Sermo Partners with Penn Center for Bioethics to Develop Ethical Guidelines for Market-Based Clinical Informatics

Sermo, the fastest growing online community created by physicians for physicians, has announced a partnership with Arthur Caplan, Ph. D., and the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics, to expand the development of ethical guidelines for Sermo and Sermo's users. Dr. Caplan is the Founding Director of the Center for Bioethics, as well as an author or editor of twenty-five books and over 500 papers in referenced journals of medicine, science, philosophy, bioethics and health policy. Dr. Caplan and the Bioethics Center will also work with Sermo to build an ethics council, overseeing Sermo's efforts on an ongoing basis as it establishes a new field of clinical informatics. Read more at Genetic Engineering News.

Homeroom: How Major Museums and Science Centers Ignite Student Interest in Research

As budgets tighten and both informal science venues and academic researchers compete for limited dollars, the challenge is to develop collaborations that sustain and stimulate ideas at the nexus of research, education, and outreach.

Such partnerships are already underway in major museums and science centers around the United States. Two weeks ago here in Philadelphia, the school district and its partner, the Franklin Institute, officially marked the opening of the Science Leadership Academy, a new magnet high school, with a ribbon cutting ceremony and program on September 28, 2006, at 10 a.m.

This special admission school offers students a college preparatory curriculum with a focus on science, technology, mathematics and entrepreneurship. Students learn in a project-based environment where the core values of inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation and reflection are emphasized in all classes.

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York is not partnered with any one high school but there are several programs to engage the scientific interests of students and the public city-wide. One program in particular, the High School Science Research Program (HSSRP), was developed as a practicum for New York City students interested in pursuing a career in science. In the program HSSRP uses graduate students to ...

How Invisibility Cloaks Work


Using optical-camouflage technology developed by scientists at the University of Tokyo, an invisibility cloak - - the stuff of Harry Potter movies - - is actually a reality. Physicists there have revealed a super high-tech invisibility device. Learn more.