National Science Medalists Named
...ion to ensure continued U.S. leadership across the frontiers of scientific knowledge." The individuals awarded the nation's highest scientific honor have had wide-ranging impact on social policy, cancer research, materials science, and greatly extended knowledge of our Earth and the solar systems. Their the...X-Ray Concentrator Will Expand Window On High-Energy Universe
...he 10 to 100 keV range one of the great unexplored frontiers inastrophysics. The closer you look,the more you see No one is sure what will be seen at higher energies, but the scientists aregoing on more than blind faith. They have precedent in their own field. "It's hard to know what you'll see until you ...NSF-Supported New Scientists And Engineers Receive Presidential Award
...ngineers and maintainingU.S. leadership across the frontiers of scientific research into the 21stcentury. The ...en show exceptional potential forleadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge," President Clinton said."Their passion for discovery will spark our can-do ...Warner-Lambert Company gift creates bioinformatics program
...th this rarebackground combination who can advance frontiers in this emerging field andtrain a new generation of students," he said. Initial faculty appointments will be within the U-M Medical School, Savageauadded. He anticipates joint appointments with other departments and new facultyto be appointed by oth...NSF announces $10-million center for bioengineering educational technology
...ed a new level of educational tools to advance the frontiers ofAmerica's bioengineering industry," said Eugene Wong, NSF's assistant directorfor engineering. "These tools need to integrate basic bioengineering knowledgewith the latest understanding of the learning process and the latestcomputer-based education...Marine biology course uses Antarctica as its classroom
...f life on earth. "This is one of the frontiers left in biology," noted instructor Adam Marsh, of the University of Southern California, in an opening lecture. "There are a lot of interesting questions still unanswered about how these organisms live at these margins." The brainchild of Donal Man...President Clinton awards nation's highest honor for science and technology
...ons that have sustained U.S. leadership across the frontiers of scientific and technological knowledge, thereby enhancing our ability to shape and improve our nation's future," said President Clinton. The Medal of Science, established by Congress in 1959 and administered by the National Science Foundation,...Defense Department awards Stanford nearly $5.3 million for a 'revolutionary' biosciences project
...om scientists and engineers who are working at the frontiers of their respective disciplines. DARPA further believes that biology is now particularly well poised to contribute to advances in other disciplines and to benefit substantially from interactions with those disciplines." McAdams agrees, noting that "i...Hawaiian chemist honored for ocean research at Pacifichem 2000
...the world work in the field. "He really pushed the frontiers of marine natural products in the early years of the field," says Bill J. Baker, a professor at Florida Institute of Technology, who did his doctoral studies under Scheuer. "He popularized the field." Scheuer was first exposed to chemistry in the la...Conservation battle faces long odds in Brazilian Amazon
...ap, destructive wildfires are common, and vast new frontiers are being continually opened for colonization....Conference focuses on adults living with autism
...ents, and adults living with autism to explore the frontiers of daily life WHAT: Special education experts and researchers from San Francisco State University and the UC Davis MIND Institute join forces with over 150 parents from Sacramento and the Bay Area and with adults diagnosed with Asperger...New high-tech center aids medicine, energy, environmental research
...ve research projects will take us farther into the frontiers of new knowledge and will further stimulate the economies of Houston and Texas. TLC2 provided the seed funding for an air quality modeling project that will establish the hard science upon which sound public policy decisions can be made. Early result...Announcing the March 1st, 2002 publication of the Fourth Edition of Molecular Biology of the Cell
...and the first cell biology book to embrace the new frontiers of the genomic era. The authors, with a wide understanding and love of cell biology, are uniquely qualified to select the fundamental concepts from this enormous and ever-growing field. Nearly two decades since the publication of the first edition, t...Physics tip sheet #4 March 13, 2002
...treme high intensity could accelerate particles to frontiers of high energy and would become a tool of fundamental physics encompassing particle physics, gravitational physics, nonlinear field theory, ultrahigh-pressure physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. Journal article: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRSTAB...Small research big on Illinois campus
...rsity of Illinois are well poised to push back the frontiers of knowledge and make such exciting and beneficial discoveries. The following are a few brief examples of their efforts. Last fall, the National Science Foundation established six Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers, each with a specific scien...Hopkins researchers to lead independent study of 'next generation' ethics issues
... partnership dedicated to carefully navigating the frontiers of human developmental biology. "We want to take these issues to a relatively mature level of analysis before they become political footballs, so as to provide the public, policy makers and the scientific community with a reasoned backdrop for the d...UC & sister institutions form 'Institute Without Walls' for transdisciplinary collaborations
...rnational, multi-campus organization exploring the frontiers of science. As an "Institute without Walls" the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) will promote transdisciplinary collaborations between physical and biological scientists around the world. Topics will range from the mysteries of "Mad Cow"...UC Riverside to play active role in Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
...ernational, multicampus organization exploring the frontiers of science. UC Riverside is one of the founding branches of ICAM. The institute will be led by Los Alamos National Laboratory. As an "institute without walls," ICAM will promote transdisciplinary collaborations between physical, chemical, and bio...Scientists use alfalfa plants to harvest nanoparticles of gold
...ces,'' Hodgson noted. ''What they learned advanced frontiers of knowledge in fields from computer chip manufacturing to advancing drug discovery.''...UT Southwestern receives $2 million grant to purchase 30-ton superconducting magnet
...h assembling several groups that are advancing the frontiers of protein NMR, giving UT Southwestern a unique combination of research in this area. Equipment such as this 800MHz NMR spectrometer is essential for us to move our research on to progressively more difficult and interesting systems."...