High-tech institute to hold Cal-(IT)Day@UCSD
...ing a conference at which more than two dozen UCSD faculty will make presentations. Attendees will also tour facilities, and view research posters of Cal-(IT) 2 graduate Fellows and undergraduate Scholars. The event will take place September 24, 2003, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., in the Price Center on the UCSD c...UGA research team reveals molecular key to cell division
...eticist of international renown, Dalton joined the faculty of the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in January. He is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scientists and a consultant for BresaGen, a cell therapy biotech company in ...Washington University in St. Louis, Monsanto Co., awarded crop protection patent
...k of Beachy and our many other outstanding biology faculty and their scientific colleagues at Monsanto. This discovery is another example of St. Louis's emerging role as a world leader in plant research and the exceptional history of collaboration between this university and industry," said Mark S. Wrighton...Funding opportunities for junior faculty offered by the American Association for Cancer Research
...n the first, second, or third year of a full-time, faculty appointment and hold the title of Instructor, Acti...r, Assistant Professor, or an equivalent full-time faculty appointment at an academic or medical institution. Certain geographic restrictions apply. Please ref...March of Dimes supports top scientists, new study finds
...imes are more productive, more likely to be on the faculty of prestigious research institutions, and more lik...scientists who have earned a Ph.D. or M.D., hold a faculty appointment, and who do not yet have major funding. Generally, these are individuals who have start...Another global warming surprise: Grasslands may become wetter as temperatures rise
...eta, a former Stanford doctoral student now on the faculty of the University of California-Santa Cruz. "We were surprised to find that warming actually increased moisture in our grassland plots during those critical weeks in late spring at the end of the growing season, when moisture shapes which plant speci...Grant funds research to develop tissue-engineered solutions for heart disease
... combine the expertise of University of Pittsburgh faculty in stem cell biology, tissue engineering and imaging in what is called a Bioengineering Research Partnership, added Dr. Wagner. "The great thing about Pitt is that we have these lines of communication already in place through the McGowan Institute." ...Carnegie Mellon professor skeptical about use of hydrogen-fueled cars
...first began working on hydrogen when Farrell was a faculty member in Carnegie Mellon's Department of Engineering and Public Policy. This department in the engineering school addresses problems in technology and public policy in which the technical details are critically important....New theory of cell death proposed in UCSB Alzheimers research
...CSB Neuroscience Research Institute. Both are also faculty members of the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. Wilson has done extensive work on understanding microtubules, long thin filaments that serve as a "cyto-skeleton" in all cells, similar in many ways to our ow...Stanford symposium on future of air and space travel
... in the top three nationwide and its distinguished faculty continue to work on breakthroughs in areas ranging...ciation in 2003. After his talk, Coffman will join faculty panelists to discuss the role academia may play in revitalizing commercial air travel, improving acc...Von Liebig Center awards funding to six projects to commercialize UCSD faculty research
...d $300,000 in "gap" funding to six projects led by faculty at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering. This thi...eurism education on the campus. A record number of faculty -- 25 in all -- submitted full applications for project funding by the May deadline. "The strong res...Brown and MBL create an alliance for teaching and research
...ological and Environmental Sciences in addition to faculty exchanges and research collaborations. The affilia...ographic proximity of Brown and MBL, uniting their faculty expertise in biology and medicine, particularly for molecular biology, genomics, ecosystems studies,...Emory scientists find anti-tumor compounds in magnolia cones
...r of dermatology at Emory School of Medicine and a faculty member in the Winship Cancer Institute. Lead author was Xianhe Bai, PhD, Emory dermatology postdoctoral fellow. Collaborators include investigators from the University of North Carolina, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Northwestern University, and Hu...UC Riverside is part of new initiative to share patented research on agriculture
...Established in 2000, the institute brings together faculty from a number of academic units on campus to foster innovations that advance quality of life in terms of greater agricultural productivity and more nutritious foods. The Science paper notes that since 1980 there has been a marked increase in th...Anti-HIV statisticians win $1.125 million NIH Merit Award
...utch" Tsiatis, Marie Davidian and Marc Genton, all faculty in the Department of Statistics at NC State, emphasize that their research is not focused on developing new therapies. "That's the job of physicians and clinical scientists," said Tsiatis. "Our research instead is focused on a framework, based in sta...Key step allowing cell migration
...stant professor of biochemistry and biophysics and faculty director of the UNC Proteomics Core Facility. "Cell migration is involved in a variety of normal and pathological events in life, including embryo development, wound healing and the abnormal, life-threatening movement of cancer cells that doctors ca...NIH awards millions to Rutgers for genetics research
...tor for the these NIH projects. Rutgers' genetics faculty members Douglas Fugman, Tara Matise, Amrik Sahota and David Toke are co-investigators on the NIDDK project.......fornia at Davis in the early 1990s. He joined the faculty of URI's Department of Natural Resources Science in 1998 after a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. "Migration is very costly to birds," said McWilliams. "But just like people who exercise to modify aspect...Cold-climate creatures may be the ultimate survivors of global warming, study finds
...nd the world." Stillman is expected to join the faculty of the University of Hawaii at Manoa in August. His study was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation....Rutgers receives $22.6 million to investigate genetics of mental disorders
...nter co-directors. In addition, Rutgers' genetics faculty members Linda Brzustowicz, Steven Buyske, Douglas Fugman, Tara Matise, Amrik Sahota and David Toke are co-investigators on the project. "Rutgers has played a key role in the recent progress made in identifying genes that determine an individual's r...