Brain-Activity Data Clarify Contradictions In Earlier Anxiety Research
...itschke andDr. Dana L. Lindsay, a U. of I. medical student who now is at the Universityof Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, appeared in the journalCognition and Emotion. Heller also detailed a subsequent, unpublished studyat the Fourth Laterality and Psychopathology Conference in London in June. ...New "Wonder Peanut" Beats Olive Oil In Healthful Benefits
...S nutrition professor Rachel Shireman and graduate student Dawn O'Byrne, showed significant reductions in serum cholesterol and low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol - the "bad" cholesterol. As reported in the July 1997 issue of the scientific journal Lipids, the study concluded that substituting high-ol...UC Geologist "Flip-Flops" On Understanding Of Crinoid Life Style
... test." The followup work will be done by graduate student AndrewWebber. Meyer's research is supported by the National GeographicSociety....Insects Provide Clues About Bodies Underwater
...he past year, the Simon Fraser University graduate student in pestmanagement has made routine visits to the clothed and submerged 'bodies' tostudy the life cycles of insects that colonize on them - everything fromaquatic bugs to earthworms and even clams. Insects may be able to tell how long a body has been ...Many Dog Foods About Equal In Nutritional Value, Researchers Say
... of the report were Fahey; animal-science graduate student SeanM. Murray; postdoctoral researcher Avinash R. Patil; and Neal R. Merchen,a professor of animal science and of nutrition, all of the U. of I.; andDenzil M. Hughes, a pet nutritionist of Farmland Industries Inc. of KansasCity, Mo., which provided p...New Materials Remove Corrosive Gas In Coal-Gasification Process
... Rood,Survey scientist Anthony Lizzio and graduate student Brooks Strickler --are developing carbon-based sorbents that can remove the hydrogen sulfideefficiently. "While the use of carbon for hot-gas cleanup has had significantpotential, previous research has focused mainly on metal-based sorbentssuch as z...Whitaker Awards $6.8 Million For Biomedical Engineering Education
...ces of SUNY Health Sciences Center, and providing student support. Once a master's degree program is established, the plan calls for developing a Ph.D. program. Primary research areas include sensory systems, artificial joints, and the biophysics and biomechanics of bone. Interactions with industry will be ...SFU Researcher Fools Forest Pest Into 'Barking Up The Wrong Tree'
...her Nature? It certainly isn't Dezene Huber, a PhD student in Simon Fraser University's department of biological sciences. He's part of a research team investigatingthe secret scent life of two of British Columbia's most destructive forest insect pests. His goal? To fool the insects into bypassing vulnerable...MIT Biologists Identify Aging Mechanism
... Guarente, Sinclair and Mr.Kevin Mills, a graduate student in biology, also demonstrated that yeast genesSIR2, SIR3, SIR4, and UTH4 determine the life span in yeast. When these geneswere deleted from a yeast strain, life span was shortened. When they wereoverexpressed, the life span of the yeast strain was e...Early Career Development Grants Foster Faculty Research And Education
...egrate these studies into guidelines for assessing student learning and materials for teachers' professional development. -NSF-...Wake Forest University Study Takes Students In Flight With The Albatross
... at Wake Forest. Fernandez, a first year master's student in biology at Wake Forest, posts the latitude, lon...er than the real thing. Sievert, the postdoctoral student at the University of Massachusetts who is placing the transmitters on the birds in Anderson's study,...Cellular Engineers Design Custom Cell Surfaces Able To Adhere To Synthetic Materials
... differences?" saysBertozzi. Working with graduate student Lara Mahal and postdoctoral fellow KevinYarema, Bertozzi set out to design new cell surfaces that could stick tosynthetic materials. "We decided to appropriate the cell's natural metabolicmachinery for assembling tailor-made oligosaccharides." ...Fruit Flies May Shed Light On Cocaine Addiction
...r. Jay Hirsh, professor Colleen McClung, graduate student Department of Biology University of Virginia, Charlottesville (804) 982-5608 University media contact Dan Heuchert University of Virginia News Officer dnh6n@virginia.edu (804) 924-7676 For scientific perspective on this research, call the NIGMS P...Cellular 'Short Circuit' Causes Insulin Resistance
...ONAL INFORMATION Prof. Zick's team included Ph.D. student Keren Paz, Dr. EytanElhanany of the Israel Institute for Biological Research, Dr. HannahKanety, Prof. Avraham Karasik, and Rina Hemi of the Sheba MedicalCenter in Tel Hashomer and Dr. Derek LeRoith of the NationalInstitutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. T...Iron Deficiency Increases Likelihood Of Bone Fractures
...Other researchers included Laura Shiry, a graduate student in veterinarybiosciences; Velimir Matkovic, a prof...ical medicine and rehabilitation; and Bob Ireton,a student of osteopathic medicine at Ohio University....UF Researchers Identify Virus That May Cause Epidemic Disease In Sea Turtles
...des Klein, Jacobson, Morettiand former UF graduate student Dr. Larry Herbst, now of the AlbertEinstein College of Medicine. The research has been supported by the U.S. Fish and WildlifeService, the National Marine Fisheries Service Honolulu Laboratory,Save-A-Turtle of Islamorada and the Hidden Harbor......ibernation. But Florant's recent workwith graduate student Vanessa Hill offers the first evidence that high levels oflinolenic acid may inhibit successful hibernation, while balanced combinationsof the two acids provide a restful sleep. "When Punxsutawney Phil is pulled from his burrow on Groundhog ...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...and George Stawowy, a visiting ergonomics doctoral student from the University of Aachen in Germany, redesigned two food service stands at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles (Imada and Stawowy, 1996). The total cost was $40,000. Extensive before-and- after measures demonstrated a reduction in average customer tra...Research Finds Alligator Problems Also Evident In Less Polluted Lakes
... animals. Biology Professor Drew Crain, a former student of Guillette now teaching at the University of Mis...d help from Crain; Daniel Pickford, another former student of Guillette's; Franklin Percival of UF's Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit; and A......leanup efforts at Hanford. Schwartz andhis team of student researchers are supporting the project by conducting experiments to explore thefundamental properties and limits of the new hexacyanoferrate m aterials being used. "One problem is that this material can only be re-used for a certain number of cycles ...