UK Center for Research on Violence Against Women director to receive national justice award
...dowment which will grow to ultimately support four endowed chairs at UK. The first endowed chair was recently established with the support of Verizon Wireless and will be placed in the UK Col...Lance Armstrong Foundation establishes Endowed Chair in Oncology at Indiana University
... money for program development and growth. "This endowed chair provides permanent and visible recognition of Dr. Einhorn's extraordinary contribution to cancer patients and the medical discipline of oncology," said Mitch Stoller, LAF president and chief executive officer. "We are pleased to award $1.5 mill...$50 mil. gift from the Simmons to expand cancer care, clinical research programs at UT Southwestern
....4 million. Mr. Simmons also gave $2.5 million for endowed distinguished chairs in cancer research named for his wife and daughters. Last month, he and Mrs. Simmons donated $500,000, in memory of Dr. Charles Sprague, the first president of UT Southwestern, for a chair in clinical oncology. "The Simmons gift ...$13.7 million in gifts support UI Center For Macular Degeneration
... the late Roy J. Carver Sr. -- will fund three new endowed chairs at the University of Iowa, create a new gen... a landmark for UI biomedical research." The three endowed chairs and the faculty recipients are: The Roy J. Carver, Jr. Chair in Bioinformatics and Computa...Newt Gingrich to speak about saving lives and saving money now
...ture series and forum for health policy education, endowed in the name of Dr. Daniel Tosteson, former Dean of Harvard Medical School. Speaker Gingrich's participation in the Tosteson Lecture Series coincides with the launch of a student-developed online venture to promote health policy education among emergi...Delta Dental donates $5M to Tufts Dental School to expand care to underserved populations
...ent guidelines for persons with special needs. The endowed chair in public health and community service will develop programs that will increase early diagnosis, provide risk assessment, and improve overall oral health services for underserved and special needs populations, including people with disabilities...Worthy purse strings tie Vera Bradley Foundation $6.8 M gift to IU Cancer Center
...IU School of Medicine: the first was in 2001 which endowed the Vera Bradley Chair of Oncology that supports Linda Malkas' research. The second, in 2005, established the Vera Bradley Breast Cancer Research Endowment. The current gift to the IU Breast Cancer Research Program was announced Monday evening in For...Estate of fashion designer Geoffrey Beene donates funds to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
... Center will fund a range of activities, including endowed senior and junior chairs, graduate fellowships, core research labs, and a lectureship, in addition to providing substantial direct support for research. Work supported through the Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center will be housed in The Mortimer......rve the route followed by T lymphocytes in tumours endowed with a particular antigen, ovalbumin (OVA) and in tumours which served as controls and were devoid of this antigen. When the tumours reached 500 to 1000 mm3, eight to ten days after the injection of tumour cells with or without the antigen, the rese...Weill Cornell Medical College announces gifts totaling $400M
...ents. Faculty and program support, including endowed faculty positions, endowed academic support positions and research and program enhancement. This program seeks to increase rese...Baby DVDs, videos may hinder, not help, infants' language development
..., said Meltzoff, who is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki endowed chair in psychology at the UW. Parents and caretakers are the babys first and best teachers. They instinctively adjust their speech, eye gaze and social signals to support language acquisition. Watching attention-getting DVDs and TV may not be an ...