UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute partners with Abraxis BioScience
...ions. To further support the partnership, visiting scholars from other institutions will also participate in the collaborative research programs. We are eager to collaborate with Abraxis BioScience. Cross-disciplinary collaboration is vital to our research efforts, said Fraser Stoddart, CNSI director and UC...Book makes case for using evolution in everyday life
...and intelligent design, my dialogue with religious scholars and believers is cordial and productive, Wilson reports....Undergraduate research shows leaderless honeybee organizing
... in other words, absorbing the past discoveries of scholars and scientists. But University of North Carolina at Charlotte senior biology major Andrew Pierce went beyond the textbooks and uncovered something previously unknown. Pierces discovery has to do with detecting a significant new detail concerning th...Washington University in St. Louis to invest $55 million for renewable energy research
...ese researchers will be a part of the community of scholars engaged in the work at I-CARES, and the university also will provide financial resources to help seed research in areas vital to the goals of the center. The center will facilitate the development of major initiatives relevant to its mission. For ins...JDRF announces 2007 Scholar Award recipients
...d excellence of individual scientists." The six scholars were selected for this prestigious award because of their ground-breaking ideas, unique research direction, willingness to take risks, and commitment to accelerating type 1 diabetes research. Each recipient will receive $250,000 annually for up to fi...Egyptians, not Greeks were true fathers of medicine
...00 years before Hippocrates was born. "Classical scholars have always considered the ancient Greeks, particularly Hippocrates, as being the fathers of medicine but our findings suggest that the ancient Egyptians were practising a credible form of pharmacy and medicine much earlier," said Dr Jackie Campbell....Dr. Michael Petrides: Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
...nt members. A broad-based membership, comprised of scholars and practitioners from mathematics, physics, biological sciences, social sciences, humanities and the arts, public affairs and business, gives the Academy a unique capacity to conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary studies and public policy resear...5 Stanford professors elected to National Academy of Sciences
...ear's election brings the total number of Stanford scholars serving on the academy to 140. Profiles of Stanford's new NAS members follow: STEVEN M. BLOCK, who holds the Stanford W. Ascherman Professorship of Sciences, is a professor of applied physics and of biological sciences. His research involves the ...Legal ruling may put endangered species in danger
...o "consult with the nation's leading environmental scholars before defining terms such as endangered species." ...The brain is more adept at using the nose than previously realized
...r study on the way animals use smell. Now that the scholars know that animals use these oscillations selectively for difficult discriminations and that exposure to scents over many days can improve smell, they can look at how the process occurs and how animals increase the presence of the oscillations in a si...Smithsonian hosts Polar Science Symposium to celebrate International Polar Year 2007-2008
...ion, will present research findings by Smithsonian scholars and their collaborators from Arctic and Antarctic ...-supported polar research partners. More than 35 scholars will discuss their papers on the following six themes: polar astronomy; systematics and biology of p...Presidents from 13 universities worldwide to gather at Washington University in St. Louis
... will be devoted to presentations and workshops by scholars with special expertise in energy and environment. The May 6 session will begin with a keynote lecture on sustainability in urban areas by John C. Crittenden, Ph.D., the Richard Snell Presidential Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering and dir...Ewwwww! UCLA anthropologist studies evolution's disgusting side
...y through Sunday, March 30April 1, will include 40 scholars from around the world. The conference will be held in Korn Hall at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and is sponsored by UCLA and the Foundation for Psychocultural Research. Fesslers research helps shed light on why some body parts universally...Winner of Tyler Environmental Prize announced
...ad of causing the usual brain drain where the best scholars from developed countries are drawn away to the more developed countries, Dr. Lettinga's approach achieved education of scholars, but in a most useful way, they returned to their countries to apply an appropriate and environmentally sound technology,"...Three young scientists at Yale honored with Sloan Foundation Fellowships
...ort and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars with outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge. Each fellow receives a $45,000 award for the two-year period and is free to pursue whatever line of inquiry is of the most compelling interest to him or her. Those name...Universities collaborate to look at offshore wind power
...olinas? Clemson University researchers, along with scholars form Georgia Institute of Technology and North Carolina State University, will attempt to answer the question when they host the Southeast Regional Offshore Wind Power Symposium Feb. 26-27 in Charleston. "These are tenuous times for energy in the U...Worldwide research network needed to really understand what is changing in the Arctic
...tee envisioned a computerized portal through which scholars could access a wealth of data across many scientific fields and from many countries, all housed and managed in a way that would foster collaborations and new insights. Lyons points to some large data sets that are readily at hand -- information ga...2006 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize awarded
...error attacks, with much more attention focused on scholars and students from abroad who seek visas to live and study in the United States. "My view is that it is the government's role to decide who comes to this country as an employee or scholar or student, but once they are admitted we should be able on our...Wiley Foundation announces recipients of 6th annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
...esearchers and scientists from a vast community of scholars worldwide. Today, Wiley serves a global community of customers, authors, society publishing partners, colleagues and shareholders with its deep reservoir of must-have content and services.......search scholar. Through its international research scholars program, HHMI supports leading scientists in 28 countries outside the United States. The researchers studied several groups of Caucasians, one group of African Americans, one group of Hispanics from the Dominican Republic, and a group of Israeli Ara...