Kingston named Virginia Outstanding Scientist of 2002
... Chemistry. Also, the Life Achievement in Science award went to a Virginia Tech chemist in 1991. In addit...h alumni have earned the Industrialist of the Year award since receiving degrees at Virginia Tech....Office of Naval Research awards $8.4M to young investigators
The Office of Naval Research today announced the award of 26 grants totaling $8.4 million as a result of the Fiscal Year 2002 ONR Young Investigator Program competition. A total of 260 proposals were submitted in response to this year'sprogram announcement. The Young Investigator Program supports basic r...Worm neuron research may lead to powerful model for Parkinson's study
... support from a Neuroscience Training Grant and an award from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing Association (PHARMA). The current project is also supported in part by funds from the National Parkinson Foundation. The surprise and delight Nass felt looking through the microscope that summer n...Merck/AAAS announce 2002 winners for Undergraduate Science Research Program
... (AAAS) today announced the recipients of the 2002 award for the Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research ...he award, Merck representatives will plan to visit award recipient institutions to meet with students to learn about their research and related interests, an...UCLA scientists, colleagues substantiate biological origin of earliest fossils
...t Fossils (Princeton University Press). The annual award is presented for outstanding contributions to the literature of science. As an honors student at Oberlin College in Ohio in the 1960s, Schopf learned in great detail about the most recent 500 million years of the planet's history. But geologic time c...Raymond DuBois honored for landmark work in colon cancer
...a notable contribution to improved cancer care.The award is presented annually by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). It will be awarded during the AACRs annual meeting in April. The AACR is honoring DuBois for his seminal work in colorectal cancer research, including his contribution...URI oceanographer to assess impact of climate change on ocean ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles
...sciplinary Global Modeling (PARADIGM). The initial award will fund the first five years of this ten-year pr... predicting the future state of the ocean. The award was granted through the National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP). NOPP was co-authored in 1996 by C...American Association for Cancer Research honors Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center investigator
...Kirk A. Landon Prize for Basic Cancer Research, an award given by the American Association for Cancer Resea...of Washington School of Medicine, will receive the award at the AACR annual meeting April 6-10 in San Francisco, where he will deliver a lecture on his resea...EMBO gets US$ 2 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to support young scientists
...as mentorship, opportunities for networking and an award of Euro 15 000 annually. Additional funds can be obtained from a pool of Euro 500 000. The distinction as EMBO Young Investigator is a leverage for obtaining funds nationally and internationally. Gerlind Wallon, Manager of the EMBO Young Investigato...Conservation International and National Geographic Traveler announce World Legacy Awards
...sen in three categories: Nature Travel This award honors a business, organization, or attraction mak...for the award. Destination Stewardship This award recognizes a business, organization, local community or even regional government protecting the natu...PNNL celebrates arrival of powerful NMR
...ity and innovation and won the prestigious R&D 100 award for the engineering and unique design for the manufacture of the world's first fully operational high-field 900 MHz magnet. Its customers are leading research institutes worldwide who are fully supported by a first-class customer support team for ins...World's largest scientific society celebrates womens achievements
...ter session retrospective of past Eli Lilly travel award winners will be held at 11:30 a.m. Other Women Chemists Committee events include: Sunday, April 7 Collaborations: role of professional organizations, symposium. Orlando Convention Center, 8:55 a.m. Monday, April 8 Women in industry, breakfast....APS announces its 2002 Young Investigators Awards
...al Award in Respiratory Physiology and Medicine An award of $25,000 will be made to the University of Pitts... Award in Respiratory Physiology and Medicine An award of $25,000 will be made to the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center on the behalf of Dr. Hu...Chicago chemist wins national award for new research methods
... our environment, wrote a colleague to support the award nomination. Vora emphasized his teams contributions, saying, I just happened to be the vehicle to move it forward. Vora always loved chemistry and math, he said. After obtaining a chemistry degree in 1963 from the University of Mumbai in his native I...Australian frog is first to make its own chemical weapons
...tural products chemistry. He will be honored at an award ceremony April 9 in conjunction with the meeting. Over the past four decades, Daly and colleagues have investigated hundreds of frog species from all over the world and discovered a wide range of biologically active alkaloids, many of which have beco...Smithsonian calls for renewed international cooperation in sharing biodiversity information
...l be presented at the symposium. This prestigious award is given annually by the Smithsonian to an interna...ly to advancing the field of tropical botany. The award is named in honor of Dr. Jos Cuatrecasas, a pioneering Smithsonian botanist who devoted his career t...K-State professors make discovery in pesticide-resistant bugs
...2002 Young Scientist Pre-and Postdoctoral Research award sponsored by the Agrochemicals Division and Dow Agrosciences for his work on greenbug resistance. "There are millions of individuals of an insect pest species in a field. Some individuals may have certain genes that can confer resistance. Insects wit...The next generation of scientists recognized at Johns Hopkins
...ed more than one scientific field on its head. The award recipients will present their study results and ac..., recognition within Hopkins -- not to mention the award checks -- can be an important boost for young investigators. "Having my work accepted for publicat...A map of 'protein space' could predict structure, function
...ion (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program award to support his research into creating a map of all known proteins. Such a map might be akin to the periodic table of the elements. Yona, a computational biologist, will receive a five-year grant of $1,103,915 to support his research. The NSF-funde...Intels Gordon Moore and CIs Claude Gascon to receive major award
...of the worlds most threatened ecosystems. With the award Moore and Gascon join a luminary list of past recipients including Richard Leakey, David Attenborough, Jane Goodall, King Carl Gustav of Sweden, Prince Phillip Duke of Edinburgh, Kenyas former president Jomo Kenyatta, Edmund Hillary, Sylvia Earle, No...