Summer research programs for undergraduates evaluated nationally
... program that places approximately 35 fellows in a university lab individually to do summer research. Elgin bel...ifferences and similarities between collegiate and university summer internship programs. Through the online survey results, Elgin and colleagues have determined...Partnering with community groups improves K-12 science education
...nerships, while a seemingly logical application of university and college resources, are not always easy to initiate or to maintain. However, Elgin has a proven track record of engendering productive partnerships and then evaluating them to continually improve the process. A dedicated scientist, she wants to...Grand challenge seeks carbon sequestration, hydrogen production solutions
...elaborateinternational collaboration involving six university laboratories and ten national laboratory groups. The challenges are carbon sequestration and hydrogen production. The organisms that could provide answers are cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). The leader of the program is Himadri Pakrasi, Ph.D., W...Educators in Texas and Massachusetts earn top 2005 mentoring awards from AAAS
...not only in the college of Engineering, but at the university and outside Texas A&M University." Additionally, she has been a director of the College of Engineering Undergraduate Summer Research Program. Through this program and others, she has provided research opportunities in her laboratory for 50 undergradu...'Freshman Fifteen' is a myth, but weight gain is still a problem
...ed to be weighed during a health assessment in the university dining halls in the fall, and underwent a second set of measurements in the spring. The average weight gain was seven pounds, the result of eating approximately 112 excess calories per day. "We found that the first year of college is a period in whi...Biodesign and TGen form joint Center for Systems and Computational Biology
...esearch. For example, a researcher at a major U.S. university estimated it would take him 3.4 years to analyze his clinical trial data. By using the ASU-TGen supercomputer, the analysis was completed in less than three days. "This leading edge Biodesign-TGen partnership will facilitate the acceleration of rese...New 'Lemurs of Madagascar' book released
...ic community, students at both the high school and university level, and tourists interested in Madagascar. Filled with detailed information, photos and illustrations, the handbook is easy to carry and use, helping readers identify the 71 species of lemurs that live on the island. "Lemurs are Madagascar's amba...ACS Chemistry Enterprise 2015 report predicts strong growth, expanding markets
... Education and Institutional Structure . By 2015, university faculties will be more representative of the U.S. population in terms of gender and ethnicity. Graduate-student enrollment will lead to greater use of undergraduate teaching assistants and peer-led teaching. In some cases the number and duration of l...US woman gives birth to baby from world's first frozen donor egg bank
...infertility for over 15 years in both the academic university setting as well as private practice. Jeffrey Boldt, Ph.D., Scientific Director for CEI, has worked with many infertile couples over the past six years as he successfully developed and improved egg-freezing technology to allow for the use of the techn...Grants will give developing world access to scientific research
... Environmental Studies, and Ann Okerson, associate university librarian for collections and international progra...onmental Studies, and Kimberly Parker, head of the university library's electronic collections, conceived the OARE project. The project is inspired by the Health ...Science magazine invites science-education content for new HHMI-supported section
...r after attending large, impersonal, lecture-style university science courses. The number of doctorate degrees i...tutional settings; Novel outreach programs linking university science units with secondary or elementary-school students; and Archives of information on instructi...HHMI and Science partner to improve science education
... one year of science classes at the large research university to turn Kate into a business major." Why should research scientists care? There are two reasons, write Kennedy and Cech: The "pipeline issue" -- where will we get the next generation of research leaders? The policymaking threat posed by voters.w...Researchers make long DNA 'wires' for future medical and electronic devices
...n better understand and control this process." The university will license the technology for further development. Lee and Guan are working on their first application building the wires into sensors for detecting disease biomarkers. In the meantime, they are collaborating with researchers in the Department of ...Women in science, engineering: U-M makes ADVANCE permanent
...mber 2006. "Michigan was the first large American university to admit women in 1869 and ADVANCE continues to blaze new paths toward a more diverse university," Coleman said. "Its mission will continue to focus on using social scientific theories and evidence about both organizational and individual processes t...Ownership of Southern forestland dramatically changing
... scientists from the USDA Forest Service and their university cooperators, recently reviewed the findings of two year-long research projects aimed at understanding trends crucial to the future of southern forests and private forest landowners. One report, Strategic Factors Driving Timberland Ownership Changes i......f Marburg and Heidelberg, where she qualified as a university lecturer, obtaining her Habilitation in 2003. Since returning from a research fellowship at Harvard University in 2004 she has been a lecturer at the University of Marburg. She has also acted as replacement chair in Mnster and Heidelberg and is curre...Gold mining firm gives $1 million to natural reserve
...entific research projects; visits by numerous university courses; lectures and guided field trips to several hundred public visitors per year; partnership with Lake County Office of Education to develop K-12 student field trips and teacher workshops; partnership in the annual Lake County Fai...American Physical Society honors outstanding achievements of two Brandeis scientists
...olecules using NMR. With his help at Brandeis, the university established itself as a leader in the application of NMR to biological macromolecules that continues to distinguish Brandeis today, in part through Redfield's current NIH-funded research further developing field cycling NMR in biopolymers....Brandeis wins $1 million grant to train scientists in solving 21-century biomedical problems
... among 132 institutions. The grant will enable the university to develop a program in quantitative biology, which uses physical modeling and quantitative experimentation traditionally associated with physics and chemistry, to understand how cells and biological macromolecules function. The grant was awarded by ...Methodist Neurological Institute, University of Houston combine 'brain power'
...ng engineers, physicists, mathematicians and other university academicians into close partnership with clinical scientists at a major research hospital."...