A first: A (nearly) complete road map for the evolution of placental mammals
.... In collaboration with Michele Tennant, assistant university librarian in the UF Health Science Center Libraries, the researchers identified 16,102 papers dating back to 1966 on placental mammal evolution. In more than two years and thousands of hours, the team then narrowed the field to 1,477 papers that seem...Violence and aggression: University of New Orleans researchers offer provocative insights
... treat epilepsy, helps with the treatment. Another university researcher studying girls says puberty serves as a triggering mechanism in anti-social adolescent girls. Murder. Rape. Aggravated assault. There are varying views on the origin, causes, prevention, and treatment of violence and aggression. Research...New materials hold promise for human healing applications
... be a problem in human treatment, Badylak said.The university is seeking companies to license the new materials in order to develop them into products that can be used in medical treatments for humans. "Tissue engineering will play a very important role in the health care of the nation, and Purdue has an excell...Biotechnology Study Center Honors J. Craig Venter, Leonard Bell, and Steven Shak
...f issues, from intellectual property rights in the university and industry to the ethics of Iceland's population genome study. The Center also is analyzing how biotechnology can have an impact on public health, and it is already pursuing innovative initiatives that could bring desperately needed experiment...Fly on a treadmill demonstrates super directional hearing
...ar are under development at several industrial and university laboratories, including one at Cornell. Mason was a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell at the time of the fly studies and now is on the faculty of the University of Toronto at Scarborough. Oshinsky was a Cornell graduate student and now is on the r...Officials design Web-based software for managing hazardous chemicals
...ause the technology was developed at Stanford, the university holds the copyright to the software and will receive equity shares in ChemTracker. "We couldn't find a commercial solution, so we ended up creating our own," Burnes says....UW, PNNL think big, aim small with creation of joint nanotechnology institute
...ng for ways to increase collaborations between the university and the laboratory for several years. The joint i...rumentation and experts that complement and expand university capabilities in nanoscience. PNNL expects to have the worlds most powerful nuclear magnetic resonan...LSU program for graduate education could become model for U.S.
... in 1997 and funded LSU's franchise in 2000. Each university selected to set up an IGERT program receives funding for five years. Russo said that some of the nation's best universities have IGERT programs, so he believes LSU is in good company. He also said the IGERT program offers students a number of excel...First experiments from NASA Commercial Space Centers get started on International Space Station
...ight research. Most of the centers are located on university campuses and work closely with other academic and government research institutions. The centers have agreements with almost 200 firms, including Bristol-Myers Squibb, ALCOA, Amgen, DuPont, Eli Lily and Company, Space Explorers Inc., Monsanto Company ...... a crucial role in catalyzing programs that enlist university research in the cause of technology transfer and economic development. All of us who care about New York's competitiveness are deeply grateful for his leadership." "This is important because it will fund studies of imaging the human brain in a way t...New U. of Colorado research may reduce renewable fuel costs
..., CBPR is an international consortium that applies university biotechnology research to industrial and societal needs for the development of new and improved products and processes. Since 1989, CBPR has funded more than 240 research projects with more than $30 million in federal funds that were matched by near......duate students and faculty throughout the Canadian university system to access ACS Web Editions. This agreement exemplifies the Societys mission to provide high-quality chemical information products to the worldwide scientific community, said Dr. John K Crum, ACS executive director. The Publications Division al...University of New Orleans researcher to head a nine university, three-year, $15.8 million project
...oordinator for a new $15 million, three-year, nine university (all Louisiana universities) research project recently awarded from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Louisiana Board of Regents. The portion of the project which will be conducted at UNO has a total project cost of $4.5 million. Dr. O'...New peach variety has strange shape and sweet taste
... get trees from nurserymen who are licensed by the university to grow the new variety. Homeowners interested in adding the fruit to their yards should find plenty in their local garden centers this winter, Sherman said....New effort to increase coal production announced
...ial of new coal production techniques developed by university researchers. Virginia Techs partnership with West Virginia University to create CAST is based on both universities sustaining long histories of strong research and teaching programs in mining and minerals engineering. CAST researchers, concerned abou...Alzheimer's genetic susceptibility could bring fear and misunderstanding, religious scholars say
...versity of Chicago (1983), where he was an elected university fellow. Dr. Post is a member of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Panel of Alzheimer's Disease International. He serves on the National Ethics Advisory Board for the Alzheimer's Association, and was presented with the special recognition award by...Montana State University begins major trout and salmonid book collection
...cognition from Sports Afield Magazine as the No. 1 university in the country to attend if students want to wet a...n. "This will be one of the best collections at a university in the U.S.," Lilly said. "It puts MSU on the map." Lilly, a 1948 MSU alum who was just awarded a...Military foods could enhance soldiers' performance by 2025
...he report was prepared by a 16-member committee of university and industry scientists. Purdue University's Michael Ladisch, distinguished professor of agricultural and biological engineering and distinguished professor of biomedical engineering, chaired the NRC committee. The committee's report states that gene...Future army could run on alternative fuels, photosynthesis
...he report was prepared by a 16-member committee of university and industry scientists. Purdue University's Michael Ladisch, distinguished professor of agricultural and biological engineering and distinguished professor of biomedical engineering, chaired the NRC committee. One of the most well-known examples o......ntioxidants in the human diet. Researchers at the university are now studying the effect of honey on the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation in the blood....