ASU Professor Helps In Fight To Protect Japanese Pika Habitat
...ho founded the fan club. The 1,800-member fan club sponsors pika lectures and photography exhibits,and even sews furry replicas for tourist souvenirs. Although cute, livingpikas make lousy pets, notes Smith. After returning to ASU on Sept. 27, Smith says he is optimistic about theweek he spent in Japan lectur...Mojave Desert Is Subject Of Las Vegas Science Meeting
...search and future research needs. Other sponsors of the symposium are the Desert Research Institute, the University of California Natural Reserve System and the U.S. Department of Energy, in cooperation with the Desert Managers Group. The meeting is open to the public, but seating sp...Center For Ion Mobility Spectrometry Established At INEEL
...y of Washington, CPAC is a consortium ofindustrial sponsors and several national laboratories and government agenciesthat addresses challenges in the application of process analytical chemistry. This relationship allows CPAC to exploit the analytical chemistry expertise inthe IMS Center and allows the center ...... from the School of Chemical Engineering. Research sponsors included Delta Air Lines, the U.S. Air Force and Scientific Applications International Corp....CU-Boulder to send experiments ranging from ladybugs to water quality on NASA shuttle
...d will carry experiments for BioServe's industrial sponsors andanother involves a National Institutes of Health experiment, said David Klaus,BioServe's mission manager for the space shuttle launch. A third payloadinvolving K-12 student outreach is being flown for the first time under NASA'snew Space Technolo...Welch Award honors 2 for unlocking nature's secrets
...dation funds researchers at 27 Texas institutions, sponsors an annual chemical research conference, provides grants to chemistry departments at small and medium-sized Texas education institutions, underwrites 35 academic chairs in chemistry, organizes a visiting lecture series of prominent scientists, support...AIDS prevention researchers to gain premier online info-exchange forum
...on-exchange process." Additional collaborators and sponsors are being sought for the AAAS venture, conceptualized with support from Virginia-based telecommunications expert John Evans. A variety of funding structures, including subscriptions, are being evaluated, Rubinstein says....Scientists go online to discuss threat posed by exotic forest pests
...erican Phytopathological Society (APS), one of the sponsors of the online meeting. "Often these diseases are introduced in ways we would never think of; in wood used for packing material for example." States Ash, "Since this is truly a global issue, it requires the coordinated efforts of scientists, regulator...Global online workshop on risks of exotic forest pests will be "live" in mid-April
...st Service Southern Research Station is one of the sponsors of this workshop, along with the American Phytopathological Society, Fiji Islands SPC-Plant Protection Service, and Sociedad Espanola De Fitopatologia. Representatives of all major land masses are hosting different sessions of the symposium. Dr. Ke...UNC to test virus treatment for recurrent head and neck cancer
...mized to chemotherapy plus adenovirus. Pfizer, Inc sponsors this trial. "The nice thing about most biological therapies, including this adenovirus, in combination with standard therapy is they don't increase toxicity to the patient. Research also suggests that adenovirus and chemotherapy may have synergistic...Announcing the Nitrogen 2001 Conference
...are free to attend all meeting sessions. Meeting sponsors include the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Fertilizer Institute. Registration and me...American Society for Microbiology selects Mass Media Fellows
...ues for a lay audience. Each year ASM selects and sponsors at least one fellow to participate in the program. A native of Spartanburg, SC, Davis earned a B.S. in Biology from Swarthmore College, in 1998. She will complete her Ph.D. in Microbiology in 2003 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she...Malaria research and training benefits global community
...ic/programs/malaria.html . Training Workshops: MIM sponsors workshops about the grant application and peer-review process to train researchers from malaria-endemic regions to successfully apply for research grants. The current issue of the journal "Trends in Parasitology" (Vol. 17, No. 4, April 2001) include...Science board honors the Bronx Zoo's Education Division for public service
..., the organization that publishes Science News and sponsors other education activities and national awards. The Bronx Zoo's Education Division is the fourth recipient of the NSB honor. The individual winner of the 2001 NSB Public Service Award is Dava Sobel, author of the current best seller, Galileo's D......tor at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute, one of the sponsors of the IMFAR conference. These speakers will challenge their peers to go beyond that foundation and to further expand our current level of understanding of this disorder. Is autism inherited? Anthony Bailey, M.D., is an MRC Clinical Scientist in T...NIH grants infrastructure awards for human embryonic stem cell research
... of approximately $3.5 million over two years. NIH sponsors of the awards include the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR); the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI); the National Institute of Aging (NIA); The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD); the National ...Big fish not always best, sounds might mean hurricanes and Hawaii tsunami safety
...he Southern Maine Beach Profile Monitoring. Event sponsors include Maine Sea Grant, the Maine Coastal Program, the Maine Geological Survey, and the University of Maine. For more information, please visit http://www.seagrant.umaine.edu or call the Maine Sea Grant Extension Office at 207-646-1555 x115. ...National study halted since health risks exceed benefits in postmenopausal women on estrogen
...kes. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute sponsors the continuing, larger project, which is known as the Women's Health Initiative. Institute officials were scheduled to hold a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Tuesday (July 9) to announce their action. A paper describing...Homeland security highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...mmercially available product in 2003. Development sponsors include the departments of Energy, Defense and State. Tackling bioterrorism one protein at a time - Because biological pathogens grow and spread inside the human body on a molecular level, the key to protecting against bioterrorism may rest in unders...Pan-African Malaria Conference November 17-22 in Arusha, Tanzania
...te groups are co-sponsoring the conference. Major sponsors include the NIH (the Fogarty International Center, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the National Library of Medicine), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GlaxoSm...