Whitaker Awards $6.8 Million For Biomedical Engineering Education
...it. Support will also be offered for post-doctoral scholars and graduate research assistants. Five new courses and a monthly series of seminars in tissue engineering are also planned. The laboratory will focus its research on computational modeling, including cell- and tissue-level investigations of bone grow......e human genes. On Jan. 23, 1998, USC and visiting scholars will convene at the second annualInstitute for Genetic Medicine Symposium, "Genomic Genetics," to explore whatforms post-Genome Project research may take. Nobel Prize-winning biologist David Baltimore, now president of CaliforniaInstitute of Technol...Malthus + 200: Disastrous 'Correction' Looms
...nevitable consequence of natural forces. On June 7 scholars around the world will be commemorating the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the essay. Price, a research associate with Cornell's Population and Development Program, is marking the occasion with an essay, "Of Population and False Hopes:...DFG To Set Up 32 New Postgraduate Research Groups - First "Virtual Research Group"
...cholars, musicologists, educationists and literary scholars will look into the production of works of art and the working processes of artists. In postgraduate research groups, 15 to 25 doctoral candidates work under an innovative and mostly interdisciplinary research and study programme under the direction a...DFG To Fund Six New Research Units
...ans, philosophers, political scientists as well as scholars ofRomance and Germanic languages and literatures will study the fundamental change thatoccurred around 1750 in the concepts for society and humanity. How do living creatures perceive their environment and how does newly acquired knowledgeguide their ...Tip Sheet: Papers Of Interest, 95th Annual Meeting, Association Of American Geographers
...he meeting,which will include over 2,200 papers by scholars from the U.S. and overseas. Among the topics of interest to be presented by geographers are: THE CORONA PROJECT: Newly declassified data from a top-secret U.S. satellitesurveillance effort, the CORONA project, reveals not only the secrettechnologic......ation announces first class of distinguished young scholars inmedical research -- $25 million program provides unprecedented support to nation's best andbrightest young medical researchers -- Program addresses lack of funding for new and unproven ideas LOS ANGELES, JULY 19, 1999 -- The W. M. Keck Foundat...Immune molecule found to kill indirectly by closing receptor to live-saving help
...er D. Venters, a student in the M.D.-Ph.D. medical scholars program in the U.of I. College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign. The team's findings are based on in vitro experiments with neurons cultured fromnormal mice. In mammals, IGF induces muscle protein synthesis, enhancing growthand weight gain, except in...SPIRE seeks to boost young scientists' job prospects, minority science education
...d in the job market. While at the schools, young scholars will experience first-hand the life of a professor. They will teach classes, mentor students and conduct research. They will juggle multiple responsibilities and projects, a skill that should help them be successful in their science careers. SPIRE'...U-M Medical School receives $4 million for new bioinformatics program
...ion of bioinformatics tools and educate tomorrow's scholars in this important new discipline." According to Michael A. Savageau, Ph.D., U-M professor of microbiology and immunology and director of the bioinformatics program, the HHMI grant will be used to recruit four new junior faculty members and hir...Most highly endowed promotion prize for fourteen scientists and scholars
...ogramme for the year 2000. Fourteen scientists and scholars are to be awarded the most highly endowed German promotion prize. Those employing the greatest array of apparatus will receive prize-money to the value of three million marks, and those more concerned with theoretical studies will receive 1.5 million......ant's second and one of only two given to American scholars to work in Austria. He also received a Fulbright for research in France in 1983-84....DFG to launch 21 new priority programmes
...programmes aim at bringing together scientists and scholars from various research institutions and research areas. As a rule, a priority programme is promoted for a period of six years. The new programmes in detail: HUMANITIES In the priority programme Executive Functions, psychologists and medical scientis...Population-Development-Environment in Namibia: background readings
...tion for development of a scientific model to help scholars assess scenarios and policies regarding sustainabl... expand the body of knowledge readily available to scholars exploring issues of population, HIV/AIDS, migration, natural resources, technological development in...Vanderbilt archaeological team unearths buried Maya royal palace
...han religion contradicts the widespread view among scholars that religion and warfare were the sources of power for Maya kings, particularly toward the end of their dominance, after about 600 A.D. "I have a book in press that I'll have to revise," says Demarest. "It just goes to show that you can't believe e...University of Georgia to host 7th International Congress of Ethnobiology in October
... 20-21. An international panel of 10 distinguished scholars representing a variety of perspectives will be challenged to define the most important unresolved issues concerning bioprospecting. The work of this conference will be the subject of further discussion in related sessions during the Congress. The co...Five Rutgers professors named fellows of national science association
...e faculty play in educating the next generation of scholars and researchers and advancing their disciplines through their research." Jolie A. Cizewski, professor in the department of physics and astronomy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)-New Brunswick, was cited by AAAS "for outstanding research in elucida...Female birds choose best singers to have smarter offspring
...havior at Cornell. "Of course these birds are not scholars of evolutionary theory. They don't think Darwin's principle of sexual selection when they make up their minds about which male sings best. Nevertheless, their choices will have an immediate impact on the success of their parenting and, in a longer-t......tists andwill be positioned to attract exceptional scholars interested in genomics. The initiative will have a similar impact on studentrecruitment in information technology and other fields associated with the initiative at IU. "The Endowment believes that this comprehensive plan -- with talented and committ...... an 8-year combined M.D./Ph.D. degree program. MST scholars are selected for their history of academic excelle...n minority bone marrow recruitment. The three scholars starting their fellowships next summer are: Heather Cheng, a graduate of Princeton University in ...