Veterinary Memorial Fund transforms grief into promise
...ch treats more than 40,000 animals annually. Other campuses include the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center in Leesburg, Va., and the Avrum Gudelsky Veterinary Center at College Park, home of the Center for Government and Corporate Veterinary Medicine. The VMRCVM annually enrolls approximately 500 Docto...Researchers discover how worms' noses sense oxygen
...m. Researchers from the Berkeley and San Francisco campuses of the University of California have now discovered how the nematode C. elegans senses oxygen levels in order to steer clear of surrounding areas that are too low or too high in oxygen. In the process, the researchers also discovered that the worm d...Leading science, higher-education and engineering groups urge six improvements to U.S. visa quagmire
...al students, scholars and researchers to America's campuses is important to our nation's economy, to its education and research enterprises, and to national security. With applications declining, it's clear that many of the best and brightest students abroad no longer believe the United States is the destinat...Better techniques needed to predict earthquake hazards, UC study finds
...rthquake hazards at three University of California campuses Riverside (UCR), San Diego (UCSD), and Santa Barb...nal Laboratory (LLNL) near San Francisco. Seven UC campuses participated in the study, known as the Campus Earthquake Program. The researchers found wide discre...World's first databank for all living systems
...is engaging several hundred researchers across its campuses in Ithaca and at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City in a broad program of education and investigation, integrating life sciences with physical, engineering and computational sciences. Steven Tanksley, the Liberty Hyde Bailey professor...New Georgia Tech Biosciences Center assists life-science startup companies
...r research building. Most incubators on university campuses are freestanding, in separate facilities," says Wayne Hodges, director of ATDC and Georgia Tech's vice provost for Economic Development and Technology Ventures. Yet by being convenient to researchers in the new Life Sciences Complex, the ATDC Biosci...Squirrel invasion sows seeds of change for future forests
...ragmentation, why do we have them all over college campuses and in our backyards?" It turns out gray squirrels...ry well in places where predators are absent, like campuses and suburban neighborhoods, but they just aren't as vigilant and wary of predators as other squirrel...Tufts University wins $25-million NIH contract
...niversity of Massachusetts is building between its campuses and its private sector peers.'' The botulism research center will draw on the expertise of Saul Tzipori, PhD, DVM, Tufts' internationally renowned infectious diseases expert and who led efforts to earn the NIH award, and Bal Ram Singh, PhD, a profess...Army awards up to $50 million to establish Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies
...Morse. "Our aim is to integrate work at the three campuses in a seamless way so that we can increase the rate of productivity of discoveries and transition prototype development with our industrial partners. "The teams at UCSB, MIT, and Caltech are recognized for developing a uniquely interdisciplinary appro...DFG to establish nine new collaborative research centres
...based at several, usually two or three, university campuses and aim to bring together cooperation partners whose individual contributions complement each other in high-level scientific research. Transfer Units contribute to translating the findings from a Collaborative Research Centre into practice by encoura...Max Planck supports open access to research
...c institutions. NHS England,Harvard, Yale, the ten campuses of the University of California,Institut Pasteur, CNRS and the World Health Organization are allBioMed Central Institutional Members. BioMed Central's Membership Program enables institutions toensure the widest possible distribution of their peer-rev...First draft of 'periodic table' of protein structures helps visualize nature's universe of proteins
...esearch (QB3), a cooperative effort among three UC campuses and private industry that harnesses the quantitative sciences to integrate our understanding of biological systems at all levels of complexity. As the number of organisms with completely sequenced genomes passes 100, with another 600 expected by the...UCSD brings powerful visualization to high school classroom
...uter project, an award made to UCSD and five other campuses in Fall 2002. The OptIPuter project brought together three technology institutions affiliated with UCSD that helped build the visualization center: the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the California Institute for Telecommunications and Informa...Wetlands clean selenium from agricultural runoff
...gram. The program involves researchers from the UC campuses at Berkeley, Davis and Riverside, and from the Tulare Lake Drainage District in Corcoran, Calif., who have been studying ways to provide irrigation for Central Valley farmers while mitigating ecological risks. The toxic effects of selenium made head...UC Riverside receives Dupont gift of intellectual property in form of herbicide
...Riverside is one of three University of California campuses offering agricultural and natural resource sciences, as well as Cooperative Extension research and outreach programs. The College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences is recognized internationally for its research and educational programs in the agr...Science writers to explore new horizons of science and technology
... and engineers from the Hilltop and Medical School campuses will be joining their distinguished counterparts from around the country to make newsworthy presentations....Scientists use alfalfa plants to harvest nanoparticles of gold
...ity of Texas (UT) team from the El Paso and Austin campuses is working on those answers in Texas and at SSRL. Work to date demonstrates answers to the first two of those questions, and the team is working on answering the third. Subatomic scale The alfalfa plants were germinated and grown on an artificial, go...UC Riverside to play active role in Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
... the UC system. Unlike most other UC MRPs, non-UC campuses can also join ICAM. The university's ex-Chancellor Raymond Orbach and Douglas MacLaughlin, professor of physics, participated in the initial formation of ICAM. Ward Beyermann, associate professor of physics at UC Riverside, is on the Board of Govern...UC & sister institutions form 'Institute Without Walls' for transdisciplinary collaborations
...m for three-to-nine-month residencies at different campuses or ICAM branches. ICAM faculty on branch campuses are being encouraged to develop new interdisciplinary courses for graduate students and research pro...New equine treadmill facility a research, evaluation resource
...er, located in Leesburg, Virginia, is one of three campuses operated by the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, a two-state professional school with major campus facilities at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg and the University of Maryland at College Park. The Equine Medical Center offers 2...