Decorated professor adds Farfel Award to his long list of honors
...highest faculty honor. Already one of the most decorated scholars in his field, Hussain now can add the 2007 Esther Farfel Award to his list of accomplishments. The award brings with it a $10,000 cash prize and an acknowledgement of overall career excellence. Coming to the United States from Banglades...Eye diseases gave great painters different vision of their work, Stanford ophthalmologist says
...nents of art," said Marmor, whose Stanford home is decorated with pieces of modern art that emphasize optical illusions. His family donated works of art to the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford. "I've also spent years talking to patients about the symptoms of their eye diseases. This was a natural outgrowth of my...... tightly, the surface of the capsule can be easily decorated with species that are recognized by cells, showing the transporter the way to reach its goal, such as a tumor cell. To demonstrate the power of their new concept, Kim and his team chose rigid, disk-shaped monomers equipped with a ring of special mol...Major cancer study aims to identify protein markers for early-stage disease
... cells," she says, "working to purify these poorly decorated proteins so that we can identify them as biomarkers in blood samples." Analyzing the complex data produced by mass spectrometry using advanced computing techniques a science known as bioinformatics -- will be critical for making sense of the informa...Numerical processing similar in children and adults, brain scans reveal
...canner built by Pelphrey from spare fMRI parts and decorated to look like a spaceship. There, the children watched a cartoon, which would only play when they kept their heads perfectly still. The fake scanner even made the same sounds as a functioning one. Once the children were comfortable in the fake scanner...There's more than meets the eye in judging the size of an object
...their experiment they placed two identical spheres decorated with a checkerboard pattern in the front and rear of a receding brick hallway. In this kind of illusion, the more distant object appears to occupy a larger portion of the visual field. Using fMRI, the researchers examined how the brains of five peop...Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, Miss America 2005 Deidre Downs and Dan Haney receive public service awards
...ssful careers -- educator, businessman, and highly decorated U.S. Navy fighter pilot in Vietnam. Congressman Cunningham, a prostate cancer survivor, has been a strong and long-time supporter of funding for cancer research through his committee work in the House and related efforts on behalf of the biomedical r...