Ballard Visits Madison

Robert Ballard spoke at Saturday's Friends of UW Hospital & Clinic's dinner. Ballard provided an interesting look at his work over the decades, which included some interesting education related comments:

• The joint Woods Hole - MIT Program apparently serves mostly foreign PhD. students ("we are educating our competitors"), which lead to
• The Jason Project,
• an attempt to create science and engineering interest in middle school students. Ballard said that if we've not generated such interest by the 8th grade, it is too late.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 11, 2008 12:00 AM
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