Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...s Killam scholarship prize which will allow her to attend Harvard University this winter. "The Aventis Biotech Challenge started me on this road to a career in science and I've just run with it." Nguyen her and partner Alexander Tomkins were ABC first prize winners in 2002 for their proje...Houston minority graduation rises in sciences, engineering as result of UH-led alliance
...EM fields, heavily recruiting eligible students to attend institutions in the alliance. "The Houston LSAMP program is one of the most effective in the country," said Martin V. Bonsangue, professor of mathematics at California State University, Fullerton, and an external evaluator for phase I. "It is o...AAAS US Presidential Candidates' Forum
***Those who cannot attend the AAAS U.S. Presidential Candidates' Forum in person may listen to a live audio webcast at www.aaas.org/election *** WASHINGTON, DC -Stem cell research, climate change and many other scientific matters are currently attracting significant interes...Conference at UH opens doors for new scientists, engineers
... District, heavily recruiting eligible students to attend institutions in the alliance. Put on by H-LSAMP, the conference is open to anyone who wants to register and attend, including LSAMP members from around the nation. There will be workshops for various graduate and undergraduate programs, GRE cla...APS Foundation names student travel award recipients
...received $400 from the APS Foundation to help them attend the APS Annual Meeting, August 2004, in Anaheim, Calif. The travel awards are designed to help students studying in the field of plant pathology present their work, either in an oral or poster presentation, at the society's annual meeting. The 2004...White House to honor UNC School of Medicine scientist for 'early career' achievement
...h Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, will attend a WhiteHouse ceremony Thursday (Sept. 9) afternoon in honor of his selection for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The annual award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and eng...Disease diagnosis, drug development focus of UH prof's biochip research
...sia means that many members of that community will attend and mix with Europeans and Americans." During th...otech.colayer.net/ for those unable to physically attend the conference in Australia. This virtual version of the conference also will provide Internet part...2nd media alert First Scientific Conference on Childhood Leukaemia
...nts are still set far too high. You are invited to attend the entire conference in addition to the news briefing. Registration is free for bona fide media on presentation of official press credentials at the conference press office....Preschool bolsters early childhood immunity, reduces risk of young adult Hodgkin's lymphoma
Children who attend day care or nursery school for at least one year before going to kindergarten are about 36 percent less likely than those not in preschool to develop Hodgkin's lymphoma as young adults, according to scientists reporting in this month's edition of the...Parasitic cowbirds thrive with a less ruthless strategy than cuckoos
...ere is more begging altogether, and so the parents attend the nest more. But the cowbird monopolizes the feeding attempts by the parents. In these experiments, instead of getting 33 percent of the feedings that a brood of two host chicks and one cowbird chick gets, the cowbird actually got over 50 percent o...Carnegie Mellon University hosts ACS-PRF summer school on green chemistry
...-toxic manufacturing approaches. Participants will attend lectures by leading scientists from academia and industry, conduct laboratory work and engage in group exercises to understand green chemistry problems. With only a handful of U.S. academic centers offering curricula in green chemistry, the summer sc...First International Scientific Conference on Childhood Leukaemia
...s office or by pre-registering. You are welcome to attend all sessions. A news briefing will be held on the opening morning (Monday 6 September). A second media alert with more details will be sent to you in due course. In the meantime, visit http://www.leukaemiaconference.org/ for full details of the pr...From orchards and fields to townhouses and offices
...naheim, Calif. Members of the media are invited to attend annual meeting events. Complimentary registration is available. The American Phytopathological Society (APS) is a non-profit, professional scientific organization dedicated to the study and management of plant diseases, with 5,000 members worldwide....Dr. Patricia Limerick to speak at ESA annual meeting
...scapes." Close to 4,000 scientists are expected to attend the five-and-a-half day meeting. ...... of the media and freelance writers are invited to attend the Ecological Society of America's 2004 Annual Meeting to be held in Portland, Oregon, August 1-6, 2004. The theme for the meeting is "Lessons of Lewis & Clark: Ecological Exploration of Inhabited Landscapes." Close to 4,000 scientists are expected...Society for conservation biology conference
...d far beyond city boundaries. Media are invited to attend the 4 day conference, held on the Columbia University campus at 116th and Broadway, New York City. Below are a few of the hundreds of planned presentations of local, national, and international interest that touch on urban challenges: Environmental...UCSD undergraduates participate in collaborative studies abroad on cyberinfrastructure
... Nguyen, who is the first member of his family to attend college, aspires to incorporate a Rocks cluster, NIMROD, and GAMESS into a ready system for scientific data computing. And Kondrick will work on modifying the NIMROD infrastructure to work with two computational chemistry codes, GAMESS and APBS, to c...Plant pathologists look to forensics to aid in biosecurity
...naheim, Calif. Members of the media are invited to attend annual meeting events. Complimentary registration is available at www.apsnet.org/meetings/2004/media.htm ....UK biotechnology business plan competition now open to students in the US and Canada
.... Teams from the US and Canada will be selected to attend a three-day workshop held in the UK. The workshop will include presentations from leading figures in the UK biotech industry on intellectual property, international funding and investment, financial planning, commercial and marketing strategies and a......d 20 faculty members will receive travel awards to attend the Society's scientific conference in Portland, O...gically relevant sites. Approximately 25 students attend each field trip where they meet with ecologists and learn about various types of ecological research...