Queen's contraception awareness program among world's top five
...ynecologists of Canada. The program was originally chaired by Queen's infertility expert Dr. Robert Reid (Obstetrics and Gynecology). "We're delighted that the web site has been recognized in this way, and that it continues to grow in both number of users and in queries addressed by our staff who maintain i...'An Eye on Katrina: Geoscience Perspectives on a Catastrophic Hurricane' at GSA Next Week
...Response to Hurricane Katrina The session will be chaired by David M. Bush, Professor of Geology, University of West Georgia, and editor of the journal, Southeastern Geology. Bush is a nationally recognized expert in coastal geoscience. View abstracts at http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2005AM/finalprogram/sessio...Rensselaer awarded NIH grant to support cheminformatics research
...eering systems; Angel Garcia, senior constellation chaired professor in biocomputation and bioinformatics and professor of physics; Shekhar Garde, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering; James Moore, professor of chemistry and chemical biology; Nagamani Sukumar, senior research associate ...$6.5M nanomedicine center includes Yale engineer
...transport at the molecular level," said LaVan, who chaired a group at the 2004 National Academies Keck Futures Conference, Designing Nanostructures, where aspects of this project were formulated. "We are set to develop revolutionary new devices to treat disease and to develop implantable devices that mimic n...Biorenewables products for a sustainable future: York leads new consortium
...cience for Business, a Knowledge Transfer Network, chaired by Professor Dianna Bowles, Director of CNAP, is a combination of research expertise and commercial know-how, bringing together members with interests in micro-organisms, land plants and marine and freshwater organisms, and their industrial applicati...Speedier NIH review of research applications planned
...maging and Bioengineering Integrated Review Group, chaired the Trans-NIH Committee to Shorten the Review Cycle....T-rays: New imaging technology spotlighted by American Chemical Society
...an Chemical Society. The session was organized and chaired by experts Charles A. Schmuttenmaer , professor of chemistry at Yale, and Xi-Cheng Zhang, professor and director of the Center for Terahertz Research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Twelve speakers introduced analytic applications of terahert...Norman R. Augustine to receive 2006 Public Welfare Medal, Academy's highest honor
... Academy of Engineering from 1994 to 1996. He has chaired National Research Council study panels such as the Committee on the Organization and Management of Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics and served on the Committee on the Organizational Structure of the National Institutes of Health. In 2005 he le...The Euroscience Open Forum 2006 announces the conference programme
... a number of committees. The Steering Committee is chaired by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Heckl, General Director of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Host of the conference is Wissenschaft im Dialog. The initiators of ESOF2006 are the Robert Bosch Stiftung and Stifterverband fr die Deutsche Wissenschaft....Major new awards program honors cancer researcher
... Behavior: From Cytostasis to Metastasis." Having chaired Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Cell Biology program for nearly 15 years, today Dr. Massagu leads its Cancer Biology and Genetics program. He is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and was elected in 2000 to the National Academy of Science...Thousands of Scots families to help scientists improve nation's health
...eous, University of Edinburgh. The lecture will be chaired by Andy Kerr MSP, Minister for Health and Community Care....Prestigious 2005 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize honors Norman R. Augustine
...portation and Homeland Security. In 1986 Augustine chaired a task force on U.S. competitiveness in the semiconductor industry that recommended a public-private partnership which spawned SEMATECH, credited with saving the U.S. semiconductor industry. He also served on the Hart-Rudman Commission and contribute...ASPB supports the President's research initiatives
...ied February 15 before the House Science Committee chaired by Congressman Sherwood Boehlert. Dr. Thomashow said the ACI provides increased investment in research needed for continued growth of the nation's economy. "The nation's ability to generate job-creating industries, remain competitive in the globa...A rare alliance forged to protect Wisconsin waters
..." says Nowak, a soil and water conservationist who chaired the WBI process. "We're really trying to solve the significant problems of Wisconsin in a way that represents the essence of the Wisconsin Idea." Among the recommendations that Nowak will present is the use of a new watershed ranking system developed...ICCL and CI launch global mapping project to protect sensitive marine areas
...ence panel comprised of leading marine experts and chaired by internationally recognized marine biologist Dr. Sylvia Earle. CI and the ICCL will convene a task force of experts in charting and navigation, maritime law, ship operations, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to identify sensitive marine are...Metabolites of pharmaceuticals identified in wastewater
...f Pharmaceuticals in the Environment." It will be chaired by Diana Aga, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry in UB's College of Arts and Sciences and leader of the UB team. According to Aga, it has been only in the past five years that analytical-chemistry techniques have become sufficiently affor...Bernard Fisher receives AACR Lifetime Achievement Award
... and Bowel Project, a research consortium which he chaired from 1967 to 1994. In his role as past chairman and scientific director of that Pittsburgh-based research consortium, Dr. Fisher and his colleagues contributed research that set a new course not only for the treatment of breast cancer but for other t...Sherry Lansing and Janet Woodcock receive AACR public service awards
...awards will be presented during a special ceremony chaired by AACR's president, Peter A. Jones, Ph.D., D.S.c. Sherry Lansing began her career in Hollywood as a model and actress before becoming the first woman to run a major motion picture studio. During her tenure at Paramount, the studio released such majo...Top federal officials to speak at 20-21 April AAAS policy forum
...D. Carey lecture at 5:45 p.m. on 20 April. Shapiro chaired the National Bioethics Advisory Commission during ... policy makers to the global innovation challenge, chaired by Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; a luncheon address by Energy ......mmittee, and the Board of Governors. Last year, he chaired the Bioeffects Consensus Conference, and most rece...he association in many capacities as well. He has chaired the Membership Committee, the Regionalization Committee, and currently chairs the Endowment for Educ...