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  1. How should the NRC's New Biology report at http://bit.ly/1siWKz be implemented? Email rogrady@aibs.org
  2. NRC "New Biology" report looks good; focus on food, environment, energy, and health; see http://blogs.aibs.org/richardogrady
  3. NRC Releasing Report, "A New Biology for the 21st Century," on 17 Sept. 2009: http://blogs.aibs.org/richardogrady/
  4. AIBS's free education website, ActionBioscience.org, launches a Spanish-language mirror site: http://www.actionbioscience.org/announcements/
  5. Nice to see! AAMC / HHMI Report Recommends Pre-Med Students Learn about Evolution: http://blogs.aibs.org/richardogrady
  6. At NBII – Conservation Science Community Partnership mtg today about the launch of NBII's new web search engine: http://www.nbii.gov
  7. AIBS journal, BioScience, now part of online publishing deal with Univ. CA Press and JSTOR, see http://www.jstor.org
  8. NSF needs merit review expertise for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act programs: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09562/nsf09562.pdf
  9. AIBS Webinar on Synthesizing and Communicating Science. 30 July. http://bit.ly/13HDZ4
  10. What are the top 10 biology concepts everyone should know? See http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#/topic.php?uid=129755154551&topic=8478
  11. Help secure funding for USDA competitive research grant programs: http://bit.ly/1s9qxE
  12. In the works: AIBS statement on scholarship, cf ACS's at http://bit.ly/UR9jS #yam
  13. Facebook Group at http://bit.ly/3rxjRg for the Transforming Undergraduate Biology Education Project
  14. High School & MS field-test teachers needed for Evolution and Medicine & Rare Diseases; see http://www.bscs.org/news/pages/nihfieldtest.html
  15. National Association of Biology Teachers co-locates its HQ office with AIBS at 1444 I Street NW, Ste 200, Washington DC. See www.nabt.org
  16. Chris Mooney, author of "Unscientific America," on AIBS's YouTube channel http://bit.ly/11k8B0
  17. AIBS Webinar on Communicating Science to Policymakers and the Media. 7/30/09 @ 2:30 pm EDT. http://www.aibs.org/events/webinars/
  18. AIBS launches Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits, 17-21 August 2009; meet with elected officials in their own districts
  19. AIBS sees the Earth Sciences Literacy project & document at http://earthscienceliteracy.org as a model for the biology community to emulate
  20. http://www.ActionBioscience.org enters competition for Online Resources in Education: http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/prizes/spore/