Matrisian named Vanderbilt's first chair of cancer biology
... Lynn M. Matrisian, Ph.D., associate director for education in the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and internationally recognized researcher in the role of proteolytic enzymes in cancer, has been named as the department's first chair. The new department, expected to grow over time to about 20 faculty, will...... residents' lifestyles (such as smoking habits and education levels) and everyday background radiation exposure...re no longer apparent. "The effects of smoking and education levels on the incidence of heart disease are well known," said Dr. Talbott. "When we controlled for ...Genetically engineered foods: science and nature don't necessarily mix
...uman diets," write Shirley Watson, DC, director of education for the American Chiropractic Association's (ACA) Council on Nutrition, and Barbara Keeler, a journalist and health and nutrition expert, in the JACA article. "Some hazards from the GE process could directly impact patients who ingest the food. Oth...Spring meeting press conferences
...tsAn examination of how NSF-supported research and education have benefited society through improved understanding of Earth systems (e.g., global climate change, severe weather, space weather) and the development of new capabilities for society and researchers (e.g., telecommunications, urban planning, seismic...Welch Award honors 2 for unlocking nature's secrets
...mistry departments at small and medium-sized Texas education institutions, underwrites 35 academic chairs in chemistry, organizes a visiting lecture series of prominent scientists, supports a summer scholar program for high school students, and helps fund a biennial conference for chemistry and science teacher...Women failing to take vitamin that helps prevent serious birth defects, survey finds
...r of a $10 million, multi-year national folic acid education campaign aimed at reducing the incidence of neural tube defects by at least 30 percent by the year 2001. Among the current elements of the campaign, which recognizes the importance of the mass media in reaching women of childbearing age, are new prin...UNC-CH researchers to study social effects of N.C. hurricane
... Southern Oral History Program; Mosnier; Thompson, education and curriculum director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University; and history graduate students Katie Otis and Rachel O'Toole are team members. Strategies used to help adults with low literacy cope with natural disasters are the focu...65 years of women's menstrual cycles detailed
...Mansfield, professor of women's studies and health education at Penn State. "Treloar's classic research, published in 1967, served to establish that a wide band of variability is normal in women's menstrual cycles," said Kernoff Mansfield. "His study showed that at the beginning of a woman's reproductive lif...Breast is still best, though breast-fed infants may show initial slower weight gain
...s living in the west census region, and had a high education level. Never breast-fed infants and children were more likely to be black, small for gestational age, born to teenaged mothers who were smokers living in the south census region and had less than a high school education. The birth weights of exclus...... the nation's largest private supporter of science education from elementary school through postdoctoral studie...s underrepresented in science. The awards support education programs that reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of science and research, the central...Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program expands to become national
... biology and encourage students to pursue graduate education and careers in these fields," said Shirley Malcom,...lly, the program is designed to encourage graduate education in the sciences through undergraduate research experiences that forge interdisciplinary relationship...... children's hospital, is a leader in patient care, education and research. This 373-bed multispecialty hospital provides comprehensive pediatric services, including home care, to children from before birth through age 19. The hospital is second in the United States among all children's hospitals in total resea......wide research, U.S. healthcare, safety and science education markets. "EinsteinsGarage gives scientists, researchers, educators and hobbyists an ideal online auction site that offers them significant savings on a vast array of products, including everything from test tubes to spectrophotometers," sai...Supermarket shelf labels help African Americans, others shop healthier, study finds
...w study from the University of Michigan shows. The education program may help shoppers lower their risk of diet...le choice" label understandable by shoppers at all education levels. Foods receive the labels on the basis of total fat, saturated fat, fiber, cholesterol, and s...Study finds cochlear implants cost-effective in children
...efit comes in the form of fewer demands on special education and greater wage-earning opportunities of implant ...in England or Australia. Setting aside the special education and greater wage-earning opportunities of implant recipients, the cost-utility of pediatric cochlear...UNC-Duke Scientists develop interactive learning tool simulating nerve function
..., the new simulator opens a door into neurobiology education that allows students to duplicate experiments and extend them beyond what can be done in the laboratory. With its 17 tutorials organized into progressive levels of difficulty, it can be used selectively by undergraduate, graduate, or medical students......y programs in the areas of science policy, science education and international scientific cooperation. AAAS publishes the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Science, as well as a number of electronic features on the World Wide Web....Teaching evolution in US schools: new report to be released Sept. 26
...research, publications and action projects in K-12 education reform at the national level and in the Dayton area. It is neither connected with nor sponsored by Fordham University. Public Forum onThe Teaching of Evolution in U.S. Schools:Where Politics, Religion and Science Converge Tuesday, September 26, 2000 ......ting government support and extensive conservation education and family planning programs, particularly for com...cing conservation laws and conducting conservation education would pay large dividends in protecting the animals and their habitat. "Most of the park rangers ar...Americans still consume one-third of calories from low-nutrient 'tip of the pyramid'
...he 1976-1980 NHANES II. Apparently neither public education efforts encouraging consumers to limit their intake of these foods, nor the recent availability of many varieties of fat- and sugar- modified products has affected Americans' penchant for EDNP's. Empty-calorie choices continue to crowd out consumpti...