Accolades for York's commitment to women in science
... Dr Caroline Dessent: In the 1970s, Nobel Prize winner Professor Dorothy Hodgkin was a familiar sight in the Department of Chemistry at the University of York as she completed her pioneering work on insulin. Her presence helped to establish a tradition of women scientists at York. Women who have follow...Magnetic resonance microscopy research lands professor NSF award
...ment of teacher-scholars. Codd is MSU's thirteenth winner since 1995. Codd will use the funds paid out over five years to advance her research, teaching and public education of how magnetic resonance microscopy can be used to help solve a variety of pressing engineering problems. This is the second m...Research suggests a significant circadian rhythm in swim performance lasting 2-4 minutes
...seconds. Among the men, 0.61 seconds separated the winner from third place, and 3.69 seconds separated first from eighth place. By demonstrating a circadian rhythm in athletic performance, the research provides a stronger theoretical rationale for expecting decrements in performance following circadian ...Exploring polar regions, understanding climate
...ther with a live transmission from the Arctic, the winner of the youth painting competition on the theme "C... Activities for schools will be presented, and the winner of the painting competition on the theme "Childrens impressions of polar regions of the earth" will ...ALTRAN: Industry experts address technology challenges at Altran Innovation Conference
...ating diabetes. Unveiled at the conference was the winner of the Ecobuilding Forum of 8 9 November 2006. This concept, a type of communal organic recycling centre, is solar powered, gathers rain water, harvest methane (in turn used to power the square's lights), and fertilizes the flora. ...Johnson & Johnson announces call for nominations
...bsite at http://www.pauljanssenaward.com and the winner will be announced in September 2008. The Dr. Pa...cientists nominated for this award and selecting a winner will be a challenging process. However, we are looking forward to finding the scientist whose work a...Physicist S. James Gates, Jr. receives AAAS award
...es Gates, Jr. of the University of Maryland as the winner of the 2006 Public Understanding of Science and Technology Award for his outstanding contributions to the popularization of science. Gates, the John S. Toll Professor of Physics at Maryland, is an engaging lecturer and an enthusiastic guide to the ...Chemical Society Chicago meeting March 2529 features sustainability, health, other topics
...t the Chicago Art Institute honoring Stuart Brown, winner of the 2007 ACS Grady-Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry to the Public....Fish can determine their social rank by observation alone, study finds
...ripe, or eyebar, on their face. After a fight, the winner retains his showy appearance, but the loser's eyebar temporarily disappears as he tries to flee his more aggressive opponent. To test for transitive inference, the Stanford team took advantage of this reversible change in appearance by staging a s...2nd annual Albert Szent-Gyrgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research awarded to Webster K. Cavenee
...inated for the annual award by their peers and the winner is selected by a prize selection committee comprised of academic, scientific, business and non-profit leaders highly qualified to review and select the Prize winner. The 2nd Annual Albert Szent-Gyrgyi Prize selection committee was chaired by the i...First time ever: Witness the fitting of a POWER KNEE on the first VA patient to receive one
...bserve: Watch Brian Frasure, a relentless winner of numerous gold, silver and bronze medals at three Paralympic Games (so far), demonstrate all of the things he can do today thanks to his PROPRIO FOOT by Ossur, the world's first motor-powered and artificially intelligent prosthesis for below-the kn...AAAS/EurekAlert! refocus on China with 2007 Fellowships for Science Reporters in Developing Regions
...s undergoing overwhelming changes," Gong Yidong, a winner from China Features, said. Wu Chong, another winner from China Daily, said news of the fellowship was "an inspiration to my career" and that it came as ...Biophysical Society announces winners of 2007 Minority Travel Awards
The Biophysical Society has announced the winner of its Minority Travel Awards to attend the Society's 51st annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, March 3-7th, 2007. The awards are meant to encourage participation at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting by minority students currently studying bi...Lab on a Chip and Corning Incorporated are pleased to announce
David Beebe has been named as the first winner of this prestigious new prize, established by two of the major players in the miniaturisation sector, the Lab on a Chip journal and Corning Incorporated. The prize aims to promote miniaturisation through micro and nanotechnologies to the wider scie...'Best of both worlds' -- Targeting a single gene could inhibit bone decay and stimulate bone growth
...eoporosis." Dr. Choi was recently named the 2006 winner of Koreas prestigious Ho-Am Prize for his work in osteoimmunology. The award recognizes scholars and researchers who make outstanding achievements by international standards while encouraging future activities of even higher levels and who also prese...American scientist's research of life's first cells
...rch of life's first cells, Irene Chen, a regional winner from North America and the Grand Prize winner, tod...ience Prize for Young Life Scientists grand prize winner and may present regional awards in four geographic regions: North America, Europe, Japan and all oth......s by Thomas Hahn, Mayank Mehta and the Nobel Prize winner Bert Sakmann from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg have now shed new light on the mechanisms that create memory. According to their findings, the areas of the brain work together, but possibly in a different way from that p...ResearchChannel awards matching funds for video production
...t of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and winner of AMSs prestigious Bernard Haurwitz Memorial Lecture prize. The Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Fort Pierce, Florida: "Corals at the Crossroads," a documentary examining the threats modern life poses to coral reefs in the Florida Keys. ...Final of the 2005-06 Research Councils' Business Plan Competition
...ven finalists. After comments from the judges, the winner of the competition will be announced at around 15.30. There will be an opportunity to speak to some of the teams who took part in the competition and view displays of their ideas during the poster session from 15.30 16.30. If you would like to a......ral world." Last year, Nathan was chosen as the winner of the Hebrew University President's Prize for the Outstanding Young Researcher for his pioneering work on seed dispersal. In May this year he was awarded the prestigious Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation of Germany....