ASPB Annual Meeting July 16-20 in Seattle
...nized by Natasha Raikhel, 2005 Stephen Hales Award winner (University of California-Riverside) Speakers: Natasha Raikhel, 2005 Stephen Hales Award winner (University of California-Riverside), Phillip Benfey (Duke University), Joanne Chory (Scripps Instit...The evolutionary triumph of flower power
... nothing at all. Again, flowers were the emotional winner with recipients smiling, chatting and standing closer together. In the last study, florists delivered bouquets to 113 men and women in a retirement community an environment in which memory is often a personal concern. All 113 got flowers, some at th...National Inventors Hall of Fame welcomes 2005 inductees
...etime Achievement Award recipient. This year, the winner is Donald W. Banner, senior partner of the intellectual property law firm Banner & Witcoff, and a passionate advocate for patent law. This year's Induction ceremony will be broadcast on May 26th at 10pm on PBS Channels 45 & 49 in northeast Ohio. As p...A decade after launch, ERS-2's mission continues
...ul Crutzen of the Max Planck Institute in Germany, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for his work on ozone. "GOME has been a pioneer instrument. Such instruments are of great value for international negotiations on air quality and climate." ERS-2's fall and rise ERS-2 was launched on 21 April 1995, ensurin...Solutions that reduce death of marine life reeled in by International Smart Gear Competition
..., it's dependent on our actions," said grand prize winner Steve Beverly, fisheries development officer for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community. "It's just common sense to create smarter fishing gear." An international panel of expert judges unanimously awarded the grand prize and $25,000 to Beverly, an...Lance Armstrong Foundation supports UHC research
...cologist at University Hospitals of Cleveland, the winner of a "Young Investigator" research grant to study lifestyle change and quality of life among obese endometrial cancer survivors. Affecting more than 40,000 women annually, endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer in the United Stat...Announcement of new fishing gear that reduce the accidental death of marine life
...ct, World Wildlife Fund Steve Beverly, grand prize winner of the International Smart Gear Competition, fisheries development officer for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, and former high school biology teacher, commercial fisherman, commercial diver and tugboat operator Malcolm McNeill, judge for th...Dr. Brenda Milner: 2005 Gairdner Award Winner
...ounder of cognitive neuroscience, was named a 2005 winner of the prestigious Gairdner Award. Dr. Milner, the Dorothy J. Killam Professor at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), and Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University, was awarded the prize for her pioneering...Leslie Roberts, Science Deputy News Editor, wins prize for 'first-rate' polio story
...s; and Janet Ginsburg, a freelance writer and past winner of the ASM Communications Award....Leslie Roberts of Science wins ASM Public Communications Award
...-March 18, 2005--Leslie Roberts has been named the winner of the 2005 ASM Public Communications Award. Roberts' award-winning entry, "Polio: The Final Assault," published in the March 26, 2004 issue of Science, presents a compelling picture of how microbiology, public health, and society interact. Reportin...Educators in Pennsylvania and North Carolina earn top 2004 Mentoring Awards from AAAS
...d minorities. 2004 LIFETIME MENTOR AWARD Hughes, winner of the 2004 Lifetime Mentor Award, "is a model tea...que. 2004 AAAS MENTOR AWARD Jagannathan Sankar, winner of the 2004 AAAS Mentor Award, "has applied his unbridled enthusiasm, sacrifice and unbounded energy...Richard Zare awarded the 2005 Wolf Prize in chemistry
...ral Science at Stanford University, has been named winner of the 2005 Wolf Prize in chemistry. The award was announced on Jan. 25 by the Israeli-based Wolf Foundation in recognition of Zare's "ingenious applications of laser techniques for identifying complex mechanisms in molecules and their use in analyt...Hebrew University professor wins Wolf Prize in Medicine for work in cancer research
...ar at Stanford University in California. He is the winner of the Israel Prize, Israel's highest civilian honor. The Wolf Prize is awarded by the Wolf Foundation, established by the late German-born inventor, diplomat and philanthropist, Dr. Ricardo Wolf. A resident of Cuba for many years, Wolf became Fidel...Four Max Planck Partner Groups starting in India
...e Max Planck Institutes, including the Nobel Prize winner Professor Dr. Hartmut Michel from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, who will hold a talk on "Membrane Proteins as Targets for Drugs in Medicine and Agriculture." As well, in the course of the event the first six "Max Planck Indian Fellowships"...Queen's biologist awarded Canada's top science prize
...ents from the PEARL team." The Herzberg Gold Medal winner is guaranteed $1 million in funding to be used for university-based research, or to direct in some related way such as the establishment of research scholarships, fellowships or chairs in Canadian universities. Recognized as one the world's leading ...Six reporters reach the 'Pinnacle of Excellence'
... it is vicariously thrilling," said Melinda Burns, winner in the small newspaper category. Magazines Accor...isibility and acknowledgement of achievement: Past winner Natalie Angier of The New York Times , for example, has likened her 1992 AAAS award to the Pulitzer...New Royal Society journal studies
...URCH 8008, New Zealand The social implications of winner and loser effects by Dr LA Dugatkin and Dr M Druen...ng" and "losing begets losing." Prior work on such winner and loser effects has focused on pairwise interactions, and not the extent to which winner and loser...UK scientist and children's author wins EMBO Award for Communications 2004
...e London, Queen Mary's Medical School, is the 2004 winner of the EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences. Balkwill receives the award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to science communication for children. The cancer researcher has authored 13 children's books that take a novel look ...High-predator environment has unexpected impact on aging in fish
...lifornia, Riverside. In the 1950s, Peter Medawar, winner of a Nobel Prize for medicine, and George Williams, a renowned evolutionary biologist, developed theories for the evolution of senescence, which predicted that organisms that are exposed to high mortality imposed by external factors, like disease or ...