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Tuesday, February 23, 2010 • New • by Eva Wisten • #

USA Science & Engineering Festival launches blog on ScienceBlogs.com

The USA Science & Engineering Festival, America’s first national science festival, continues to sign up participating scientists. The festival, which consists of a two day expo in the nation’s capital, preludes with a two week long series of events spread out over the country - all with the purpose of fulfilling President’s Obama’s imperative to inspire young people to go into science. Among the most recent additions to the pre-expo programming, we find the following speakers:

Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, Brain Surgeon and Researcher at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, will talk about how he went from being an impoverished illegal immigrant to becoming one of the nation’s top brain surgeons.

Mario Livio, Director of Public Outreach at The Space Telescope Institute, will lecture to students about black holes, dark energy and supernovas.

Bonnie Bassler, Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University will give students insight into the mysterious world of bacteria and how these microbes communicate with each other.

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Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute, will take students on a journey through the cosmos to answer the question: Is there life on other planets?

ScienceBlogs.com recently joined USA Science & Engineering Festival as the Official Blogging Partner. We will have our bloggers on site, and ScienceBlogs.com is hosting the official festival blog with updates from the festival planning and greetings from the participating scientists.