Climate change signal detected in the Indian Ocean
... ... ... "At the same time, we...New technologies coming too fast for Indian farmers
The arrival of genetically modified crops has added another level of complexity to farming in the developing world, says a sociocultural anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis.... Glenn D. Stone, Ph.D., professor of anthropology and of environmental studies, both in Arts & Sciences, at Washington University in St. Louis, has completed the first detailed anthropological fieldwork on...Agronomy, crop, soils research presented in Indianapolis
More than 3,000 scientists from around the world will meet at the International Annual Meetings of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA). The U.S. Canola Research Conference is a featured event held in conjunction with the ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meetings. Attendees will discover the latest research advances, learn...National Academies advisory: Indian Point nuclear power plant
After the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, citizens of New York State raised concerns that the Indian Point nuclear power plant, located 40 miles north of New York City, may be vulnerable to a terrorist attack as well, and some called for the plant to be shut down. Alternatives to the Indian Point energy center for meeting New York electric power needs, new from the National Academies' Nati...First characterization of chikungunya viruses from Indian Ocean outbreak
Since late 2004, a large outbreak of chikungunya fever in the Indian Ocean has caused a public health crisis and alarmed international experts. A team of scientists led by Sylvain Brisse (of the Pasteur Institute) now reports the first molecular data on the viruses involved in the outbreak in the international open-access journal PLoS Medicine. ...... The outbreak affects the populations of Comor...Alcoholism, smoking and genetics among Plains American Indians
Alcoholism and smoking have a high rate of co-occurrence in the general population. Yet little is known about the co-morbidity of alcoholism and smoking among American Indians. In the March issue of , researchers examine patterns of alcohol and tobacco use among Plains American Indians, as well as the influence that a catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) functional polymorphism called Val158Met...Florida Tech to host 25th Anniversary Indian River Lagoon Symposium
The conference hours will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Gleason Performing Arts Center on Friday, March 10. The hours will be 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, in the Charles and Ruth Clemente Center for Sports and Recreation. A generous donation from Hubbs-Seaworld Research Institute allows limited admission of high school students and their teachers, and senior citizens at no charge....... Twenty-five y...Mark Estelle of Indiana University awarded Kumho International Science Prize
Indiana University Professor Mark Estelle has been awarded the 2006 Kumho International Science Prize by the Kumho Cultural Foundation of Seoul, Korea and its chairman, Sam Koo Park. The awards process was administered on behalf of the Kumho Cultural Foundation by the American Society of Plant Biologists.... ...After considering a number of possible awardees, each responsible for...major discover...American Indians and Alaska Native veterans have higher mortality rate after surgery than Caucasians
HANOVER, NH/WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT Contributing to growing literature on marked racial and ethnic disparities in US healthcare, a study led by Dartmouth Medical School has concluded that American Indians and Alaska Natives have a greater chance of death within 30 days of surgery and suffer more from several preoperative risks compared to Caucasian patients. ......Published in the June issue o...Rock on! Indiana limestone: NIST's first and latest SRM
It may sound like sentimentality, but it's coldly practical--the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has reissued one of its earliest Standard Reference Materials (SRMs), a mineral sample first distributed in 1910. Issue "d" of SRM 1 consists of a 70-gram sample of argillaceous ("containing clay") limestone quarried in Putnam County, Ind. NIST certifies each sample for concentra...Joslin hosts conference on diabetes in American Indian/Alaska Natives, May 16-19 in Denver
DENVER - May 12, 2005 - A coalition of leading health organizations today announced the first national conference to address cardiovascular disease and diabetes within the American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. The AI/AN conference will focus on increasing the knowledge of healthcare providers, tribal community members and leaders, and urban community health leaders on the link be...Lilly Endowment gives Indiana University $53 million for life sciences
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University President Adam W. Herbert announced today that the Lilly Endowment Inc. is giving IU Bloomington $53 million to broaden and intensify its life sciences research, retain its best faculty and attract new scientists. The grant is the largest IUB has ever received....... Funds will be focused on metabolomics and cytomics, emerging fields that are bringing an ex...Indiana University scientists' research success puts Indiana in new stem cell business
INDIANAPOLIS -- Scientific discoveries by two Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have led to the creation of a life sciences company whose products could someday repair the blood vessels of heart attack victims and diabetics. ......Working with the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. and BioCrossroads, Mervin C. Yoder Jr., M.D., and David A. Ingram Jr., M.D., have crea...Indiana University one of the nation's 'best places to work,' scientists say
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University and Purdue University are two of the nation's 10 "Best Places to Work in Academia," according to an international survey of 1,456 researchers by The Scientist magazine.... ...An accompanying article in the magazine's Nov. 8 issue, "Best Places to Work: What's Important to the Academic Scientist?" reveals that American researchers are primarily i...