Leader in cancer treatment and prevention research honored
...pidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. The two past winners of the AACR-Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation Award were, in 2003, Waun Ki Hong, M.D., of The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; and, in 2002, Michael B. Sporn, M.D., of Dartmouth Medical School. The AACR is pleased to co-sponso...Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
...d teachers, and biotech exhibits. Regional winners compete in an annual national challenge (with a pr...and partner Alexander Tomkins were ABC first prize winners in 2002 for their project which developed a home test kit that could detect minute quantities of pea...Chemical engineering grad students will take notable national awards
...ved her Ph.D. in May of 2004, was named one of two winners of the 2004 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award in Membrane-Based Separations. Both awards are highly competitive with a global request for nominations, said Basil Baltzis, PhD, chairman of the chemical engineering departme...Posters highlight water, energy and other natural resource research
...th INRA and non-INRA university students and three winners were presented cash awards totaling $1,750. W. Robert Bolton of the University of Alaska Fairbanks was awarded first place and Lawrence L. Cook of Idaho State University came in second. Third place was awarded to Abigail Aiken representing Washington...Secretary of Energy announces seven E.O. Lawrence Award Winners
...ry of Energy Spencer Abraham today named the seven winners of the 2004 E.O. Lawrence Award. Each winner will...lled the Department of Science and Energy." The winners are: Nathaniel Fisch, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., and Princeton Plasma Physics Laborator...DuPont scientist named one of the world's top young innovators by MIT's 'Technology Review' Magazine
...ecutive editor of Technology Review. "This year's winners all are pioneering fascinating innovations in the fields of biomedicine, computing and nanotechnology, and were chosen after a rigorous selection and judging process. The result is an elite group whose visions and inventions will shape the future of...ORNL's Delmau joins Technology Review's list of top young innovators
...dates under the age of 35. Delmau and other TR 100 winners will join top innovators and peers from a variety of backgrounds, disciplines and institutions at the Emerging Technologies conference Sept. 29-30 at MIT in Cambridge. A native of Marseilles, France, Delmau received her engineering degree from th...Berkeley Lab soil scientist Margaret Torn receives Presidential Early Career Award
...ime for prevention is now." Previous Berkeley Lab winners of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers include Abby Dernburg of the Life Sciences Division, nominated by the National Institutes of Health for 2002, who received her award in a ceremony delayed until earlier this year, a...Modest climate change could lead to substantially more and larger fires
...also could be affected, possibly eliminated. "The winners after fires in these cases are the weedy, adaptive, quickly reproducing species," McKenzie says. "The losers are the ones needing more stable environments."...Humans march to a faster genetic 'drummer' than primates, UC Riverside research says
...o an environmental "natural selection," separating winners and losers as theorized by Darwin. "We are not contending that natural selection does not exist, but that in this instance it is a chemical process within human chromosomes that explains why humans have an explosive expansion of DNA repeats, and pri...APS announces the winners of its 2004 postdoctoral fellowship in physiological genomics
...ican Physiological Society (APS) has announced the winners of its 2004 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Physiological Genomics. The two-year award will provide funds totaling $73,000 to each of the two winning scientists including stipend and a mini research grant for each year. Winners of the 2004 APS Postdoct...APS awards more than $36,000 to its 2004 undergraduate research fellows
...s 2004 Undergraduate Research Fellows. Fellowship winners spend the summer in the laboratory of an established scientist and APS member. Now in its fifth year, this program aims to excite and encourage students about careers in biomedical research. In 2004, 29 applicants vied for the 12 research positions...8 environmental stewards win $900,000 in biodiversity awards
...l advocates from around the world today were named winners of US$900,000 in Biodiversity Leadership Awards. The winners find, catalog, and defend diversity in species-rich and biologically endangered areas of the United ...Cutting-edge cancer researchers sought for international recognition
...ishments of scientists in the years to come." Past winners of the Kirk A. Landon-AACR Prize for Basic Cancer ...inson Cancer Research Center Seattle, Wash. Past winners of the Dorothy P. Landon-AACR Prize for Translational Cancer Research 2004: Raymond N. DuBois, M.D.,...Presidential Recognition Awards presented at the 2004 AIUM Annual Convention
...te of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), announced the winners of the 2004 Presidential Recognition Award during the Board of Governors banquet at the 2004 AIUM Annual Convention in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 22, 2004. Gary Whitman, MD, and Alfred Abuhamad, MD, were selected as this year's reci...Workforce achievements celebrated at NASA Marshall Center Awards ceremony
...y to the NASA mission. Also recognized were three winners of the Presidential Rank Award a prestigious honor given to a select group of senior federal executives who have provided exceptional service to the American people over an extended period of time. Dr. Martin Weisskopf, project scientist for NASA's ...New paper in Science introduces revolutionary new paradigm for fishery management
...cies-focused management. The authors include three winners of the highly prestigious award from the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation that became part of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science in October 2003. They are Paul Dayton from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Burr Heneman from Commonwe...Chemical Society announces EPA awards for environmentally friendly technology
...w promise for improving the environment. The award winners include scientists at the Georgia Institute of Tec...products. Since 1996, the 46 Green Chemistry Award winners have contributed to the environment by eliminating 387 million pounds and 9.1 million gallons of haz...Four tourist destinations named best worldwide
...l Geographic Traveler magazine announced today the winners of the 2004 World Legacy Award, given to environme...rs in tourism. The award will be presented to four winners at a ceremony hosted by Her Majesty Queen Noor tonight at the National Geographic Society world head......lecular sciences make to our lives. Previous award winners are: William J. Rutter (2003) Walter Gilbert and Phillip A. Sharp (2002) Francis S. Collins and J. Craig Venter (2001) Herbert W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson (2000) George B. Rathmann (1999)...