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Humboldt awarded for study of acid-mine drainage in Germany

Blacksburg, Va., Michael F. Hochella Jr., professor of geochemistry and mineralogy at Virginia Tech, has received the prestigious Humboldt Research Award to work in Germany on acid-mine drainage.... "Acid-mine drainage is an environmental problem of vast proportion," said Hochella, professor of geological sciences. In a 1998 collaboration when Hochella was a Fulbright Senior Scholar, he and And...

Humboldt prize will enable Colorado State chemist to join German colleagues in studying behavior of molecules on cell surfaces

. FORT COLLINS--A Colorado State University researcher will join.colleagues in Germany in using laser microscopy to track protein molecules on.the surface of cells, research that may eventually lead to an understanding of.how the immune system combats disease.. . George Barisas, professor of chemistry and microbiology, has developed.techniques that can follow the movement of p...

Richard Amasino wins Alexander von Humboldt Award

.MADISON, WISC. - Richard M. Amasino, a plant molecular biologist in the Department of.Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named the.recipient of the 1999 Alexander von Humboldt Award. Amasino will receive the.award at a ceremony Oct. 27 in Madison, Wis.. .Amasino is being recognized for his studies of processes that regulate flowering.time in plants and the mechanisms...