Award winners announced for 2001 Merck/AAAS undergraduate science research program
...entific Affairs, Merck Research Laboratories. "The schools are selected by a panel of scientists and educators selected by the AAAS. Merck has no influence on or input into the selection of the 15 schools." Public and private colleges and universities must meet certain criteria to compete. They mus...Award winners announced for 2001 Merck/AAAS undergraduate science
...entific Affairs, Merck Research Laboratories. "The schools are selected by a panel of scientists and educators selected by the AAAS. Merck has no influence on or input into the selection of the 15 schools." Public and private colleges and universities must meet certain criteria to compete. They mu...Deleting gene changes sex of mice
...s were Jennifer S. Colvin, Ph.D., a student in the schools M.D./Ph.D. program, and Rebecca P. Green, M.D., Ph.D., a former postdoctoral fellow in molecular biology and pharmacology and now an instructor in pediatrics. The research was completed in collaboration with Duke University Medical Center. Fibroblas...Study: overweight more common among early-maturing girls, especially minorities
...t professor, respectively, of nutrition at the UNC schools of public health and medicine. "In the 1960s, 21.1 percent of black females were overweight," the two wrote. "By the mid-1990s, the percentage had increased to 30.7 percent. Data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey f...Panda habitat not protected by nature reserve, say Science researchers
...tunities could allow residents to attend technical schools and colleges and obtain jobs outside the reserve, according to Liu. "Our computer simulations suggest that even if only 22 percent of the reserve's young people relocate as a result of attending college, getting married, or taking outside jobs, the h...UNC scientists find U.S. children snack more now than they did two decades ago
...professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the UNC schools of public health and medicine. The Journal of Pediatrics carries a report on the research in its April issue. Besides Popkin, authors are Dr. Anna Maria Siega-Riz, assistant professor of nutrition and of maternal and child health, and Lisa Jahns...Like USA children, young adults snacking more now than they did two decades ago
...ive Medicine. Authors of the paper, all at the UNC schools of public health and medicine, are dietitian Claire Zizza, a doctoral student in nutrition; Dr. Anna Maria Siega-Riz, assistant professor of nutrition and of maternal and child health; and Dr. Barry M. Popkin, professor of nutrition. The two professo...Scientists: nutritional deficiency can boost influenza virus damage
...e professor of pediatrics and nutrition at the UNC schools of medicine and public health, and Heather K. Nelson, a doctoral student in nutrition at UNC. Dr. Orville A. Levander, a nutritionist with the Agricultural Research Service's Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, who specializes in selenium, al...New protein is essential for lung development
...or was Jennifer S. Colvin, Ph.D., a student in the schools M.D./Ph.D. program. The results, to be published in the June issue of the journal Development, will appear on the journals website May 17. Fibroblast growth factors regulate cell growth and migration and therefore are integral to organ development. B...Science board honors the Bronx Zoo's Education Division for public service
...award-winning environmental education programs for schools in the U.S. and abroad. Our wildlife parks and centers bring in over 4.5 million visitors each year, leaving them the important message to care about wildlife and wild lands and to participate in their conservation." Berkovits will be accepting the ......bertson, Dr. Joseph Eron, Prema Menezes of the UNC schools of medicine and dentistry. Other authors are Dr. Charles C. Hicks and Julieta Giner of Duke University, Dr. Jeffrey L. Lennox and Beth Dean of Emory University and Dr. Clyde E. Hart of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For the past...Glucose deficit affects young and old, could impact school schedules
...re part of research that eventually may impact how schools schedule classes and meals as well as our understanding of age-related deficits in memory and learning, said lead researcher Paul E. Gold of the University of Illinois."The brain runs on glucose," said Ewan C. McNay of Yale University. "Young rats c......l-based health clinics at two Pittsburgh-area high schools in 1997 and 1998. Students were instructed on how to collect vaginal swabs, which were then tested in labs at the Magee-Womens Research Institute. Disease rates identified were trichomoniasis, 10 percent; chlamydia, 8 percent; and gonorrhea, 2 percen...Scary study: Selenium deficiency causes flu virus to mutate into more dangerous forms
...e professor of pediatrics and nutrition at the UNC schools of medicine and public health, and Heather K. Nelson, a doctoral student in nutrition at UNC. Dr. Orville A. Levander, a research chemist with the Agricultural Research Service's Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, who specializes in selenium...UAF part of university without walls
...nters of access, whether it be through community schools or city halls, to distance courses," Erickson said. "Cooperative efforts could range from distance education or hands-on field collaboration." The University of Alaska Fairbanks will work with the University of Tromsoe in Norway to help develop ...School kids as master gardeners
... so effective in teaching complex subjects that 25 schools in Palm Beach County Florida alone currently have gardening programs. Research supports educator observations about the power these gardens have to mold young minds. At the APS meeting, Monika E. Reuter, of the University of Florida, will report the...UC Davis biomedical engineering department awarded $12 million by Whitaker Foundation
...with faculty from across the campus, including the schools of medicine and veterinary medicine as well as engineering, biology and agricultural science departments....Food allergy reactions in schools: Improvements needed to reduce and respond
... physician order for treatment or medication. Most schools cannot give epinephrine without a physician order ...s are available from the Food Allergy Network. And schools should put one person in charge of handling an allergic reaction and designate a backup person....UNC Center for Genome Sciences to inaugurate new seminar series with help of national experts
...s, will conclude the years talks on May 6. The UNC schools of pharmacy and medicine and the College of Arts and Sciences are sponsoring the seminar series. More information is available at http://www.med.unc.edu/geneticsdept Last February, the Chapel Hill campus committed at least $245 million over the nex......so fortunate that U-M is one of only three medical schools in the United States with a rapid autopsy program where tissue samples are obtained within hours of death," adds Chinnaiyan. "Since RNA is prone to rapid degradation, it's impossible to track gene expression in cells from autopsied tissue, unless RNA...