Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
... Canada. And this September, Nguyen won the prestigious Killam scholarship prize which will allow her to attend Harvard University this winter. "The Aventis Biotech Challenge started me on this road to a career in science and I've just run with it." Nguyen her and partner Alexander Tomk...UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
...estern Medical Center at Dallas has been awarded a prestigious three-year planning grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the causes of obesity and associated metabolic diseases. The $1.78 million grant, part of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, creates an Interdisciplinary Research Center and...EMBO Gold Medal 2004 goes to Spanish scientist
...ra Blasco, commented: "I'm honoured to accept this prestigious award. It's extremely satisfying to gain the recognition of the wider scientific community for my group's research efforts. I'm also delighted to be the first Spanish scientist to receive this prize and as a female scientist, I hope my achievement wi...Gladstone investigator Mike McCune wins prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...searchers across the country chosen to receive the prestigious award, established last year and awarded for the first time this year. The NIH Director's Pioneer Award (NDPA) program was created to identify and fund investigators of exceptionally creative abilities and to provide them with enough funding -- $500,...UT Southwestern biochemist honored with NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...his incredibly innovative scientist has won such a prestigious award." Dr. McKnight is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He sits on the editorial boards of multiple peer-reviewed journals...UMaine anthropologist wins Solon T. Kimball Award
...5 articles, including one in the June issue of the prestigious American Anthropologist, four books, several monographs and reports to the Maine legislature. His two books on the Maine lobster industry are "The Lobster Gangs of Maine," published in 1988, and "Capturing the Commons" in 2003. The second focuses on...Groundbreaking research could ignite new solutions to heat transfer in nano-devices
... published in the October 15 issue of Science, the prestigious journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and on the Science Express Web site on Sept. 23, 2004....DuPont scientist named one of the world's top young innovators by MIT's 'Technology Review' Magazine
...clusion among the TR100 has become one of the most prestigious awards for young innovators around the world," said David Rotman, executive editor of Technology Review. "This year's winners all are pioneering fascinating innovations in the fields of biomedicine, computing and nanotechnology, and were chosen afte...Joslin President awarded medal from international diabetes organization
...on's 40th Annual Meeting in Munich, Germany. This prestigious award recognizes innovative leadership and superior contributions in the field of diabetes research and is the highest scientific honor awarded by the EASD. Dr. Kahn also is the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. As p...Endangered species list more bleak than originally thought
...esearch is published in the current edition of the prestigious journal, "Science." The team first compiled a list of 12,200 plants and animals currently listed as threatened or endangered. They then looked at the diverse selection of insects, mites, fungi and other organisms that are uniquely adapted to the thre...NJIT professor receives Presidential Award for breakthrough research with adult stem cells
...unds her research. "I'm very proud to receive this prestigious presidential award," Arinzeh said. "The award show...years in April of 2003. Considered the NSF's most prestigious award for new faculty members, the career awards honor the nation's best young scientific researcher...Entrepreneurs to be told how nature's secrets can improve business
...ess. Academics from the University of Bath's prestigious Centre for Biomimetic and Natural Technologies are to release at a workshop the results of their latest research harnessing the power of nature to develop new technologies. The Centre pioneers research in many areas, using nature as a guide:...8 environmental stewards win $900,000 in biodiversity awards
...s from previous years in sharing US$3.2 million in prestigious no-strings-attached awards for environmental stewardship. The awards are made by The Bay Foundation and the Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation of New York City, with the advice of a panel of advisers. This year, for the first time, two...Dr. Brenda Milner promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada
... Dr. Milner is a fellow of the Royal Society and a prestigious foreign associate of the National Academy of Scien...anguage, sensations and emotions. The recipient of prestigious international honours, most recently she was presented with the Award in Neurosciences from the Nati...Ottawa's leadership in biomedical and health research has paid off
...rs, according to an article published today in the prestigious journal EMBO reports. But to keep up the momentum and continue to grow in innovation and high-quality research, the federal government needs to develop new ambitious strategies to take full advantage of Canada's expertise and research infrastructure ...Epilepsy: Signals 'brake' in brain impaired
...results are published in the latest edition of the prestigious scientific journal 'Science' (23rd July, vol. 305, no. 5683). They offer hope of new therapeutic possibilities. Epilepsy is a common disease: in Germany alone there are 600,000 people whose nerve cells in the brain occasionally switch from healthy ch...NIH renews funding for continued Rb2 tumor suppressing gene research at Temple
...arro Institute, Giordano collaborates with several prestigious institutions throughout Europe and has trained more than 160 scientists and physician investigators from all over the world....Presidential Recognition Awards presented at the 2004 AIUM Annual Convention
...ns to Dr Whitman and Dr Abuhamad on receiving this prestigious award! ...Workforce achievements celebrated at NASA Marshall Center Awards ceremony
...re three winners of the Presidential Rank Award a prestigious honor given to a select group of senior federal executives who have provided exceptional service to the American people over an extended period of time. Dr. Martin Weisskopf, project scientist for NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory at the Marshall Cent...New paper in Science introduces revolutionary new paradigm for fishery management
...t. The authors include three winners of the highly prestigious award from the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation that became part of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science in October 2003. They are Paul Dayton from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Burr Heneman from Commonweal, a health and environme...