Brown earns prestigious geography award
...ee and the Iowa Energy Center. She is an editorial board member of The Journal of Technology Transfer and Applied Geographic Studies. Brown earned a bachelor's degree in political science -- with a minor in mathematics -- from Rutgers University and a master's in resource planning from the University of Ma...OneWorld Health plans to form network of volunteer pharmaceutical scientists for global health
... Dr. Wang is a former member of OneWorld Health's board of directors and former Merck scientist. "This is ...is Pharmaceutical Corporation, and OneWorld Health board member. "As an interested individual and an advisor to OneWorld Health, I support these first steps...Sarah Staples and Daniel Grossman win 2004 AIBS media awards
...um in Baltimore, MD. She is a former president and board member of the National Marine Educators Association, and a professional fellow at the Aquarium and Zoo Association. She has been active in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Science Teachers Association....Should publicly funded research be free and available to the public?
..., textbooks or other teaching materials." The PLoS board of directors promised to go head-to-head with other prestigious journals, such as Nature and Science , which require a subscription fee for Internet access, as well as written permission to reproduce any online content. Is "open access" science pu...Capturing cell protein production in action could help fight antibiotic resistance
...This kind of knowledge has applications across the board when you are trying to work out key factors in diagnosis, treatment or cause of many diseases." Professor van Heel pioneered cryo-electron microscopy 10 years ago. Since then it has become an essential part of many structural biologists' toolkit. It...Green Foundation, Trust gives $12.8 million for UT Southwestern comprehensive research center
...Smith, president of the Green Foundation, said the board of trustees decided that the major part of the foundation's assets should go toward one program. "We have always felt there ought to be a donation for one specific program of high impact, to perpetuate Cecil Green's name and to have important signifi...GM nation? Public debate: a valuable experiment
...s no good announcing a public debate, setting up a board to oversee it, and then to throw money at it. These things need careful design, they need not to be rushed, and they probably need a little more money V but that money has to be well spent." The evaluation team also unveiled today a major (UEA/MORI) ...Shark guide probes uncharted waters
...g of body parts (which require that the fish be on board the vessel for some period of time), in addition to external characteristics. The intent with our emphasis on external characteristics (seen often very quickly as the fish swims around) is to increase species-specific identifications without associat...University of Pittsburgh Medical Center acquires biotechnology firm Rheogene Inc.
...ine as we go forward," said Tillett. RheoGene's board of directors is led by UPMC treasurer C. Talbot Heppenstall Jr. and includes Elizabeth Concordia, senior vice president of UPMC's academic and community hospitals division and president of UPMC's Presbyterian and Shadyside hospitals; David Kalson, es...U.S. commission makes dramatic recommendations for ocean health
...ntation of the recommendations made by an esteemed board of commissioners. He also will stress their call for substantial reform of U.S. ocean policy in order to restore ocean wildlife, protect ocean ecosystems and preserve the ecological, economic, and social benefits the oceans provide. "It has been mo...European researchers launch 10 million euro collaborative technology project
...eral new European synchrotrons, now on the drawing board or under construction, are scheduled to go on line by 2006 or 2007. BIOXHIT calls for them to begin using the platform from their first day of operations. One immediate effect of BIOXHIT will be a significant reduction in the time involved in obtaini...Pesticide exposure among agricultural workers varies by job task
...rs of their households. A local community-advisory board has worked with the researchers on all aspects of this ongoing project, from identifying questions for the pesticide-exposure surveys and helping to develop strategies for reducing pesticide exposure to communicating information about the project to ...Vitamins do little to prevent recurrent stroke
...when the study's performance and safety monitoring board told the funding agency, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, that "there was no chance of showing any difference between the two treatment groups during the remaining follow-up period."...Successful progress launch paves the way for further scientific utilisation of the ISS by Europe
...d educational activities. The Delta experiments on board Progress are: ARGES : This experiment will study...riments taking place on the Delta mission. Also on board Progress is a Russian spectrum analyser, not part of the Delta mission, to perform a dedicated in-or...Beagle 2 team still hopes to repeat Mars landing success
... via Mars Odyssey also indicates that the radio on board NASA's orbiter is working properly. Meanwhile, an attempt to send blind commands to Beagle 2 via Mars Odyssey on 31 December also resulted in no obvious response from the lander. There has also been no response from the Beagle 2 transceiver during 11...New understanding of why brain cells die after stroke will lead to development of new treatments
.... Tymianski and MacDonald went back to the drawing board and discovered that glutamate was only one part of the reason why brain cells die from stroke. "We have significant experience in translating such basic discoveries into drugs that might help patients," says Dr. Tymianski. "With this new know...Research grants available for faculty at minority serving institutions
...ght-week experience) , roundtrip airfare, room and board and a $500 allowance for equipment and supplies. For more information or an application, please contact Gwen Wright. Application deadline is March 1, 2004. ...Expedition will retrace legendary Steinbeck-Ricketts voyage to the Sea of Cortez
...ing on in Mexico, and bringing those scientists on board for a week at a time, or a leg at a time, and exchanging ideas with them is going to be really exciting,'' Gilly says. ''When Gilly invited me to come along, he told me he wanted to keep the expedition as close to the spirit of the original as possib...Tip sheet for the November 25, 2003 Neurology journal
... Pedley, MD, Neurological Institute, New York, AAN board member and former chair of the AAN Science Committee, will moderate. Contact Lise Steves, AMA PIO with Science News, 312-464-5926, or Lise_Stevens@ama-assn.org . AAN supports public forum on "Exploring Environmental Links to Disease: A Look at Parki...International collaborators to form the Worldwide Protein Data Bank
...sing, and distribution. An international advisory board will be formed to support the collaboration....