Richard Amasino wins Alexander von Humboldt Award
... 19th-centuryGerman naturalist and geographer, the award is presented each year to anindividual considered ...ishedthe Alexander von Humboldt Award in 1974. The award includes a $15,000 cashprize, a medallion, a certificate, and a $5,000 scholarship for a student tos...NSF awards large grant for Arabidopsis information resource
$5.3-million award will boost understanding of plant genetics By ...NSF's division of biological infrastructure. "This award will allow for the development of an increased ability to respond quickly to user community needs." ...Changing children's diets today could reduce bone problems 70 years from now
...s are limited." Thanks to a recent five-year grant award from theNational Institutes of Health, Dr. Zemel expects to initiate the program withher first group of children later this year. A total of 150 healthy children will be recruited. Half of them might be at riskfor low bone density due to a previous ...AGU names new journalism award for David Perlman
...Geophysical Union has established a new journalism award to complement the Walter Sullivan Award, which it ...as bestowed on science writers since 1989. The new award is named for David Perlman, science editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, in recognition of his dis...Whitaker Foundation funds Washington University biomedical engineering facility
...he biomedical engineering building, and the second award of $3 million will be used over the next three years to assist in recruiting as many as six new faculty members to the department. In making the announcement, Wrighton emphasized the partnership role The Whitaker Foundation has played in scientific...Koehler awarded NSF grant for study of atmospheric gases
... The National Science Foundation has announced the award of $160,917 to Birgit G. Koehler, assistant profes..., a grant from the Petroleum Research Fund, and an award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. She earned her A.B. in chemistry and physics from D...Science and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech award Young Scientist Prize
...is the grand prize winner of a prestigious science award for his enterprising work on a technique that provides a "snapshot" of all the active genes inside a cell. This method promises to be a boon for scientists worldwide searching for cures to cancer and other diseases. On the eve of the completion of th...Fox Chase Cancer Center's Joseph Testa receives 1999 Irving J. Selikoff Award for Cancer Research
...eer in occupational and environmental health. The award honors Testa for "outstanding contributions in und.... of the National Cancer Institute shared the 1996 award as "leaders in cell genetics to detect and redirect the chain of events that lead to cancer."...Grant to provide training for scientists in Europe and Latin America
...ational Academy of Sciences (NAS). The four-year award will give students and young scientists in Central and Eastern Europe, theformer Soviet Union and the Baltics the opportunity to participate in specialized symposia, laboratorycourses and visiting lectureships in their own region. It also will provid......be paid over a four year period. The University's award will be used to enhance the efforts of the Biological Sciences Division inimmunology and structural biology. "We have developed a strategic vision for basic, translational and clinical research andimmunology and structural biology are key elements i...U-M Medical School receives $4 million for new bioinformatics program
...onstruction in the U-M Medical School. "The HHMI award also will help fund pilot research projects in which bioinformatics faculty and graduate students will work closely with other U-M investigators to develop a deeper understanding of living systems and new applications for this technology," he said....Laser light from Free-Electron Laser used for first time in human surgery
...the beamfor effective tissue removal. In 1995, an award from the W.M. Keck Foundation allowed the FEL center to add two human operatingsuites. Before they could perform surgery on human patients, however, the physicists had to improvethe reliability of the FEL beam. William Gabella, associate director of ...National Cancer Institute awards cancer center $4.5 million for colon cancer research
... of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The new award allows researchers to continue a project begun thr...ing colon cancer themselves. The most recent NCI award supports the work of physicians and scientists from the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistic...Experts to study informed consent in national gene transfer research
... $975,000 National Human Genome Research Institute award to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty members. Dr. Gail Henderson and lawyer Nancy King, both professors of social medicine at the UNC-CH School of Medicine, will lead the three-year effort, sponsored by the institute's Ethical, L......by augmenting its efforts in systems biology. The award will allow Columbia to hire new assistant professors who will use the tools of molecular biology and genetics to address questions in tissue differentiation, neuronal connectivity, organogenesis, and pathophysiology. David Hirsh, Ph.D., Robert Wood J...Pioneering evolutionist Ledyard Stebbins dies at age 94
...e National Medal of Science, the country's highest award for scientificaccomplishment. In 1980, the University of California regents named a UC natural reserve in hishonor -- Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve, a 577-acre parcel about 20 miles from campus. Stebbinssaid that honor was far more satisfying than hav......ts that can cause hibernation. The 2000 Fulbright award is Florant's second and one of only two given to American scholars to work in Austria. He also received a Fulbright for research in France in 1983-84....Science in the news: public choices, science & salmon
...ant Director for Communications, Oregon Sea Grant, award winning producer of four videos, two books and a quarterly newsletter about salmon in the Pacific Northwest. 9:00 A.M. -- KNITTING NETS: SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND SALMON Restoring Pacific Northwest salmon stocks requires better links between ......stitutes of Health (NIH). Swoap will use his NSF award for a project whose objective it is to determine t...g caloric intake lowers blood pressure and the NIH award to support research to determine why skeletal muscle becomes more fatiguable under disuse. Swoap p......he University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the award is one of three to be given at a ceremony at The Birch Aquarium of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. The daylong celebration includes an international symposium of scientific lectures and discussion featuring some of the world's preeminent resea...