IBD (Crohn's/ulcerative colitis) conference adds 18 speakers; APS meeting starts Thursday
... Grisham said APS especially wants to thank the other conference sponsors for supporting APS in mounting the timely and comprehensive conference on IBD. Generous support came from Centocor Inc., Hoffman-La Roche Inc., the National Institutes of Health-NIDDK, and CCFA. CCFA also provided much-a...Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop DOE leadership-class computing capability for science
...pability for Science, Secretary Abraham said. We thank the four national laboratories for making this important process a win for DOE, the scientific community and the Nation, all well served by the world-class computational capabilities our complex provides for continued discovery and improved national ...Should publicly funded research be free and available to the public?
...ounder of the Public Library of Science, wishes to thank Mike Eisen and Sue Klapholz for their helpful suggestions for this article. VANTAGE POINT BY DONALD KENNEDY For more than a century and a half, groups of scientists have formed organizations and started journals for the primary purpose of presentin...Dazzling new light source opens at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
...ion project was completed on time and on budget. I thank the people whose extraordinary teamwork made the project successful. In a remarkable accomplishment, the old accelerator was dismantled, a new tunnel floor poured, SPEAR3 installed and commissioned, and users back online--all within a mere 11 months....Illinois professor wins Nobel Prize
...es a non-invasive medical imaging procedure should thank Paul. His work has led to revolutionary insights into the functions of the brain and the workings of the human body." Lauterbur was among the first scientists to use nuclear magnetic resonance in the studies of molecules, solutions and solids. He was...OHSU researchers publish final results of groundbreaking smallpox vaccination study
...esponses can be. Slifka and his colleagues wish to thank those who assisted in gathering this research data, including the many local study volunteers, Washington County Public Health Officer Jay Kravitz, M.D., Clackamas County Health Officer Alan Melnick, M.D., and Multnomah County Health Officer Gary Oxm...Von Liebig Center awards funding to six projects to commercialize UCSD faculty research
...in this solicitation," noted LeFaivre. "We want to thank everyone who participated in this program and we wish all of the applicants the best as they seek to commercialize their technologies." For more information on the von Liebig Center, visit http://www.vonliebig.ucsd.edu , call 858-822-5960 or email ...Institutions and locations of scientific excellence
...ros. Berlin has not only its large universities to thank for this high rank in the humanities and social sciences, but also the Humanities Research Centres (Geisteswissenschaftlichen Zentren (GWZ)) located in Berlin and funded by the DFG as well as, for instance, the German Institute for Economic Research ...UCR computer science graduate student wins ACM Student Research Competition Award
...he most important one I have won. I would like to thank Prof. Tao Jiang, without whose guidance and support, I could not finish the work I put into the paper for the competition." Li is concentrating on bioinformatics/algorithms for his Ph.D. dissertation. He received his M.S. in statistical genetics fro...Columbia professor receives 2003 National Golden Apple for Teaching Excellence
...eers recognize and appreciate you for your work. I thank AMSA for this considerable honor and would like to share the award with my many equally deserving colleagues atColumbia. A graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University (B.S. biology, 1962), Columbia University (M.S. medical parasitology, 1964), and th...Jane Goodall to receive 2003 Environmental Citizen Award
...f the many individuals who work with me, I want to thank the Center for its vitally important work." Her list of publications is extensive, including two overviews of her work at Gombe -- In the Shadow of Man and Through a Window -- as well as two autobiographies in letters, the spiritual autobiography Rea...Nick Smith (R-MI) honored by 2 science coalitions in D.C.
...nt of Agriculture. "BESC and CoFARM would like to thank you, Chairman Smith, for your unwavering support of the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture," said Dr. Ann Bartuska, President of the Ecological Society of America, which is a member of BESC. Among his many accomplishme...New life discovered in deep ocean floor
...ctic in 1998 and 2002. Colwell noted, "We wish to thank the Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy, Ocean Drilling Program, the National Science Foundation, the Japanese National Petroleum Exploration Company, and the Canadian Geological Survey for their generous support."...Young plant's natural defenses amount to more than just its seed
...routed plant unexpectedly faced with a drought can thank ABA, ABI5 and AFP for its survival....Researchers to toast good bacteria
...g frozen yogurt, or savor a fine wine, remember to thank the bugs. Lactic acid bacteria (bacteria that ferment sugars into lactic acid) play an essential role in the production of wine, as well as such fermented foods as cheese, yogurt, pickles, sausage and salami. From October 7-11, about three dozen scie...Natural resistance of pigment cells to sunlight may make deadly skin cancer tough to treat
...treatment. Sunbathers enjoying the summer rays can thank the body's natural sunscreen - a layer of pigmented cells - for preventing much damage to the body. In turn, those dark-colored cells themselves might be destroyed by solar radiation if they didn't contain a protective mechanism that allows them to ...Flower chemicals attract some insects but deter others with toxic warning
... beer is safe and enjoyable to drink, you ought to thank a flower." Also participating in the Cornell study, which was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, were Jerrold Meinwald, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry; Athula Attygalle, director of the Mass Spectrometry Facility in...Heritability of attitudes: Twin research in religious perspective
...holesome and life-giving attitudes, we're ready to thank the influence of our loving parents, caring teachers, benevolent faith communities, or even our genes." --Ted Peters...First-ever complete plant genome sequence is announced
...ent of Energy and the Department of Agriculture, I thank our counterparts in the European Union, the French Government and the Chiba Prefectural Government of Japan." The complete sequence of Arabidopsis is directly relevant to human biological functions, because many fundamental life processes a...No AIDS-related viruses or chimpanzee DNA found in 1950's-era polio vaccine
...than chimpanzee cell cultures." "We want to thank Dr. Claudio Basilico and the Wistar external AIDS/Poliovirus Advisory Committee, as well as the laboratories who generously donated their resources to this project, for shepherding these tests through to a conclusion," says Dr. Clayton Buck...