Trade Center debris pile was a chemical factory, says new study
...s lead author, Thomas Cahill, a UC Davis professor emeritus of physics and atmospheric science and research professor in engineering. "Now that we have a model of how the debris pile worked, it gives us a much better idea of what the people working on and near the pile were actually breathing," Cahill said. "...University of Pittsburgh scientist honored for major accomplishment in cancer research
... Marks Prize, named after Paul A. Marks, president emeritus of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, recognizes significant contributions to the basic understanding and treatment of cancer by scientists no more than 45 years of age. The winners were selected by a committee chaired by Jeffrey M. Friedman, M....Wolves are rebalancing Yellowstone ecosystem
...tonwood seedlings," said Robert Beschta, professor emeritus in the College of Forestry at OSU and an expert on streams and riparian systems. "There should also have been hundreds of young trees, but there were none. Long-term elk browsing had been preventing any seedlings from getting taller." That pattern w...Michigan receives NCRR grant for tomorrow's proteomics technology
... should go to Irwin J. Goldstein, Ph.D., professor emeritus of biological chemistry, who was the Medical School's associate dean for research in 1998, and championed the initial proposal." "Thanks also to Gilbert S. Omenn, M.D., Ph.D., now a professor of internal medicine and human genetics in the Medical Sch...Researchers call for trials of menstrual cycle monitors used for natural family planning
... of the different systems," said lead investigator emeritus Professor Guenter Freundl, gynaecological endocrinologist and senior partner at the Department of Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecological Endocrinology at Staedtische Kliniken Dsseldorf gGmbH, Frauenklinik Benrath, Dsseldorf.[2] The researchers hav...Expedition will retrace legendary Steinbeck-Ricketts voyage to the Sea of Cortez
...tire roundtrip voyage: * Chuck Baxter, a lecturer emeritus in biological sciences at Stanford; * Nancy Burnett, a marine biologist and photographer who serves as science director and executive producer of the Sea Studios Foundation in Monterey; and * Jon Christensen, an environmental journalist and Steinbeck...New book explains plants, medicine
...otany, published by Walter Lewis, Ph.D., professor emeritus of biology, and Memory Elvin-Lewis, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and ethnobotany in biomedicine in Arts & Sciences at Washington University. John Wiley & Sons Inc has just published the 812-page book. The book clarifies and classifies the role ...Human migration tracked in Stanford computer simulation
...rs. The study was led by Luca Cavalli-Sforza, PhD, emeritus professor of genetics, who has spent most of his career tracking the evolution of modern humans. Much of his current work involves following mutations in the Y chromosome, which is passed exclusively from father to son, as humans migrated from Africa...It's a stirring tale of bacteria
... members of the UA research team are John Kessler, emeritus professor of physics, and UA graduate students Christopher Dombrowski, Luis Cisneros, and Sunita Chatkaew. Some of the research funding was provided by the National Science Foundation. Although there had been theoretical suggestions that such "flocki...Passwords to guard entry aren't enough to protect complex data
...f in danger of being accessed by 'bad guys,'" says emeritus professor of computer science Gio Wiederhold, who will speak about trusted information databases Feb. 14 in Seattle at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). "Passwords and other means of access control ...DHEA boosts growth rate of human neural stem cells
...ording to Lardy, an eminent steroid chemist and an emeritus UW-Madison professor of biochemistry, metabolic products of DHEA hormone have also been shown to aid memory retention in old mice. Despite hints from the studies in rodents that DHEA may play a role in enhancing the brain and memory, the new findings...Founder of UCSD bioengineering program honored with lifetime achievement award
...ifornia, San Diego (UCSD) bioengineering professor emeritus Y.-C. "Bert" Fung was selected for the honor by the Chinese Institute of Engineers, USA (CIE/USA), co-sponsor of National Engineers Week 2004. The award program was created to recognize outstanding Asian American professionals in academe, public serv...Should publicly funded research be free and available to the public?
... co-founder of PloS; and Donald Kennedy, president emeritus of Stanford and editor-and-chief of the journal S...ditor-in-chief of Science magazine, is president emeritus and Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Emeritus, at Stanford University....Young scientists awarded for achievements in cancer research
...culty until his retirement in 1995 and still holds emeritus status. He has been a member of the AACR for 45 years and has supported the Science Education Awards for college students since 1997. Thanks to Dr. Bardos' support and dedication to the future of cancer research, recipients of the award receive fi...Media advisory: Sea of Cortez expedition to launch March 26
...accompanied by biologist Chuck Baxter, a professor emeritus at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station; author Jon Christensen, a San Jose State University Steinbeck Fellow; and marine scientist Nancy Burnett of Sea Studios in Monterey. Skipper Frank Donahue will pilot the commercial fishing boat, Gus D, which will...Molecular midwives hold clues to the origin of life
...n 2000, along with co-author Frank Anet, professor emeritus at UCLA. The problem they said was this. When you throw all the components needed to make RNA into a soup, the individual components do not spontaneously form RNA. But there may have been other molecules present at the dawn of life that would have in...Long-forgotten samples may help save species
...ials come in. Back in 1970, U-M professor emeritus John B. (Jack) Burch traveled to Tahiti to study the native snails, which had not yet been decimated by the rosy wolf snail. Hiking deep into valleys where the snails were found, Burch collected several thousand specimens. Most were preserved in alco...Biologist's find alters the bacteria family tree
...echnique pioneered by Carl Woese, Ph.D., professor emeritus of microbiology at the University of Illinois, to construct evolutionary trees of the bacteria. Woese pioneered the technique of using ribosomal RNA genes to make the first family trees of microbes. He was also the first person to distinguish betw...Fox Chase Cancer Center's Alfred Knudson Jr. named 2004 Kyoto Prize winner
...hed in 1984 by Kazuo Inamori, founder and chairman emeritus of Kyocera Corporation. The Kyoto Prizes were founded in 1985 in line with Inamori's belief that "man has no higher calling than to strive for the greater good of society, and that mankind's future can be assured only when there is a balance between...... of the journal Nature, R. Dale Guthrie, professor emeritus at the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, says that when mammoths on the mainland of Alaska and other Bering Sea islands died out during the extinctions at the end of the Pleistocene era (about 11,000 years ago) those ...