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Science literacy News

May 20, 2013

PPPL’s Christopher Cane Has Winning Photo In Art of Science Competition

By Jeanne Jackson DeVoe
PPPL Webmaster Chris Cane and Paul Csogi, former Webmaster for the Lewis Center for the Arts, came up with this design depicting their two websites. PPPL’s website is at the top left.
PPPL’s Webmaster Christopher Cane was one of the winners in this year’s Art of Science competition at Princeton University, with “Web of art and science,” a flower-like design put together with a former Princeton University webmaster colleague depicting the PPPL and the Lewis Center for the Arts websites.
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May 13, 2013

An Invitation for Family Fun at PPPL's Open House on June 1

By Jeanne Jackson DeVoe

An Invitation for Family Fun at PPPL’s Open House on June 1

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April 8, 2013

Conference Challenges Girls To Enter Science & Technology Fields

By Jeanne Jackson DeVoe
A view from above of the Young Women’s Conference at Princeton University’s Frick Chemistry Laboratory, which was attended by 360 seventh to tenth graders from New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Some 360 young women from seventh to tenth grade spent the day immersed in science and technology at the Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Lab's Young Women’s Conference on March 22 at Princeton University.

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Science literacy Past Events

April 18, 2013, 12:00pm to 1:30pm
SPECIAL EARTH DAY COLLOQUIUM: How Global Warming Is Heating Things Up at Work
January 5, 2013, 9:30am
SCIENCE ON SATURDAY- “The Large Hadron Collider: big science for big questions"
March 10, 2012, 9:30am
"ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY", Dr. Michael Norman, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
February 18, 2012, 9:30am
"USING LASERS TO CONTROL AND PROBE THE BRAIN", Prof. Adam Cohen, Department of Physics, Harvard University

Science literacy Press Releases

February 27, 2012

Princeton High School and Grover Middle School Win Top Prizes at Regional Science Bowls

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