Florida Company Using ORNL Technology For Revolutionary Wheelchair
... Killough and colleague Francois Pin developed the mathematics andengineering necessary for the TransRovr's revolutionary maneuveringcharacteristics. Their patented invention consists of new algorithms andinnovative engineering that evolved from their work on a DOE project thatfocused on developing mobile robots...Early Career Development Grants Foster Faculty Research And Education
...or minority and women students. Helen M. Doerr, a mathematics educator at SyracuseUniversity, will investigate how students developand make sense of mathematical models and their underlying structures, and how these relate to various possible applications. The study will focus on classroom learning where stude...Mathematics Reveals New Pattern Of Brain Cell Activity
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A mathematics researcher at Ohio State Universityand his colleag...ers such as epilepsy. David Terman, professor of mathematics at Ohio State, and his collaboratorsdeveloped mathematical equations that describe the patterns with...Human Genome Researchers Receive Biotech Award
...stry and Genetics. Dr. Lander received his A.B. in mathematics from Princeton University and hisPh.D. in mathematics from Oxford University, England. He taught mathematics,statistics, and economics courses at Harvard......successes inthe physical sciences, engineering and mathematics -- areas which are not slatedfor major increases. Increases in nondefense R&D are concentrated among onlythree agencies -- NIH, NSF, and the Department of Energy (DOE). The AAAS analysis indicates that the President's budget request includes a 2.2pe...DFG To Set Up 32 New Postgraduate Research Groups - First "Virtual Research Group"
... floods and other disasters, learn methods used in mathematics and computer science, study the economic implications of natural disasters and develop solutions for coping with such events. In a new bioscience postgraduate research group to be set up in Hamburg glucose molecules at cell surfaces, so-called glyco-...The Shape Of Life: How Does The Computer "Know" When It Sees It?
... the concepts of mathematics to thedifferences of form he observed in various living things (left; links to largerimage). He introduced the idea of systematically studying organisms by theirgeometric shape and f...UD Education News: HHMI Award Supports Undergraduate Discovery
...ill be posted on the World Wide Web. We'll involve mathematics teachersto statistically analyze the samples and social studies teachers to discussethical issues related to DNA fingerprinting." Faculty Development and Use of Active Learning Tools. Some five facultymembers annually will be selected for the next f...National Science Medalists Named
...ra small structures. Cathleen Synge Morawetz, a mathematics professor at New York University, advanced the sci... social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics. A 12-member presidential committee reviews nominations for the annual awards. -NSF-...Staring And Squirming Help Babies Explore
... Applying techniques from physics, engineering and mathematics to infantbehavior, Robertson has developed mathematical models that accurately simulatekey properties of infant motor activity and visual attention. For example, Robertson and a group of graduate and undergraduate students whowork in his laboratory...Leibniz Prize Winners 1999 - Most Highly Endowed German Promotional Prize For Ten Scientists
... Münster (DM 1.5million) Joachim Cuntz studied mathematics and physics in Heidelberg and Paris and wasonly 27...tors which are highly important structures in both mathematics and physics.Noncommutative geometry is a recent, rapidly developing discipline with a greatpotential...NSB Meets In L.A. On Expanded Environmental Research, Education, Assessment
...Board's draft report on high school achievement in mathematics andscience. ************************************************** What: National Science Board Meeting and EnvironmentalSymposium When: Feb. 17-18, 1999 - opening session Feb. 17 starts at 9:00 a.m.(Symposium at ...In Animal Groups, Scientists See Patterns That Could Predict The Future
... co-authored by LeahEdelstein-Keshet, an associate mathematics professor at the University ofBritish Columbia, is part of a package of Science articles that explore the usesof complexity theory in natural and social science. Pattern that emerges from aggregation is not limited to living systems, Parrishsays. Sno...Genetic, Familial Factors Influence ADHD, Not Necessarily Sex Of Child
... J. Neuman, Ph.D., research assistant professor of mathematics inpsychiatry and lead author of a study published in the Journal of the AmericanAcademy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Neuman and colleagues Andrew C. Heath, D.Phil., Gwendolyn G. Reich, Ph.D.,Theodore Reich, M.D., and Richard D. Todd, Ph.D., M....JMU builds supercomputer for national model undergraduate program
...h a grant from the National Science Foundation,the mathematics and physics departments have built a supercomputer...aching - and retaining - undergraduate students in mathematics and physics. "A single PC now is about the equivalent of the top-of-the-line supercomputer in 1976...Most highly endowed promotion prize for fourteen scientists and scholars
...mes surprising, results. In this manner, with pure mathematics and incursions into physics and mechanics as his starting point, he has created an overall work which might be entitled "mathematical material science". Prof. Dr. Manfred Pinkal (50), Computer Linguistics, University of the Saar (DM 1.5 million)...HHMI awards grant to National Research Council for new study
...relates to disciplines such as chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering. The committee will produce a report with recommendations, along with case studies and a review of best practices. The three-year project, which will be administered by the National Research Council's Board on Biology, has a total bud...President Clinton awards nation's highest honor for science and technology
... computer science, hydrodynamics, biology, applied mathematics and geophysics; Lynn Margulis, Professor of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, for outstanding contributions to the understanding of living cells, their structure and evolution, and for her extraordinary abilities as a teacher and communic...Biomathematician named first Aurelio professor of mathematics and science at Boston University
(Boston, Mass.) - Nancy Kopell, professor of mathematics and codirector of the Center for BioDynamics (CBD), has been named Boston University's first William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Mathematics and Science. "We are honored to heave her occupy this new professorship in the College of Arts and Sciences,...... studies often disagree with one another. Bayesian mathematics accommodates uncertainty about the evolutionary history of life, allowing other questions, such as the evolution of the genes of an organism, to be more accurately studied. "The Bayesian approach reduces the chance that every new discovery complete...