Six-Year Drilling Project to Uncover One Million Years of Earth History
...ution of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano, under a grant awarded by the National Science Foundation. The $10.3 million, six-year Hawaii Scientific Drilling Program will be administered by the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology at the University of Hawaii, in collaboration with the University of...Biosensor Is A Model For Widespread Testing Of Chemicals, Molecules
...study was funded by the Whitaker Foundation, which awarded Hellingaa three-year Whitaker Fellow grant. Hellinga is an assistant professor ofbiochemistry at the medical center. Working with him on the study were graduatestudents Jonathan Marvin and Ethan Corcoran, undergraduate student NeilHattangadi, and tec...Cornell Text On International Nutrition
...europathy epidemic, and in 1965, at age 37, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth for "distinguished service in Tanzania."...NIDR Supports Total Genome Studies Of Major Oral Pathogens
...st year, the National Institute of Dental Research awarded two separateresearch grants that, together, set a ...omitans The National Institute of Dental Research awarded a grant to Dr. David W. Dyerat the University of Oklahoma to determine the sequence of the 2.2 milli...NSF Grant For Sphingolipid Research
..., Mass.--The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Daniel V. Lynch, professor ofbiology at Williams C...ntinues studies started under a previous NSF grant awarded to Lynch for1990-93. Ultimately, these studies could lead to advances in crop plant manipulation so ...Whitaker Awards $6.8 Million For Biomedical Engineering Education
... Va., Nov. 24, 1997 -- The Whitaker Foundation has awarded $6.8 million in grants to improve biomedical engineering education at six universities in the United States and one in Canada. The universities and the amount of each award are: Dalhousie University in Canada, $858,863; Duke University, $999,743......ity of Warwick young chemist, Dr Andrew Clark, was awarded the second prize at this event, (the Society of Chemical Industry Prize). The award ceremony was organised by the Chemistry Research for Britain organisation which is supported by the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, learned societies, profess...Early Career Development Grants Foster Faculty Research And Education
...EER AWARDS The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded 359outstanding faculty members nationwide in fiscal 1997 with Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grants. The awards help scientists and engineers develop simultaneously their contributions to research and education early intheir careers. Her...Chlamydia Vaccine Developed At UMass
...ffice. The patent is pending and is expected to be awarded within the next two months. Currently, work continues on the vaccine both at UMass and at Johns Hopkins. Here at UMass, two graduate students, one in biochemistry and one in microbiology, are actively engaged in additional research involving this vac...IFT Foundation Receives Grant For Graduate Nutrition Fellowships
...nt will allow the first fellowship of $3,000 to be awarded in June 1998. "Graduate students awarded Gerber fellowships will receive tuition assistance and recognition from a renowned company," said Ju...DT104 Advice:How To Slow Salmonella Spread
...rsity and holder of the first D.V.M. degree (1876) awarded in the UnitedStates, salmonella is now considered by taxonomists to have only one species, Enterica , and six subspecies, including Enterica . The picturegets more complicated from there, with more than 2,200 serotypes of salmonella. Some are consi...Williams Biology Prof. Receives NSF Grant For Work On dUTPase
...MSTOWN, Mass.--The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of$266,191 to Nancy Roseman, assistant professor of biology, for her work ondeoxyuridine triphosphatase (dUTPase), an enzyme involved in DNA metabolism. Roseman uses the vaccinia virus as a model to understand viral/host interactionsand to...U.S. Scientists Honored For Lifetime Contributions In Hepatitis Research
...to serving others. The prize may be awarded in five categories: service to Islam; Islamic studies; Arabic literature; medicine; and mathematics. The prize citation for medicine states that Drs. Purcell’s and Gerin’s work has...Hultgren Receives Prestigious Eli Lilly Award
... six months as the recipient of a NobelFellowship, awarded by the Nobel Committee. The institute is located in theKarolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. And on April 16, the Academy ofScience of St. Louis will give Hultgren the 1998 Innovation Award. The award ispresented to a scientist under age 40 who ...Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Launches Innovative Therapeutics Development Centers
...ersity of Washington in Seattle . Each will be awarded $750,000 by the CF Foundation over a five-year period. The CF Therapeutics Development Center network was created to capitalize on the increasing wealth of information uncovered by Foundation-supported scientists about the basic defect in ...Liquid Crystals Light Up Simple Chemical Test
...hers by the David and LucilePackard Foundation and awarded $100,000 annually for five years. In 1997,he was one of 60 young researchers to be given Presidential Early CareerAwards For Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and will receive $500,000 overfive years. The research described here was funded by the Na...... "high risk/highimpact" proposals. Now, NIGMS has awarded $2 million to support 20 grants fromthe first roun...ssman, Ph.D., director of NIGMS. Four of the newly awarded grants are described below. The principalinvestigator's name and institution are in parentheses. ...Washington University Professor Receives Young Investigator Award In Microbiology
...y School of Medicine,St. Louis, Missouri, has been awarded the 1998 Eli Lilly and Company Award. This award, which recognizes young investigators of great accomplishment andpromise and who have stimulated fundamental research in microbiology andimmunology, will be presented the award at the General Meeting o...Human Genome Researchers Receive Biotech Award
...nology (MIT) Center for Genome Research, have been awarded the1998 Chiron Corporation Biotechnology Research Award. This award, which honorsoutstanding contributions to the application of biotechnology throughfundamental research, development research or reduction to practice, will bepresented at the Genera......logical Science, Florida State University, hasbeen awarded the 1998 Procter and Gamble Award in Applied and EnvironmentalMicrobiology. Dr. Friedman is being honored for his 45 years of contributionsto microbiology which range in technical diversity from cytology to electronmicroscopy to physiology to molecu...