Data privacy, emergency response, weather prediction to benefit from information technology advances
...biometrics, bioterrorism countermeasures, critical infrastructure protection, cybersecurity and other areas. As a result, NSF collaborated with other agencies, which are providing an additional $4.6 million to co-fund projects relevant to those agencies' missions. "The academic community clearly has a wealth of inn...Tourism to Earth's most threatened areas surges by over 100 percent in last decade
...acts. These include removing pristine forests for infrastructure development, pollution, introduction of invasive species, water shortages and degradation of water supplies. In addition, tourism development is increasingly linked to the economies of the world's developing countries, which are often home to high b...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute central to Regional Center of Excellence
...ally, VBI will provide high-performance laboratory infrastructure including genomic and gene expression sample analysis. Additionally, VBI will provide supercomputing capabilities and informatics software platforms to connect the numerous collaborators. The RCE team will leverage VBI's PathPort, short for Pathoge...NSF invites science journalists to conference
...mplexity and the environment, including education, infrastructure and global perspectives. Poster sessions will provide a chance for presentation and discussion of on-going biocomplexity research projects. More information, including a complete agenda, including biographies of principal speakers, is available at: ...UCLA receives NSF award for plasma research
... organization and development of the computational infrastructure at UCLA, critical to both the UCLA research enterprise and to our national and international competitiveness." "This award comes at an opportune time for UCLA as we are launching a new computational science and engineering initiative," said Tony Chan...Carnegie Mellon professor skeptical about use of hydrogen-fueled cars
...t the need for the extensive hydrogen distribution infrastructure which would be required for refueling automobiles. Such an infrastructure could easily cost as much as $5,000 per vehicle or more, according to the researchers' work. The Bu...Perceptions about the threat of bioterrorism could impair the nation's response
... have to work toward better awareness and improved infrastructure for delivering it." Saint Louis University School of Public Health is one of only 32 fully accredited schools of public health in the United States and the nation's only School of Public Health sponsored by a Jesuit university. It offers masters degr...New science at K-State attracts $4.2 million from National Science Foundation
... scientific research teams, and builds the science infrastructure of a state so that it can become nationally compet... "Having the center as part of the state's science infrastructure is going to place Kansas scientists in a much better position to compete for future funding," Wang s...Fighting Mycobacterium tuberculosis with structural proteomics
...Hamburg Outstation. " It will give researchers the infrastructure that is needed to undertake major crystallography projects." In addition, MarResearch GmbH will develop and implement automatic sample changer facilities that automate and speed up the analysis of samples at state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation bea...Bioinformatics/GIS program aim is to protect chimpanzees
...AD-IT concept to develop "an integrated electronic infrastructure that will act as a catalyst for the transmission of information across many boundaries, perpetuating a cycle of information transfer and serving as a blueprint for bridging the gaps in other scientific endeavors." Kaur is collaborating with a number ...... benefited the materials effort on campus, and its infrastructure has significantly enabled his research." Oliver's work, Whittingham noted, has been advanced by the Provost's $300,000 investment in a new xray instrument and by the opportunity to work with University crystallographer Peter Zavalij. As a result, Oli...Vanderbilt, Meharry establish new Center for AIDS Research
...nt care. "This center will bring the core research infrastructure of Vanderbilt together with Meharry's expertise in treating HIV/AIDS, particularly among minority populations," said Dr. PonJola Coney, dean of the School of Medicine and senior vice president for health affairs at Meharry. "It is another example sho...Environment loses to economic development in local policy-making
...ambridge, discussions about the green belt and the infrastructure have been shifted from local communities to a broader 'Greater Cambridge' scale, which has circumvented opposition to change at a district level by transferring the debate to a more regional scale." The study also found that there was often a lot of...Tourism leaders and conservation organizations to devise Caribbean conservation action plan
...Mediterranean. Large-scale tourism involves major infrastructure development, increased demands for water, energy and waste disposal, and an influx of people, ideas, and cultures. The tourism industry has perhaps the strongest incentive to conserve biodiversity, as the future of its business depends on protecting...Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center leads group buying PPL'S cloning, stem cell business
...well. We believe that through Regenecor's business infrastructure we can make important scientific strides, with eac... of Virginia retains PPL's existing work force and infrastructure in Blacksburg, where all current work will continue, including the expansion of its cloned pig herd ...Best chance to protect giant pandas
...s. "Most are so remote that there are no people or infrastructure development there," says Dinerstein, which increases the chances of saving the pandas. Loucks' co-authors are: Lu Zhi, who did this work while at the World Wide Fund for Nature-China in Beijing and is now at the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund i...Sarah Billington and Alexandria Boehm named Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professors
... She also is interested in engineering sustainable infrastructure that has minimal environmental impact - including using recycled materials and energy-efficient construction practices. Alexandria Boehm Boehm is the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering. She arrived at Stanford from t......materials. "All of which requires a very different infrastructure than we have today, both from the research and the manufacturing perspective," Sammakia said. "The infrastructure we have today is suitable for objects that are as small as tens of microns, where a micron is 10 -6 ...MIT study: Hydrogen car no environmental panacea
...n of the hydrogen-based vehicle will require major infrastructure changes to make compressed hydrogen available. If we need to curb greenhouse gases within the next 20 years, improving mainstream gasoline and diesel engines and transmissions and expanding the use of hybrids is the way to go. These results come from...... to maintain if oil activities ceased." *Abandoned infrastructure and unrestored landscapes. Kennicutt said the committee believes the network of roads and pipelines will exist for years, but only about 1 percent of the habitat on the North Slope affected by gravel fill has been rehabilitated. *Societal changes. ...