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Welcome to the Branson Science Department!

Summer Science Opportunities

COSMOS

From the website: "COSMOS is an intensive four-week summer residential program for students with a demonstrated aptitude for academic and professional careers in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields." Four UC campuses participate.

http://cosmos-ucop.ucdavis.edu/main/overview

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UCSB Research Mentorship Program

"...a hands-on program for highly motivated high school students interested in participating in the conduct of academic research in the social, life or physical sciences."

http://www.summer.ucsb.edu/RMP/rmp.html

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Google Science Fair

From Google: "Have you asked a question today? What did you do with it?
Did it take you somewhere new? Did it bring you here?
The Google Science Fair is an online science competition seeking curious minds from the four corners of the globe. Anybody and everybody between 13 and 18 can enter. All you need is an idea."

http://www.google.com/events/sciencefair/

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Science News

Cracking open the scientific process

from the New York Times Science Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/science/open-science-challenges-journal-tradition-with-web-collaboration.html?ref=science

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Scientists Solve Puzzle of Black Death’s DNA

Biotech and history intersect in this article from the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/science/13plague.html?_r=1&hpw

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A Significant Ozone Hole Is Reported Over the Arctic

An article from the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/science/earth/04ozone.html?ref=science

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Trial Over Earthquake in Italy Puts Focus on Probability and Panic

An article from the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/science/earth/04ozone.html?ref=science

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An Immune System Trained to Kill Cancer

From the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/health/13gene.html?_r=1&hp

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Science Links

Faster than the speed of light!!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/22/faster-than-light-particles-neutrinos?CMP=EMCGT_230911

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Gamers Help Solve Protein Structures

http://fold.it/

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The Scale of the Universe

http://www.primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/scale-of-universe-v1.swf

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Action Bioscience

http://actionbioscience.org/

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Chemical Education Digital Library

Take a look at "Periodic Table Live!"

http://www.chemeddl.org/index.php

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Name that Scientist!

From the New York Times.
How many scientists can you identify?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/09/science/20110809-scientists-quiz.html?ref=science

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Science Department Announcements

Summer Science at Branson
Ecology and Natural History of Marin

Check out our Summer Session

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Marin Science Seminars
Check out the Marin Science Seminars. Click here for a PDF with details.

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Science Schedules

Science Room Schedule
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This schedule shows which rooms in TSC are used by which science teachers during each block.

Science Room Schedule.pdf , 20.39 KB (Last Modified on September 12, 2011 )

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