Houston minority graduation rises in sciences, engineering as result of UH-led alliance
...search labs." The UH campus, for instance, provides a building on campus where many students with similar majors and minors at all levels from freshmen to seniors find safe haven to seek assistance from others in the H-LSAMP program or take advantage of quiet rooms to concentrate. Workshop instruct...Veterinary Memorial Fund transforms grief into promise
...ading biomedical and clinical research center, and provides professional continuing education services for veterinarians practicing throughout the two states. ...UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
...and Obesity Center at UT Southwestern. "This grant provides a formal mechanism for investigators from differen...arch discoveries from the bench to the bedside. It provides a framework of the priorities the NIH must address in order to optimize its entire research portfoli...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...rch discoveries from the bench to the bedside. It provides a framework of the priorities the NIH must address in order to optimize its entire research portfolio and lays out a vision for a more efficient and productive system of medical research. For more information about the NIH Roadmap, please visit the ...UT Southwestern biochemist honored with NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...ent of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, which provides a framework of the NIH's priorities in identifying the most compelling opportunities in medical research. Dr. McKnight the only winner from Texas is one of nine researchers in America to receive the new award. His research involves the regulati...New Arizona State center brings science to policy on issues of water resources and urban growth
...oday, Phoenix is a fast growing urban complex that provides a uniquely tailored area in which to study the dynamics of population growth and limited water resources. "Accessing, distributing and managing water resources has always been a challenge in Phoenix," Redman said. "That makes us an id...4 October press briefing to focus on minority recruitment to science and engineering programs
...he Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Standing Our Ground provides legal guidance on two Michigan rulings that affirmed the importance of a diverse learning environment, but struck down the use of race as a quantitative "plus factor" in undergraduate admissions decisions. The mixed Grutter and Gratz messages, issued...Winning combination to build bone density in children
... vigorous) activity and calcium intake. This study provides evidence for synergistic action of habitual vigorous activity and calcium intake on bone mass in children. Recommendations for optimizing bone mass should reflect this synergism....16 APS exercise research highlights, from reduced flu mortality to proteomics & obesity
...nd women. Comparative mRNA and proteomic profiling provides unique insight into underlying metabolic crisis in chronically untrained muscle and clues as to how exercise reverses these effects....USAID, Conservation International & Starbucks launch Conservation Coffee Alliance in Central America
...l manages the $6 million Verde Ventures fund which provides debt and equity financing to coffee cooperatives and other small businesses contributing to biodiversity conservation in CI's priority areas. In January 2004, Starbucks announced a $2.5 million direct loan to help capitalize the fund. Starbucks has ...Alaska scientists find Arctic tundra yields surprising carbon loss
...st values of IAB's Toolik Field Station is that it provides opportunities for long-term uninterrupted research in a pristine environment. We could never have gotten the results we did without such a long-term experiment," said Bret-Harte. "The connection between fertilization and warming is that warmer temper...Pollutant causes delayed flowering in plants
...xide is an important plant hormone," Pei said. "It provides the hard evidence that is needed to demonstrate nitric oxide's role, since flowering is such a fundamental, well-studied process."...No role for simian virus 40 in human pleural mesotheliomas
...sed link between SV40 and pleural mesothelioma and provides a possible explanation for the discrepancies in the results obtained by different groups. Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) used several independent methods to detect SV40 DNA, SV40 RNA, and SV40 proteins in human pleural ...New fossil sheds light on old mystery
...aptation. The new species of protorosaur, however, provides additional clues and suggests that the long neck in these animals may have been part of a unique and very effective method for capturing prey in water. Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, which means "terrible-headed lizard from the Orient," was recently d...Brown research reveals key insight into memory-making
...l dysfunction in the hippocampus. The new research provides new targets for drugs or other treatments for these conditions. Esther Penick and Jeffrey Edwards, postdoctoral research fellows in Kauer's lab, worked on the study as did Mikyoung Park, a Duke graduate student. The National Institutes of Health, the...Scientists find nanowires capable of detecting individual viruses
... only in laboratory settings. The use of nanowires provides immediate verification of a given virus's presence without any specialized biochemical manipulation. Lieber says nanowire arrays could be scaled up not only to detect many different viruses, but also to detect common strains as well as variants genet...Microbes eat their way to better concrete
...st controller for surface soils. The project also provides excellent research experiences for undergraduate and graduate students who are actively involved conducting research experiments, analyzing data, presenting their findings at conferences and preparing journal publications. The research also offers p...The book opens on the first tree genome
...'s Minister of Industry. "The complete poplar code provides us with the starting material for understanding factors that control the essential traits of trees that fuel our forest economy. It will help us farm trees with desired growth and wood quality characteristics, while protecting our forests from pests ...Environmental issues center of Inland Northwest Research Alliance 4th Annual Symposium
...rch being conducted and presented at the symposium provides an excellent mix of science professionals and government agencies working toward furthering the environmental agenda relating to energy, nuclear and national security issues....Environmental decontamination, greenhouse gases, and the genome of a methane-loving bacterium
...duced oxygen levels. The M. capsulatus genome provides a platform for investigating the details of methanotroph biology and its potential as a biotech workhorse. It may also guide efforts to harness this bacterium's penchant for methane to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, to degrade chlorinated hy...