In January 2004, however, Research and Education Minister Edelgard Bulmahn, a member of the governing Social Democrats, announced that she wanted to fund a program to create a handful of world-class universities that would attract students and researchers from around the globe ( Science, 11 June 2004, p.1579).
Since 2007, the Mayo High School in Rochester, Minn., has used a digital globe in earth science lessons.
My work at the Lab focuses on engaging people across the globe in science, birds, and all of the amazing things that the Macaulay Library does.
Smith also emphasised the importance of sampling the participants in a way that would allow comparisons of findings across the globe in science education.
For centuries, outer space has been influencing thousands of people around the globe, from science fiction writers to modern day artists, resulting in realistic depictions of the cosmos or exaggerated fantasies of alien landscapes.
Whether the digital globe is used to teach earth sciences and astronomy or social sciences, the display itself generally represents Earth (or another astronomical body).
Digital globes have obvious relevance to earth sciences and astronomy.
They call for governments across the globe to support science, science education at universities, and accessibility for women and other groups such as the disabled, ethnic minorities, and indigenous peoples.
The market for externally projected globes — e.g., Science on a Sphere, the popular devices installed at around 85 institutional locations — is limited by cost, the fixed nature of the installation and the fact that a viewer who gets too close may find herself contemplating one of the memorable descriptions of the Ottoman ruler Suleiman the Magnificent, "the shadow of God on Earth".
This has increasingly been an urgent need as current batch systems may be distributed among dozens of sites around the globe like Open Science Grid.
Cramster is a global study community that helps students across the globe understand math, science, and engineering.
