Life-Saving Dr. Mueller Selected To Get Top Sports Medicine Award
...ty of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill, has been named winner of the Dr. Ernst Jokl SportsMedicine Award for 1997. The award, presented annually by the United States Sports Academy, isgiven for lasting contributions to the growth and development of sports medicinethrough practice or scholarship. It is ...Smog Spreading To South Pacific
...e today at a symposium honoring Molina as the 1998 winner of theAmerican Chemical Society Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Scienceand Technology. Paper ENVR 22 will be presented by F. S. Rowland from 9:40 to 10:10 a.m., Tues.,March 31, in the Convention Center,Room D261, Level 2. # # # # A nonpr...Births Of Rare Lemurs At Duke Primate Center
..., 3705 Erwin Road, Durham, N.C. 27705. The winner will be decided on June 1, and will receive a free tour ofthe center and have his or her photo taken with the baby aye-aye....Scientist Receives Prestigious Award
...ardiovascularand neuropsychiatric researchers. The winner this year for cancer research isDr. Eric Lander, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of biology anddirector of the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research. Dr. EricNestler, Yale University School of Medicine professor of psychi...Summer Science: Where Have All The Honeybees Gone? UD 'Bee Guy' Asks Why--From America To The Amazon
...ator,"capable of doubling crop yields, says Caron, winner of a 1998 UDexcellence-in-teaching award. They also benefit many native plant species. "Allthe beautiful crocuses in the spring, goldenrod in the summer and yellow flowersin the fall depend on the bee for pollination," Caron notes. Beekeepers can kil...Penn Researchers Find Mutation In Prostate Cancer Gene
... andquality patient care. Penn was selected as the winner of the 1998National Quality Health Care Award, one of the industry's mostprestigious honors. In addition, the Hospital of the University ofPennsylvania (HUP) ranked among the nation's best in many keyspecialties by US News & World Report; and, the S...UD Education News: HHMI Award Supports Undergraduate Discovery
...ite says that he did, indeed, meet the Nobel Prize winner at the Woods HoleMarine Biological Laboratory, located in Massachusetts. His quiz continues, including questions about how many times Szent-Gyorgimarried (four) and the age of his last wife when he married her (19). Hisstudents can't be stumped. "Whi...Hutchinson Center Director Wins 'America's Nobel'
...n Seattle, on today (Sunday, Sept. 20) was named a winner ofthe 1998 Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards. The nation's most distinguishedhonor for outstanding contributions to basic and clinical medical research, theLasker Awards will be presented Friday, Sept. 25 at a luncheon in New York City.Seven rese......neurology,biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF, the winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize inPhysiology or Medicine, and the other senior author of the study. In an effort to tease out the component of prion protein that mightactually confer the most crucial distinction in strains--the time it takes forthe d......y atthe University of Chicago , has been namedthe winner of the eighth annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for DistinguishedAchievement in Infectious Disease Research. Dr. Roizman mapped the genome ofHSV, described how the virus infects host cells and later developed recombinantDNA techniques that have enab...AAAS Announces The Winners Of Its Science Journalism Awards
...and broadcast journalists. The awards call for one winner to be selected for a$2,500 prize in each of five categories: large newspaper, small newspaper,magazine, television, and radio. The winners will be honored on January 23,1999, at a special ceremony during the Association's annual meeting in Anaheim,Ca......include UCLA evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond, winner of the 1998Pulitzer Prize for his book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies; researchers from several other U.S. universities;and researchers with the Mexico-based CIMMYT (International Center forImprovement of Maize and Wheat) and wi...Stanford Chemical Engineer Chaitan Khosla Receives Alan T. Waterman Award From NSF
...rom engineered organisms," said1988 Waterman Award winner and University of California-Berkeley professor ofchemistry Peter G. Schultz. Khosla's "creativity, productivity and intellect are defining theforefront of his field and opening a whole new opportunity at the interface ofchemistry, biology an...Rockefeller University Scientists Receive Prestigious Awards For Cancer Research
..., 1999 laureates includeCharles F. Kettering Prize winner Ronald Levy, M.D. of Stanford University. TheKettering Prize recognizes the most outstanding recent contributions to thediagnosis or treatment of cancer. The four laureates will receive their awards at a ceremony that concludesGMCRF's Annual Scient...Harvard expert speaks on lead toxicity to chemists' meeting in New Orleans
...has remedial action been taken. Dr. Knowles is the winner of the ACS 1999 Nakanishi Prize given in honor ofoutstanding scientific achievement, particularly for contributions on theinternational level. Dean Knowles has been particularly interested in the rateand specificity of enzyme catalysis and the evolut...NYU workshop will bring together leading researchers on nano-technology, DNA computing, and genomics
...oyd Smith and NYU'schemistry professor Ned Seeman, winner of the 1995 Feynman Prize inNanotechnology. The workshop is being sponsored by New York University's Courant Institute forMathematical Science and the Office of the Dean for Science. It was organizedby NYU professors Bud Mishra, Ned Seeman, and Mish...AGU names new journalism award for David Perlman
...esented at AGU's Spring or Fall Meeting. The 1999 winner of the Sullivan Award was David Sington for his television series, Earth Story, produced by the BBC and The Learning Channel. Sington was the first broadcaster and first person from outside the United States to win the award....Science and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech award Young Scientist Prize
...s Oncology Center in Baltimore, is the grand prize winner of a prestigious science award for his enterprisin...ional winners each receive $5,000; the grand prize winner is selected from the pool of regional winners and receives $25,000. Velculescu will be honored toget...UNC-CH scientist finds smallest number of genes needed for organism's survival
...e approaching it experimentally," said Nobel Prize winner Hamilton Smith, who was a TIGR investigator when the work began. A genome is the complete set of genes, or genetic blueprints, an organism contains in each of its cells. The human genome is about 5,000 times larger than that of Mycoplasma genitalium......e country's worst vertebrate pest. The inaugural winner of the Fenner Medal is Prof Hugh Possingham of Adelaide University's Department of Applied and Molecular Ecology, another scientist who has done much in the field of wildlife conservation. Professor Possingham's extensive citation lists his many achi...