AMS Teaching Excellence Award Renamed after Edward N. Lorenz
Almost five years after his passing, the AMS is honoring Edward N. Lorenz by renaming the Teaching Excellence Award after...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
U.S. infrastructure overall gets a D+. What grade would you give U.S. weather infrastructure?
This morning’s print edition of the Washington Post contains a piece by Ashley Halsey III entitled U.S. infrastructure gets D-plus...
AMS Programs, Perspectives
For Science and Discovery, Videoconferencing Won't Get It
by J. Marshall Shepherd, AMS President. The full text was posted earlier today on his blog, Still Here and Thinking....
Perspectives
AMS Policy Colloquium: Where Science, Policy, and Communication Collide
by Jen Henderson, Skywarn storm spotter, writer, and grad student at Virginia Tech in Science and Technology Studies. Republished from...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Humanity matches chess skills against The Real World
[This morning, Michael Cunningham provided a burst of comments on recent post. His comments are insightful… and welcome on this...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
What did we know…and when did we know it?
When you live near Washington, DC (a.k.a. the Land of Accusations) and in the early 21st-century (a.k.a. the Age of...
AMS eBooks: No Longer Just Icing on the Cake
One of the growing traditions at the AMS Annual Meeting has been the cake cutting celebration of new books published...
AMS Programs
New NSTA Executive Director Talks Climate Education
Last month, AMS member David L. Evans began as the new executive director of The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA),...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
James Hansen, climate change and the scientist’s duty
Here’s another contributed post from George Leopold… ______________ The role of scientists in a democracy and whether science is slowly...
AMS Lowers Dues for Members in Developing Countries
The AMS Council recently approved a reduction in the cost of membership for those living in countries with developing economies....
