UIC professor receives international humanitarian award
...ies of wisdom, humanity and peace, consists of 256 university professors in 71 countries....NJIT taps into solar energy to power new campus center
...energy while also protecting the environment. The university has installed a 50-kilowatt solar-powered system o...s provide power for the campus center and save the university $40,000 a year in electrical bills. NJIT also received a $215,000 rebate from the N.J. Board of Publ...Does the college experience damage your brain?
... for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition-the first university lab dedicated to research on meditation and brain functioning in college students....Student identifies electrical changes preceding heart failure
...have through research." On March 10, Steven Knapp, university provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, will host the 12th annual Provost's Undergraduate Research Awards ceremony, which honors the 45 winners who conducted their projects in the summer and fall of 2004. Since 1993, about 40 students...Cognitive behavioral therapy and medication is effective in the treatment of panic disorder
...rom six primary care clinics associated with three university medical schools, serving a diverse patient population. "The combined cognitive-behavioral and pharmacotherapeutic [medications] intervention resulted in sustained and gradually increasing improvement relative to treatment as usual," the authors stat...Orthodontists must brace against back pain
...a. A study of graduate orthodontic students at the university and a practising orthodontist--who'd been working for 18 years--showed that long hours of bending low and working in patients' mouths put heavy strain on the lower back and neck--burdens that translated into weights of up to 138 kilograms in males an...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2005 (first issue)
...ents attending a presurgical admission clinic at a university hospital to uncover risk factors for pulmonary complications after elective nonthoracic surgery. According to the authors, pulmonary complications after nonthoracic surgery are more frequent than cardiac complications and are associated with a great...Campus can be effective site for anti-smoking efforts
... tobacco-intervention studies aimed at college and university students and selected 14 studies that had strong statistical merit. Differences in the design of the studies and a dearth of rigorous research made it impossible to draw hard conclusions on the most effective tobacco-reduction strategies, Murphy-Hoef...The research assessment exercise is damaging UK medicine
...sor Banatvala comments: "The combined shortfall of university funding has forced deans of medical schools to behave like managers of Premier Division soccer clubs, recruiting potential research stars to improve or maintain RAE ratings, at the expense of teaching and clinical practice. In every other industriali...Privacy rule cuts research recruitment by more than half
...aiver fell by half again," said Dr. Ness. Internal university efforts continue to resolve these kinds of conflicts for researchers, but modifications to the rule itself would go a long way toward standardizing the way institutions view it, Dr. Ness said, adding that the University of Pittsburgh is not alone in ...UC Irvine's undergraduate research programs receive $900,000 funding boost
...er programs and reinforce UCI's place as a premier university to conduct undergraduate research," said Meredith Lee, dean of undergraduate education. "Further, the grants provide an extraordinary opportunity for undergraduates to put together what they've learned in a series of classes into a single, extensive ...Computer memory, MRI technology benefit from student research at UH
...he UH campus. It is the largest multidisciplinary university superconductivity and related materials research effort in the United States. Ten students competed, each giving a 15-minute presentation, followed by a brief question and answer period. A faculty panel judged each presenter on originality and qua...Brown and NIH create joint neuroscience graduate program
...ersities to join the program and the only American university chosen to collaborate with the NIH in neuroscience. Mary DeLong, director of Graduate Partnerships at NIH, said the quality of Brown's neuroscience program made it a natural partner. "Brown's graduate program is providing outstanding classroom traini...Urinary tract infections likely caused by tainted food
...vered to be responsible for drug-resistant UTIs in university communities in California, Minnesota, and Michigan. Researchers studied nearly 500 specimens of E. coli obtained from non-human sources such as cows, turkeys, dogs, sheep, and water. They found that one-quarter of the specimens were microbiologicall...Tobacco-company-sponsored parties with free cigarettes may encourage students to start smoking
...ings should serve as a wake-up call to college and university administrators," said Wechsler. "The evidence that these events may influence a non-smoking young person's decision to start smoking is a good reason they should be alert to tobacco industry sponsorship of these events and take appropriate action on...Breast MRI moderately useful for detecting breast cancer, but does not eliminate need for biopsy
...rnational Breast MR Consortium was conducted at 14 university hospitals in the United States and Europe from June 2, 1998, through October 31, 2001. The study included 821 patients referred for breast biopsy based on suspicious mammographic, clinical or ultrasound findings. Patients had MRI examinations perfo...Magnetic resonance imaging helps detect breast cancer but does not eliminate need for biopsy
...tional Breast MR Consortium, was carried out in 14 university hospitals in the United States and Europe, including Johns Hopkins, from June 1998 through October 2001. All patients underwent MRI exams prior to breast biopsy. David Bluemke, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of radiology at the Johns Hopkins Univ...Replicating an eel's nerve circuitry may aid paralyzed people
..., funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, the university researchers collaborated with M. Anthony Lewis of Iguana Robotics Inc. The researchers are now moving to expand their project by developing a neuroprosthetic implant that would connect to human central pattern generators to restore locomotion in pati...Employees bring bad moods home, but they disappear by morning
...sent to a random sample of employees listed in the university e-mail directory. The sample included personnel with typical administrative positions, such as secretary and office manager. The participants logged on to a Web page, and completed job satisfaction surveys and mood surveys at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m....International study provides culture-by-culture clues to family violence and abuse
... Boston University, the fourth-largest independent university in the nation, has an enrollment of more than 29,000 in its 17 schools and colleges. ...