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The eminent physicist Stephen Hawking died on March 14, 2018, at the age of 76, according to The New York Times (March 14, 2018). He was, as the Times's obituary explains, "his generation's leader in exploring gravity and the properties of black holes, the bottomless…
Duane Jeffery, a former member of NCSE's board of directors, a member of its advisory council, and professor emeritus of biology at Brigham Young University, is to be honored with the National Science Teachers Association's Presidential Citation for 2018, according to a March 13, 2018, press…
The distinguished biologist John Sulston died on March 6, 2018, at the age of 75, according to the Guardian (March 9, 2018). Sulston shared the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz for their work on the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans…
NCSE's annual report for 2017 is now available (PDF) on NCSE's website. The report briefly reviews recent challenges to the integrity of science education, discusses the national expansion of the Science Booster Club and the new initiatives planned by the NCSEteach program, and ends with a…
One of NCSE’s most important jobs is keeping an eye on statehouses across the country for the introduction of bills that would allow, encourage, or even require teachers to teach scientifically inaccurate information in their science classrooms. On average, between half a dozen and a dozen such…
NCSE is seeking to hire a Director of Communications. The full-time position involves providing the strategic vision for NCSE's external communications and enhancing the organization's effectiveness by promoting its work to diverse audiences, including members, the media, education and…
NCSE bids farewell to Robert Luhn, who joined NCSE as its first Director of Communication in 2008. Bringing his decades of expertise as a technology and environmental journalist to the job, Luhn was instrumental in raising NCSE's profile among traditional and new media and in connecting…
NCSE was featured in Climate Fwd: — The New York Times's e-newsletter "with stories and insights about climate change" — for February 21, 2018: "climate change is presented as a controversial subject in a significant number of American classrooms, according to research from the National…
NCSE is delighted to congratulate Michael E. Mann on his selection to receive the 2018 Public Engagement with Science Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in recognition of his "tireless efforts to communicate the science of climate change to the media, public[,] and…