Eli_Meir's blog

Research in many areas of science and engineering is rapidly becoming an exercise in data management and analysis. From astronomy to molecular biology, huge data sets are in.

In the 1920s at the Hawthorne Works factory outside Chicago, some engineers did a series of productivity experiments with the factory workers.

As I wrote about previously, I recently returned from a conference on changing the way biology is taught in U.S. colleges and universities.

In mid-July, NSF sponsored a conference called Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education. They invited several hundred people involved in college biology education to plot out ways of improving biology teaching over the coming decades. There is a bit of hubris in doing this.