LSU Professor Emeritus wins 2001 National Wetlands Award
... Gosselink of Rock Island, Tenn., has been named a recipient of the 2001 National Wetlands Award for exemplary contributions to the conservation and restoration of the nation's wetlands. He is one of eight wetlands educators, activists, scientists and conservationists selected for the award. Gosselink will ...ESA announces award winners for 2001
... by a student at the previous Annual Meeting. The recipient this year is Jennifer Klug. She received the awar...lence in Ecology Education James Brown This year's recipient of the Odum Education Award is Dr. James H. Brown, Regents Professor of Biology at the University of...Paul Ehrlich named Eminent Ecologist for 2001
Paul R. Ehrlich is the recipient of this year's Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America (ESA). The award is given annually to a senior ecologist for sustained and distinguished contributions to the science of ecology and biological sciences. This year's award......undred scientific papers and reports. Saul is the recipient of numerous awards for his achievements, focusing on his roles as educator, researcher, and advisory, including several of the American Fisheries Societys highest awards, said Michael Fogarty of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole, M...Leading snake expert dies at 38
...Sciences in 2000. During his career, he was the recipient of numerous grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. In 1997, Dr. Slowinski began a long-term, comprehensive survey of the herpetofauna of Myanmar, a project supported by the National Science Foundation. As pa...Astrobiologist and national security expert Christopher Chyba named 2001 MacArthur
...ity and a marked capacity for self-direction. Each recipient will receive a $500,000, "no strings attached" stipend to be paid in equal quarterly installments over five years beginning in January 2002. Fellows may use the stipend any way they see fit even to change their fields or alter the direction of their...HFES honors 2001 awardees at 45th Annual Meeting
...th Distinguished International Colleague Award The recipient of the 2001 Distinguished International Colleague ...he Society over his or her entire career. The 2001 recipient is Neville Moray, professor emeritus, department of psychology, University of Surrey. Moray has held...APS announces its 2002 Distinguished Lectureships
...University of Kentucky College of Medicine, is the recipient of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Excellence in Science Award Lecture. Dr. Wise also will present her lecture Estrogens: Potent Protective Factors in the Adult and Aging Brain at the Experimental Biology meetin...... Laboratory at Northeastern University is the 2001 recipient of the ASME Thomas A. Edison Patent Award for his invention of the Gorlov Helical Turbine. The Edison Patent Award was established in 1997 to recognize the creativity of a patented device or process that has the potential of significantly enhancing s...Scientists use gene therapy to correct sickle cell disease in mice
...artially destroy the bone marrow of the transplant recipient before he or she receives the genetically corrected bone marrow. "A number of research studies are underway to develop less toxic regimens which would still allow the new bone marrow to produce normal red blood cells for the long term," added Evans....January media highlights: GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY
...ical period during the Eocene. (Jahren is the 2001 recipient of GSAs Young Scientist Award, the Donath Medal.) Highlights from GEOLOGY and a summary of the science article for the January GSA TODAY are provided below. Please discuss articles of interest with the authors before publishing stories on their wor...Merck/AAAS announce 2002 winners for Undergraduate Science Research Program
...rd, Merck representatives will plan to visit award recipient institutions to meet with students to learn about their research and related interests, and to become familiar with the departmental facilities and faculty approaches to science education and training. In addition to supporting undergraduates' resea...Raymond DuBois honored for landmark work in colon cancer
... Raymond N. DuBois Jr., M.D., Ph.D., is the 26th recipient of the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award to recognize research that has made or promises to make a notable contribution to improved cancer care.The award is presented annually by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). It will...Bacterial proteins cause autoimmunity in the antiphospholipid syndrome
...en purified, concentrated, and transferred to nave recipient mice, they could cause symptoms of APS, particularly a prothrombotic phenotype and a high rate of spontaneous abortions. Curiously, the mere presence of these antibodies was not sufficient to cause autoimmune disease, since the mice that produced the...American Association for Cancer Research honors Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center investigator
...rch Center's Basic Sciences Division, is the first recipient of the Kirk A. Landon Prize for Basic Cancer Research, an award given by the American Association for Cancer Research. The $200,000 prize was established to honor significant, fundamental contributions to laboratory research.Eisenman, a member of the......ohns Hopkins University School of Medicine the top recipient of federal research dollars in the United States. The rankings, covering fiscal year 2001 (October 1, 2000 to September 30, 2001), showed that Hopkins earned $334 million in grants, a $33 million increase over 2000's $301 million. Hopkins also ranke...Smithsonian calls for renewed international cooperation in sharing biodiversity information
...t exploration in tropical South America. The 2002 recipient is Dr. P. Barry Tomlinson of Harvard University who will be honored for his work on tropical palms, trees and mangroves. The 2002 Smithsonian Botanical Symposium is sponsored by the National Museum of Natural History, the Cuatrecasas Family Foun...The next generation of scientists recognized at Johns Hopkins
...rees from Johns Hopkins. This year's Shanoff Award recipient is Pamela Frischmeyer, an M.D./Ph.D. candidate in human genetics. Her work, published in two papers in the journal Science on March 22, revealed for the first time how cells get rid of messenger-RNA that has no "stop" signal. Understanding this clean...Cost of inbreeding in Arabidopsis
...al Biology (IRCEB) program. Purugganan is also the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Young Investigator award, which helped fund part of the research. Inbreeding in flies does...Fox Chase Cancer Center receives grant to study possible link between measles vaccine and autism
... many scientific publications as well as being the recipient of numerous awards and grants....