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03/02/2009 Month-long festival celebrates the sciences
The inaugural San Diego Science Festival is slated to include lectures, shows, workshops and activities celebrating science, nature, technology and learning at venues throughout the county this month.

03/01/2009 Conference gives girls up-close look at possible careers in math, science
Maria, 13, an eighth-grader at Madison Middle School in Oceanside, attended a health and medicine workshop on the mouth's unseen bacterial guests at the seventh annual “Expanding Your Horizons” conference targeting middle school girls interested in ex

02/27/2009 A Seed-Stage Investment in the Next Generation of Innovation: San Diego’s Woodstock of Science
As we hurtle headlong toward the second decade of the millennium, the lines between traditional scientific disciplines become blurrier each day.

02/25/2009 In Science and Technology, Efforts to Lure Women Back
Small, innovative return-to-work programs are springing up in other sectors -- specifically in science, engineering and technology.

02/20/2009 San Diego Biotechs Suffer the Pains of Recession
One of the bright spots of San Diego's economy in recent years has been biotech sector. But the local life science industry has caught a cold in this recession.

01/30/2009 Blinding Them With Science
American college freshmen know fewer facts about science than do their Chinese counterparts, according to a new study, but both groups have a comparably poor ability to reason scientifically.

01/30/2009 Mr. and Mrs. Biotech Go to Washington
The mad dash for a jolt from Washington's nearly trillion-dollar booster shot includes several industries -- automakers and bankers come to mind -- well-schooled in the art of going hat in hand to lawmakers. But a few not-so-familiar faces have entered th

01/28/2009 Who will hire the Class of 2009?
With on-campus recruiters in shorter supply, new grads will have to hunt for work

01/26/2009 Elsevier Foundation Grant Will Support Work/Life Balance Programs for Women in Science
The Association for Women in Science (AWIS) has received a three-year grant from the Elsevier Foundation in the amount of $105,000 for a new project: "AWIS Leading Women to Create Their Own Personal Work/Life Balance."

01/25/2009 No More Swinging for the Fences in Biotech
If there was any doubt before the great economic meltdown of 2008, there isn't now: the long-ball era in biotech is over. And emerging in its place is a more efficient -- and less dramatic -- way of funding new drug discoveries.