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2017
November 9, 2017
The importance of teaching problem-solving skills is the focus of this ASCD SmartBrief contributed by Greg Bartus at CIESE, Stevens Institute of Technology.
March 20, 2017
Stevens Institute of Technology and CIESE efforts highlighted in New Jersey Business article, "State is Progressive in Promoting STEM."
2016
Winter, 2016
A short history and overview of CIESE was featured in The Stevens Indicator article, “Teaching Excellence, STEM to Stern” It may be found on p.18-19 of the full issue.
2015
September 1, 2015
CIESE WaterBotics® program was highlighted in Erin Delmore's article in NJTVNEWS, "WaterBotics Program Introduces Kids to Science"
August 17, 2015
CIESE WaterBotics® program was featured in the Boys and Girls Club of Monmouth County blog, "Underwater Robots Making a Splash at the Boys & Girls Clubs"
August 16, 2015
CIESE WaterBotics® summer engineering design academy for Hoboken students was featured in the Hoboken Reporter, "Grade schoolers Study WaterBotics"
August 6, 2015
CIESE WaterBotics® program’s outreach is noted in ASEE First Bell bulletin, "Aquabots camp promotes science, math learning"
August 5, 2015
CIESE WaterBotics® program was highlighted in ABC - Action News, Philadelphia, PA, "Tupperware and Legos Turned into Robots"
August 4, 2015
CIESE PISA2 program was featured in Stevens University News, "Educators Learn to Use Stevens’ Solar Home as a STEM Teaching Tool"
July 20, 29015
CIESE WaterBotics® program was highlighted in Courtney Kane's article in Fios1news.com, "Summer campers take robots for a dip at Clifton Boys & Girls club"
July 17, 2015
CIESE WaterBotics® program was highlighted in Maggie Katz's article in NorthJersey.com, "Waterbotics in Clifton perfect for summer"
June 11, 2015
CIESE-led activities of the Hoboken Stem-A-thon was featured in an editorial to the Hoboken Reporter "Hoboken's first ever STEM-a-thon at Stevens Institute of Technology"
June 11, 2015
CIESE Director Arthur Camins’ commentary was featured in the Education Week blog, Leadership 360 by Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers, "What Is This Thing Called STEM?"
June 4, 2015
CIESE-led activities of the Hoboken Stem-A-thon was featured in hMag, "Stevens Hosts Hoboken 6th Graders for “STEM-a-thon"
May 27, 2015
CIESE WaterBotics® program was featured in Stevens University News, "WaterBotics® STEM Curriculum Coming to 10 NJ-based Boys & Girls Clubs, via Walmart Support and Stevens Partnership"
May 18, 2015
CIESE WaterBotics® program received a Facilitator’s Choice award in the NSF 2015 Video Showcase, "WaterBotics: Dive into Engineering Design"
May 7, 2015
CIESE WaterBotics® program was featured in Stevens University News, "WaterBotics® STEM Curriculum Coming to 10 NJ-based Boys & Girls Clubs, via Walmart Support and Stevens Partnership"
April 20, 2015
CIESE Director Arthur Camins’ commentary in the Washington Post online is featured in The Answer Sheet by Valerie Strauss, "What the future of science education should look like"
March 12, 2015
CIESE Director Arthur Camins’ commentary in the Washington Post online is featured in The Answer Sheet by Valerie Strauss, "Why reports of progress on No Child Left Behind rewrite may not be a good sign"
February 26, 2015
February 23, 2015
CIESE was featured in Stevens NewsPoints, “Teaching Excellence, STEM to Stern"
February 12, 2015
CIESE Director Arthur Camins’ commentary in the Washington Post online is featured in The Answer Sheet by Valerie Strauss, "What’s the purpose of education in the 21st century?"
January 7, 2015
CIESE WaterBotics® was featured in new national engineering education publication. To purchase this new volume go to: http://www.corwin.com/books/Book241762
2014
November 19, 2014
CIESE Director Arthur Camins’ commentary in the Washington Post online is featured in The Answer Sheet by Valerie Strauss, "How to reframe the education reform debate"
October 23, 2014
CIESE WaterBotics program was honored by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame, “New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Honors Stevens Faculty, Graduate Students and WaterBotics®"
July 28, 2014
CIESE WaterBotics program was highlighted in ASEE First Bell bulletin, "New Jersey Students Learn STEM Concepts At Water Robotics Camp"
July 24, 2014
CIESE WaterBotics program was featured in Alan Skontra's article in New Jersey Tech Weekly, "Hoboken Students Learn STEM Concepts at Stevens Water Robotics Camp"
July 23, 2014
CIESE WaterBotics program was featured in Stevens University News, "WaterBotics Summer Camp Returns to Stevens to Help Groom Next Generation of Engineers"
July 22, 2014
CIESE Director Arthur Camins’ article is featured in Education Week, "Next Steps for the Next Generation Science Standards"
July 17, 2014
CIESE WaterBotics program was featured in Amanda Eisenberg's article in The Jersey Journal, "Hoboken middle school students build robots, learn programming"
June 2, 2014
CIESE Director Arthur Camins’ article is featured in Huffington Post, "Arguing for Science Literacy"
May 18, 2014
CIESE was featured in Dean DeChiaro's article in the Hoboken Reporter.com, "Toxic popcorn"
May 1, 2014
CIESE Director Arthur Camins’ commentary in the Washington Post online is featured in The Answer Sheet by Valerie Strauss, "What if we approached testing this way?"
March 11, 2014
CIESE PISA2 program was featured in Daniel Nee's article in The Brick Patch, "Brick Teachers Partner With Stevens Institute to Enrich Science Lessons"
January 16, 2014
CIESE PISA2 program was featured in Felix Alarcon's article in The Jersey Journal, "Bayonne teachers 'back-to-school' program paying off for students"
2013
November 30 , 2013
CIESE Director Arthur Camins’ commentary in the Washington Post online is featured in The Answer Sheet by Valerie Strauss, "How thinking like an engineer can help school reform"
October 10, 2013
CIESE Director Arthur Camins’ article is featured in Huffington Post, "Elementary School Children Need More Time to Learn"
June 26, 2013
CIESE Bayer program was featured in Stevens University News, “Stevens Helps 500 Budding Astronauts Have a Blast at Bayer’s Alka-Seltzer® Rocket Contest at Liberty Science Center"
June 13, 2013
Stevens/Bayer collaboration on the Alka Seltzer project was featured on News 12 New Jersey, "Future rocket scientists gather at Liberty Science Center"
June 10, 2013
CIESE Bayer program was featured in Rafal Rogoze's article in the Jersey Journal, "Team of Bayonne grammar school students wins statewide Alka-Seltzer rocket contest held at LSC"
June 10, 2013
CIESE Bayer program was featured in Rafal Rogoze's article in the Jersey Journal, "Rocket launch contest at Liberty Science Center draws hundreds"
June 10, 2013
CIESE Bayer program was highlighted in ASEE First Bell bulletin, "Elementary School Students Compete in Rocket Launch Contest At Liberty Science Center on Saturday "
June 4, 2013
CIESE Director Arthur Camins’ commentary in the Phi Delta Kappa Internation online blog is featured in Learning on the EDge, "Which road will we choose?"
May, 2013
CIESE STEAM project is highlighted in Hoboken Board of Education's newsletter, “Art-O-Motion Project”
April 2, 2013
Commentary by CIESE Director, Arthur Camins, is featured in Education Week, "3 Reasons to Like the New Science Standards" Vol. 32, Issue 27, Pages 22-23, 25
March 27, 2013
CIESE projects are highlighted in Education Week, “Engineering Building a Foundation in K-12 Curricula” Vol. 32, Issue 26, Pages 1,18-19
February 17, 2013
CIESE Director Arthur Camins’ commentary in the Washington Post online is featured in The Answer Sheet by Valerie Strauss, "The problem with our 'first in the world' education obsession"
January 22, 2013
CIESE Director Arthur Camins’ commentary in the Washington Post online is featured in The Answer Sheet by Valerie Strauss, "Where's the 'collective action' in Obama education Policy?"
2012
December 3, 2012
CIESE C-TEAMS project was highlighted in Bryan Wassel's column in NorthJersey.com, “Paramus students analyze moon rocks”
November 30, 2012
CIESE NJ Math Science Partnership program, C-TEAMS, was featured in the AAAS Project 2061 Connections Newsletter, "New Jersey Teachers Focus on Science Assessment"
November 2012
CIESE WaterBotics program was featured in Carol Milano's ASME article, “Underwater LEGOs Train Young Scientists"
September 25, 2012
CIESE WaterBotics program was highlighted in ASEE First Bell bulletin, "Stevens Institute Of Technology Summer Engineering Program Spreads To Other States"
August 2012
CIESE WaterBotics program was featured in Stevens NewsPoints, “WaterBotics Summer Camp"
August 16, 2012
CIESE WaterBotics program was featured on WABC-TV Channel 7 Eyewitness News,"Underwater robots part of summer program"
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August 14, 2012
CIESE WaterBotics program was used at a camp at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, "Aquabots at the University of Kentucky "
August 13, 2012
CIESE WaterBotics program was featured on News 12 New Jersey, "Stevens Institute of Technology: WaterBotics Camp"
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August 8, 2012
CIESE Director Arthur Camins’ commentary in the Washington Post online is featured in The Answer Sheet by Valerie Strauss, "Three core values of science, engineering and how ed reform contradicts them"
August 3, 2012
CIESE WaterBotics program was featured in Travis Fedschun's article in the Jersey Journal, "At Stevens, LEGO blocks build middle-schoolers’ excitement for science, engineering"
August 2, 2012
CIESE WaterBotics program was featured in Travis Fedschun's article in the Jersey Journal, "WaterBotics program at Stevens Institute of Technology engages young students in science"
July 2012
CIESE PISA2 program was highlighted in the July National Center for Technological Literacy, Museum of Science Newsletter, “Promising Research Involves Engineering is Elementary”
July 6, 2012
CIESE Director Arthur Camins’ commentary in the Washington Post online is featured in The Answer Sheet by Valerie Strauss, "The difference between live and taped lectures"
June 19, 2012
CIESE was featured in the Cranford Chronicle, “Cranford's Hillside Avenue School students make a lunar landing "
June 19, 2012
CIESE was featured in Stevens News, “Stevens’ Placement of USA Today Article on WaterBotics Program Wins Top Prize from New Jersey Public Relations Society of America"
May 23, 2012
Arthur Camins was featured in Education Week Commentary, “New Science Standards: Bound for Glory, or Running Behind?"
March 6, 2012
CIESE PISA2 program was featured on WABC-TV Channel 7 Eyewitness News, "Engineering class looks to spark interest"
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February 28, 2012
Arthur Camins was featured in Anthony Cody's Education Week Teacher Blog, Living in Dialogue, “Why are Education Innovations Always Slip Slidin' Away"
February 21, 2012
Arthur Camins interview on Education Talk Radio, “Engineering Ed in grades 3-8"
February 21, 2012
Beth McGrath was featured in Stevens News, “Featured Expert on Today's News"
February 13, 2012
CIESE was featured in Stevens News, “National Engineers Week is Feb. 19-25: Stevens Pioneers National Movement to Bring Engineering to K-12 Schools"
January 27, 2012
Brian Blackmore of CIESE was featured in The Stute, “Stevens Rotaract reaches out to Charter School students”
January 2012
CIESE Executive Director was cited in Mary Lord's article in Prism Magazine, “A deeper partnership”
2011
December 16, 2011
CIESE was featured in Stevens News, “Stevens Helps NJ Middle Schools Integrate Art and Engineering Lessons”
October 17, 2011
CIESE names a new Director
October 31, 2011
Article co-written by CIESE Director Arthur Camins and Sheldon H. Berman is featured in Education Week “A Better Turnaround Strategy”
August 30, 2011
CIESE was featured in Dan Vergano's article in USA Today Tech, “Robots invade scince class ”
August 5, 2011
CIESE was featured in Hoboken Progress, “Stevens helps kids learn about science through underwater robotics ”
July 29, 2011
CIESE was featured in Stevens News, “The Summer of CIESE ”
July 25, 2011
CIESE was featured in Office of Academic Communications & Assessment, “Exploring Science through Underwater Robotics”
May 3, 2011
CIESE was featured in the Hoboken Patch, “Hudson County Legislators Recognize Stevens Institute”
April 10, 2011
CIESE was featured in National Center for Technological Literacy, “NCTL Partner at Stevens Institute Receives Presidential Award”
April 2011
CIESE C-TEAMS project was highlighted in the April Secaucus Public Schoold District Newsletter, “Grade 1 "C-Team Studies Life Cycles” Volume II: Issue 8: Page 3
February 25, 2011
CIESE was featured in Office of Academic Communications & Assessment, “CIESE Executive Director Beth McGrath Brigtens America's Future in STEM ”
February 7, 2011
CIESE was featured in Office of Academic Communications & Assessment, “Stevens CIESE Executive Director Beth McGrath Accepts Presidental Award”
January 27, 2011
CIESE was featured in Brett Wilshe's article in NJ.com, “Senator Menendez congratulates Stevens Institute on presidential award”
January 26, 2011
CIESE was highlighted in The Research & Development Council of New Jersey's News Alerts, “The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education at Stevens to Receive Presidential Award”
January 24, 2011
CIESE Presidential award was featured in NJ.com, "Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education to Receive Presidential Award from the White House"
CIESE was highlighted in the National Science Foundation press release, "President and NSF Spotlight Mentors Who Inspire America's Next Generation of Scientist"
January 21, 2011
The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education has been awarded the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) in recognition of their expertise, encouragement, and mentoring of teachers and students in science and engineering—particularly those who belong to groups that are underrepresented in those fields. CIESE will be honored with this award at a ceremony at the White House.
January 2011
CIESE PISA2 program was highlighted in Bayonne Board of Education District Highlights, “Woodrow Wilson School PISA”.
2010
December 29, 2010
CIESE PISA2 program, was featured on WABC-TV Channel 7 Eyewitness News, "Jersey City students learn rocket science"
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December 16, 2010
CIESE Executive Director, Beth McGrath is cited in Forbes.com, "Stevens Institute of Technology Ranks in Forbes top 20 "
November 12, 2010
CIESE PISA2 program was featured in Leslie Brody's article in The Record, "Lessons shaped to get students on right track"
October 27, 2010
ASEE First Bell reports on eSchool News article in which CIESE Executive Director, Beth McGrath is cited, "Study Finds Uncertainty Around National K-12 Engineering Standards".
October 25, 2010
Beth McGrath, is cited in Jenna Zwang's eSchool News article “Study points to uncertainty of K-12 engineering standards”
October 15, 2010
CIESE PISA2 program was featured in the Hoboken Press, "Stevens Institute of Technology launches statewide initiative"
October 10, 2010
CIESE PISA2 program was featured in Leslie Brody's article in The Record, "Grant to aid science teachers"
October 5, 2010
CIESE PISA2 program was featured in Katie Colaneri's article in The Jersey Journal, "Hands-on, minds on: Hudson County schools show off new statewide science initiative in Hoboken"
October 5, 2010
CIESE PISA2 program was featured in the Hoboken Reporter, "Rep. Sires helps celebrate science at Stevens"
October 5, 2010
CIESE PISA2 program was featured in Clair Moses' article in the Hoboken Patch, "Congressman Sires celebrates grant to improve sciences for Hudson County teachers"
September 20, 2010
NJTEA Update #8 “NJTEA and Stevens Institute of Technology Collaborate on the SAGE Project, offer Free hands on Professional Development Workshops, Classroom Materials and $50 Stipends"
September 16, 2010
CIESE Collaborative Projects are highlighted in Edutopia's Back-to-School Guide, “Contribute to Science”
September 2010
CIESE CTEAMS was highlighted in the Earth Science links section of the NJSTA September 2010 Newsletter, "The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education"
August 26, 2010
CIESE Honeywell project was highlight in Honeywell's Online Newsletter, "Student Innovation Day brings the Classroom to Life"
August 11, 2010
CIESE program participant, Marlene Aviles has been elected as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) K-12 representative
August 10, 2010
CIESE Projects, in particular the SAGE Program was highlighted in the Indiana Tech Flash Summer Issue
August 10, 2010
CIESE CTEAMS program was featured in Anna Yukhananov's article in the Jersey Journal, "Stevens Institute hosts intensive workshop in math and science teaching for 70 teachers from 19 districts, including Bayonne, Jersey City, Union City, Secaucus, Weehawken"
August 10, 2010
CIESE CTEAMS was highlighted in ASEE First Bell bulletin, "Stevens Institute Hosts STEM Workshop for Area Teachers"
August 9, 2010
CIESE CTEAMS program was featured in Anna Yukhananov's article in the Jersey Journal, "Hoboken's Stevens Institute of Technology gets $1.7 million to train teachers in math and science"
August 5, 2010
CIESE CTEAMS program was featured in Mel Fabrikant's article in the Paramus Post, "Stevens Institute of Technology Awarded NJ Department of Education Mathematics and Sciences Partnership Program"
August 5, 2010
CIESE CTEAMS program was featured in the Hudson Reporter, "Stevens grant may help various local schools"
August 5, 2010
CIESE CTEAMS program was featured in Bryan Wassel's article in the Jersey Journal, "Teachers to go deep into science"
August 1, 2010
CIESE SAGE program was highlighted in ASEE article that appeared in the eGFI newsletter, "Creative Destruction - Web Resource: K-12 Engineering Projects from Stevens Institute of Tech"
June 22, 2010
CIESE PISA2 program was highlighted in ASEE First Bell bulletin, "STEM Program Seeks To Foster Skills In Creativity Innovation"
June 19, 2010
CIESE PISA2 program was highlighted in David Karas' article in the Trenton Times, “Princeton takes on the sciences”
June 11, 2010
CIESE PISA2 program was featured in the Jersey Journal, "Stevens gets $1.5 million to sharpen grade-school teachers' skills"
February 18, 2010
CIESE program participant recognized for her MSP-PISA teacher training classroom strategies, in the THE Journal, "Making the Connections"
January 12, 2010
CIESE PISA project was awarded ASEE's Best Practices Panel for 2010
2009
December 31, 2009
CIESE Underwater Robotic's program was highlighted in Observer Reporter, "Academy students embracing engineering"
December 9, 2009
CIESE was featured in the Fall 2009 Stevens Review, "CIESE Helps Educate Tomorrow's Engineers"
November 12, 2009
CIESE NSF ITEST Scale-Up Grant Award was highlighted in the ITEST Learning Resource Center, November 2009 Community Update.
October 4, 2009
CIESE was featured in Stevens institutional advertising in the Star Ledger, "Fueling New Jersey's Economic Engine Through STEM Education"
September 2009
The Engineering Our Future NJ program as well as three research papers reporting on CIESE engineering education research were cited in the newly released publication by the National Academy of Engineering, "Engineering in K-12 Education: Understanding the Status and Improving the Prospects" (2009, National Academies Press, Washington D.C.).
August 2009
NSTA Blogs - Early Years Blog: CIESE projects "Bucket Buddies" and "Square of Life" are highlighted in an article "Citizen science: collaborative projects for teachers and their class."
July 21, 2009
CIESE MSP PISA project is highlighted on Cablevision News
July 16, 2009
CIESE-led program, Honeywell Teachers for the 21st Century, was featured on WABC-TV Channel 7 Eyewitness News, "Learning new classroom tricks"
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July 1, 2009
CIESE BUILD IT Underwater Robotics’ competition was featured on Live Science.com, "Boat-'Bots for Brainiacs: LEGO Subs Launch Young Engineers"
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June 5, 2009
CIESE BUILD IT Underwater Robotics’ competition was featured in Stevens Undergraduate Admissions Blog, "Build IT"
June 4, 2009
CIESE BUILD IT Underwater Robotics’ competition was featured on WMBC-TV News
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CIESE BUILD IT Underwater Robotics’ competition was featured on SciTimes Video
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CIESE classroom engineering activity was featured in the ASEE Go Engineering Newsletter, “Prevent Shore Erosion”
May 14, 2009
CIESE SAGE project was highlighted in the Advertiser-News (North), "Three High Point technology teachers receive awards"
May 6, 2009
CIESE Bucket Buddies project was highlighted in the Springfield Reporter, VT, "Bucket Buddies Look for Life in Vermont's Ponds"
April 29, 2009
CIESE PISA Program was highlighted in Bayonne's Community News, "Kathleen Jorgensen named Harris' Teacher of the Year"
April 2009
CIESE PISA Program was featured in Bayonne's District Highlights, "PISA Program at Henry E. Harris School"
Angela Kadian, fifth grade teacher at Woodrow Wilson School in Bayonne, NJ and participant in CIESE’s Partnership to Improve Student Achievement program, is a recipient of the NJ Technology Education Association 2009 Innovative Technology Educator Award. This award, sponsored by the Martinson Family Foundation, recognizes extraordinary contributions and performance by educators with an unrestricted cash award of $10,000 to each honoree. Angela's award-winning teaching unit is entitled "Creating and Enhancing Technologies that Benefit the Planet" and it is composed of multiple science/technology lessons and activities that concentrate on sustainability and the role that engineers play in protecting, preserving, and improving our environment.
Dan Fagan, a CIESE Partnership to Improve Student Achievement participant and third grade classroom teacher at Wallace School inHoboken, NJ, has been selected to serve as the elementary representative on the Best Practices Panel at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2009 Annual Conference. Dan’s work exemplifies how a classroom teacher can successfully integrate engineering activities into the existing science curriculum.
February 2009
CIESE collaborative projects highlighted in "The Math Forum Internet News"
January 2009
CIESE has been chosen as Drexel Internet Mathematics Library, "The Math Forum Hot Spot" for the Month of January 2009
CIESE collaboration with IEARN's Four Rivers, One World project is highlighted in the "January 2009 issue of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's Education Update"
2008
December 16, 2008
CIESE Curriculum and Professional Development Specialist, Jason Sayres, Boiling Point Project, is featured in ASEE's Go Engineering, "Remove Pollutants from Water"
October 29, 2008
CIESE Sr. Curriculum & Professional Development Specialist, Carol Shields, is featured in the Bayonne Community News, "Pigeon Walk"
October 2008
CIESE work with Honeywell and Jersey City teachers is discussed in article an on Honeywell in the October 2008 issue of the New Jersey Business, "Honeywell International"
CIESE Sr. Curriculum & Professional Development Specialist, Carol Shields, is featured in the Bayonne Community News, "Woodrow Wilson students join environmental study"
September 25, 2008
CIESE Sr. Curriculum & Professional Development Specialist, Carol Shields, is featured with Kathleen Temple of Wallace School in Cornell’s Celebrate Urban Birds, “Come Fly With Me: Urban Birds of Hoboken” Wallace Exhibit Opens on Oct. 19, With Artists Studio Tour
September 2008
CIESE programs was featured in Stevens 2005-2007 Annual Report, "Engineering Turns on K-12 Students"
August 29, 2008
CIESE Build IT program was featured in Sentinel, North/South Brunswick, "Students 'ship' off to Stevens Institute for robotics workshop"
August 13, 2008
CIESE was highlighted in Edutopia: Project Learning, "Start Me Up: Project-Learning Primers"
July 31, 2008
CIESE Honeywell program was featured by ASEE, "New Jersey technical college to offer STEM training for teachers"
CIESE Honeywell program was featured in the Bayonne Community News, "Catching up in Math & Science. Honeywell and Stevens Tech hold workshop for teachers"
July 30, 2008
CIESE Honeywell program was highlighted in The Teaneck Suburbanite, "No vacation for three Teaneck teachers"
July 18, 2008
CIESE programs were highlighted in The Stute, "Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education"
July 11, 2008
CIESE Honeywell Teachers for the 21st Century was featured on WMBC-TV News
July 11, 2008
CIESE Honeywell program was featured in The Jersey Journal, "Teachers become students at Stevens"
July 9, 2008
CIESE Honeywell Teachers for the 21st Century was featured on WCBC-News 4 New York
July 2008
Engineering Our Future NJ is discussed in Article, "Advancing Engineering Education in P-12 Classrooms"
July 2008
CIESE Sr. Curriculum & Professional Development Specialist, Carol Shields, is featured with Kathleen Temple of Wallace School in Cornell’s Celebrate Urban Birds, “Community Partners: Hoboken Museum and Wallace Primary School”
June 6, 2008
CIESE Honeywell program was highlighted in The Jersey Journal, "Winning Strategies"
June 2, 2008
CIESE staff member Diane Carluccio is highlighted in the Edutopia.com article, “Winning Equation: How Technology Can Help Save Math Education”
May 16, 2008
CIESE ITEST Build IT program was highlighted in the MyCentralJersey.com, "Incubating Ingenuity"
April 2008
April 28, 2008
Wallace School News, "A Reason to Celebrate", CIESE staff Carol Shields is acknowledged for her work with Wallace School and contribution toward receipt of a grant from Cornell University Lab of Ornithology.
April 17, 2008
CIESE SAGE program was highlighted in Advertiser-News (North), "High Point tech teacher joins global project"
April 9, 2008
CIESE GK-12 program was highlighted in The Post Eagle, "Bergen, Stevens Institute Partner for Grant"
Classroom Connect highlights the CIESE Global Sun Temperature Project in their April 2008 issue: The Global Sun Temperature Project, Online Correspondence, online research
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears featured four CIESE Projects in their April 2008 issue: Square of Life, Bucket Buddies, Wonderful World of Weather & Down the Drain
March/April 2008
March 27, 2008
CIESE Engineering Our Future program was highlighted in Advertiser-News (South), "Tech studies program, department earn five-star status twice"
CIESE participant documents classroom activities resulting from Stevens workshops in Connect magazine, "This Class Is for the Birds!"
2007
December 2007
December 31, 2007
CIESE Engineering Our Future programs was highlighted in the Bergen Record, "Training tomorrow's engineers"
November 2007
November 1, 2007
CIESE programs was highlighted in Multimedia & Internet@Schools, "Global Connections"
October 2007
October 30, 2007
CIESE BUILD IT project featured on WABC-TV Channel 7 Eyewitness News
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October 24, 2007
CIESE program PISA was highlighted in the Bayonne Community News, "Woodrow Wilson School takes upclose look at pond life"
October 24, 2007
CIESE program ITEST Build IT was highlighted in The Record, "Alpine students take robotics class"
October 24, 2007
CIESE program ITEST Build IT was highlighted in The Record, "Seventh- and eighth-graders get their feet wet in robotics"
October 2007
CIESE, Honeywell, Jersey City Partnership, Teachers for the 21st Century, featured in the Aquatic International, "Honeywell Teachers for the 21st Century Equips Jersey City Teachers"
September 2007
September 27, 2007
CIESE program ITEST Build IT was highlighted in the Westfield Leader, "Teachers Participate in 'Build IT' Program"
September 16, 2007
CIESE program ITEST Build IT was highlighted in the Sunday Courier News, "Westfield Winning robots"
August 2007
August 29, 2007
CIESE Engineering Our Future programs was highlighted in the Twin-BORO News, "School bells ready to ring"
August 23, 2007
CIESE programs was highlighted in The Star~Ledger, "Grants boost math and science teaching"
August 23, 2007
CIESE was highlighted in Bloomfield Life, "Grant awarded to further science education"
August 15, 2007
CIESE programs was highlighted in The Record, "$4M in grants to benefit teachers of math, science"
August 11, 2007
CIESE program ITEST Build IT was featured in the Ocean County Observer, "Lego learning: Robotics bring science to earth"
August 8, 2007
CIESE, Honeywell, Jersey City Partnership, Teachers for the 21st Century, featured in News 12 NJ broadcast.
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August 6, 2007
The NSF-sponsored BUILD IT Project in which teachers and students from 36 middle and high schools across New Jersey learn science, engineering and IT in the context of an engaging underwater robotics projects is featured on Cablevision broadcast on August 6, 2007.
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August 5, 2007
CIESE program ITEST Build IT was feature in the Suburban Trends, "Four take part in scientific experiment at tech school"
August 2, 2007
CIESE program ITEST Build IT was highlighted in the West Essex Tribune, "Livingston People"
August 1, 2007
CIESE program ITEST Build IT was feature in the Luso-Americano, "NJ/NY teachers to participate in Stevens’ National Science Foundation ITEST program BUILD IT project uses underwater robotic vehicles to build IT and pre-engineering skills"
July/August 2007
CIESE was highlighted in NCTM News Bulletin's Web Bytes
July 2007
July 23, 2007
CIESE program PISA was highlighted in The Courier-News, "Teacher will work with science center"
July 14, 2007
CIESE Honeywell Teachers for the 21st Century was featured in The Jersey Journal, "Aiming for WOW"
July 10, 2007
CIESE program Honeywell Teachers for the 21st Century was featured in an ABC Eyewitness News broadcast.
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June 2007
June 27,2007
Engineering Our Future NJ is highlighted in the Twin-Boro News, "Transfiguration Academy Successes, challenges of its first year"
June 2007
CIESE K-12 Engineering Programs is highlighted in the TIE Online magazine for design & technology education, Spring/Summer 2007: "CIESE Pre-Engineering and Technology Education: Perfect Together"
June 2007
Engineering Our Future NJ is highlighted in several articles of the Stevens Indicator, The Magazine of the Stevens Alumni Association, Spring 2007
- “Going to the Head of the Class”
- “Creating a Vision”
- “Explaining ‘Why’”
- “Drive Innovation”
May 2007
May 30, 2007
Engineering Our Future NJ program was highlighted in Teaneck Suburbanite: "Students learn engineering concepts"
May 30, 2007
Engineering Our Future NJ program was highlighted in Teaneck Suburbanite: "Science Students take on projects"
May 21, 2007
Stevens editorial on Engineering Education was feature in The Star~Ledger: "Schools must build a culture of creativity"
May 14, 2007
The CIESE Engineering Our Future NJ program is highlighted in Home News Tribune, East Brunswick: "Engineering a successful career path"
May 14, 2007
The CIESE Engineering Our Future NJ program is featured in the Courier News: "Educators seek to engineer the future. Stevens Institute program aims to introduce engineering to the classroom"
February 2007
February 2007
NSTA features CIESE in their monthly newspaper Vol. 18-No. 6 in article: "NJ Center Supports Science Education Worldwide"
January 2007
January 2007
Classroom Connect highlights two CIESE projects in their December 2006/January 2007 issue: "Movies in the Making" and "Historical Treasure Chests".
2006
December 2006
December 7,2006
The CIESE Engineering Our Future NJ program is featured in the Triangle Coalition Electronic Bulletin, Volume 12, Number 46
September 2006
September 22, 2006
The CIESE ITEST Grant announcement was cited in article: "Stevens Institute Wins Grant", NJBIZ eBusiness research Journal.
August 2006
August 17, 2006
“Tech training, U.S.-style,” article by Elisabeth McGrath of Stevens Institute & Dennis Bone of Verizon is featured in the Trenton Times
July 2006
CIESE staff member Liesl Hotaling is featured on the NJECC website, where she can be heard discussing the Savvy Cyber Teacher® program.
June 2006
June 9, 2006
CIESE Real Time Data projects were cited in article: "In and around the classroom", N.J. Department of Education, NJ Professional Education Port.
May 2006
May 26, 2006
The CIESE Engineering Our Future NJ program is cited in article: "Class finds toy-building is more than child's play" in the Sentinel, North Brunswick.
March 2006
March 23, 2006
CIESE Director, Beth McGrath was cited in article: "Tenafly High goes for engineering in future" in the Press-Journal, North Edition.
March 22, 2006
CIESE staff member Liesl Hotaling was featured in article: "Learning Curve" in the Home News Tribune.
March 15, 2006
CIESE staff member Liesl Hotaling was featured in article: "Lessons In Innovation" in the Asbury Park Press.
March 9, 2006
CIESE Director, Beth McGrath was cited in article: "MAST students learn engineering by building, not by book" in the Red Bank - Middletown Reporter.
March 2, 2006
Cited in the USA Today, Best Bets for Educators, “The Historical Treasure Chest”
March 1, 2006
CIESE Director, Beth McGrath was cited in article: “NAHS students could trigger change in science classes” in The Leader.
February 2006
February 27, 2006
CIESE Director, Beth McGrath was cited in article: “Engaging Tomorrow’s Engineers Today” in NJBIZ.
February 26, 2006
CIESE Director, Beth McGrath was cited in article: “Engineering 101” in the West New York Reporter.com
February 26, 2006
CIESE's EOFNJ program was highlighted in article: "Little scientists" in the Secaucus Reporter
February 22, 2006
CIESE Director, Beth McGrath was cited in article: “Hickey takes part in EOFNJ” in the Teaneck Suburbanite.
February 22, 2006
CIESE Director, Beth McGrath was cited in article: “Program hopes to “engineer” interest” in the Northern Valley Suburbanite.
February 22, 2006
CIESE Director, Beth McGrath was cited in article: “Schools join experiment” in the Northern Valley Suburbanite.
February 16, 2006
CIESE Director, Beth McGrath was cited in article: “Science teachers learn about engineering” in the Secaucus Reporter.
February 16, 2006
CIESE Director, Beth McGrath was cited in article: “ Lafayette teacher gets engineering training at Stevens” in the Chatham Courier.
January 2006
January 18, 2006
Villadom Times, Franklin Lakes, NJ, “Fifth graders study world temperatures”
2005
December 2005
December 1, 2005
CIESE Director, Beth McGrath, along with Hal Raveché, president of Stevens, cited in article: "The mystery of teaching science ... solved!," in The Christian Science Monitor.
September 2005
CIESE's Savvy Cyber Teacher® program is announced in the Science Museum of Minnesota newsletter, the Bog Hopper.
September 9, 2005
CIESE staff cited in article: "Experts offer homework help online," from eSchool News staff and wire service reports
September 8, 2005
ENC Online, Resource of the Day, “CIESE Collaborative Projects”
August 2005
August 18, 2005
CIESE staff cited in an article about "The Web aided my homework" on CNN.com
August 9, 2005
CIESE staff cited in an article about "The laptop test: When is the right time to buy your child a laptop?" on CBS MarketWatch.com
August 7, 2005
New Jersey Star Ledger, “Keeping the love of science afloat”
August 3, 2005
New Resources, Federal Resources for Educational Excellence, CIESE is listed as a resource.
July 2005
Global Sun Temperature Project highlighted by the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) at their annual Meeting hosted by the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL
June 2005
Technology and Math for Students and Staff - Elizabeth Board of Education flyer Focus features article about CIESE / Elizabeth MATRIX program (also en Español)
June 23, 2005
ENC Online, Resource of the Day, “Navigational Vectors”
Big Deal Book included CIESE's Savvy Cyber Teacher® program under its Professional Development listings in their June e-newsletter. The Savvy Cyber Teacher® program is also listed on page 42 in the Big Deal Book, mailed annually to over 40,000 schools. Big Deal Books contain resources of interest to various audiences within the education market.
New Jersey Department of Education, New Jersey Professional Education Port, “Savvy Cyber Teacher Summer Institute”
May 2005
CIESE's Savvy Cyber Teacher® program is listed in the JETS e-newsletter. JETS, the Junior Engineering Technical Society, is a non-profit education organization, established in 1950 to inform and excite young people about careers in engineering.
The New Jersey Educator's Association (NJEA) included an announcement in its May issue of the NJEA Review to support promotional efforts for the CIESE professional development program, Savvy Cyber Teacher®. The news item, "Become a Savvy Cyber Teacher" was featured in its monthly column: "Sussex to Cape May." NJEA is the state affiliate of the National Education Association.
T.H.E. Journal included a prominent news blurb announcing the CIESE Savvy Cyber Teacher® professional development program in its Late Breaking News section on page 14 of the May issue of T.H.E. Journal. T.H.E. Journal (Technological Horizons in Education) is one of the most widely read education technology publications, serving educators for over 30 years.
April 2005
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Sixty-Seventh Yearbook, “Technology-Supported Mathematics Learning Environments”
Focus, Elizabeth Board of Education, “Technology and Math for Students and Staff”
March 2005
eSchool News Online, "Stevens-Newark collaboration results in improved science achievement"
T.H.E. Journal, "Collaborative P.D. Program Improves Science Achievement for N.J. Schools"
February 2005
www.DistrictAdministration.com, "Middle School Pollution Sleuths" p.73
February 24, 2005
Digital Dozen, “ Human genetics: a worldwide search for the dominant trait”
February 6, 2005
Hoboken Reporter, "Middle schoolers go to college? Pre-teens taste university life through Stevens, Board of ED
2004
December 04 - January 05
Classroom Connect, Connected Newsletter, Site of the Month, " CIESE online Classroom Projects" p.12
Fall 2004
The Council of Independent Colleges, Independent, "Savvy Cyber Pre-service Teacher Initiative", p. 6
November 9, 2004
Sentinel, Vails Gate, NY, "Mount Professor Chosen to Develop National Program"
October 15, 2004
iEARN, Project Book 2004-2005, "Take a Dip: The Water in our Lives" (H2O Viva: El Agua en Nuestras Vidas in Spanish) p. 77
October 13, 2004
eSchool News, Net Watch, "Help students warm up to science education with this hands-on weather project" Vol. 7, No. 10, p. 46
September 25, 2004
Hoboken Reporter, "Tech support: Hoboken-Stevens Partnership for Public Education turns three, develops programs"
September 17, 2004
The Math Forum @ Drexel, "The Noon Day Measurement Collaborative Project"
August 24, 2004
EdNET 2004 Award, finalist in an outstanding set of entries in the Not-for-Profit HERO category of the EdNET 2004 awards
Summer 2004
Stevens Views, Faculty News, p. 8-9, "McGrath appointed CIESE Director"
July 29, 2004 ENC Online: Education Bulletins, Week of July 26, 2004, International Boiling Point Project Begins September 21 st
July 23, 2004
The Report Card, Hoboken Board of Education, "From the Mayor" p. 2
June 11, 2004
Environmental News Network, "Young Students Use Water Monitoring Projects to Learn about Mayflies, pH and Each Other"
June 2004
T.H.E. Journal, News section, "Savvy Cyber Teacher Summer Institute"
May 2004
Fairfield , NJ , New Jersey Business, "Elisabeth McGrath is appointed Director of CIESE" Digital Library for Earth System Education, "Wonderful World of Weather"
May 18, 2004
Classroom Connect Library Hot Five, " Down the Drain"
April 2004
DA District Administration, Curriculum Update, "The latest developments in math, science, language arts and social studies - Q&A with Beth McGrath: Real-Time Math & Science"
April 2004
NSTA's Science and Children, "The Adventures of Bucket Buddies" by Carol Shields, 30-34.
April 2004
Mathematics Teacher, “Mathematics Online Projects Connect Students Worldwide” by Meg Turner, Volume 97, Issue 4, 303.
April 7, 2004
T.H.E. Journal, from the Hoboken Reporter, New Jersey , "Teaching with Technology - Local educators give high marks to Star-W program"
April 4, 2004
Hoboken Reporter, New Jersey , "Teaching with Technology - Local educators give high marks to Star-W program"
March 04
Teachers as Leaders & Learners, The College of New Jersey , "Graduate Science Course"
February 5, 2004
Blue Web'n Award, "Global Sun/Temperature project" Joshua Koen's project
2003
Dec. 2003
SOE InFOCUS, Stevens Institute of Technology, "Innovation in Engineering Education" by Beth McGrath p.13
SOE InFOCUS, Stevens Institute of Technology, "1962-2003 Afghanistan: Engineering Education Revisited" by Edward A. Friedman p.16
Evanston , IL Monthly, "Fulbright grant brings Afghan women teachers to Stevens for training"
Winter 2003
2003 Maricopa Community College wins Telly Award for Program on A+
CDW-G Ed Tech, "Savvy Cyber Teachers" p. 14
Currents (publication of the Lore-El Center ), "The Lore-El Center Host Afghan Woman Teachers"
Oceanography, Vol. 16, No. 4, "Who Uses the COOL Classroom? Community College & Middle/High School Educators, That's Who." by Liesl Hotaling p.12
Winter/Spring 2003
Taproot, " Square of Life : Studies in Local and Global Environments"
November 2003
THE Journal, " Alliance+ (1998-2003) Hoboken , NJ " Mario Yepes-Baraya p. 5
November 12, 2003
ENC Focus, Social Studies and Math, "The Stowaway Adventure"
Fall 2003
Stevens Views, "Afghan woman at Stevens" p. 5
Fall/Winter 2003
RBS Currents, "Organizations Supporting Technology in the Classroom"
September 2003
NSTA Science Class Professional Development, "The Sun Times - the Global Sun temperature Project" by Meg Turner
RBS Monthly Newsletter, Online class activities, "Boil Boil"
August 19, 2003
Christian Science Monitor, "Math teachers go from Kabul to Hoboken "
July 31, 2003
Montgomery Extra, DC, "Afghan Teachers See What They're Missing"
Summer 2003
Stevens Views, "Strategic alliance between Stevens and Punta Cana Fundacion Ecologica" p.2
Stevens Views, "Grant brings 10 Afghan women teachers to Stevens" p. 6
July 10, 2003
Woodstock Times, "Overwhelmed by richness" (Afghan Woman's Project)
June 23, 2003
Asbury Park Press, NJ, "Marine center to learn and teach more about ocean"
Spring 2003
Stevens Indicator, "Shining light on technology in education"
April 2003
ENC Focus, On-line, Digital Dozen, " CIESE Online Classroom Projects"
T.H.E. Journal, "Teacher Models of Technology Integration"
Oceanography, "Who Uses the COOL Classroom? Community College and Middle/High School Educators, That's Who." Vol. 16, p. 12, by Jancie McDonnell & Liesl Hotaling
February 2003
Engineering Times, Alexandria , VA , "Technology-to-Classroom Is Training Center's Focus"
2002
December 2002
The Science Teacher, "Inquiry dot Com" pp.48-52
November 1, 2002
Riptides, November 2002, "Exploring Mathematics in Hoboken , NJ "
October 30, 2002
Intel Education: An Innovation Odyssey Day 187, "Getting Their Feet Wet"
October 20, 2002
La Nacion, Costa Rica, "Embajador de Internet en el aula" Recognition for Dr. Edward A. Friedman
October 5, 2002
The Hoboken Reporter, New Jersey , "Cutting through the smog - Whitman visits Hoboken to unveil new educational website on ground level ozone"
October 2002
TechKnowLogia, October 2002 Issue, "A Comprehensive Strategy for Internet-in-Education Teacher Professional Development" written by Dr. Edward A. Friedman
Fall 2002
Stevens Views, "Stevens works for strong support in Hoboken "
Stevens Indicator, "Stevens sharing know-how with South American Schools" pp.57-58
September 2002
Classroom Connect, Wire Success Story, "Online Education Projects" an interview with Carol Shields
September 30, 2002
Tribune-Review, Trib North, PittsburghLIVE.com, "Astronomy class takes measure"
September 26, 2002
nj.com & Jersey Journal, New Jersey , "Kids hear EPA pitch at Stevens on air quality monitoring"
September 18, 2002
EPA Press Release, Media Advisory, "EPA Administrator Christie Whitman will launch Educational Web Site at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken , New Jersey "
July 29, 2002
Viva, San Jose, Costa Rica, "The classroom of century XXI" featuring Dr. Edward A. Friedman, Josh Baron & Joshua Koen
April 29, 2002
LA Republica, National, "Education tica gana terreno" featuring Dr. Edward A. Friedman
April 21, 2002
The Miami Herald, MDCC News, "Technologies center opening will fill job need"
March 8, 2002
Goddard Space Flight Presents the Group Achievement Award to Ihor Charischak for "Excellence in Outreach NASA/Stevens Institute of Technology Telementoring Program"
Spring 2002
George Lucas Foundation, eduTopia, " Square of Life "
February 20, 2002
The Classroom Flyer "INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY: SQUARE OF LIFE "
