Wilmington chemist wins national award for environmentally friendly processes
...honored March 25 by the world's largest scientific society for his wide-ranging contributions to the development of more benign industrial processes, such as replacements for ozone-damaging chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs. He will receive the 2003 E.V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry from...Ann Arbor chemist wins national award for extracting sulfur from fuel
...honored March 25 by the world's largest scientific society for developing new ways to separate and purify compounds, such as sulfur contaminants in fuel, by trapping them on the surfaces of material for removal. He will receive the 2003 Award in Separations Science and Technology from the American Chemical S...Pacific Northwest chemist wins national award for computer-based research
... honored Jan. 16 by the world's largest scientific society for using computers to understand the reactions of fluorine, including the design of environmentally benign alternates to chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs. He received the 2003 Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry from the American Chemical Soci...Boulder chemist wins national award for studies of atmosphere
...honored March 25 by the world's largest scientific society for his contributions to our understanding of the earth's atmosphere, including the effects of ozone depletion and nuclear explosions. He will receive the 2003 Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology from the American Chem...Pennsylvania chemist wins national award for drug research
...honored March 25 by the world's largest scientific society for his achievements in designing and making compounds to treat disease, especially drugs based on the building blocks of proteins. He will receive the 2003 Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry from the American Chemical Society at its nati...Boston chemist wins national award for protein research
...honored March 25 by the world's largest scientific society for developing methods of analyzing proteins that researchers now use the world over to understand the body and to help treat disease. He will receive the 2003 Award in Chromatography from the American Chemical Society at its national meeting in New ...Iowa City chemist wins national award for drug research
...honored March 25 by the world's largest scientific society for his achievements in understanding and improving pharmaceuticals based on carbohydrates, in particular the clot inhibitor heparin. He will receive the 2003 Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry from the American Chemical Society at its ...Maine chemist wins national award for research and mentoring
...honored March 25 by the world's largest scientific society for his insights into how plants capture light energy -- studies he has conducted using Bowdoin College undergraduates as research associates. He will receive the 2003 Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution from the American Chemical Soci...New Jersey chemist wins national award for drug discoveries
...honored March 25 by the world's largest scientific society for designing compounds to treat disease, including cancer and high cholesterol. He will receive the 2003 E.B. Hershberg Award for Important Discoveries in Medicinally Active Substances from the American Chemical Society at its national meeting in Ne...Pennsylvania chemist wins national award for drug research
...honored March 25 by the world's largest scientific society for his leadership in discovering and developing new drugs to treat disorders, including topiramate for preventing epileptic seizures. He will receive the 2003 Award in Industrial Chemistry from the American Chemical Society at its national meeting i...Texas chemist wins national award for vitamin, other natural products research
...honored March 25 by the world's largest scientific society for uncovering and recreating the processes nature uses to build vitamins, enzymes and other compounds potentially useful in medicine. He will receive the 2003 Nakanishi Prize from the American Chemical Society at its national meeting in New Orleans....Delaware chemists win national award for environmentally benign insecticide
...honored March 25 by the world's largest scientific society for their discovery and development of indoxacarb, a new type of insecticide safe for beneficial insects, birds, fish and mammals, including humans. They will receive the 2003 Award for Team Innovation from the American Chemical Society at its nation...Science champion William T. Golden makes historic $5.25 million gift to AAAS
...stowed upon the world's largest general scientific society since its inception in 1848. "We are honored and delighted by Mr. Golden's extraordinary and historic gift," said Alan I. Leshner, chief executive officer of AAAS and executive publisher of its journal, Science. "Mr. Golden has dedicated much of his ...Sex and gender scientists explore a revolution in evolution
...e (University of California Press, 2003). Sex and society Roughgarden thinks that a more comprehensive theory of sexuality should take into account social as well as sexual selection. Mating can function to build and manage relationships as well as to procreate. ''Female choice, I'm pretty sure, has much m...Laser-pulse technique could aid drug design
...n the United States alone, at an estimated cost to society of $37 billion annually," he notes, citing a 1999 report by the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy. "During the past two decades, many attempts have been made to find compounds that prevent cocaine's inhibition of proteins that are essential...Tribal warfare: Revenge, retaliation, deterrence
...rly violent. The presence of a warlike, aggressive society in the vicinity induces frequent warfare throughou...even millions of years old. Nearly every primitive society ever studied fought wars. Stephen Beckerman, an associate professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania ...What to plant when the fires go out
... lands illustrates the "peculiar way that American society has evolved politics and practices to cope with fire's threats and utility." "The United States does not have a fire problem," Pyne says, "It has many fire problems. The core concern, however, resides in the West, where extensive public lands overla...Genetically engineered mice offer hope for isolating beta cells and treatment of type 2 diabetes
...y an average of more than 200 calories, becoming a society with an alarming increase in obesity. The onset of type 2 diabetes has become an epidemic. Type 2 diabetes cannot be cured, only controlled. Therefore, research into the insulin- producing beta cell (or -cell) of the pancreas, the predominant cel...EMBO to coordinate EU funded project to support science teachers
...cal and social issues connected with the impact on society of new advances in the science, and how to integrate these topics into the classroom. "We believe this initiative will contribute significantly towards establishing a pan-European platform that will raise the standards of biology education through th......water is vital to human life and the well-being of society because it provides commodities and services in consumption, irrigation, and transportation. The report, "Meeting Ecological and Societal Needs for Freshwater," published in the November 2002 issue of the journal Ecological Applications (Vol. 12, pp...