Overfishing great sharks wiped out North Carolina bay scallop fishery
... A team of Canadian and American ecologists, led by world-renowned fisheries biologist Ransom Myers of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has found that overfishing in the Atlantic of the largest predatory sharks, such as the bull, great white, dusky and hammerhead sharks, has led to an exp...'Telomere' expert Carol Greider shares 2006 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
... The 2006 award recognizes Greider, the Daniel Nathans Professor and director of molecular biology and genetics in the Johns Hopkins Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences, along with Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Ph.D., of the University of California, San Francisco, and Jack Szost...Educators in Pennsylvania and North Carolina earn top 2004 Mentoring Awards from AAAS
A Bryn Mawr College professor in Pennsylvania and an energetic North Carolina-based engineer this week earned top honors from AAAS, the world's largest general scientific organization, for their tireless efforts to help underrepresented students earn doctoral degrees in the sciences....... Rhonda J. Hughes, the Helen Herrmann Professor of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College, was named by AAAS, the A...National Evolutionary Synthesis Center launches in Durham, North Carolina
The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), in Durham, North Carolina, has launched. The NESCent website is ) is providing education and outreach services to NESCent on a sub-contract. The National Science Foun...