Award winners announced for 2001 Merck/AAAS undergraduate science research program
... and biology for undergraduate students. "Each award is worth $20,000 a year for up to three years, and...berg University in Springfield, OH. "The award selections are based on criteria that evaluate the quality and scientific merit of the proposed rese...Award winners announced for 2001 Merck/AAAS undergraduate science
...and biology for undergraduate students. "Each award is worth $20,000 a year for up to three years, and...University in Springfield, OH. "The award selections are based on criteria that evaluate the quality and scientific merit of the proposed rese...Maryland crab shell team wins top engineering award
...he Outstanding Engineering Achievement of the year award by the Engineering Society of Baltimore (ESB) on February 20. Their project began in 1995 with a challenge to University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) student to create new compounds from shells left after eating a dozen steamed blue c...Baylor College of Medicine garners research grants to sequence rat genome
...ert J. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation and a joint award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute of NIH, total $41 million. This research is important to the Human Genome Project, since once the sequence of the rat is determined, blocks of hu...Dried cells, tissues could solve biological materials storage, transport problems
...e public and private sector," Potts says. The award is initially valued at $2.6 million for three year...cess and the availability of funds. Thus the total award is potentially $4.5 million for five years. The researchers are also eligible for proteomics equipme...Pasadena chemist wins national award for environmental research
...20 years," wrote a colleague to support Hoffmann's award nomination. Hoffmann, who is James Irvine professor of environmental science at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, began his career studying the role of clouds in processing compounds in the atmosphere. "Until then, clouds had real...Hopkins' Young Investigators' Day winners shine in the spotlight
...Cancer Center in San Diego, Calif. The predoctoral award went to Gregory Cost and the postdoctoral to William Roberts, M.D. Cost has discovered how the mobile sections of DNA called transposons roughly a third of the human genome are able to reproduce. Roberts has developed a statistical model that pr...Glennda Chui and Richard Stone win AGU journalism awards
...untain," and Richard Stone won the Walter Sullivan award for Excellence in Science WritingFeatures for his freelance article in Smithsonian magazine, "Vostok: looking for life beneath an Antarctic glacier." Chui's story, published March 28, 2000, describes the most acidic water ever found in nature, regist...Janet Ginsburg receives microbiology communications award
...cost hundreds of human lives each year. The annual award carries an honorarium of $2,500 plus expenses to attend ASM's General Meeting in Orlando May 20-May 24, 2001. It recognizes outstanding achievement in increasing public awareness, knowledge, and understanding of microbiology. Judging this year's co...American Society for Microbiology selects Mass Media Fellows
... of science and technology in the news. The annual award is part of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program. Its goal is to strengthen the relationship between science, technology and the media by encouraging educated scientists to...$100,000 prize to pioneers in neural research
...entral nervous system (CNS). The Prize is a cash award of $100,000 (to be shared equally between the two co-recipients) and a silver medal in the design of the Roosevelt dime, in honor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who founded the March of Dimes. These two imaginative scientists have helped to sh...Neuroscientist studies brains of bizarre-looking mammals
... use on his research for the next three years. The award follows hard on the heels of having one of his papers selected as the cover article for the April issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience. An interest in the sense of touch led Catania to the community of moles. In their underground world there is ......t will expand medical science and create jobs. The award is part of a total of $27.4 million in grants awarded by the Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR). The grants are a "major milestone in our efforts to secure New York's role as an international leader in high-tech and biotech...Grant accelerates race for lung cancer cures
...erbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has received a coveted award that recognizes its expertise in lung cancer research and that will fuel its aggressive efforts to develop cures for the leading cancer killer. The grant, providing $13.7 million over five years, establishes a Specialized Program Of Research Excelle...Science board honors the Bronx Zoo's Education Division for public service
...rganization more deserving of this award." The NSB award cited the Wildlife Conservation Society's education activities in fostering awareness of science and technology among broad segments of the general public, and for engaging scientists in public outreach and ecological literacy. The society's Bronx Z...Secret channel holds key to metabolic mysteries
...need more research to explain it." The NSF POWRE award helped Nadler keep her research active while raising two young daughters -- now ages two and three. "This grant gave me a chance to pursue my work while I was striving to achieve a critical balance between building my career and starting my family,"...University of New Orleans researcher to head a nine university, three-year, $15.8 million project
...al investigator for team I. For all involved, this award from the National Science Foundation is an opportunity for the state of Louisiana to assume a lead role in the rapidly growing areas of Micro and Nanoscale science and technology," said O'Connor. "The synergistic collaboration among the three teams...Scripps scientists, diving officer receive honors
... Michelson, the first American Nobel laureate, the award recognizes scientists whose research has significa...modern oceanography," the Navy League noted in the award announcement. "His improvement of the bathythermograph during the 1940s revealed that the oceans tem...New effort to increase coal production announced
...the 1970s. The DOE has just announced a $3 million award to Virginia Tech and to West Virginia University t... for Advanced Separation Technologies (CAST). This award follows on the heels of another DOE award to Virginia Tech to demonstrate the commercial potential o...Alzheimer's genetic susceptibility could bring fear and misunderstanding, religious scholars say
...on, and was presented with the special recognition award by the American Geriatrics Society for service on its Ethics Committee (2001). He was recognized for distinguished service by the Associations National Board for educational efforts in bringing ethical issues to Association Chapters and families thr...