The PAST Foundation, Partnering Anthropology with Science and Technology.

The PAST Foundation was founded in 2000 by an ad hoc organization of anthropologists and scientists who were determined to make ongoing scientific research across a broad spectrum of professions accessible to the public.

Closing in on its first decade of operation, the PAST Foundation continues to be dedicated to the original goal of bringing public access to compelling scientific research.

The PAST Foundation field schools consist of anthropological and scientific work that impact humans and their environment, culture, and heritage.

The PAST Foundation supports new research and methodologies in linking field projects and researchers with educational programs in the classroom.

The PAST Foundation can also be accessed through social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

* PAST Foundation

PAST is a federal 501 ( c )( 3 ) non-profit educational and research team located in the United States that builds partnerships around compelling scientific and educational projects, making them accessible to students and the public through transdisciplinary program-based learning, experiential field schools, documentary film, and interactive websites.

Immediately, the PAST team began building partnerships and programs for seamless education.

Some prominent research projects include the Chord project, Kademlia, PAST storage utility, P-Grid, a self-organized and emerging overlay network, and CoopNet content distribution system ( see below for external links related to these projects ).

* Article from James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies report: " FORMER SOVIET BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS FACILITIES IN KAZAKHSTAN: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE ".

Basic verbs: p. o ( to become = bol-okh ), p. o. ju ( raise = bosgo-kh ), on. a. an ( fall PAST TENSE = unasan ), x. ui. ri. ge. ei ( to transfer = kurge-kh ), u-( give = ug-ukh ), sa-( to reside = sa ' u-kh or suukh ), ci. er ( inscribe PAST TENSE = siileruun ), a-( to be = a-kh, for example " savandaa akh aj l " in the Altan Tobchi in which the root " a -" in both " akh " and " aj " " means " to be ")

Its motto is " EMBRACE THE PAST – ENGAGE THE PRESENT – ENVISION THE FUTURE " and its mission statement declares " All actions and tasks must lead and work toward promoting the wellness of Warriors and their families, supporting the delivery of Warrior and family healthcare, and all those entrusted to our care and ultimately, positioning the Army Nurse Corps as a force multiplier for the future of military medicine.

The year-long program featured the first Thermal River archaeological investigation on the Marshall Hotel in the Firehole River and culminated in a published book on the archaeology of the site garnering PAST the National Park Service John L. Cotter Award for Excellence in American Archaeology.

For the next five years, PAST continued to partner with both public and private organizations building educational programs like Riverboatin ' on the Red for Oklahoma's Department of Education and SCRUNCH for the US Minerals Management Service.

Employing STEM as a delivery vehicle for education, PAST has continued to build popular programs that excite students and allow teachers and students to join on an educational journey.

PAST field schools helped California Parks move forward in nominating the Gold Rush Era, shipwreck, Frolic on the Mendocino Coast for inclusion in California's State Underwater Parks.

In 2007, after a year of working with STEM educational reform, PAST and the Battelle Center for Mathematics and Science Education Policy embarked on a combined, ethnographic and policy network study of STEM at Metro Early College and Demonstration High School.

Currently, PAST works with emerging STEM schools across the US to build transdisciplinary programs for K-20 education and to better understand through anthropological ethnography, the underlying systems that make STEM successful.

PAST continues to build learning programs for both high school age students and adults.

PAST was honored the 2001 National Park Service Cotter Award for Excellence in Archaeology, the 2007 Wiley Award for Excellence in Documentary Film, the 2007 Secretary of the Interior ’ s Conservation Collaborative Partnership Award, the 2007 National Oceanic Partner ’ s Program Award, the 2007 Emerald Award for Excellence in Environmental Education, and the 2007 Ohio State University Kellogg Award for Excellence in Experiential Learning.

Individually, the PAST research team and its research associates have garnered Emmy Awards, the Society of Historical Archaeology ’ s Cotter Award for New Promising Professional, and the Ohio State University ’ s Graduate Student of the Year Award.

Through the PAST / Metro Program Design Center, graduate students build upon their graduate research creating programs that are ultimately published for public consumption.

It is the intention of PAST Publications to fill the niche for small-production printing of student theses and dissertations, special publications, Cultural Resource Management ( CRM ) firm reports, educational programs, and field studies and research.

These program-based learning projects that crossed disciplines have become the cornerstone of PAST.

In 2005, through a startup donation, PAST transitioned from a loose knit project driven organization to a program-based non-profit.

From Forensics in the Classroom to The Cultural Landscape of a Michigan Ghost Town, from The Web of Life to Get Real, from Marine Ecology of the Florida Keys to Growing America, the PAST programs continue to draw on the anthropological base of the organization and to building holistic learning.

All PAST field opportunities are structured as a course with an authentic learning product that benefits the community.

In addition, PAST continued to partner with public agencies, universities, businesses, and industry building adult field study programs, anthropological research projects, and interactive websites.

The PAST adult field schools, now in their ninth year, continue to study known archaeological sites and collections assisting public agencies in better understanding, interpretation, and protection of America's maritime heritage treasures, as well as forging ahead in areas of anthropology.

Since 2006, PAST and partners have hosted a summer field program dedicated to allowing students to fully explore the world of Forensic Anthropology.

In 2006, PAST sought out a new avenue of public access in order to bring the educational programs and field work and research to the public.

Continuously on the quest to partner with schools to pilot PAST programs, in 2006 the foundation formed a partnership with the Ohio State University, the Battelle Memorial Institute, the Central Ohio Educational Council, and the innovative STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math ) and Metro Early College and Demonstration High School, located on the OSU campus.

Forming the PAST / Metro Program Design Center, PAST set about working with the high school faculty to design transdisciplinary programs that pivot on global issues.

PAST Publications utilizes the print-on-demand process to enable students, professionals, programs, and organizations to publish scientific and educational work in a timely and cost effective way.

Currently, PAST partners with public agencies, private businesses, public organizations, non-profit institutions, academic institutions, and industries in building programs, underwriting research, and furthering scientific endeavors.

Similarly, PAST partnered with the respected documentary film program at Montana State University to offer teachers and students a summer practicum in documentary filmmaking that embeds the process in scientific projects.

* Research like the Chord project, the PAST storage utility, the P-Grid, and the CoopNet content distribution system.

We see in our mind in four stages of time ; NOW, THEN, BEFORE, and THE PAST.

Now, if we image a wavy line between the different locations of the pendulum at the time intervals of: NOW, THEN, BEFORE and THE PAST.

* PAST experiment,.

The Palaeo-Anthropology Scientific Trust ( PAST ), a non-profit trust fund established in 1994, sponsors over 90 % of the research undertaken at Sterkfontein and was instrumental in its nomination as a World Heritage Site.

Those included the early plans to capture the PAST building and failed attacks on Okęcie, Pola Mokotowskie and Warszawa Gdańska train station.

Also, there were still several German pockets of resistance inside the Polish-controlled territory, most notably the PAST skyscraper, the bridgeheads, and Headquarters of the police.

PAST PERFORATE: Incomplete perforated.

* Westcott, Jamie, ROYAL ALEX: FROM PAST TO PRESENT, The Toronto Sun, Special Supplement on the 80th Anniversary of the Royal Alexandra, Oct. 18, 1987