Rutgers ecologists and Brooklyn Botanic Garden botanists to plan Beijing Olympics Forest Park
...scape issues. The team draws upon the expertise of faculty from a broad assortment of disciplines at Rutgers,... Tsinghua University. Participants include Rutgers faculty from CURE; Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute; and Cook College's Departments ...Grant from GE Foundation to University of Houston to strengthen math, tech 'pipeline'
...enable GE volunteers, University professionals and faculty and staff from Houston ISD schools to effectively partner to create a much-needed mathematics and technology pipeline in Houston." In partnership with Ross Shaw Sterling High School and Thomas Middle School (a feeder school for Sterling) in HISD, NS...Scientists question reports of massive ant supercolonies in California and Europe
...oward each other," said Tsutsui, who is now on the faculty at the University of California-Irvine. He explained that the loss of genetic diversity in the California population probably began a century ago, when the state was invaded by a small population of Argentine ants whose offspring have continued to wo...Genetic trick adapted from viruses makes gene therapy vectors more versatile
...ber of the St. Jude Department of Immunology and a faculty member at the University of Tennessee Medical Center. Vignali is senior author of the Nature Biotechnology report. "We expect that this technique will make it a lot easier for us to study the role of complex protein structures," Vignali said. "These...OHSU researchers discover possible connection between infant hormone exposure, obesity
... Simerly, Ph.D., a senior scientist at ONPRC and a faculty member in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology in the OHSU School of Medicine. "While the full impact of this information is not currently known, our findings suggest a link between the developmental actions of leptin and early onset obes...Damania of UNC receives Elion cancer research award
...ersity of Pennsylvania in 1998. She joined the UNC faculty in October 2000 following a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University....Bird's song may be linked to speech disorders
... in song learning," noted White, who joined UCLA's faculty in 2000 after earned her Ph.D. at Stanford in neuroscience, and then conducted postdoctoral research at Duke University. "If we can learn what FoxP1 and FoxP2 are doing during these periods, then we may be able to highlight key developmental moments...'Top Houston Women in Technology' honoree at UH
...ersity helped launched her career. Joining the UH faculty in 1995, Hardin's research interests are in the areas of molecular genetics and biotechnology, especially with respect to the mechanisms of enzymatic DNA synthesis and DNA replication. Hardin also is president and CEO of VisiGen Biotechnologi...Scientists crack genome sequence of a major parasitic pathogen
...ell Abrahamsen, Ph.D., principal investigator, and faculty member of the University of Minnesota College Vete...vek Kapur, BVSc, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, faculty member of the University of Minnesota Medical School and College of Veterinary Medicine, and directo...Pioneering discoveries, pursuing new knowledge, fostering partnerships
...dvancement of science, education and culture. Our faculty and students are very active in applying new knowl...res Professor the same year, becoming the first UH faculty member to receive both honors in the same year. For more than 25 years, his research continuously h...The biological clock: What really makes us tick
... team of more than 30 scholars led by five tenured faculty members, the UH Biological Clocks Program studies ... trained as a molecular geneticist, joining the UH faculty in 1995. He has won a number of awards for his research, among them the Aschoff-Honma Prize that he...UNC's Siderovski wins pharmacology award
... third national career award since joining the UNC faculty in 1999. He was named a Year 2000 Neuroscience Scholar by the EJLB Foundation of Montreal and in 2001 received a New Investigator Award in Basic Pharmacological Sciences by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Siderovski receives the newest award, which carr...Principal investigators named for international scholars in breast cancer research program
...osts." Each host institution will provide a junior faculty member from a non-U.S. institution with a two-year... Awards. A Call for Applications from those junior faculty members who wish to apply for the program will be issued in May 2004. The deadline for applications ...Oregon Stem Cell Center result of OHSU research strides
...ive supported by public and private dollars. Three faculty members specializing in stem cell research also will be hired during the next two years. Dorsa believes the Oregon Stem Cell Center fits in well with the National Institutes of Health's "Roadmap" initiative, which strives to accelerate fundamental d...Young scientists awarded for achievements in cancer research
... New York at Buffalo, where he was a member of the faculty 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 ...Children's Memorial, TGen announce partnership
...cipal investigators at the institute are full-time faculty members at Feinberg. The institute is the research arm of Children's Memorial Medical Center. TGen's mission is to make and translate genomic discoveries into advances in human health. "Translational genomics research" is a relatively new field empl...AACR awards scholarships to minority and underrepresented scientists
...dents, clinical or postdoctoral fellows, or junior faculty members. Criteria for candidacy include the stipu...ips relevant to cancer research and hold full-time faculty positions at the level of assistant professor or above at an institution designated as minority-serv...UC San Diego places in top tier of institutions awarded 2004 Sloan Research Fellowships
San Diego, CA, March 9, 2004 -- Six faculty members of the University of California, San Diego have been selected as Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows in 2004 -- double the number in the period 1999-2002 combined. They are among the 117 academics receiving the distinction this year, and UCSD ra...Device detects, traps and deactivates airborne viruses and bacteria
...on University in St. Louis has a core group of six faculty who are mainstream aerosol researchers, and work on different aspects related to Aerosol Science and Engineering. This nationally and internationally recognized group of scientists, one of the largest groups in U. S. universities, studies the synthes...Should publicly funded research be free and available to the public?
... the Internet. Here at Stanford, most students and faculty use the Internet to access the scientific journals to which Stanford subscribes. The Internet has transformed the economics of scientific publishing. The costs of the remaining essential functions of scientific publishers - orchestrating peer review ...