National Science Board Honors Maxine Frank Singer With Vannevar Bush Award
...ch neighborhood3rd, 4th, and 5th graders attend an imaginative Saturday science school at theCarnegie Institution. In 1994, she initiated the Carnegie Academy for ScienceEducation, which includes six-week summertime institutes for elementary schoolteachers, along with continuing associations throughout the scho...Bruce Babbitt Calls For Linking Open Space And Conservation
...Orange Counties. "It is the most comprehensive and imaginative urban habitatplan in U.S. history," says Babbitt. Babbitt advocates this approach for the many other urban areas where at-riskspecies live and where the public wants to preserve open space, includingAustin, Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, Sacramento and T...President Clinton awards nation's highest honor for science and technology
... his research, teaching and writing, and for using imaginative approaches in both experiment and theory that have inspired a new generation of scientists; John Ross, Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University, for his enormous impact on physical chemistry, especially in molecular studies, statistical mechan......y happens inside the droplets. "This is extremely imaginative and innovative work," says biochemist Tom Cech, head of the Howard Hughes Institute in Maryland, although he points out that we can never know for certain how life began. There's one other way to test the theory. The size of aerosol particles depen...Bio-X awards $3 million in grants for imaginative interdisciplinary research and education projects
...ram Committee called on faculty members to propose imaginative new interdisciplinary, interactive research and educational projects in biology, medicine, computer science, engineering and other disciplines. On Oct. 2, the committee announced that of 85 proposals submitted, 19 have been awarded seed grants avera...$100,000 prize to pioneers in neural research
...evelt, who founded the March of Dimes. These two imaginative scientists have helped to shape the present and future directions of an entire field of neural research, says Dr. Jennifer L. Howse, president of the March of Dimes. The result is that we now have opportunities to develop new types of gene-based dru...Gene therapy technique reduces alcohol consumption in rats
...ting effect. "Drs. Thanos and Volkow have used an imaginative approach to investigate the role of DRD2 receptors in alcohol consumption," said NIAAA Director Enoch Gordis, M.D. "Theirs is an important step in continuing work to form the scientific basis of new medications for use in alcoholism treatment."...From rockets to hot rods to....
...he Office of Naval Research, a couple of young and imaginative engineers in Arizona (and a few of their friends at the University of Michigan) came up with a ceramic-based material that was capable of withstanding intense heat, sharp thermal gradients, and crushing pressures. Soon, Tony Mulligan and Mark Angier...Scientists design molecules that mimic nanostructure of bone
...nd his group is the ability to fabricate novel and imaginative macromolecules that self-assemble into new materials," said Lia Addadi, professor of structural biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. "Their creativity has now resulted in the synthesis of a new framework molecule that offers almost...EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences
... of communication. The jury particularly looks for imaginative and original works. These can include communication via printed and electronic media, Radio, Television, out-reach, schools projects, talks in public and other special initiatives. There is one winning application annually. A prize of Euro 5.000 and ...Evolution of language: FOXP2 and human uniqueness in religious perspective
...netic and language studies in humans and apes open imaginative possibilities to see humans as part the vast creative work of God that extends far beyond human confines."...Study provides new insights into the functional neuroanatomy of motor imagery
...port the concept of functional gradation from more imaginative properties to more motor executive properties in many cortical and subcortical areas. The most executive areas coincided with the motor areas that directly send output to M1 or the spinal cord or the areas associated with sensory feedback processing ...EMBO rewards communicative scientist 5 000 euros
...used by entrants. The jury looks in particular for imaginative and original work. This could involve communication via printed and electronic media, radio, television, speeches on public occasions, out-reach and schools projects or other special initiatives. There is one winning application annually. The prize o...Copper chelation is a promising new therapy for clogged arteries
...eering Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "Their imaginative work may provide novel treatment modalities for a range of critical diseases." This work was published in a preeminent journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 27, 2003, in the paper "Copper Chelation Represses the Vascular Res...Researchers use lab cultures to create robotic 'semi-living artist'
...won't put any artists out of business (picture the imaginative scribbling of a three-year-old), the semi-living artist's work has a deeper significance. The team hopes to bridge the gap between biological and artificial systems to produce a machine capable of matching the intelligence of even the simplest organi...