Summer research programs for undergraduates evaluated nationally
...at the summer experience confirmed their desire to pursue such a career. Interestingly, the percentage of students 4 per cent -- who decided to change their future career plans from science to another field was equaled by the percentage of students who changed career plans from a non-science field to one ...Merck and AAAS announce 2006 winners for Outstanding Undergraduate Research Programs
...ween chemistry and biology; encourage students to pursue graduate education in chemistry and life sciences; and foster undergraduate programs and activities that bridge chemistry and biology....Turkish scientist's discovery of how proteins work
... in biology in 2000, she traveled to New Jersey to pursue graduate training in the Department of Molecular B...9. After a year as a medical intern, he decided to pursue basic research and joined the laboratory of Shigekazu Nagata as a graduate student. There he identif...University presidents: NY must act on stem cell research
...er or not leading scientists and institutions will pursue this critical area of research. However, philanthr... where they would have access to more resources to pursue their research. The loss of these scientists will have a significant negative ripple effect on a un...Pritzker gift to fund possible solutions for child obesity including testing YMCA programs
...spire brilliant, committed students and faculty to pursue this major problem." "Dean Bloom and Professor Gortmaker will lead an effort to determine if after school intervention is effective and to support young professors and students who will be tomorrow's leaders inthis fight," said Penny Pritzker, who i...New pathway could present an intervention point for cancer treatment
...rs and could provide a new avenue through which to pursue treatment of such diseases, said a researcher at Baylor College of Medicine. "It is another intervention point where one can now attack tumors. It's especially important for endocrine tumors such as those of the breast, prostate, ovary and pituitary...Protein finding could lead to treatment for inflammatory diseases
...his IKK complex." Shisler has obtained a patent to pursue the use of MC160, which is only made in skin cells and stays within them, as a therapeutic tool. Painful inflammatory responses caused by cytokine production in rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease and similar maladies potentially could be cured by ...NIH awards $13 million for science education projects
...lations that have been historically less likely to pursue science careers. In addition, SEPA partnerships develop projects that educate the general public about health and disease, with the aim to help people make better lifestyle choices. This is the second round of FY 2005 awards for the initiative, whic......e right to sub-license the test, and will actively pursue agreements with other academic medical centers, laboratories, diagnostic test companies and pharmaceutical companies to ensure that patients everywhere have access to this important screening test. Mayo recently sub-licensed the rights under the Univ...UC Santa Barbara researcher tapped by Europeans for design of instrument to test soil on Mars
... for an ESA council meeting. There they decided to pursue the overall core program of "Aurora," with its first Martian robotic exploration mission, ExoMars. Scheduled to be launched from Kourou, French Guiana, the ExoMars mission will deploy a highly mobile rover with a suite of exobiology instruments. The...AGI announces winners of Earth Science Week 2005 contests
...is love of paleontology and the career he hopes to pursue in this field. Students in grades 5-9 were asked to submit essays of up to 500 words answering the question: "What kind of geoscientist would you like to be, and why?" All submissions were judged by a panel of geoscientists on creativity, incorpora...Scientists evaluate impact of preemptive malaria treatment for infants
... have the funding and the networks to aggressively pursue malaria research in Africa," said Andreas Heddini, the MIM Secretariat coordinator. "There are many other areas of malaria research that could benefit from a similar level of support and coordination." Background to the Ghana Trial Last month, res...2005 EURYI Awards highlight the future excellence of science in Europe
...ood aspect." Miraldi's 1m award will enable him to pursue functional and proteomics-based analysis of human ...nd-coming postdoctoral researchers in the world to pursue careers in academia in Europe based on scientific excellence. The EURYI Awards are offered by 20 Eur...Yale receives Science Education Partnership Award to increase science literacy
...n health issues, we also encourage young people to pursue careers in science." Yale faculty participating in the project include Curtis Patton and Durland Fish of Epidemiology and Public Health, Erol Fikrig, Robert Schoen and Janine Evans of Internal Medicine, Eugene Shapiro of Pediatrics, Michael Donoghue ......necessary? The researchers hope, in the future, to pursue this line of enquiry, and how the STN7 kinase coordinates the short and long-term adaptation of photosynthesis. In their report, the researchers were able to present the first indications of an answer: phosphorylation of certain photosynthetic protei...NIH joined by advocacy groups to fund research on autism susceptibility genes
...teautism organizations have formed a consortium to pursue their common goal ofunderstanding a devastating disorder. This public-private partnership hasfunded five grants representing three projects to identify genes that maycontribute to the development of autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders. TheNational I...Researchers offer proof-of-concept for Altered Nuclear Transfer
... of this procedure in no way precludes the need to pursue all forms of human embryonic stem cell research," says Jaenisch, who is also a professor of biology at MIT. "Human embryonic stem cells are extraordinarily complicated. If we are ever to realize their therapeutic potential, we must use all known tool...UK entomology research article published in new issue of Science
.... "UK is a very supportive environment in which to pursue my research," said Dobson. "The Department of Entomology, the College of Agriculture, and the overall university have provided us with the tools we need to do this important work."......NY, a new website to encourage school-age girls to pursue careers as scientists, and a new endeavor to provide libraries with current lists of relevant geoscience publications. You will also find Member Society information, award winners, meeting recaps and the GeoCalendar, listing meetings, conferences, an...Lupus Research Institute awards $4.5 million to advance new science in lupus
...he country will receive 3-year, $300,000 grants to pursue the type of research that the LRI defines as core to its mission: innovative and creative work, representing "outside the box" thinking that has the potential to make significant impact on the field of lupus research and on the estimated 1.5 million ...