NSF-funded researchers Stephanie Teasley, University of Michigan, and David Roos, University of Pennsylvania, will discuss innovative ways in which the explosion of biological data is being managed and used. Other sessions look at mathematics' relationships to the brain, to art and even to magic. Math and Science Education. A species of clam living in Mexico's Colorado River Delta is nearing extinction because humans use so much river water there that only a trickle now reaches the sea. NSF funded paleobiologist Karl Flessa, University of Arizona at Tucson, will talk about Mulinia coloradoensis, a clam once so abundant that entire islands in the river are built of its empty shells.
Infants learn language by using an innate sense of probability to understand words as well as music.
Jenny Saffran of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a recipient of an NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and Rebecca Gomez of Johns Hopkins University, will discuss this research and its implications.