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Science on The Frontiers: Commentaries on education and research in the service of science literacy

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Science on the Frontiers is a collection of wide-ranging presentations that convey much of the excitement of contemporary science. The authors are the scientists themselves, distinguished investigators and widely recognized authorities in their fields who have received a wide variety of honors including the Nobel Prize. These illustrated lectures were first presented at annual conferences for participants in the Partners In Science program: high school science teachers and their mentors -- college and university scientists. The Partners program provided opportunities for teachers across the country to spend two summers working in research projects on local campuses.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

I. Experiments in Education

• Getting Science from the Closet to the Classroom -John Rigden
• The Ever More Pressing Problem of Science Literacy -Leon Lederman
• The Kindergarten-University Connection -Paul Saltman
• The Evidence Never Lies: Student Detectives in the Laboratory -Lawrence J. Kaplan

II. Inner Space to Outer Space

• From Quarks to the Cosmos -Leon Lederman
• Observing the Early Universe -George Smoot
• The Comet Crash on Jupiter -Eugene Shoemaker
• Ancient Oceans and Ice Sheets on Mars -Robert G. Strom
• The Clementine Mission to the Moon -Eugene Shoemaker
• Cosmic Catastrophes and Planet Earth -Christopher Impey

III. Discovering the Chemistry of Life

• Heavy Metals in Concert with Life -Thomas V. O’Halloran
• Sex, Drugs and Violence in the World of Insects -Jerrold Meinwald
• Clean Fuel from Solar Photochemistry -Harry B. Gray
• Advances in the Application of Array Detectors -M. Bonner Denton

IV. Insights in Biotechnology

• Proteins: Folding, Form and Function -Brian W. Matthews
• The Discovery of RNA Catalysis -Thomas R. Cech
• The Human Genome Project: Implications for the 21st Century -Leroy Hood
• Peeking at the Blueprints: Genes and Modern Biology -David Galas

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