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Released: 7-May-2020 9:55 AM EDT
Nobel laureate Martin Chalfie elected as 2022 cell bio society president
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Nobel laureate Martin Chalfie was elected by members of the American Society for Cell Biology to serve as ASCB President in 2022. He will serve as President-Elect on the Executive Committee in 2021.

Released: 7-May-2020 9:40 AM EDT
University Hospitals Launches “UH Healthy Restart Playbook” to Help Businesses Restart
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Announcement of University Hospitals "UH Healthy Restart Playbook" -- a comprehensive toolkit to help businesses emerge from the COVID-19 crisis.

   
Released: 7-May-2020 6:00 AM EDT
Rutgers’ Greg Moore Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Rutgers Professor Gregory W. Moore, a renowned physicist who seeks a unified understanding of the basic forces and fundamental particles in the universe, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Moore, Board of Governors Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, joins 119 other new academy members and 26 international members this year who were recognized for their distinguished and ongoing achievements in original research.

Released: 6-May-2020 4:55 PM EDT
Argonne physicist Giulia Galli earns two top honors for outstanding research and leadership
Argonne National Laboratory

Galli elected to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

Released: 6-May-2020 3:30 PM EDT
Workers happy despite crisis and uncertainty
University of Zurich

In general, workers in Switzerland and Germany are coping well with the Covid-19 crisis and the associated social disruption.

Released: 4-May-2020 3:25 PM EDT
Thurman Barnes Joins the New Jersey Center on Gun Violence Research and Rutgers School of Public Health
Rutgers School of Public Health

Thurman Barnes has been appointed as the assistant director of the New Jersey Center on Gun Violence Research, and associate professor in the department of urban-global public health at the Rutgers School of Public Health. He will start his new role at Rutgers this May.

Released: 4-May-2020 10:30 AM EDT
Brookhaven Biochemist Receives Prestigious Award for Plant Lipid Research
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Jantana Keereetaweep, a biochemistry research associate in the biology department at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been awarded the Paul K. Stumpf Award for her research on plant lipids (fats and oils). The award, given every two years, recognizes the contributions of a promising early-career scientist in honor of Stumpf, who was a world leader and pioneer in the study of plant lipid biochemistry.

Released: 4-May-2020 9:00 AM EDT
American Association of Endodontists Announces New President Dr. Alan H. Gluskin
American Association of Endodontists (AAE)

The American Association of Endodontists (AAE), the 8,000-plus-member association representing dental specialists known as endodontists, is announcing that Alan H. Gluskin, D.D.S., will serve as its new President, effective April 30, 2020. Dr. Gluskin succeeds Dr. Keith V. Krell. AAE Presidents serve one-year terms and are elected by Association stakeholders

Released: 4-May-2020 8:15 AM EDT
FIELDING FOCUS | Public Health in a Pandemic: COVID-19 & Vulnerable Populations
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has launched FIELDING FOCUS, a webinar discussion series that has begun with weekly curated conversations addressing public health and COVID-19. During upcoming sessions, we will explore the impact that the current pandemic is having on vulnerable populations (May 5) and on wellness and healthy living (May 12). Additional sessions are in the planning stages.

Released: 1-May-2020 5:40 PM EDT
ARN Board Member Maureen Musto Selected for Development Group Working on the World Health Organization “Rehabilitation 2030” Initiative
Association of Rehabilitation Nurses

The Association of Rehabilitation Nurses is proud to announce that ARN Board Member Maureen Musto, MS RN APRN-CNS ACNS-BC CRRN, has been selected to serve on the Development Group for Traumatic Brain Injury and Parkinson’s Disease working on development of the World Health Organization (WHO) Rehabilitation Programme’s Package of Interventions for Rehabilitation (PRI).

Released: 1-May-2020 2:10 PM EDT
Tip Sheet: Coronavirus biology, Q&A with Joel McHale, brain topographic maps, single cell sequencing and more
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Summaries of recent Fred Hutch research findings and other news with links for additional background and media contacts.

Released: 1-May-2020 11:10 AM EDT
Mayo hospitals again receive 'A' grades for patient safety
Mayo Clinic

Seven Mayo Clinic hospitals scored high marks for safety — earning an "A" for patient safety from The Leapfrog Group, an independent, national nonprofit run by employers and other large purchasers of health benefits.

Released: 1-May-2020 8:30 AM EDT
Radford University’s Jeanne Mekolichick Elected as 2021–2022 President of the Council on Undergraduate Research
Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR)

Jeanne Mekolichick, associate provost of academic programs at Radford University in Radford, VA, has been elected as 2021-2022 president of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR).

Released: 30-Apr-2020 7:10 PM EDT
The commercial consequences of collective layoffs
Newswise

Researchers from Erasmus University Rotterdam and IESE Business School published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that empirically demonstrates the effects of collective layoff announcements on sales, advertising effectiveness, and consumers' price sensitivity.

Released: 30-Apr-2020 7:10 PM EDT
The commercial consequences of collective layoffs
American Marketing Association (AMA)

Researchers from Erasmus University Rotterdam and IESE Business School published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that empirically demonstrates the effects of collective layoff announcements on sales, advertising effectiveness, and consumers' price sensitivity.

Released: 30-Apr-2020 1:05 PM EDT
UC San Diego Health Nationally Recognized with ‘A’ Grades for Safety
UC San Diego Health

UC San Diego Health has been awarded double ‘A’ grades for the spring 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade.

Released: 30-Apr-2020 11:55 AM EDT
Ellen Druffel elected to National Academy of Sciences
University of California, Irvine

Irvine, Calif., April 30, 2020 – University of California, Irvine chemical oceanographer and biogeochemist Ellen Druffel has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the world’s most distinguished scientific organizations. One of 146 scientists from around the world to have been elected, Druffel researches the carbon cycle of the planet’s oceans and how humanity’s burning of fossil fuels affects that cycle.

Released: 30-Apr-2020 11:40 AM EDT
Gottlieb Memorial Hospital Receives Sixth Consecutive ‘A’ Safety Grade from the Leapfrog Group
Loyola Medicine

Gottlieb Memorial Hospital received its sixth consecutive ‘A’ grade from the Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization committed to health care quality and safety. The Safety Grade, considered the “gold measure” of patient safety, is a letter grade assigned to 2,600 general, acute-care hospitals across the country based on how well the hospital protects its patients from errors, injuries, accidents and infections.

Released: 30-Apr-2020 11:35 AM EDT
Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC) ReceivesSecond Consecutive ‘A’ Safety Grade from Leapfrog
Loyola Medicine

Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC) received its second consecutive ‘A’ grade from the Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization committed to health care quality and safety. The Safety Grade, considered the “gold measure” of patient safety, is a letter grade assigned to 2,600 general, acute-care hospitals across the country based on how well the hospital protects its patients from errors, injuries, accidents and infections.

Released: 30-Apr-2020 11:05 AM EDT
Firms behaving badly: Investors punish for social irresponsibility depending on proportion of company execs with law degrees
University of Notre Dame

The extent to which investors punish firms for corporate social irresponsibility is associated with the proportion of top management executives in a firm who have a law degree, according to new research from the University of Notre Dame.

Released: 30-Apr-2020 10:35 AM EDT
Douglas R. Green, Ph.D., of St. Jude elected to the National Academy of Sciences
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Douglas R. Green, Ph.D., of St. Jude elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his contribution to understanding the mechanism of cell death and survival.

   
27-Apr-2020 3:45 PM EDT
Clayton S. Rose Elected Chair of HHMI’s Trustees
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

Rose, President of Bowdoin College and a longtime Howard Hughes Medical Institute Trustee, will succeed Kurt L. Schmoke as Chair of the Trustees.

Released: 30-Apr-2020 8:30 AM EDT
HRM practices a predictor for business resilience after layoffs
University of South Australia

As retrenchments continue to cloud the foreseeable future of businesses worldwide, new research from the University of South Australia, the University of Melbourne and RMIT indicates that some businesses will fare better than others – and it’s all dependent on their type of human resource management system.

Released: 29-Apr-2020 5:05 PM EDT
Moffitt Cancer Center Appoints John Cleveland as New Center Director
Moffitt Cancer Center

Moffitt Cancer Center Appoints John Cleveland as New Center Director

   
Released: 29-Apr-2020 1:30 PM EDT
Ergonomics 101: Working from Home During Coronavirus
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)

Marshmallow-soft couch cushions and a cutesy vintage chair here. Dim lighting and blackout curtains there. Ah, there’s nothing like the comforts of home. Except during a pandemic. Across the nation, new work-from-home and distance learning routines amid the COVID-19 outbreak have many people -- and their strained necks, backs, and eyes -- wishing they could trade those home comforts for the comforts of the office.

Released: 29-Apr-2020 12:45 PM EDT
Women in IT More Likely To Be Promoted Than Men
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Women are underrepresented in leadership positions throughout the information technology industry. While more and more women are earning degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math — or STEM — fields, they don’t necessarily pursue careers in IT, because they don’t see opportunities for growth. New research from the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute published in Information Systems Research examines how gender affects the likelihood of promotions in the context of the IT industry.

Released: 29-Apr-2020 12:45 PM EDT
Four UTSW faculty elected to prestigious National Academy of Sciences
UT Southwestern Medical Center

The National Academy of Sciences today elected four UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists in the fields of biophysics, cell biology, molecular biology, and stem cell biology into its membership, one of the highest honors for American scientists.

Released: 29-Apr-2020 11:25 AM EDT
Ludwig Oxford Director Xin Lu Elected to the Royal Society
Ludwig Cancer Research

Ludwig Cancer Research extends its congratulations to Xin Lu, director of the Oxford Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, on her election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

   
Released: 29-Apr-2020 11:10 AM EDT
Two Memorial Sloan Kettering Scientists Elected to Esteemed National Academy of Sciences
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Two researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s (MSK) Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI) have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Scott Keeney, PhD, a molecular biologist, and Christopher Lima, PhD, a structural biologist, join more than a dozen MSK investigators who are already NAS members. SKI is the research enterprise of MSK, the world’s oldest and largest private cancer center. Members are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership is one of the highest honors bestowed upon scientists worldwide.

Released: 28-Apr-2020 5:05 PM EDT
Occupational Medicine Physicians Help Businesses Safely Return Employees to Work
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM)

The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine has launched a campaign to inform businesses and the public about the importance of returning to work safely and the specific role that occupational medicine physicians can and should play in this process.

Released: 28-Apr-2020 2:35 PM EDT
Medical device developed by CWRU/UH researchers wins 2020 Edison Award
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

A medical device based on technology developed by Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH) has won a prestigious 2020 Edison Best New Product Award. EsoCheck, a device designed to help detect precancerous changes in the esophagus, was named a “Silver” winner of the 2020 Edison Best New Product Awards in the “Medical/Dental - Testing Solutions” subcategory.

Released: 28-Apr-2020 12:15 PM EDT
Danforth Center Principal Investigator Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced that Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg, Ph.D., Robert E. King Distinguished Investigator and member of the Danforth Center, was elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Released: 28-Apr-2020 9:50 AM EDT
Ronald Chen elected as Fellow to American Society of Clinical Oncology
University of Kansas Cancer Center

Ronald Chen, MD, MPH, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (FASCO) in honor of his extraordinary volunteer service, dedication and commitment to ASCO.

Released: 28-Apr-2020 8:55 AM EDT
Hazardous Drug Spills Put Cancer Nurses at Risk
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

While lifesaving to cancer patients, chemotherapy drugs can be hazardous for the health care workers who handle them, especially during a spill. Inconsistent use of personal protective equipment when cleaning up a spill and problems with closed-system transfer devices — which are designed to prevent the release of toxic vapors and liquids — topped issues uncovered by a new safety study involving nearly 400 nurses across 12 academic infusion centers.

Released: 28-Apr-2020 7:00 AM EDT
APS Announces New Leadership for Coming Year
American Physiological Society (APS)

The American Physiological Society (APS) is pleased to announce its new leadership.

Released: 27-Apr-2020 5:35 PM EDT
Joan W. Conaway elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Stowers Institute for Medical Research

The Stowers Institute for Medical Research is pleased to announce that Joan Weliky Conaway, PhD, a Stowers Investigator since 2001, has been elected a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for her distinguished and continuing achievements in original scientific research. The recognition reflects the exceptional productivity and impact of the research program co-led by Conaway and her lifelong collaborator and husband Ron Conaway, PhD.

Released: 27-Apr-2020 2:20 PM EDT
Mentoring Award Named for Olin College President-designate Dr. Gilda Barabino
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

A newly created mentoring award has been named for Dr. Gilda Barabino, Olin’s President-designate.

Released: 27-Apr-2020 8:50 AM EDT
Eric Potma: Then and Now
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Eric O. Potma is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He holds adjunct positions in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, and in the Beckman Laser Institute at UCI.

Released: 27-Apr-2020 8:45 AM EDT
Terri Pickering, MD joins Glaucoma Research Foundation Board of Directors
Glaucoma Research Foundation

The glaucoma specialist and researcher from Glaucoma Center of San Francisco is also a medical editor for the Gleams newsletter published by Glaucoma Research Foundation and lecturer at the annual Glaucoma 360 Symposium in San Francisco.

Released: 24-Apr-2020 3:55 PM EDT
University Announces Dean for School of Education
Augustana University, South Dakota

Augustana University announced today that Dr. Laurie Daily has been named the inaugural Dean of the School of Education.



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