New books show social side of weather and climate
...r holds the title of senior scientist and director emeritus of NCAR. Judith E. Jacobsen is a writer, lecturer, and consultant on world population issues. Ordering the book: Yale University Press, P.O. Box 209040, New Haven, CT 06520-9040. Telephone: 1-800-987-7323; Fax: 1-800-406-9145; E-mail: customer....Acoustic technique could disinfect medical instruments without heat or harsh chemicals
...the end phenomenon," said Donald Ahearn, professor emeritus of biology at Georgia State University. "Increased pressure and disinfectant molecules are somehow enhanced by the cavitation process, but the physiology of the death has yet to be determined." Ultrasound has been used elsewhere to make skin permeab...New Northwestern center targets brain disorders
... another long-time collaborator, Jaak Panksepp, an emeritus professor in the psychology department at Bowling Green State University, joined the Falk Center as head of its affective neuroscience research program. The Falk Center puts state-of-the-art gene chip technology -- the same used to discover the gly...Discovery of size changes of Bacillus spores may lead to simpler, faster anthrax detector
...ghton, an anthrax expert and UC Berkeley professor emeritus of molecular and cell biology. "The holy grail in microbiology at this moment is trying to manipulate and image single microbial cells, because they are at the limit of resolution of normal optical microscopes. This technology pushes the lower limit ...Science champion William T. Golden makes historic $5.25 million gift to AAAS
...n officer and trustee of AAAS. He is also chairman emeritus of the American Museum of Natural History, and serves numerous other organizations, including the New York Academy of Sciences; the Carnegie Institution of Washington; and the Mount Sinai Medical Center, Hospital, and Medical School. Further, he has ...Tapeworm's chemical trick could make drugs more effective
...olonged small intestinal residence," says Bass, an emeritus professor of pharmacy. "Almost all drugs we take orally are absorbed from the small intestine. By prolonging the medication's residence time in that organ, we should enhance its absorption and obtain higher blood levels of the medication." The compou...New book entertainingly tells 'What Good Are Bugs'
... pollinated by insects," says Waldbauer, professor emeritus of entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Without the insects, most of these plants would not exist. Insects are involved in the population control of other insects and of vertebrates. They are very important in cleaning up ...UC Riverside's Bill Mayhew receives George B. Fell Award
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Bill Mayhew, professor emeritus of zoology at UC Riverside, was the unanimous choice for this year's George B. Fell Award from the Natural Areas Association. The award is the Natural Areas Association's highest level of recognition, given in honor of George Fell, a founding member...Dartmouth engineers closer to mass-producing therapeutic proteins
...on, co-founder and CEO of GlycoFi, as well as dean emeritus of Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. "The result is that some approved therapeutic protein drugs cannot be produced in adequate amounts, and still others are not making it into commercialization due to the cost and inefficiencies of producing...Jane Goodall to receive 2003 Environmental Citizen Award
...entalist Edward O. Wilson, PhD, Harvard University emeritus professor of biology, two-time Pulitzer Prize winn...pics. 2001: Edward O. Wilson , Harvard University emeritus professor of biology. Wilson is one of the world's most distinguished and respected scientists. Thr...Close communication between identical twins helps them live longer
...ance to affect health," said Syme, now a professor emeritus of epidemiology. "For these identical twins, it's not just communication and it's not just genetics. You can't explain it just with biology or with the social environment - it is somehow the combination of the two." Zaretsky's new study is further de...160,000-year-old fossilized skulls from Ethiopia are oldest modern humans
...team member F. Clark Howell, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of integrative biology and co-director with White of UC Berkeley's Laboratory for Human Evolutionary Studies. "This is a truly revolutionary scientific discovery." Howell added that these anatomically modern humans pre-date most neanderthals, and the...New biography details adventures of 'Fritz Muller, A Naturalist in Brazil'
...The study of mimicry led West, associate professor emeritus of biology at Virginia Tech, from local butterflies to Brazil to research an unusual swallowtail butterfly species in which both males and females mimic a toxic butterfly. In Brazil, West became familiar with a legendary figure, Fritz Mller, whose ...Researchers detect receptor for day/night cycles
...oreceptors, explains Nicholas Mrosovsky, professor emeritus in zoology at U of T. When these rods and cones degenerate, mammals and animals become blind. Despite this, however, some animals can synchronize their biological clocks to the day/night cycle, a problem that has perplexed scientists for the past dec...Chemical Heritage Foundation and BIO give Biotechnology Heritage Award to William Rutter
... Research Institute at UCSF. He became a professor emeritus in 1991. Rutter has served on the Board of Overseers of Harvard University, the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and several private company boards. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)BIO represents more than 1...The 'fixed' hotspot that created Hawaii was not stationary after all, study finds
... Stanford University and senior research scientist emeritus with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif. "This finding will break across a very cherished idea about how things work in the innards of the Earth." Scholl is one of 11 co-authors of the study that appears in the July 24 edition of Science...UC Berkeley museum biologists to repeat 85-year-old Yosemite National Park wildlife survey
...s a curator in the museum, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus of integrative biology and an expert on small mammals. To make these comparisons, the team is revisiting initially about 10 of the 22 sites surveyed by Grinnell and Storer within the boundaries of Yosemite. Assuming funding comes through, museum sci...Weather extremes shed light on prairie's past and environment's future
...s a result of global warming, said Changnon, chief emeritus of the State Water Survey. "What this shows is that the whole environment of the Midwest has been very sensitive to certain extreme weather events," he said. "Having long-term data lets us talk more intelligently about potential changes in global cl...Honeybee gene find ends 150-year search
...n the 1940s, Harry H. Laidlaw, Jr. now a professor emeritus of entomology at UC Davis, and others pioneered methods for artificial insemination of bees, allowing selective breeding for the first time. But attempts to create long-lived inbred strains generally failed....Francis Collins and Ari Patrinos receive Energy Secretary's Gold Award for Human Genome Project
... Gold Award in 2002 to Dr. Edward Teller, director emeritus of the department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory....