Merck CEO Raymond Gilmartin to lecture at NJIT
...ichael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the department of geosciences at Princeton University, will explore the role of fossil fuel in global warming. On April 7, Philip Goode, PhD, distinguished professor of physics at NJIT and director of the Big ...Map of human genetic variation across populations may promise improved disease treatments
...ic variations is expected later this year from the international HapMap Project, directed by government agencies from Japan, China and Canada, as well as The Wellcome Trust of London and the U.S. National Institutes of Health. That mapping effort will describe variation across individuals of Japanese, Chinese, Nig...USGS featured at AAAS - Nation's largest science meeting
...test growing urban centers on the East Coast. The international group of scientists will also discuss several poss... scientists and their cooperators who will discuss international efforts to develop a Global Invasive Species Information Network for individuals addressing the issu...Merck / AAAS announce 2005 winners for outstanding undergraduate research programs
...portant societal needs in our local, national, and international communities with a focus on improving access to health care; advancing biomedical science training; promoting innovation and economic growth in an ethical business environment; and helping to strengthen communities. Since its inception, the Foundati...Missing micronutrients - How best to nourish a child?
...n small amounts (less than 17 grams a day). While international aid agencies often address the lack of micronutrients in diets by providing supplements as a quick fix, some scientists argue that use of animal source foods, such as meat and milk, can be just as effective while also promoting the development of loc......ts and the new government in Iraq, monitored by an international team of scientists. Dr. Barry Warner, a University of Waterloo scientist who leads the Canadian contingent of the project, has been working with Iraqi scientist Dr. Majeed Rasheed Al-Hilli of the University of Baghdad to see how the plant communities...Symposium explores opportunities presented by US re-entry into UNESCO
... Science (AAAS) in Washington, DC. UNESCO promotes international cooperation among its 190 Member States and six As...man Park Hotel as a component of the AAAS focus on international science that day. Expected attendees include representatives of professional organizations, NGOs, go...Scientists find both damage and promise for renewal in devastated Iraqi marshlands
... some water further upstream. In 2003 and 2004, an international group of wetlands experts led by Duke University ecologist Curtis Richardson was funded to conduct studies of the soils, water, plants and animals in the region. Now, only 10 percent of the original marshes survived as "fully functioning wetlands" fo...K-State professor to discuss feeding the world's population without poison
...n Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the word by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. Founded in 1848, the association serves some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, servi...Why some lung cancers stop responding to Tarceva and Iressa
...earch is to be published online in the open-access international journal PLoS Medicine on February 22, 2005.* Gefitinib and erlotinib are so-called targeted therapies, in that they halt the growth of certain cancers by zeroing in on a signaling molecule critical to the survival of those cancer cells. The two drug...Ecological destruction fuels emerging diseases
...for the All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI), an international scientific and economic initiative to help developing countries preserve the world's biodiversity. In the Guanacaste Conservation Area of northwest Costa Rica, a 1,000 square km (400 square mile) United Nations World Heritage Site that features habit...Advocate for gender equity in the sciences honored by the Association for Women in Science
..., Calif., Feb. 21, 2004 -- Susan Bryant, a leading international researcher in limb regeneration, has been elected a 2005 Association for Women in Science fellow, the highest recognition AWIS bestows on individuals. Bryant has advocated equity and opportunity for women in science for more than 30 years and, as dea...SARS surveillance via mass spectometry
...reaks. As they report in the February issue of the international open-access journal PLoS Medicine , Jianjun Liu and colleagues (from the Genome Institute of Singapore) adapted a molecular biology technique called "mass spectrometry (MS)based genotyping", already used as a high-throughput way of detecting single ...One step closer to prediction: Baltimore to host international scientific meeting
...phy of Harmful Algal Blooms (GEOHAB) Programme, an international organization of scientists aimed at fostering and ... during the conference -- the third in a series of international GEOHAB meetings and the only such meeting to be held in the U.S. Some highlights of the conference...Fred Hutchinson announces 2005 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Awardees
...died from brain cancer at age 49. Weintraub was an international leader in the field of molecular biology; among his many contributions, he identified genes responsible for instructing cells to differentiate, or develop, into specific tissues such as muscle and bone. "Hal was one of the most outstanding scientists...DFG awards 2004 Bernd Rendel Prize
...e not yet received their doctorate to take part in international conferences and symposia. The prizewinners: Raik Bachmann , GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam During his studies, Raik Bachmann focussed on the quality of ores and stones found in volcanic rock. He founded the student chapter of the Society of Economic G...Important discovery about second most fatal cancer
Montreal, March 3, 2005--An international team of medical scientists has made an important advance in our understanding of the second most fatal form of cancer in the industrialized world. Professor Jeremy R. Jass, who holds a Canada Research Chair in Gastrointestinal Pathology at McGill Uni...FSU anthropologist leads incredible journey through 'hobbit' brain
...ofessor and chair of anthropology Dean Falk led an international team of scientists on an incredible virtual journey through the tiny brain of an 18,000 year-old hobbit-sized human. What they found has upended conventional evolutionary wisdom on the relationship of brain size to intelligence. Findings from "The Br...Unique global light source Website launched
The international light source community has launched the first website dedicated to providing the media, general public and scientific community with the latest news and information on the world's accelerator-driven light sources (synchrotrons and free-electron laser...Florida Tech earns $260,000 environmental grant to protect coral reefs
...leaching Working Group, which comprises 11 leading international scientists, and was founded by the UNESCO/Intergov...e to include a national database and ultimately an international coral database. Van Woesik also has established a Web site for the International Society fo...