Yale environment school professor to receive research award
...cher and a leader in his field," said Gus Speth , dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies . Much of Kellert's work focuses on understanding the connection between human and natural systems, with a particular interest in the value and conservation of nature and designing ways to har...Pitt receives $2.75 million to prevent spread of flu in public schools
...und the globe, according to Donald S. Burke, M.D., dean of GSPH and principal investigator on the project. "This grant will allow us to work with Pittsburgh-area schools to better understand the spread of influenza and to reduce the number and severity of influenza outbreaks in schools and homes. These ...Symposium at Yale to honor Mary Helen Goldsmith and auxin research
... The morning session includes talks by Gus Speth, dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Gordon Geballe, associate dean of that school, whose topic is, "Undergraduate Education in Environment: Yale and Beyond." Robert C...Yale journal identifies products that cause greatest environmental damage
... our lives such as air transport," said Gus Speth, dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. "That should lead to clearer priorities and better decisions." "This special issue demonstrates the power of industrial ecology," says Reid Lifset, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Industrial ...Two national diabetes-related initiatives coordinated by MCG bioinformatics expert
... other center grants," says Dr. D. Douglas Miller, dean of the School of Medicine. "It also will help our internal planning efforts in the area of data coordination for clinical translational research, a major strategic focus of the school." At MCG, Dr. McIndoe also is the local director of informatics...Researchers to present advances in energy, health, technology at chemical engineering conference
...y's most challenging problems,'' says Jim Plummer, dean of the School of Engineering. Founded in 1908, A...hemical engineering professor and senior associate dean for faculty affairs in the School of Engineering. ''He has educated and trained a new generation of ...Scientists set 'Five Grand Challenges' for nanotechnology risk research
...rt is professor of toxicology and senior associate dean for research, School of Public Health, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). His research includes the development of nanotechnology for intracellular measurement of biochemicals and ions, and for the early detection of brain tumors. Dr. Tinkle is ass...Gene sequencing center to receive $156 million
...Larry Shapiro, M.D., executive vice chancellor and dean of Washington University School of Medicine. "It shows that the National Institutes of Health has tremendous confidence in our genome sequence center to carry out the next phase of genome sequencing, which is likely to dramatically change the way doc...NIH selects Purdue to use phi29 DNA packaging motor for National Nanomedicine Development Center
... project is unprecedented," said Carlo Montemagno, dean of engineering at the University of Cincinnati, who is part of the research team. "It involves placing a biological motor into an entirely different context. It is an extremely difficult task to embed a viral motor into a lipid and to have it continu...Alaska graduate receives nation's top dissertation honor
...nd hard work as a researcher, said Susan Henrichs, dean of the UAF graduate school. UAF, and the biosciences graduate program in particular, have the national and international reputation to attract outstanding students such as Katey, and then provide programs that help them to develop into excellent scie...Annual plants may cope with global warming better than long-living species
...sor of ecology and evolutionary biology and acting dean of the School of Biological Sciences at UCI, has been used with bacteria, but this is the first study to make full use of it with a plant species. Bennett and his colleagues froze ancestral strains of E. coli so they could evaluate the bacterium's ad...Buckyballs used as 'passkey' into cancer cells
...stry, professor of materials science and associate dean for industry interactions and technology transfer....Rutgers College of Nursing dean authors a book on genetics and how it affects nursing and health
NEWARK, N.J. Felissa R. Lashley, dean and professor at the College of Nursing at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has authored a book for nursing students, faculty and practicing nurses on genetics and how it affects nursing and health. "Essentials of Clinical Genetics in Nu...'Biomimetic Technologies' project will create first soft-bodied robots
...he use of soft materials," notes Linda M. Abriola, dean of the Tufts School of Engineering. Work will focus on four primary areas: Control systems for soft-bodied robots, biomimetic and bionic materials, robot design and construction, and development and application of research-based platform technologi...Stanford-led study closes in on genes that may predispose some people to severe depression
...It's an important paper," said Peter McGuffin, MD, dean of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College in London, who was not involved in the study. McGuffin wrote a commentary on the research that appears in the same issue. "This is one of the first big linkage studies on the genetics of depression." ...Climos chief science officer to speak at NJIT about greenhouse gases
...also served at University of Rhode Island (URI) as dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography, dean of the College of Environment and Life Sciences, and vice provost for marine programs....Free public events at the 2007 AAAS Annual Meeting
...ord, United Kingdom (1974). A former professor and dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Khartoum, he received the order of scientific merit of Brazil and the order of merit of Italy. He is a fellow of TWAS, AAS and the Islamic Academy of Science; honorary member of the Colombia...2006 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize awarded
... doing research. But he took the post of associate dean of the University of Michigan's College of Engineering at the behest of a colleague and found that he liked administrative work. Asked by an interviewer in 2005 whether his background in engineering prepared him for his eventual role as MIT preside...Sustainability forum speakers include ex-governor
...ocio-political viewpoints," said Gordon L. Nelson, dean of the College of Science. The public is invited to attend. The March 6 dinner banquet keynote speaker is Robert "Bob" Martinez, 40th governor of Florida from 1987 to 1991. Prior to that, he was mayor of Tampa. As governor he continued the envir...NAS announces Virtual Symposium on Visual Culture and Bioscience
...searcher in Biomedical Visualization and associate dean of the School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Andrew Solomon, writer and board member, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, N.Y. Susan Squier, Brill Professor of Womens Studies and English, Pennsylvania State University, University Park....