Chemical Heritage Foundation and BIO give Biotechnology Heritage Award to William Rutter
...tion in 1981 until 1999. In 1969 Rutter joined the faculty of UCSF as Hertzstein Professor and served as the chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics from 1969 to 1982. As department chair, he spearheaded the drive to turn the department and the School of Medicine into leading research organ...June issue of Plant Physiology has significant UCR contributions
...y contains significant contributions made by UCR faculty and staff. Subtitled "Arabidopsis Special Issue: Plant Systems Biology," the issue is one of the first publications devoted to systems-based research the new multidisciplinary, computational approach for addressing biological issues and the wave of...UCR graduate student wins best poster at Environmental Mutagen Society Meeting
...edu or by calling 909-787-5185. For a listing of faculty experts on a variety of topics, please visit http://mmr.ucr.edu/experts/ ....Researchers discover birds protect trees in neotropics by eating insects
...on, a professor of animal biology, were Van Bael's faculty advisers and co-authors of the PNAS paper, which will appear later in a print issue of the journal. "Birds clean herbivores off of trees," Van Bael said. "This is important because we need our trees, especially in the tropics, to be healthy. They p...AGI publishes 41st edition of Directory of Geoscience Departments
...te geological surveys, field-camp information, and faculty e-mail addresses. Other valuable features include departments that are AGI Academic Associates, the year of the most recent departmental update, the most recent enrollments and degrees granted, and AGI and AGI Member Society staff listings. Publish...Bioinformatics/GIS program aim is to protect chimpanzees
Blacksburg, Va. -- A faculty member in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech has been awarded a $726,476 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to develop a more "holistic" system for the integration of technology, research and educatio...UCLA physicists create nanoscale sensor
...a UCLA graduate student. Zocchi, who joined UCLA's faculty in 1999 after conducting research at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, is exuberant about the future of nanotechnology research at the California NanoSystems Institute -- a collaboration of UCLA and UC Santa Barbara -- and elsewhere. "...Artificial organ research findings presented by University of Pittsburgh researchers
...ed to transplant," said Dr. Gerlach, who also is a faculty member of the university's McGowan Institute for R...1. Invited lecture, symposium feature McGowan faculty Also scheduled are discussions featuring David Vorp, Ph.D., associate professor in the departments ...Undergraduate students physics research earns trip to international conference
...ne with a group working with Virginia Tech physics faculty member Uwe C. Tuber. "Our group (condensed matter theory) tries to build theoretical understanding of systems 'out of equilibrium,' Reid said. "One example is life, which is maintained by a constant energy flux through the system. My project's focus ...Plant diversity threatened by climate change and buildup of greenhouse gas, study reveals
... Stanford doctoral student who recently joined the faculty at the University of California-Santa Cruz. "It only took three years in our experiment. What does that say about the impact global change will have on plant diversity in the longer term?" Global changes Located in the grassy foothills of Stanford...Simulated global environmental changes impact plant diversity
...a, the study's lead author and a new member of the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The finding is significant for understanding what can happen to ecosystems when confronted with the interrelated climactic and atmospheric changes that are observed today and that presage larger changes i...Columbia offers new ecology program in Dominican Republic
...ican Republic will be chosen in collaboration with faculty at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, the oldest university in the Americas, as well as researchers at The Botanical Garden of Santo Domingo, and the Institute for Forestry and Agriculture. This opportunity for students of many nationalities...Biotechnology taught as a tool for teaching
...shops for high school teachers and college science faculty to help them teach biotechnology concepts and skills. The workshops are held on the afternoons of July 17 and 18 following the presentations and all day July 19. A pre-conference Biotechnology Boot Camp will be offered the afternoon of July 16 for pa...University of Pittsburgh scientists awarded for outstanding cancer research contribution
... prizes ever awarded to a University of Pittsburgh faculty member," said Arthur S. Levine, M.D., senior vice chancellor for the Health Sciences and dean, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "In fact, the honor has been bestowed on only a select number of the world's top scientists, nine of whom have...UNC researcher awarded top prize for oceanography, fresh water studies
...d reminds its members of those goals. Paerl, a UNC faculty member since 1978, was recognized "for contributing to understanding of aquatic microbial processes, for documenting linkages among the atmospheric deposition of nitrogen, coastal eutrophication and harmful algal blooms, and for crossing traditional ...Graduate student Kristine Preston wins competition for A. Brazier Howell Award
...edu or by calling 909-787-5185. For a listing of faculty experts on a variety of topics, please visit http://mmr.ucr.edu/experts/ ....UC Riverside's David Reznick receives 2003 E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award
...edu or by calling 909-787-5185. For a listing of faculty experts on a variety of topics, please visit http://mmr.ucr.edu/experts/ ....Study: Stroke victims may retain continuous motion ability
...ally challenged. The research team, which included faculty from Purdue and University of California-Berkeley, was led by Purdue professor Howard Zelaznik. The team found that the cerebellum may not be as fully responsible for the timing of "continuous" motions, such as drawing circles repeatedly on paper, as...Equine cloning may shed light on human cancer causes
...octor's degrees under his direction. Woods' first faculty assignment came in 1983 at the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine where he originated and directed Cornell's Laboratory of Equine Embryo Biology. He left Cornell in 1986 to set up the Northwest Equine Reproduction Laboratory on the UI camp...Researchers aim to centralize N.C. emergency room data to combat epidemics, bioterrorism
...t. Now University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty members are trying to make the system react more quickly to health-care threats. They have linked emergency departments at three institutions -- UNC Hospitals, New Hanover Regional Medical Center and Cape Fear Memorial Hospital -- into the new North ...