Founder of UCSD bioengineering program honored with lifetime achievement award
...ool at Caltech in 1945, and joined its aeronautics faculty in 1948 after receiving his Ph.D. in aeronautics a...olleagues, Marcos Intaglietta (who is still on the faculty at UCSD) and the late Benjamin Zweifach, Fung moved to San Diego to start and build UCSD's bioengine...Desert science center aims to bridge rift between Jordan and Israel
...esearch at the center. ''Stanford is a place where faculty and students from many countries and backgrounds c...st to geneticists and other life scientists.'' The faculty at the center will consist of scientists from Stanford, Cornell and various Jordanian and Israeli un...Researchers receive NIH grant to open pediatric pharmacology research center
...bing the appropriate amount of the drug. Other key faculty and staff members at UT Southwestern and Children's involved in the center are: Dr. Octavio Ramilo, associate professor of pediatrics; Dr. Victor Aquino, assistant professor of pediatrics; Dr. Robert Bash, assistant professor of pediatrics; Dr. Roger...UC San Diego faculty receive funding from von Liebig Center to commercialize academic research
...(UCSD) has awarded $275,000 to six projects led by faculty members of the Jacobs School of Engineering. The p...l faculty. Of the six new grants, two each went to faculty or researchers based in the Computer Science and Engineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineeri......e." George Ruyle, Larry Howery and Paul Krausman, faculty from the School of Natural Resources, and Mark Enns from the UA department of animal sciences, provided additional input. The RangeView Web site provides applications for viewing, animating and analyzing satellite imagery to monitor vegetation dynam...New systems biology center positions UT Southwestern in vanguard of scientific research
...ding various biological processes. A core group of faculty already is applying computer science and mathemati...s, which have considerable computing resources and faculty expertise. "Communications systems have gotten to the point where you don't have to have all your c...Oxidation processes basis of interdisciplinary research, graduate training
...ts and engineers. The MILES IGERT involves 15 core faculty members in four of Virginia Tech's colleges Agriculture and Life Sciences, Engineering, Science, and Veterinary Medicine to provide cooperative research, interdisciplinary education, and outreach experiences to 36 students. Other departments, insti...NHLBI awards $68 million to fund clinical centers in pediatric heart disease
...The Cores are designed to train fellows and junior faculty in the art and science of clinical research. New clinical investigators will gain experience in areas such as grant writing, ethical conduct of research, and clinical trial design....Patients give nod to kidney dialysis at home
...ote referrals to hemodialysis," says Rubin, also a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. "Dialysis centers invest heavily in both equipment and personnel and to remain financially solvent must make sure both are used to receive reimbursement by Medi...MIT student dances with robots
...nated actions for unmanned systems," said Gentry's faculty advisor, Professor Eric Feron of aeronautics and astronautics. "Urban warfare, for example, requires people and systems to conduct very closely coordinated actions to detect danger and eliminate it." More broadly, Gentry's work "has relevance for how...AGI publishes 42nd edition of Directory of Geoscience Departments
...te geological surveys, field-camp information, and faculty e-mail addresses. Other valuable features include ...ake it possible for geoscience departments and new faculty members to submit updated information at the start of the new academic year. This will improve the c...New Georgia Tech Biosciences Center assists life-science startup companies
...iences Center enables entrepreneurs and university faculty -- individuals who are typically isolated from eac...d entrepreneurs better understand the interests of faculty and vice versa." ATDC first experimented with this sort of holistic approach in 1996 when it opened...Integrated animal model answers questions about environment
...ersity of Wisconsin-Madison, has been working with faculty and staff across campus to develop a computer model that could predict how animals, living on a real landscape anywhere on Earth, would respond to specific changes in the environment. The model could answer questions, such as how warmer temperatures ...Medical students inadequately prepared for clinical rotations, caring for chronically ill
...e split into groups of six, paired with one or two faculty members, and discuss communication skills and reasoning. The coursework involves role playing, interviewing of actors portraying patients and incorporating patients' wishes in making decisions. In the first study, Bass and colleagues surveyed 190 c...Ancient DNA mutations permitted humans to adapt to colder climates, UCI researchers find
...itochondrial Medicine and Genetics at UCI and is a faculty member in the Departments of Ecology and Evolution...ndergraduate and graduate students and about 1,300 faculty members. The third-largest employer in dynamic Orange County, UCI contributes an annual economic imp...Wright State biologist studies birds to learn how our stomachs convey thoughts of hunger
... Van't Hof, who recently joined the Wright State faculty after nine years with the internationally-recogniz...often eat more than we should." The Wright State faculty member has presented several lectures on this topic in the past year in Japan and the U.S. and has b...Ten Chinese reporters receive AAAS Fellowships
...wa; and Tai Zixue, a member of the communication faculty at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Much additional advice and encouragement for the program has been provided by numerous individuals and organizations. "We're deeply grateful to everyone who sent a tip, explained Chinese journalism...Virginia Tech researcher receives $1.8 million to study Arabidopsis genome
...s working to understand the function of the SABATH faculty of methyltransferase genes in plants. These genes are believed to have profound effects on plant physiology and reproduction by mediating processes in plants controlled by signaling and hormone molecules. Using gene expression profiling, metabolite ...Research grants available for faculty at minority serving institutions
...ology for 2004. Specifically, this project targets faculty members at minority-serving U.S. institutions who ...arch in a tropical field setting, especially those faculty who work primarily in teaching colleges and universities. Under the supervision of a research facili...American Society of Hematology honors prominent researchers with major awards
...en's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and is a faculty member of the school's Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program in the Department of Genetics. He is also the Director of the Leukemia Program at the Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center, an Associate Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institu...