A new Temple University program, Transition to Teaching, is taking mid-career science and math professionals and offering them an accelerated program to attain their teaching certificate.
The program is funded through a five-year federal grant and had its first class of graduates in July. The professionals can pursue their teaching certificate while keeping their day job. The goal is for the new teachers to teach middle school students.
Learn more about the program and a recent biochemist slated to start teaching middle school this August.
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At a recent diesel engine conference sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, researchers from the University of Wisconsin presented their work on an engine that runs on a mix of diesel and gasoline with fewer emissions and more fuel-efficiency than conventional engines.
The obvious potential for the new engines would be the trucking industry, but lead engineer Rolf Reitz believes that the low-pressure fuel injection systems could work in passenger vehicles as well. Read article
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At Brown University’s Center for Biomedical Engineering, a team of scientists is working on developing novel ways of forming individual cells into living tissues.
The process combined with stem-cell technology could offer future potential in curing debilitating diseases. The research team is led by Jeffrey R. Morgan. Read more about the tissue-engineering
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