Pitt receives $2.75 million to prevent spread of flu in public schools
...za outbreaks in schools and homes. These important lessons will be shared with schools and public health leaders nationally and internationally," said Dr. Burke, who also is the UPMC-Jonas Salk Professor of Global Health at the University of Pittsburgh. Although the project will be headed by GSPH, addition...UAF professor awarded polar science education grant
...lds science, anthropology, engineering and service lessons around a single topic to teach science as an integrated whole to diverse student populations. He and his collaborators plan to offer the course, "Environmental Radioactivity, Stewardship and People in the North," for the first time at UAF next spring...Rutgers-led group lands $2.55 million to advance high school biology and math
...pts quickly without having to scrap their existing lessons and textbooks." An important component of the project will be evaluation of the materials. The team will look at student performance and measure how their attitudes change toward biology and mathematics. Brian Cobb, a professor at Colorado State Uni...Expedition allows teachers to participate in polar research
...er way to engage students in science than to apply lessons learned from fieldwork? This is the philosophy of Alaska teachers participating in the Arctic Expedition for K-12 Teachers, a program organized by the International Arctic Research Center (IARC) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a handful of ...Everything in its place: Researchers identify brain cells used to categorize images
...awer, shirts in the shirt drawer, the time-honored lessons of helping organize one's clothes learned in youth. But what parts of the brain are used to encode such categories as socks, shirts or any other item, and how does such learning take place? New research from Harvard Medical School (HMS) investigat...Remote island provides clues on population growth, environmental degradation
...apa is a little microcosm of our planet. There are lessons about the consequences of population growth to be learned there." ...New tiger report release: Tiger habitat down from just a decade ago
... The Tiger Fund. "We have learned many important lessons over the last 10 years and this study provides a blueprint for scientists and the countries that hold the key for the tigers' survival."...Controlling robots that search for Mars life
...next generation of robot, ExoMars will profit from lessons learned from the current generation, including NASA's Mars Explorer Rover (MER) mission, including the need for improved locomotion ability, improved local terrain sensing to avoid ground slippage and the need for higher autonomy to transverse clut...Saving the planet, from a mathematical perspective
...ms in which environmental management is based, the lessons that can be learned from our examination of natural systems, and the ways in which we can modify social norms to achieve global cooperation in managing our common future....Whale bubble nets, saxophone sounds, ultrasonic laser
...hat was first proposed 36 years ago, highlight the lessons learned, and identify the shortcomings in current design practice (3aNS5). Bradford Gover and John Bradley of the National Research Council of Canada will present a new procedure for accurately measuring the degree of speech privacy of a closed offic...In undersea habitat, aquanauts learn about teamwork and task performance for the moon and Mars
...blems, but the most valuable element was capturing lessons learned from every task," said Dinges, Director of the Unit for Experimental Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Professor of Psychology. Participants recorded thoughts and experiences in daily journals, highlighting w...Nice guys do finish first in lizards' evolutionary race, says MSU professor
...th looking to reproduce, and their strategies have lessons about evolution. An article in the May 9 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides the first genetic evidence of a trait that the animals recognize and use even if that trait seems on the surface to be counterproductive...Biodesign Institute participates in first-of-its-kind 'coyote' disaster preparedness drill
...e operations. "Our Biodesign team will report the lessons learned from the disaster drill," said Zenhausern. "These will be incorporated into national emergency response efforts to prepare for the next natural disaster or man-made terrorism incident. It is our hope, that by our efforts, we can contribute to...Technique makes it easier to see mouse embryo in all its glory
...fects in the same mice, which teaches us important lessons about how these genes function in both cancer and development." He noted that disruption of a cancer-promoting gene, Pax 3:Fkhr, causes a bone of the nose not to form, for example. Beyond his own research into the function of cancer-causing genes, ...'Uniquely human' component of language found in gregarious birds
...rble-warble (aABb). Eleven adult birds were given lessons on distinguishing between these two sets of songs using classic reinforcement techniques. The birds were rewarded with food when they heard a song from the context-free set and for refraining when they heard one from the finite-state set. After 10,0...A satirical look at how to navigate technology organizations
...re. Ambitious technocrats who study and follow the lessons contained in this book will laugh often--especially on the way to the bank! Putt illustrates how his laws can be applied to the work force through two opposing models: Dr. I.M. Sharp and Roger Proofsworthy. Dr. I.M. Sharp, a man of limited technical ...Open source and open medicine take centre stage at UN research symposium
... for office applications, which provides important lessons for other regions and countries across the world. The Symposium builds on last month's panel discussion on eGovernance and Free Software: How They are Changing Developing Countries . The panel discussed the work of the UNU-International Institute o...'Dead zone' summer killed billions of ocean state mussels
...area as big as New Jersey. Altieri and Witman said lessons from Narragansett Bay could be applied to other "dead zones." "When you lose a foundation species such as mussels which filter water and provide food and habitat for other organisms you see a large and lasting effect on the ecosystem," Witman said....Blood pressure medication may revolutionize treatment of Marfan syndrome
...cture of the aortic wall. It is also possible that lessons learned from these molecular studies of Marfan syndrome could be applied to other syndromic and non-syndromic cases of aortic aneurysm. For example, Dietz said, might an increase in transforming growth factor beta be involved there as well? The answe...Mars challenge is protecting humans from long space travel and heavy metal ion bombardment
...ry who will demonstrate "inquiry-rich" respiratory lessons and ideas on how to develop similarly exciting laboratory experiences. Presentations: 1. "What price a Martian? Human limits to exploring the Red Planet," by APS Physiology for High School Life Science Teachers and Students, San Francisco Marriott H...