Clemson University spin-off uses corn to make plastics, provide cleaner air
...ranted $5 million in matching funds for an endowed faculty member. The faculty position is a cornerstone of Clemson's plan to invest $70 million over the next five years at the Cl...MIT research that stops pain of needle jabs gets FDA approval
...mir Mitragotri (MIT Ph.D. 1996), who is now on the faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara. The scientists founded Sontra Medical Corp. of Franklin, Mass., which manufactures the SonoPrep device and will begin marketing it in September, at an expected price of $2,000 each. Langer, who is wel...UCR earns $1.5 million grant to examine how engineered crop genes stray
... The project, which begins Sept. 1, will assemble faculty and graduate students from botany and plant sciences, economics, sociology, and statistics into three multidisciplinary teams. One group will focus on natural processes that affect dispersal of genes such as wind, timing of plant flowering, or pro...When is a mouse like a test tube?
...zzi, a professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "It's a really powerful technique, with the ability to change how we think about applying chemical processes in biology." She and her colleagues report their novel chemical experiments - the first r...Parasitic cowbirds thrive with a less ruthless strategy than cuckoos
... the August 6 issue of Science. Hauber will take a faculty position at the University of Auckland in New Zealand at the end of this year. Though reviled by bird lovers, cowbirds have proved spectacularly successful, having expanded their range from the Midwest to the entire United States over the past 400 y...LSU Vet School receives $9.9 million for infectious disease research
...ely compete for independent funding by NIH. Once a faculty member receives his or her own NIH funding for a p...imate Research Center, or TNPRC. A number of other faculty and staff will participate in research cores in the school and the TNPRC. The five initial research...MSU group reviews Berkeley venture into brave new science funding world
...e University released a report commissioned by the faculty senate at Berkeley that examines the fall-out of a... "Ideally, this will start a national debate among faculty members about what we'd like the universities to look like, especially public and land-grant univers...Ecologist calls for creation of an international panel to assess human behavior
...s in solving the human predicament? It would mean faculty adopting new values, and more often trying to do w...re than three decades of effort by small groups of faculty and a few administrators have failed to get a frequently dysfunctional university senate to make nee...New UCF researchers, college will help fight Alzheimer's disease, cancer
...t the college. UCF plans to increase the number of faculty members working in biomolecular sciences from 22 to 47 in the next few years. The college initially will have about 900 undergraduates and 75 graduate students who, along with faculty, will conduct research to find novel treatments for cancer, cardio...NIH renews funding for continued Rb2 tumor suppressing gene research at Temple
...serving as a member of Temple's School of Medicine faculty and as a researcher at the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology. Over the past decade, Giordano and the other researchers at the Sbarro Institute ( http://www.shro.org ) have been able to establish a link between Rb2 and its expr...CBEN wins grant for undergraduate nanotech course
...irector for education and public policy at CBEN, a faculty fellow in the department of chemistry and principa... to change it; (4) risk and the environment. Other faculty involved in the course include anthropologists Chris Kelty and Hannah Landecker; nanotechnologists V...Report outlines vision and recommendations for microbiology in the 21st Century
... do not already have microbial scientists in their faculty to hire them. It also gives those faculty the opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary research." The report recommends amending science cur...Register early for the AIUM regional course, Ultrasound: The Complete Perspective, and save
...ization Groin Ultrasound The complete faculty and course list is available online at www.aium.org . ...UGA named recipient of $5.6 million grant from NSF for corn improvement
... be a minority outreach effort. The plant genomics faculty at UGA has approved the establishment of a new undergraduate research initiative that will advance plant research on campus. The program, called Georgia Research Opportunities for Undergraduate Program (GROUP) will give students a chance to work on t...Unique partnership between UH, FDA opens path for scientific exchange
...ep toward this goal." Chenault recently spoke to faculty and graduate students of the UH College of Pharmac...harmacy. "Training and research opportunities for faculty and students, at both institutions, are greatly enhanced by this partnership. This exciting opportu...New textbook introduces students to the foundations, applications of nanotechnology
...st-rising scientists. Most of the contributors are faculty members at universities such as Virginia Tech, the University of Pennsylvania, Penn State, MIT, UCLA, the University of Washington, University of Virginia, and Johns Hopkins. There are also contributors from the national labs, such as Oak Ridge, and ...Hormone helps fish to mate, may affect human hearing
...e in Bass's lab at the time of the study and now a faculty member at the University of Washington, further explains: "Previous experiments in other laboratories also suggested that steroid hormones may play a role in causing some of the reported changes in hearing sensitivity of human females at differing s...Funding to commercialize technologies of UC San Diego engineers tops $1.2 million
...than $1.2 million in support of 31 projects led by faculty members of UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering. Th...e continuing high level of interest on the part of faculty in this mechanism to speed the transition of their technologies from the lab to the marketplace," sa...National Bioinformatics Resource Center to support infectious disease research
...is co-principal investigator. Other Virginia Tech faculty members include Stephen Boyle from the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine and Deborah Hix and Naren Ramakrishnan from the Department of Computer Science. Key scientists at other institutions are Susan Baker, a Severe Acute Resp...UCSD undergraduates participate in collaborative studies abroad on cyberinfrastructure
...e their successes, and to engage more students and faculty mentors in the program for 2005....