Children Become Gorillas In VR Zoo
...y be a reality." To make the project an effective teaching tool, researchers workedhard to make both the virtual environment and the virtual apes asrealistic as possible, said Hodges, an associate professor in GeorgiaTech's College of Computing andan associate director of the school's <AHREF="http://ww...Duke University Students Devise Devices For The Disabled
...tricacies of microprocessorsto build an electronic teaching game for blind children. This "spelling and tactile identification game" operates intwo "modes," said Varish Goyal, of Atherton, Calif., who workedwith fellow student Frank Fernandez, of Miami, Fla. In the first mode, braille-labelled keys help chi...New Evidence For Corn's Ancestry Could Lead To Insect And Drought Resistant Crops
...rom earnings as a self-employed consultant, and by teaching advancedhigh school biology at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematicsand Durham Academy. With funding from the National Geographic Society, she is now completinga book about the interdisciplinary archaeobotanical studies she did in the...Whitaker Awards $6.8 Million For Biomedical Engineering Education
...aculty members, equip a new biomedical engineering teaching laboratory and stimulate new research, with an emp...r medical costs and underwrites the development of teaching materials....Natural Variability Is Key To River Restoration
...ow or sustain a single "important species" is like teaching pet tricks to a wolf: The animal may perform, but it's not much of a wolf anymore. That is the conclusion of a six-university panel of river experts whose report, "The Natural Flow Regime: A Paradigm for River Conservation and Restoration," is publi...Researchers Discover New Genetic Risk For Alzheimer's Disease
...at we associate with thedisease, but this could be teaching us about one of them." The Washington University research was funded by the National Institutes ofHealth and the Metropolitan Life Foundation....Early Career Development Grants Foster Faculty Research And Education
...e thiswork into the development of new methods for teaching image processing which are made possiblethrough advances in high performance computing. J. William O. Ballard, an evolutionary biologist at The Field Museum in Chicago, will investigatethe theoretical prediction that evolution in a microorganism whi...Chlamydia Vaccine Developed At UMass
...of the department from 1978 to 1984, and continued teaching until his death....Even Moderate Air Pollution Reaching Eastern Wilderness Decreases Mountain Hikers' Lung Function
... The Brigham and Women's Hospital is a nonprofit teaching affiliate ofHarvard Medical School....Research Finds Alligator Problems Also Evident In Less Polluted Lakes
...ssor Drew Crain, a former student of Guillette now teaching at the University of Mississippi, said the study shows that problems found in Lake Apopka alligators are confined neither to that lake nor to one system in the animals. "Previous studies have focused on the hormones associated with reproduction -- t......waste cleanup efforts at Hanford. Schwartz also is teaching an interdisciplinarylaboratory course on the technique this quarter as part of a major UW effort to integrate leading-edge research on environmental technology into the undergraduate curriculum. "Environmentally-benign chemical processing is an area ......examined the effectiveness ofdifferent methods for teaching elementary school children the Control ofVariables...agood from a bad experiment. Klahr claims that "in teaching this is type of skill,discovery learning is usually ineffective and inefficient." "T...Heart and Soul: The Blood Vessels And Brain Use Common Guide
...c research and education, and the primarypediatric teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Editors, please note: a black-and-white diagram of neuropilin-1 andVEGF is available....Learning About Evolution Critical For Understanding Science
...support of evolutionand suggests effective ways of teaching it; explains the nature of science and how it di...ific,legal, and educational issues surrounding the teaching of evolution. "Biology simply cannot be taught well without covering evol...Report On Teaching About Evolution To Be Released At April 9 Public Briefing
...cepts in understanding key aspects ofbiology. Yet teaching evolution remains controversial in many of the nation'scommunities and public schools. Some teachers and administrators have said theyare reluctant to teach evolution because of pressures from interest groups todownplay or eliminate it as part of th...Desert Researcher Receives Environmental Award
...ity of Vienna, Austria, and spent the next17 years teaching in Israel and Canada. He started his career at Florida StateUniversity in 1968. Dr. Friedman discovered algal, cyanobacterial, and fungal microbiota of both hotand cold deserts of the world. The discovery expanded what was formerlyconceived of as t...Rice Names Matthews Dean Of Natural Sciences
...earch." Matthews has earned numerous teaching awards and has served on a number of academic and professional panels and committees, including a review panel for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Resources Program for Medical Schools, and the Nati...DFG To Set Up 32 New Postgraduate Research Groups - First "Virtual Research Group"
...reifswald will communicate via the Internet, using teaching events and discussion forums especially developed for this medium. In Karlsruhe, a new natural science postgraduate research group will focus on natural disasters. Engineers, economists and computer scientists will cooperate in this interdisciplinary...ASU Scientists Join NASA Astrobiology Institute
...ASU Astrobiology Center will also include a strong teaching component. The goalof the ASU Astrobiology Center ...biochemistry, microbiology and physics. One of the teaching options being consideredis the possibility of offering astrobiology courses over the internet, so un......arting an educational campaign in high-risk areas, teaching residents how to protect their ground water. The next step, according to Engel, is to finish putting it all together on the World Wide Web site so that farmers can enter data such as where they live, what crops they grow and which pesticides they...