Open-Air Experiment Shows High CO2 Boosts Tree Growth
...alysis of overall tree growth, ShawnaNaidu, a post doctoral researcher at Illinois, reported that the 12 percentincreases at the active FACTS-1 sites occurred in the face of low soil fertilityand periods of drought. The scientists documented the increased growth by makingtree-girth measurements about three fe...Duke Studies Show That Environmental Effects Of Dams Extend To Insect Life
... point," said Shahabuddin, who is one ofTerborgh's doctoral students. "I decided to look at butterflies, because veryfew people look at such invertebrates in forest fragments," she added in aninterview. In 1995, Shahabuddin began to evaluate the ways in which approximately40 different butterfly specie...University of Florida Research Shows Zinc Triggers Body's Defenses
...nst stress." Cousins worked with former UF doctoral student Vicki Sullivan on theresearch, which was published in the Journal of Nutrition in April. The study is the first to apply genetic fingerprinting methods likethoseused in criminal and paternity investigations to understanding hownutrien...Turtle Population Apparently Threatened By Urban Sprawl, Traffic
...ways that now separate them, says Cory S. Rubin, a doctoral student in theUniversity of Illinois department ofnatural resources and environmental sciences (NRES). Rubin has been searching the West Chicago Prairie and Pratts Wayne Woods forestpreserves, which are eight miles apartin Du Page County, west of Ch...Fruit-Eating Birds Discovered Crucial To Rainforest Survival
...es, ratherthan forest birds." Whitney, now a doctoral student at UC Davis, is the senior author on papersreporting the hornbill research in the current issues of the Journal of TropicalEcology and Animal Conservation. The study found that two hornbill species in the genus Ceratogymna -- C.atrata and ...Paper Wasp Queens Wait To Hijack Or Adopt
...his TVtalk show," says Philip T. Starks, a Cornell doctoral candidate in animalbehavior, whose research is being published today (Aug. 7) by Britain's RoyalSociety. "This is risky behavior. From an evolutionary perspective, if females don't geta nest, they won't get offspring in the next generation," says S...Better Golf Course Chemical Management Possible With "Kturf" Website
... data from soil columns he collected aspart of his doctoral program at Iowa State University. The Starretts used acommercially available artificial neural network toolbox to begin developing theKTURF predictive models. They entered data on soil characteristics, pesticide ornitrogen characteristics, and irriga...Study Demonstrates High Conservation Potential Of Logged Rainforest
...ular dogma," said Charles Cannon,a Duke University doctoral student in botany who is lead author of a report onthe work to be published in the Aug. 28 issue of the journal Science. "The results to me are very preliminary, but I think the main point totake from this is that logged forests are not neces...Study Pinpoints Rare Molecular 'Transitions' As Possible Cause Of Skin 'Photoaging'
... Authored by Simon and Kerry Hanson, his former doctoral student now atthe University of Illinois in Champagne-Urbana, that report is published in theSept. 1 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Theirresearch, supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, beganat......atory science specialty will lead to a master's or doctoral degree....University At Buffalo Team Discovers How The Cell Nucleus Orchestrates Genetic Processes
...ism. First author on the paper is Xiangyun Wei, a doctoral candidate in the UBDepartment of Biological Sciences. In addition to Berezney, the co-authors areAlan Siegel, a microscopy specialist in the department; Jagath Samarabandu,Ph.D., formerly a post-doctoral associate, and Professor Raj Acharya, Ph.D., ...Cardinals Can Recognize Gender By Song, Columbia University Biologist Finds
...nia, Davis. The work forms part ofDr. Yamaguchi's doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Davis. This document is available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/pr/ . Working press mayreceive science and technology press releases via e-mail by sending a message to rjn2@columbia.edu ....Research Answers Burning Questions About Pollution
...e country that has done this." Laurendeau's doctoral student Clayton Cooper presented results from the spray-flame experiments at the International Symposium on Combustion in Boulder, Colo. The researchers also published an article on their research methods in the July issue of the journal Applied O...Living Bone Created By University of Toronto Researchers
...,chemical engineering professor Molly Shoichet and doctoral student Chantal Holy. When implanted to fill a gap or fracture, the foam can be seeded with thepatient's own bone stem cells to create living tissue. Bone defects and injuries are currently treated predominantly bygrafting bone from another...Ribozymes To The Rescue: New UF Gene Therapy Shows Promise For Treatment Of Inherited Blindness
...rly Drenser, a UF student pursuing her medical and doctoral degrees, played a significant role in the study. UF's research has been supported by the March of Dimes, the Foundation Fighting Blindness and the National Eye Institute....Bat Sonar Sharper Than Thought; Much Better Than Man-Made Gear
...as AdolphusCollege, and Cynthia Moss, former doctoral student and post-doctoral researcher at Brown, now associate professor of psychology at the University ofMaryland.......octoral student in linguistics, and Kevin Hinshaw, doctoral student in computerscience and engineering....Chopping And Cooking Affect Garlic's Anti-Cancer Activity
...least 10minutes before cooking. Kun Song, doctoral candidate in nutrition, and Dr. John A. Milner,professor and head of the Department of Nutrition, conducted the study. The research was the first to show that as little as one minute ofmicrowaving or 45 minutes of oven roasting can completel...Cholesterol Inhibitors In Garlic Identified
... Benefitsof Garlic. His co-author is Lijuan Liu, a doctoral candidate in nutrition atPenn State. Yeh and Liu identified a group of three water soluble,sulfur-containing, garlic constituents (S-allyl cysteine, S-ethyl-cysteine andS-propyl cysteine) that decreased cholesterol production in cultured rat ...Virginia Tech Research Group Presents Improved Dental Materials
...rts.The Virginia Tech research group includes post doctoral fellows M.Sankarapandian and H.K. Shobha -- who are husband and wife, Gunduz, Shultz, andJames McGrath, director of the NSF Science and Technology Center for HighPerformance Polymeric Adhesives and Composites. The work is supported by the NSFcenter a...