Most highly endowed promotion prize for fourteen scientists and scholars
... University, Klaus Fiedler joined the staff of the university and was initially concerned with questions relatin...fellowship, he prepared for his qualification as a university lecturer. He remained true to Giessen University, first as a lecturer, and then as a professor C2, u...Laser light from Free-Electron Laser used for first time in human surgery
...research site. Theirbid was successful, giving the university the first FEL facility in the country designed specificallyfor applications research in the biological and biomedical sciences, as well as physics. Initial efforts to use the FEL beam as a surgical scalpel centered on a shorter wavelength near 3micr...University of New Orleans launches Quest
...ration efforts and coastal management solutions of university scientists are highlighted. Environmental Trium...nt: In the city of jazz, gumbo and Mardi Gras, the university and area partners are positioning New Orleans into the Information Revolution like Henry Ford did De...New Orleans ... the new Atlantis?
... coastal Louisiana. Today, Penland, Reed and other university scientists continue to work on the issue: restoring barrier islands; working on a $5 million contract with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers to document and assist in the beneficial use of dredge material; studying the biochemistry of the waterways; de...New institute formed to distribute human stem cells
...s the oldest and one of the most successful of all university intellectual property organizations. Through the management of a large intellectual property portfolio and the investment of royalties and licensing fees, WARF has created an endowment that returns on the order of $20 million annually to UW-Madison f...NY pilot study pushes Human Genome Project toward cures for disease
...e cell, was the 20th scientist associated with the university to receive the award. Rockefeller began in 1901 as The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first U.S. biomedical research center. Rockefeller faculty members have made significant achievements, including the discovery that DNA is the carr...New Science study revisits the debate over bird parents, predators, and family planning
... Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit at the university -- staked out forests in two different regions. Some 1,331 nests were monitored in subtropical Argentina, and then compared with 7,284 nests in Arizona. As expected, typical clutches were much smaller in Argentina, where bird mothers produced about 2...UNC-CH bus brings mobile lab, high-tech science focus to underserved N.C. schools
...ence professions. Glaxo Wellcome Inc. awarded the university a five-year, $1.6 million grant to build the bus, ...boratory advances already strong links between the university and our state's schools as well as with longtime benefactor and collaborator Glaxo Wellcome. "By pa...Biomathematician named first Aurelio professor of mathematics and science at Boston University
...t courses in Bible appreciation, retiring from the university in 1940. He bequeathed his entire estate of $125,000 to the college when he died in 1951. By the late 1970s the endowment had grown to allow two chairs to be established. Donald Carne-Ross was named William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language......ing the nation of Rwanda rebuild its national university and recover from a devastating 1994 war and genocide. The project, which carries on the work of naturalist Dian Fossey, will also demonstrate how advanced technologies can help in the struggle to protect other endangered species. ...Scientists discover 66-million-year-old dinosaur with a heart
...noheart.org, a free site maintained jointly by the university and museum. "Willo's ventricles and aorta indicate it had completely separate pulmonary and body circulation systems, which suggests it had a metabolic rate higher than we generally see in living reptiles," explains Dr. Michael Stoskopf, professor o...Study finds elderly women can halt bone loss
...vice. In addition to offering a series of classes, university researchers and educators have offered instructor training workshops throughout the state. For more information on the outreach, call 541-737-2713. The study, initiated by former OSU doctoral student Janet Shaw, was funded by the American Assoc...Hopkins research shows nature, not nurture, determines gender
... Hopkins Children's Center. Referred from outside university centers, all had been born with this same pelvic field defect, and sex-reassigned as females at birth. Eight of the 12 have since sex-reassigned themselves back to male. Three sets of parents plan to tell their children their genetic sex of birth "......cale. "Producing something on a small scale at the university and scaling that up to work on an industrial scale are very different things," Ratner said. "We'll be relying on Advanced Tissue Sciences' expertise to develop methods to do that." Gail K. Naughton, Ph.D., president and chief operating officer at Ad...UI biologist receives grant to study acoustic management of swine odor
...locally-produced fertilizer." Soll noted that the university would receive patent rights for any technology developed during the study. Prior grants from Caviforce Technologies, Inc. have supported projects in Soll's laboratory aimed at discovering new biological, medical and agricultural applications for emer...Chesapeake Bay watershed to benefit from new Landsat 7 land cover maps
... before for such an extensive region," said Goetz, university research scientist and RESAC manager. "The new maps can distinguish low-density from high-density residential development and crop land from pasture land, as well as wetlands and different types of forest." Local and regional planning agencies in th...Welch Award honors 2 for unlocking nature's secrets
...hemistry at the University of Cambridge. Since his university retirement in 1992, he first continued research with private funding and currently is writing detailed reports of his findings. He has had numerous honors including the Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry (U.S.), Wolf Prize in Chemistry (Israe...New research centre to continue 200-year-old traditions
...s' centre being built there, and it will cater for university and school students as well as volunteers and community groups....Blind, naked mole-rats not the inbreeders biologists once thought
...ults along with those of fellow researchers at the university of Capetown and Michigan demonstrate that outbreeding is the breeding system of choice for mole-rats," says Braude. "They may tolerate inbreeding because their populations go through frequent bottlenecks, and that selects out genes that would contri......ssor emeritus of food science and nutrition at the university and one of the lead researchers for the study. "From our experience we picked the three cultures that we believed would synergistically work together, and whose metabolic functions would generate the desired flavors in a reduced-fat cheese." The rese...