2006 Canon National Parks Science Scholars announced
...itical to national parks. This year's scholarship winners include: Denny Capps, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Wade T. Cooper, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, U.S.A. Adrin Di Giacomo, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Marina Gonzalez-Polo, Unive...Weather forecasting technique wins top prize in 2006 Collegiate Inventors Competition
...petition, receiving a $25,000 prize. This year's winners also include Craig Hashi and YiQian Zhu of the Uni...he U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This year's winners were announced during a Thursday evening awards ceremony at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. T...Ossur repeats Popular Science 'Best of What's New' award
... new products and innovations and chooses only 100 winners for 10 different categories. Among the judging cri...ht; and the ambition and scope of the project. The winners -- the Best of What's New -- are awarded inclusion in the much-anticipated December issue of Popular...Winners of the 2006 AAAS Science Journalism Awards
...k at efforts to grow a better banana are among the winners of the 2006 AAAS Science Journalism Awards from th...ndependent panels of science journalists chose the winners of the awards, which honor excellence in science reporting for print, radio, television and online c...Fragmentation rapidly erodes Amazonian biodiversity
... trees that died. When you fragment a forest, the winners are common pioneer and generalist species that like forest disturbance, said Laurance. The losers are rare, slow-growing tree species that provide fruit, nectar, and homes for a diversity of rainforest animals. To understand how fragmentation is a...ORNL's Thundat elected fellow of AAAS
...American magazine's "Scientific American 50 Award" winners that year. In 2000 Thundat was a finalist for the Discover magazine awards. His work has also received R&D 100 and Federal Laboratory Consortium awards. Thundat and his wife, Darilyn, have two daughters, Rachel and Tess, and a son, Jonah. The fam...American scientist's research of life's first cells
...ward ceremony. She will also meet with Nobel Prize winners Andrew Fire and Craig Mello during her stay in Sto... an early stage of their careers. Some 54 regional winners and 12 grand prize winners have so far received the award, honoring exceptional thesis work in the f...Global warming of the future is projected by ancient carbon emissions
...n the scale of what we are doing today, there were winners and losers," remarked Ken Caldeira, a co-author from the Carnegie Institutions Department of Global Ecology. "There was ecological devastation, but new species rose from the ashes. Our work provides even more incentive to develop the clean energy sou...Ancient climate change may portend toasty future
...n the scale of what we are doing today, there were winners and losers," Caldeira remarked. "There was ecologi... primate ancestors were winners. Who knows who the winners and losers will be in the next go round"" "Our carbon dioxide emissions are risking biological, c...Leibniz Prize winners 2007 announced
...German Research Foundation, DFG) has announced the winners of its 2007 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. At it...owed research award. For the first time, the prize winners for 2007 will receive up to 2.5 million euros (previously: 1.55 million euros) and be able to use th...Biophysical Society announces winners of 2007 International Travel Awards
The Biophysical Society has announced the winners of its international travel grants to attend the Society's 51st annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, March 3-7, 2007. The purpose of these awards is to foster and initiate further interaction between American biophysicists and scientists working i...Biophysical Society announces winners of 2007 Student Travel Awards
The Biophysical Society has announced the winners of its student travel award to attend the Society's 51st Annual Meeting in Baltimore Maryland, March 3-7th, 2007. The recipients of this competitive award are selected based on scientific merit, with priority given to those who will present a paper ...AAAS/EurekAlert! refocus on China with 2007 Fellowships for Science Reporters in Developing Regions
...February. These young, promising reporters are the winners of the 2007 AAAS Fellowships for Science Reporters...onmental Defense China Program. Jane is one of the winners of the 2007 Good News Prize of the Association of Capital Women Reporters. Yanhong Wang, Xinhua Ne...Fish can determine their social rank by observation alone, study finds
...o be weaker," the authors explained. Losers and winners The results were dramatic. Virtually all of the bystanders swam to the weaker rival first and stayed near him for a significantly longer period of time. In the AE tests, bystanders preferred E, the wimpiest of all the losers, over A, the top fish ...National Academy of Engineering announces winners of $1M challenge
...l Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today the winners of the 2007 Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainab... from a field of more than 70 entries. The prize winners are recognized for the development, in-field verification, and dissemination of effective techniques...UK-India success for University of Nottingham
...awards, Chancellor Gordon Brown said: "Each of the winners and the many other excellent candidates is evidence of the strength of education links, research partnerships and learning collaborations between our two countries. "And these are themselves a sign of strength of the much broader economic, politi...Wiley wins 2 2006 PSP Awards and 3 honorable mentions
... PSP Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. The winners are: Best New PSP Book - Chemistry Biochemical Thermodynamics: Applications of Mathematica By Robert A. Alberty Best New PSP Book - Mathematics & Statistics Visual Statistics: Seeing Data with Dynamic Interactive Graphics By Forrest W. Young, Ped...EO Lawrence Award goes to 8 scientists and engineers
...etary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman today named eight winners of the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award. The Lawrenc...resented at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. The winners are: Paul Alivisatos, University of California at Berkeley and E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National...BioMed Central announces winners of first open access research awards
...access research journals, is proud to announce the winners of the first BioMed Central Research Awards. The a...ation in one of BioMed Central's journals. Award winners and honorable mentions will be officially celebrated at BioMed Central's Open Access Colloquium bein......k at efforts to grow a better banana are among the winners of the 2006 AAAS Science Journalism Awards from th...ndependent panels of science journalists chose the winners of the awards, which honor excellence in science reporting for print, radio, television and online c...