40% Of Developing World Infants Stunted
...an of Saratoga, Calif., who has just completed her junior year at Cornell. The survey is polling global experts on their predictions for how stunting trends will change in their regions. He also is conducting research to better determine what factors predispose countries to realize improvements in growth ...Staring And Squirming Help Babies Explore
...h a healthy scientificskepticism." Scott Weiss, a junior and a human development and pre-med major, says, "Thisexperience gives me a chance to apply the material I study in my classes. Suddenly, information which has always been stuck inside of textbooks has comealive as I have the opportunity to participa...Elementary Students Mapping Virginia Wildlife
...y County Frog Pond Park. Kerrie Anne Mulvey, a junior majoring in wildlife sciences, and Cliff Hutt, asenior majoring in fisheries, co-chair the university chapter of the WildlifeSociety's committee on community outreach and education. Chapter advisor isfisheries professor Ney (yes -- husband of CES te...NSF-Supported New Scientists And Engineers Receive Presidential Award
...rts exceptionally promising college and university junior faculty who arecommitted to the integration of research and education. CAREER awards rangefrom $200,000 to $500,000 for a period of four to five years. Last month, NSFhonored 338 outstanding new science and engineering educators-scholarsnationwide ...Testing Restaurant Compost For Greenhouses
...-year-old College of Agriculture and Life Sciences junior from Canton,N.Y., who is studying ecology, environmental science and community design, thecampaign to save Ithaca's food scraps began last summer. "I was eating in adowntown restaurant," she recalls, "and I saw food scraps going into a specialbin, ...Story Tips: Engineering Students Pursue Cutting-Edge Research
...lzheimer's Treatment Sarvenaz Zand, a 20-year-old junior from Northridge, Calif, used her grant toassist JohnsHopkins School of Medicine researchers, who are seeking a treatment forAlzheimer's disease. This team is studying drugs that could cause the body to produce more of asubstance called nerve growth f......The Searle program supportsthe research careers of junior faculty with outstanding potential and willprovide $60,000 each year to enable Luger to get her project underway. Luger, who earned a doctorate in biochemistry and biophysics with honorsfrom the University of Basel in Switzerland, wrote h...Experts take aim at Montezuma's revenge at conference organized by UM school of medicine
...uneresponse and spotlight the ten best papers from junior scientists....UVic creates research chair on drinking water ecology
... and research team at UVic.The team will include a junior chair in terrestrial ecosystem ecology, a research associate, lab manager, research manager, a large number of graduate and undergraduate students, and collaborators from industry, university and government. Mazumder joined the biology department at...Whitaker Foundation funds Washington University biomedical engineering facility
...will be recruiting a mix of outstanding senior and junior faculty. Once the building and the new faculty are in place, we will be more than ready to meet the demand for biomedical engineering, which already is extremely popular with our students." Christopher I. Byrnes, dean of the School of Engine...Howard Hughes Medical Institute awards $92 million in research support to U.S. medical schools
...60 percent of the new funding will be used to help junior faculty members launch their research and for pilot studies. Grantee institutions also can use the awards to establish or improve shared research facilities, purchase major equipment, and foster collaborations among basic scientists and clinical res......rch." The grant will be used to help fund six new junior faculty members at the assistant professorlevel--three in immunology and three in structural biology. In addition to supporting pilot projects,the grant will also allow for the expansion of core facilities in immunology and the establishment ofshare...U-M Medical School receives $4 million for new bioinformatics program
...m, the HHMI grant will be used to recruit four new junior faculty members and hire technical support staff for a new Bioinformatics Core Facility under construction in the U-M Medical School. "The HHMI award also will help fund pilot research projects in which bioinformatics faculty and graduate student...CWRU med school snares $3 million Howard Hughes Institute grant to build structural biology program
.... He was recruited in 1987 by Berger and CWRU as a junior faculty member and today is a well-established researcher whose work is supported by multi-million-dollar NIH grants. He is the co- discover of a gene defect that causes cancer on the right side of the colon. ...Pioneering evolutionist Ledyard Stebbins dies at age 94
...as introduced toDarwin's theory of evolution. As a junior the following year, he decided to become a botanist. Darwin's theory was undergoing rigorous testing at the time, and in the 1930s and '40s, scientistsfrom many disciplines developed modifications that satisfied most of them. Dubbed "the modernsynthe...Welch Award honors 2 for unlocking nature's secrets
...mistry and science teachers at the high school and junior high levels....DFG set up 19 new Graduiertenkollegs
...three European Graduiertenkol-legs at which German junior scientists are to work and study together with res...tion partners world-wide in the field of promoting junior scientists. And in future, it will be possible for Graduiertenkollegs to submit additional applicati......s amazing, the best experience ever," said Chai, a junior majoring in bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley. "And I didn't even throw up." Chai, 20, and three other UC Berkeley students participated in a special NASA program that gives college students access to one of its unique assets, ...Scientific explanation for success of klapskate
...the first time in competitive speed skating by the junior selection of the Dutch province of South Holland during the 1996/1997 racing season. Since then it has taken the international speedskating world by storm. The Amsterdam researchers invited ten top speedskaters to take part in experiments wearing st...Collapse of simple life forms linked to mass extinction 200 million years ago
...eanography research scientist; and Tom Evans, a UW junior in chemistry and Earth and space sciences. The evidence from the extinction was gathered at two sites in the Queen Charlotte Islands, off Canada's British Columbia coast. "These sites are among the most remote places in the world," Ward said. "There ...