NSF-Supported New Scientists And Engineers Receive Presidential Award
...ies of glass, and for educational outreach to high schools andcommunities of disadvantaged youth. Alexander Barvinok, Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor. For original application ofgeometric combinatorics to optimization and algorithmic problems, anddevelopment of a series of undergraduate courses on related topic...Study Finds Choline Deficiency Harms Memory Center In Mammals' Brains
...Dr. Steven Zeisel, chair ofnutrition at the UNC-CH schools of public health and medicine. "Even very oldrats performed better on such tests as running through a maze." Because they had no explanation for the improved performance, the UNC-CHgroup examined brains of unborn rat pups to learn whether they could ...Urban Ecology Study Watches Birds On The Web
... Course. Of course there are lots of golf courses, schools and malls inArizona, but only in the Shalimar area is there a recent record of someonesighting the elusive Red-naped Sapsucker, an interesting native woodpecker. How does your realtor know this stuff? Well, it's on the web. Since Mayof 1998, ...'Bugscope' Gives Internet Users Anywhere Chance To Study Insects
... research." Online testing began in March. So far, schools in California, Illinois,Maryland, Massachusetts, N...ronmental scanning electronmicroscope available to schools that are accepted into the program. With theircomputers, users can command themicroscope to take spe...Center For Future Health Aims To Bring High-Tech, Low-Cost Health Care To The Home
...y, organizers say.Both the medical and engineering schools are highly ranked, and the campuses areright across the street, making collaboration convenient. Its researchers havealready formed alliances with interested engineers at other universities. Andthe University has expertise in licensing its technology...Stanford launches interdisciplinary initiative in the biological sciences
... and an eclectic group of faculty members from the schools ofEngineering, Humanities and Sciences, and Medicine not only think it ispossible, but feel that the course of the much-heralded revolution in thebiological sciences makes it imperative. They are backing an ambitious newinterdisciplinary initiative, ...'Fishboys' - the new cowboys of a world dependent on water...and ceramics.
'Fishboys' herding schools of fish, in seas converted into giant fish ranches,could become more fact than fiction in the next century, according to ProfessorRobert E Newnham speaking today [Tuesday 22 June] at the European CeramicsSociety conference organised by The Institute ...CU-Boulder to send experiments ranging from ladybugs to water quality on NASA shuttle
...Baseline MiddleSchool in Boulder as well as middle schools and high schools in Michigan, Texas,Florida, Ohio and Santiago. Another STARS program experiment involves students o...Blocking VEGF can enhance radiation therapy
...from the University of Chicago and Harvard medical schools in the July 15thissue of Cancer Research. This report adds to the mounting enthusiasm for combining drugs that prevent thegrowth of new vessels -- such as angiostatin, endostatin and now anti-VEGF --with other forms of cancer therapy. "Despite all th...Scientists find first molecule that guides nerve cells through the brain
... each other as they settlein. "There have been two schools of thought," Rao says. "One is that projectingaxons and migrating neurons are quite different. The other is that there aresimilarities between them. Our study supports the latter." Axon guidance involves molecules that attract axons as well as repuls...Heatstroke killed four football players during 1998, expert urges precautions
...g others with their heads down. "With many schools starting earlier this year and the very hot weatherwe have been having across the country, heatstroke could be an even biggerproblem than in the past," Mueller said. "Players should start off easy for atleast seven to 10 days to get them acclimated t...Study shows black churches can help improve healthy behaviors
... at the University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill schools of public health and medicine, and colleagues.It w...ective ways of doing that. Similar efforts through schools and worksites have shown smaller effects on behavior. "We especially acknowledge and appreci...Warner-Lambert Company gift creates bioinformatics program
...tments and new facultyto be appointed by other U-M schools and colleges directly---all of whom will bepart of the Bioinformatics Program. A portion of the Warner-Lambert grant will be used to fund pilot researchprojects by U-M and Parke Davis researchers working together to develop newareas of knowledge or ...Prestigious new nutrition research center being established at UNC-CH with NIH funding
... Zeisel MD, Ph.D., chair ofnutrition at the UNC-CH schools of public health and medicine and director ofthe new center. "Our central goals will be to enhance the speed at which new laboratorydiscoveries are used in population-based and clinical research, to make surethat the education of health profe...JMU builds supercomputer for national model undergraduate program
...on who previously served on JMU's faculty. The two schools will exchange information and students as they develop the materials for the national educational model project. A driving force behind the project is to attract and to keep talented students in the hard sciences and mathematics by giving them cha...Major grant to aid McGill University professor's efforts to improve school science teaching
...school boards representing approximately180 public schools in the Montreal area. Because of the demonstrated importance of hands-onactivities in learning about science, the project will focus on the development of such activitiesthrough the collaboration of graduate education students, graduate science stud...Study: avoiding vitamins A, E might improve cancer therapy
... therapy, scientists say. Researchers at UNC-CH's schools of public health and medicine presented their findings Monday(12/13) during a news conference at the American Society for Cell Biology's annual meeting inWashington, D.C. Drs. Rudolph Salganik, research professor of nutrition, and Terry Van Dyke, pro...Howard Hughes Medical Institute awards $92 million in research support to U.S. medical schools
...Y CHASE, MD, December 15, 1999 - Forty-one medical schools in 23 states will receive a total of $92 million o....6 million to $4 million, the awards will help the schools find new ways to combine basic biomedical research and clinical treatment of patients. They also wil......esearch Support Program aims to support US medical schools in their efforts tomaintain and modernize research capabilities for basic and patient-oriented research. This year, theHoward Hughes Medical Institute awarded a total of $92 million to 41 public and private medicalschools. Individual awards ranged...U-M Medical School receives $4 million for new bioinformatics program
.... The U-M Medical School is one of 41 medical schools selected this year to receive a Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant for biomedical research support. HHMI is a medical research organization whose principal purpose is the conduct of biomedical research. It employs scientists in cell biology, ...