Florida Company Using ORNL Technology For Revolutionary Wheelchair
...ts to work in hazardous environments. Theinvention won an R&D 100 Award in 1993 as one of the year's mostsignificant technological innovations. "This is a prime example of how we can use knowledge gained in a specificarea for a particular purpose for other worthwhile endeavors," Killoughsaid. Cybertr...A New Biochemical Link Established Between Stress, Sex And Dominance
...tdoctoral fellow at Duke University. Mimi H.F. Kao won a Firestone Medal for her cortisol research while earning her bachelor's degree in human biology at Stanford in 1995. Now she is working toward a graduate degree in neurosciences at the University of California-San Francisco. They tested the hormonal...New, Environmentally Friendly Technique For Separating Liquids Invented At UNC-CH
...r his earlier work with carbon dioxide. In1992, he won a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award and thefollowing year, the White House named him one of 30 U.S. Presidential FacultyFellows.......for further study during a Rome Prizefellowship he won from the American Academy in Rome in 1996....AAAS Announces Science Journalism Award Winners
...ee Hotz and Julie Marquis of the Los Angeles Times won the competitionfor the large newspaper category fo...pelling way. Jenni Laidman of The Bay City Times won the award for the small newspapercategory for her February 2 -- July 2, 1997, series entitled "Unnat...Pacific Northwest Staff Win National Awards For Transferring Research To Industry
...loped atPacific Northwest National Laboratory have won 1998 Awards for Excellence in TechnologyTransfer from the Federal Laboratory Consortium. The FLC gives up to 30 of the highlysought-after awards each year to teams of federal lab employees for their success in transferringtheir research to private i...MIT's Mini Respirator Breathes Life Into Mutant Mice
...he Journal of AppliedPhysiology. (Mr. Kolandaivelu won the 1995 Whitaker Senior StudentBioengineering Design Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society for workreported in the current paper.) HOW IT WORKS As with the iron lung, the mouse is put into a cylindrical chamber, itshead sticking ...Ground-Breaking DNA Research Leads SFU Grad To The Top
...ndbreaking research discoveries at YaleUniversity, won a prestigious doctoral prize, and earned his Canadiancitizenship. And now the 34-year-old scientist is being honored with the governorgeneral's gold medal -- as SFU's top graduate student in the 1997-98 graduatingclass. A glance at Li...Chemical In Oyster Shells May Help Clean Oil Spills
...nd Donlar Corp.'s work with the degradable polymer won them theEnvironmental Protection Agency's Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award....Biologist Wins Simon Fraser University Controversy Prize For 'Silent Spring' Of The '90s
...bees inparticular. Since joining SFU in 1980, he's won numerous awards, including (withSFU chemical ecologist Keith Slessor) the Manning Award of Distinction (1997)and a gold medal from the Science Council of B.C. (1992). He's authored threeother books: "TheBiology of the Honeybee" (1987), "Killer Bees" ...Penn Researchers Find Mutation In Prostate Cancer Gene
...Urological Association's annual meeting in May and won MichaelMilken's CAPCure award for their work. Editor's Note: Dr. Rebbeck can be reached directly at (215) 898-1793. The University of Pennsylvania Health System is dedicated to developingleaders in science and medicine through education, research, a......oratory of Renewable Resources Engineering (LORRE) won the R&D 100 Award for their work with SWAN Biomass Co., Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., to develop the genetically modified yeast. The annual awards will be given at a Sept. 24 banquet and exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. The yea...Ribozymes Come Ready For Action
...ords and nowwe've got the picture," says Cech, who won the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry forhis discovery of ribozymes. The results of Cech's group, spearheaded by HHMI associate Barbara Golden,appear in the October 9, 1998, issue of Science. They describe thethree-dimensional structure of the larges...Angry Biotech Firms Are Blaming The Industry Leader For Bringing Modified Crops Into Disrepute
...y giant, also feels aggrieved, notleast because it won applause from consumer groups in 1996 by labelling itstomato puree as containing genetically modified tomatoes. "It's a matter ofrespect for your customer," says Nigel Poole, head of regulatory affairs atZeneca Plant Science in Bracknell, Berkshire. ...Book By Shipman Wins Phi Beta Kappa Award In Science
...lated to humanorigins and evolution. In 1997, she won the Rhone-Poulenc General Prize ofL10,000 for her book, The Wisdom of the Bones, published by Alfred A. Knopf andcoauthored with her husband, Alan Walker, also of Penn State. The Rhone-PoulencAward is given annually for the best book promoting the p...SFU Molecular Biologist Pursues 'Promising' New Way To Fight Disease
...y to vaccinate against disease, including AIDS,has won her a $96,000 (Cdn) grant from the Medical Research Council of Canadaand, more recently, a $150,000 (U.S.) grant from the National Institutes ofHealth's AIDS Innovation Grant program for approaches in HIV vaccine research. Scott, a molecular ...AAAS Announces The Winners Of Its Science Journalism Awards
...gent localissue. Robyn Suriano and Todd Halvorson won in the small newspaper category for"Cassini: Debat... a context that thereader could use. Mark Schoofs won in the magazine category for "How Genetics is Changing OurLives," a seven-part series in the Village...Fat In Spite Of Hard Farm Work - Tracking Down Obesity
...nsylvania. It took more than a year before she had won the confidence of theAmish who live a secluded life. She recorded the weight of about 3,000 membersof 17 extended families. The data were analysed to find clues as to whetherspecific families had a higher incidence of obesity and whether this couldpr...Leibniz Prize Winners 1999 - Most Highly Endowed German Promotional Prize For Ten Scientists
...ogy at theUniversity of Bochum in 1992. In 1993 he won a DFG Heisenberg fellowship andsince 1994 has held a C4 professorship and been the director of the Institutefor Physiology at the medical school of the University of Magdeburg. The work of Hans-Christian Pape is dedicated to investigating the plastic...