to exchange ideas and information. The use of simple technology such as a computer, modem, e-mail, and printer facilitates the collaboration. Picture This: Students in California, Illinois, Japan, Mexico, and Israel tackled the problems of local water shortages by debating and discussing solutions.
Extractions: A R T I C L E On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at just about 8 a.m. CST, the Space Shuttle Columbia, carrying seven astronauts, broke up over Texas, only a few minutes before its scheduled touchdown. Today, Education World offers resources to help you help your students deal with the Columbia tragedy, and to help them understand the history and goals of the U.S. space program. Included: Online resources to teach kids about the Space Shuttle program and to help them cope with the Columbia accident. On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at just about 8 a.m. CST, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke up over Texas. The Shuttle, carrying astronauts David Brown, Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon, was only a few minutes from its scheduled touchdown at Floridas Kennedy Space Center. Most likely, your students have spent the weekend inundated by news coverage of the event. As always, when national or international tragedies occur, students need an opportunity to discuss the event and to understand its causes and implications. Some students might be wondering whether the Space Shuttle tragedy was a result of terrorist activities. Others might question why men and women risk their lives for space exploration. Your youngest students, those most likely to personalize the accident, might be afraid of additional falling debris from space.
NASAexplores - Express Lessons And Online Resources This is a microgravity environment where the effects of gravity are reduced further demonstrating the value of international collaborative efforts. http://www.nasaexplores.com/search_nav_9_12.php?id=01-002
EC Boosts European Electron Microscopy Research The collaborative activities of the Network will foster innovation and the The training activities will be established in close collaboration with the http://www.physorg.com/news320.html
Extractions: The European Commission has awarded a 10 Million Euro grant to foster the collaboration of European experts in the field of Electron Microscopy. A consortium of 15 leading European laboratories in electron microscopy and the internationally leading manufacturer for high performance instrumentation for life sciences, FEI Electron Optics, are the founding members of a ''Network of Excellence'' for three-dimensional Electron Microscopy. The ''3D-EM'' Network will be coordinated by Prof. A. Engel, Biozentrum Basel, Switzerland. It will provide a European forum operating in various fields of structural research to coordinate research, training activities, research-industry collaboration and the transfer of knowledge in the field of Electron Microscopy.
Solar System Games and student activities reinforce learning concepts, and in Fun Stuff stu Topics include Mars, the ISS, flight, sun storms, microgravity, http://www.wrentham.k12.ma.us/Subjects/Science/Solar System.htm
NASA Nebraska EPSCoR Program AERIAL will include three major collaborative research teams (CRTs) whose nexus is The need to obtain experimental data under microgravity conditions is http://nasa.unomaha.edu/sgep/epscor.htm
Extractions: NASA Nebraska EPSCoR Program The Aeronautics Education, Research, and Industry Alliance (AERIAL) Executive Summary The Aeronautics Education, Research, and Industry Alliance (AERIAL) is AERIAL will enable Nebraska researchers to: (a) continue strengthening their collaborative relationships with NASA Field Centers, Codes, and Enterprises; (b) increase the capacity of higher education throughout Nebraska to invigorate and expand aeronautics research; and (c) expedite the development of aeronautics-related research infrastructure and industry in the state. This multi-institutional alliance will both form the foundation of a new statewide center for aeronautics research and elevate the state's activities in this regard to national prominence and impact. In the past ten years, Nebraska has initiated a series of specific strategies and initiatives, which have directly or indirectly resulted in 42 new or expanded collaborations with NASA; $3,315,000 in non-NASA research funding; and approximately 86 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral assistantships. Like its predecessors, AERIAL will contain specific strategies to support and sustain major, exemplary research activity occurring in the state as well as to nurture promising activities under development by junior researchers.
Extractions: Canada's International Agreements Funding Opportunities for International Research and Training Upcoming Events Related Sites ... How to contact us by Philip Hicks Another example of an impending reform soon to be implemented is provided by the fact that many governmental institutions are poised to become Independent Administrative Institutions (IAIs). These are being relieved of a number of legal restrictions on their operations and funding constraints. For years they have had strict limits placed on their operations and spending wishes, as well as on their human resource policies and other administrative matters. IAIs now are exercising their freedom to use their own budgets as they best see fit, to recruit researchers without regard to parent ministerial constraints, even those from abroad, if this is desired. IAIs are also much more free to send their own researchers abroad, so that they can attend conferences workshops, and the like. They now have independent decision-making power and can exercise their own discretion. These changes are providing Canada with greater opportunities for collaboration than ever before. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) will receive significant publicity and promotion in the Spring of 2002 through the visit to Japan of CIHR's President, Dr. Alan Bernstein. The introduction of CIHR to Japanese counterpart organisations includes an official visit to and presentations made at the Cabinet Office, as well as Dr. Bernstein's participation in a bio-partnering event that the post is deeply involved in putting on at the Embassy. This event should provide an excellent opportunity to strengthen the post's efforts to promote the biomedical research sector through the delivery of the message that Canada has a unique approach to, and expertise in, the management and administration of health-related and biomedical research.
Hawaii Island Economic Development Board microgravity is a condition in which effects of gravity are greatly reduced, As the only collaborative group of its kind that brings together government http://www.hiedb.org/showtext.asp?ArticleID=55&Category=Articles
Science Blog -- NASA research program has been established which activities may result in the research training in multidisciplinary and collaborative activities. http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/archives/D/archnas2178.html
Extractions: (Phone: 703/306-1072) RELEASE: 94-213 AGENCIES FORM JOINT PROGRAM IN PLANT BIOLOGY A joint government research program has been established which activities may result in the development of plants that can withstand drought, unseasonable temperatures, salinity in the soil, and other adverse growth conditions. Supported by NASA and the National Science Foundation, this collaborative program, called the Research Network on Plant Sensory Systems (RNPSS), will foster interactions among scientists that will increase human understanding of how plants sense and respond to various environmental signals, such as light, temperature and gravity. The program includes the awarding of nine science grants totaling more than $5 million over five years. The program also was selected as NASA's ninth Specialized Center of Research and Training (NSCORT), continuing a program dedicated to space life sciences begun in 1990. Plants are vital to humankind's existence. From providing the oxygen we breathe to the foods we eat, plants are a renewable resource upon which our existence depends. The results of the research supported by this joint program will contribute to the long-term health of the environment and humans.
Science Blog -- NASA Also flying on the STS75 mission will be the United States microgravity Payload Life sciences will continue to fund an expanding list of collaborative http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/archives/D/archnas2670.html
Extractions: SPACE SCIENCE Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility Global Geospace Science Gravity Probe-B Offsetting Reduction Explorer Development SIRTF Suborbital Program SOFIA Information Systems Launch Services PLANETARY EXPLORATION Cassini Mars Instruments Mars Surveyor Program Mars Global Surveyor Future Missions Discovery Mars Pathfinder Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous [52.2]
Extractions: Skip Navigation You Are Here ENC Home ENC Features Science Topics Search the Site More Options Don't lose access to ENC's web site! Beginning in August, goENC.com will showcase the best of ENC Online combined with useful new tools to save you time. Take action todaypurchase a school subscription through goENC.com Classroom Calendar Digital Dozen ENC Focus ... Ask ENC Explore online lesson plans, student activities, and teacher learning tools. Find detailed information about thousands of materials for K-12 math and science. Read articles about inquiry, equity, and other key topics for educators and parents. Create your learning plan, read the standards, and find tips for getting grants. Use science topic words to find web sites with lesson plans and activities. Classroom feederwatch This web site, maintained by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for students in grades 5 to 8, has the information and materials for classes to participate in a collaborative bird monitoring project. The project, funded by the National Science Foundation, integrates skills and concepts across the curriculum as students collect information about the abundance and species composition of the birds in their areas.
Extractions: This Article Extract Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited ... Alert me if a correction is posted Services Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to My File Cabinet ... Download to citation manager PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Halpern, J. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA ARTICLE The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (NAS) was established in 1863 by the U.S. Congress. Under the terms of its charter, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, The Academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations
Professor JR Helliwell 1998 External activities. Chairman of the International Union of IndustrialMacromolecular Crystallography Association, collaborative Access Team Adviser, http://spec.ch.man.ac.uk/99stuf/jrh1998.html
Extractions: 'Synchrotron Radiation in the Study of Proteins and Viruses', Physics Department Colloquium, Reading University, 27 January 1998. 'Ultra-high Resolution and Neutron Laue Diffraction Studies of Concanavalin A', UK/Israel Joint Science Research Seminar, Tel Aviv, Israel, 3 February 1998. 'Time-resolved X-ray Laue Diffraction Studies on the Enzyme Hydroxymethylbilane Synthase', The Weizmann Institute, Israel, 5 February 1998. 'The Structural and Biophysical Chemistry of Proteins and Enzymes', University of Graz, Austria, 21 April 1998. 'The Structural and Biophysical Chemistry of Proteins and Enzymes', New Building Dedication Symposium Lecture, University of Toledo, USA, 13 May 1998. 'Protein Crystal Perfection and Bound Solvent', NASA Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, USA, 18 May 1998.
