Microsoft Inspires Students to Pursue Careers in High-Tech at Native American Youth Day

Richard Walker
August 22, 2012
REDMOND, Washington—Technology is improving lives and creating economic opportunities in Indian country, particularly on reservations in rural areas and with far-flung populations...

Native Engineer Receives Top Award From President Obama

Lucinda Hughes-Juan
August 21, 2012
As a young child, Stanley Atcitty, a member of the Navajo Nation from Shiprock, New Mexico, recalls taking toys apart and building them back together...

Scientists Find Noise Pollution Affects Both Animal and Plant Life

ICTMN Staff
March 21, 2012
One would expect noise pollution to affect behavior of animal life -- after all, critters have ears too, and the sound booming from a factory or oil well doesn't discriminate...

32,000-Year-Old Plant Cloned; What's Next, Woolly Mammoths?

ICTMN Staff
February 22, 2012
It's a big week for really old stuff...

At Northwest Indian College, It's Rocket Science, as Students Apply Learning to Competing

Tanya Lee
February 07, 2012
The clichéd exhortation to “reach for the stars!” has taken on new, practical meaning as students at Northwest Indian College (NWIC), located within the Lummi Nation, in Bellingham...

Google Science Fair Kicks Off Today

ICTMN Staff
January 12, 2012
“Everyone has a question. What’s yours?” That’s the question the Google Science Fair is asking youth around the world to ponder...
Mike Taylor

Wild Santa Ana Winds? Melting Sea Ice? Wildfires? Why Not Blow Up the Moon?

There was another of those talks on campus one Friday afternoon. The original idea* was proposed by Alexander Abian, a mathematics professor from Iowa who was trained at the University of Chicago and later at the University of Cincinnati....

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December 02, 2011

Scientists Suggest Native Woman Traveled to Europe 1,000 Years Ago

ICTMN Staff
February 01, 2011
Scientists speculate that a Native woman might have traveled from America to Europe a thousand years ago...

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