NJIT hosts Spring Career Fair: Employers expected to increase hiring...
...ayoffs and downsizing, the job market for computer engineers has done a complete turn-around. "The job market is especially strong for computer engineers, said Greg Mass, executive director of career services at NJIT. "The fastest growth rate of employment opportunity during the last nine months has been in ...Combating blindness is vision of UT, ORNL project
...naged by UT-Battelle, employs 1,500 scientists and engineers and is the Department of Energy's largest multipurpose science and energy laboratory....From Mars to Maryland: 2005 AAAS Annual Meeting spotlights
... the ages, beat-the-clock building games for young engineers and many other fun, hands-on learning activities. Open to everyone, the AAAS Family Science Days will take place in the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel's exhibition hall, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., both days. In addition, more than 150 scientific sessions f...AAAS honors recombinant DNA advisory committee at NIH, citing 30 years of leadership
...nnually by AAAS to honor individual scientists and engineers or organizations for exemplary actions that help foster scientific freedom and responsibility. The Award recognizes outstanding efforts to protect the public's health, safety, or welfare; to focus public attention on potential impacts of science and ...Worms, slugs inspire robotic devices
... of Case Western Reserve University biologists and engineers has developed two flexible robotic devices that could make invasive medical procedures such as colonoscopies safer for patients and easier for doctors to administer. The researchers from Case's departments of biology, mechanical and aerospace engine...Bipedal bots to star at AAAS media briefing
...low slope powered only by the pull of gravity--the engineers have crafted robots that, in the case of the Cornell biped, can walk on level ground yet use as little as one-half the wattage of a standard compact fluorescent bulb. "The biped walking mechanism in robots is limited by on-board battery power," says ...Purdue proves concept of using nano-materials for drug discovery
...out by an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers who are members of a Center for Membrane Protein B...logy combines a diverse range of researchers, from engineers to chemists, and pharmaceutical scientists to physicists. The research is supported by the Bindley B...Technological revolutions in sensors, robotics, and telecommunications allow new views of ocean
...ut being connected to the surface. Scientists and engineers hope that this new technology will allow us to wire the entire ocean basins in the future. "It's hard to understand how important it is until you compare it with how we work in the oceans today," says Bellingham. "We go to sea on ships and visit par...New Georgia Tech micro-CT imaging technique to help tissue engineers improve bone regeneration
ATLANTA (February 20, 2005) — Tissue engineers can choose from a wide range of living cells, biom...on during bone repair. This approach allows tissue engineers to optimize the design of implants. The findings of the project, headed by Dr. Robert Guldberg, a re...U-M scientist to talk about tissue engineering at AAAS
...Krebsbach said the next step would be working with engineers to develop anatomically correct scaffolding with the same curvature and contours of natural bones. That would help a patient develop new bone almost indistinguishable from nature's original equipment. Many researchers at University of Michigan have f...2005's highest engineering honors awarded
...onal experiences that have transformed hundreds of engineers into community leaders. MINORU S. "SAM" ARAKI, FR...raper Prize -- a $500,000 annual award that honors engineers whose accomplishments have significantly benefited society -- "for the design, development, and oper...Tiny particles could solve billion-dollar problem
...trichloroethene or TCE. The research, conducted by engineers at Rice and the Georgia Institute of Technology, will appear next month in the journal Environmental Science and Technology , a publication of the American Chemical Society. "The advantages of palladium-based TCE remediation are well-documented, but...Helping the body heal itself: Regenerative medicine to be discussed at UH
... national research honor society of scientists and engineers that recognizes scientific achievement and is dedicated to advancing these fields with its mission to enhance the health of the research enterprise, foster integrity in science and promote the public's understanding of science for the purpose of impr...Insects, viruses could hold key for better human teamwork in disasters
...and recovery tasks; and the emerging role of civil engineers as key first responders to disasters. The study, "...he research team's effort is the belief that civil engineers should be key players in disaster relief operations involving critical physical infrastructures -- a...Finding hidden invaders in a Hawaiian rain forest
...mpacts. This month, Carnegie global ecologists and engineers from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory are flying an upgraded version of the AVIRIS airborne spectrometer on a more nimble Twin Otter turboprop aircraft, not only to find invasive species, but to develop the next generation of ecosystem monitoring c...NJIT math professor helps navy detect subs; Explains global warming
...Michalopoulou devises algorithms to help U.S. Navy engineers detect submarines in shallow water. From her underwater (also known as acoustical) research, Michalopoulou can determine the location of submarines and whales, the earth's changing climate, even environmental contamination. To do this, Michalopoulo...2005 AAAS human rights directory now available
...rts on AAAS activities on behalf of scientists and engineers throughout the world who are reported to have been imprisoned or harassed for acting on their beliefs. The directory reflects casework completed between January 2003 and December 2004 by the AAAS Science and Human Rights Program. Cases include those ...NYU chemist wins Watson Young Investigator award
... "recognize and support outstanding scientists and engineers who, early in their careers, show potential for leadership and scientific discovery in the field of biotechnology." Zhang's research is in the area of computational chemical biology. He is developing and applying novel computational and theoretical m...Water research initiatives at UW-Madison
...line development, a UW-Madison group of geological engineers is characterizing the state of erosion along the Wisconsin shoreline of Lake Superior. Hoping to estimate how much bluff recession will occur within the next half century, the group surveyed the entire shoreline, measured how high waves rush up beach...Novel gene-silencing nanoparticles shown to inhibit Ewing's sarcoma
...ed a sugar-containing polymer invented by chemical engineers at the California Institute of Technology. For this experiment, the polymer binds to and condenses the engineered siRNA into nanoparticles that, in effect, form a protective shield around their precious genetic cargo. These nanoparticles, in turn, ar...