Professor uses satellites to protect Amazon forests, global climate
... as the Amazon is rapidly shrinking. Greg Asner, a faculty scientist with the Carnegie Institution at Stanford, is working with a multinational team to reverse this trend. Using both high-tech and low-tech tools, the researchers hope to safeguard the Amazon from one of its biggest threats - rampant logging b...Latest knowledge on plant cell-wall biology in new book
...t-genomic' era," said Rose, who joined the Cornell faculty as part of the university's Genomics Initiative. "Such breakthroughs have given an exciting glimpse into the substantial size and diversity of the families of genes encoding cell wall-related proteins." In his own laboratory, Rose and his colleagues...UC San Diego to host two-day conference on 'sustainable development' Dec. 11 & 12
... Forum on Sustainable Development, with university faculty and researchers showcasing UCSD research and education related to sustainable development. WHAT: US BCSD Meeting & Water Strategies Workshop WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 11, 8am-10pm (including dinner) Friday, Dec. 12, 8am-6pm WHER...Diversity: What people, grain sorghum have in common
...the Internet will be used to keep the students and faculty connected. Since the Plant Genome Research Project began in 1998, NFS has awarded some $375 million to 120 projects. Over the last decade, Mullet noted, NSF has emphasized trying to integrate research with education and training. "The makeup of ...Gliomas' 'molecular fingerprint' predicts how aggressive tumor will be
... include Dr. Robert J. Weil, formerly a Vanderbilt faculty member now with the National Institutes of Health, and Vanderbilt scientists Sarah A. Schwartz, Bill White, Juiming Li, Jason Moore, Bashar Shaktour, Paul Larsen and Yu Shyr. The field of molecular targeting in cancer focuses on the proteins that ar...Bush Administration plan to reduce global warming could devastate sea life
... Department of Biological Sciences, joined the URI faculty in the summer of 2003 after having worked as a marine ecologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Monterey, Calif. for several years. He received undergraduate and doctorate degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara. ...Members receive distinction as fellows of crops society
... Russell E. Mullen , Professor of Agronomy, and a faculty member of the Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University. Vangimalla R. Reddy , Research Leader and Plant Physiologist, USDA-ARS Alternate Crops and Systems Laboratory, Plant Sciences Institute, Beltsville Agricultural Rese...... article-processing changes will be waived for all faculty at OhioLINK member institutions, when publishing i...le access to quality research. We want to give our faculty the opportunity to publish through the most cost effective means possible, while simultaneously maxi...Emory scientists use enzymes to enhance regeneration of damaged peripheral nerves in mice
...thur English, PhD, professor of cell biology, with faculty colleagues Robert McKeon, PhD and Erica Werner, PhD and former Emory student M.L. Groves. Results of the research will be presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience on November 8 in New Orleans. Peripheral nerves extend from the...Herpes research uncovers possible clue to Alzheimer's disease
...vironmental Sciences. In addition, it will promote faculty exchanges and research collaborations, such as the one conducted by Satpute-Krishnan, DeGiorgis and Bearer....Marie Curie Nobel Centennial Celebration of Women in Science
...has made enormous strides insuring that its senior faculty has extraordinary women of science, so it is fitting that Yale is hosting this conference," says Alanna Schepartz, professor of chemistry, and an organizer and session moderator of the event for students....High school students to analyze plant genes for national project
...Stanford University. Sue Rhee, TAIR director and a faculty member at Stanford, is co-principal investigator for the project. "We have been doing this in Virginia for about two years with the Fralin Center providing the funding," Dolan said. "This NIH grant will allow us to scale up the program and provide mi...Gene mutations that cause hearing loss discovered
...uired hearing loss. The research, which was led by faculty from the MSU Hearing Research Center, will be published in the November issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics. The gene involved, known as DFNA 20, is known to play an essential role in the structure of the inner ear, the cochlea. It's one ...College is first to be Kyoto Protocol compliant
... from College Climate Response, an organization of faculty members from across the country who are engaged in...oped better transit options for student, staff and faculty commuters that cut single-occupancy vehicle travel by nearly 50 percent. 2. The college upgraded its...Duke commits to enhance Primate Center
...nd conservation missions. The director will hold a faculty appointment in the Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy and will likely be a scientist with a particular interest in prosimian research, he said. Among the new director's responsibilities will be to lead a major fund-raising campaign to ...UCSD, VA and Cal-(IT) wireless technology to enhance mass casualty treatment in disasters
...vy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command), and faculty from the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. A vitally important component of the project is participation by the San Diego Metropolitan Medical Strike Team (MMST), one of the first such teams established nation...Improving the body's 'homeland security' against TB
... research on the lysosome. Others, such as current faculty members Ralph Steinman and Charles Rice, are similarly interested in finding new ways to employ the immune system in the fight against viral infection and cancer." TB largely leads an existence based on stealth. In 90 percent of those infected, it i...President Bush names Rutgers' Evelyn Witkin for nations highest science honor
...nce to DNA-damaging agents. In 1973, while on the faculty of Rutgers' Douglass College, she defined the E. c... for 12 years. She then spent eight years on the faculty of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology until her retirement in 1991. "It is wonderful that Evelyn ...White House awards National Medal of Science to Rockefeller University's James Darnell
...uiding force in helping to build a strong, stellar faculty at Rockefeller University. Beginning in the mid-19...rg, he helped to establish more than 15 new junior faculty positions, each a head of a major laboratory at the university. Ten of the first 12 recruits in the ......pointment at the Stowers Institute, Dr. Li holds a faculty appointment at the University of Kansas School of Medicine....