Editor’s note: “Avatar“, a film by former NASA Advisory Committee member James Cameron, will debut across the planet on 18 December. Widely hailed as “ground breaking” the film may well […]
Education and Outreach
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Astrobiology Teachers Academy
NAI’s New York Center for Astrobiology held its first Teachers Academy at RPI on July 13-16, 2009. Nine high school science teachers from four local school districts collaborated with six […]
Posted inEducation and Outreach, Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments
Teachers from Around the World Examine Life in Extreme Environments
This summer, sixteen teachers from around the world convened with NAI’s team at Montana State University for a week-long class called “Examining Life in Extreme Environments: Insights into Early Earth […]
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Two Post-doc Positions in Astrobiology Available at JPL, Caltech
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Postdoctoral Scholars Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) invites applicants to apply for two postdoctoral research positions at JPL in the Planetary Science […]
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NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) Program
NASA announces a call for graduate fellowship proposals to the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) program for the 2010-2011 academic year. This call for fellowship proposals solicits applications […]
Posted inConferences and Meetings, Education and Outreach
Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon) 2010
Taellberg, Sweden – June 14-18, 2010: In 2010, AbGradCon, the foremost astrobiology meeting for early-career researchers, will be held in Europe for the first time in its history. Graduate students […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Education and Outreach
Astrobiology Teachers Academy
NAI’s New York Center for Astrobiology held its first Teachers Academy at RPI on July 13-16, 2009. Nine high school science teachers from four local school districts collaborated with six […]
Posted inEducation and Outreach, Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments
Teachers from Around the World Examine Life in Extreme Environments
This summer, sixteen teachers from around the world convened with NAI’s team at Montana State University for a weeklong class called “Examining Life in Extreme Environments: Insights into Early Earth […]
Posted inEducation and Outreach
US to Australia Fellowship Program: Deadline October 31
Applications for the US to Australia Fellowship Program close on October 31st. The program offers fellowships of up to AU$25,000 to American researchers or students wishing to undertake advanced research […]
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Report on the Meeting of the First Early-Career Astrobiology Research Focus Group (RFG)
In July a group of early-career astrobiologists (graduate students and postdocs) spent two days engaged in intensive brainstorming at the first ever Early-Career Astrobiology Research Focus Group (RFG). The goal […]