They raised concerns about a lack of promotion of science and technology subjects at school, leading to a low uptake of computer science and technology courses by university students.
"The Maule earthquake will arguably become one of the, if not the most important, great earthquakes yet studied, " said Ben Brooks of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii.
The Association of University Teachers (AUT) believes that cuts being considered by the school of medicine at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London will damage the quality of teaching.
It may not have the ring of Harvard Business School, but Hong Kong University of Science and Technology's M.
"The number of collapsed buildings this time is less, and most are old houses that were built long before, " added Wang Ruheng, dean of the school of civil engineering and architecture at Southwest University of Science and Technology in the city of Mianyang, in Sichuan province.
For Ben King, an associate professor of chemistry at the school, one of the challenges in making the connection between science and technology is the gulf in communication between people.
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The initiative reinforces an agreement signed earlier this year between UNESCO and GEMS Education to strengthen and promote the advancement of girls in mathematics, science and technology through the training of teachers and school leaders, initially in Lesotho and Kenya.
Designed to spark the interest of middle and high-school girls in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subjects, the Women in STEM Speakers Bureau was launched by the White House Council on Women and Girls and Office of Science and Technology Policy in September of last year.
The FT's number one-ranked EMBA is taught jointly by Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Hong Kong's University of Science and Technology.
Wattendorf, a senior at Northern Virginia's super-selective Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, stood before prospective members of its Black Student Union in the fall and introduced himself as the club's president.
It would use taxpayer funds to create a charter school to equip the children of thatWashington exurb with enhanced skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.
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Ensuring that young people learn the importance of science, technology, engineering, and math while in school is crucial to maintaining our culture of innovation, but so is exposing youth to the types of career opportunities available in these and other high-growth fields.
After earning an undergraduate and a masters degree in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Maeda headed to art school in Japan at Tsukuba University Institute of Art and Design, obtaining a PhD in graphic design.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, ranked 20th, is Asia's highest placed school.
But new technology developed by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science could finally help solve the problem.
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In Kenya and Lesotho, the Varkey GEMS Foundation is working with UNESCO on gender-sensiotive teacher training with the aim of encouraging more girls to attend school, and increase their participation in mathematics, science and technology education.
The PAEMST award recognizes outstanding primary-school math and science teachers and is administered by the National Science Foundation on behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
According to the American Chemical Society, nearly 100% of past winners in the prestigious Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science, and Technology (for high School students) play one or more musical instruments (The Midland Chemist (American Chemical Society) Vol. 42, No.1, Feb. 2005).
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