UC Santa Cruz has formally created its Jack Baskin School of Engineering, launched with a $5 million philanthropic gift. The school is expected to play an important role in training future Silicon Valley engineers.
The biodiversity of nearshore marine ecosystems in Monterey Bay has flourished over the last 25 years despite increasingly heavy human impacts, according to marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz.
As American engineers and scientists gather today in Moscow for a meeting comparing power plants in the United States and Russia, what many of them know will likely shatter long-standing assumptions in the Western world.
Scientists specializing in how hormones affect the brain and behavior will discuss recent findings during a first-of-its-kind week-long meeting beginning May 27 in Baltimore.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made grants to 35 research institutions across the United States that will allow them to connect to NSFÃs very high speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS), an extremely sophisticated telecommunications system that enables scientists across the continent to share powerful computing resources.
A summer program is helping minority students make their way into the business environment where 90 percent of U.S. managers are currently white. Now in its 17th year of operation, the Leadership Education and Development program, or LEAD, will soon begin teaching high school minority students how to become America's future executives.
Colleges and universities measure loyalty by alumni giving. Using that yardstick, alumni of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College are the most faithful of the nation's graduate business school degree recipients.
Researchers say that their findings in a 1978 landmark National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded study of risky behavior still holds true nearly two decades later -- most people are reluctant to purchase insurance against natural disasters because they believe such events will not happen to them.
Weeds can be more than just a backyard nuisance, according to a University of Massachusetts biologist who will produce a documentary film on the topic.
Within the past ten years a revolution in surgery has been taking place, as procedures have become less and less invasive. Now doctors at the Boston Medical Center are at the forefront of this revolution, pioneering minimally invasive techniques on the body s most vital organ: the heart.
Psychiatric Annual Meeting -- Mon. 5/19 Highlights: 1- factors predisposing to onset of PTSD; 2- should psychiatrists participate in competency exams of criminals about to be executed?; 3- research advncs in major depressive disorders; 4- thnicity, aging, & mntl hlth; psychiatry & welfare & economic policies; 5- HIV & Hispanics; 6- work stress; 7- homeless mentally ill & sexually risky behavior; 8- multiculturalism in health assessment; 9- anatomy of prejudices; 10- clinical spectrum of ADHD i
Physicians reporting at recent medical meetings describe how the Digital Holographyô System from Voxel is helping them diagnose and treat complex spinal and cranial anomalies.
Constant exposure to second-hand smoke -- in the workplace or at home -- nearly doubles the risk of having a heart attack, a landmark study of more than 32,000 women suggests.
1- Ranking Soldier Flies; 2- How Chemicals Seep into the Aquifer; 3- Hairy Vetch Mulch System Moves to Poland; 4- Piglets, Pituitaries and Chilly Temperatures; 5- Research Counterattack Against New Sorghum Fungus
While the American Cancer Society recommends annual mammograms for women beginning at age 40, is there an upper age limit when mammograms are not necessary? A new study completed by Masonic Geriatric Healthcare Center, CT, says, due to a number of factors, the value of mammography screening for women aged 75 plus is limited.
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) researcher Chandra Belani, M.D., announced today that his novel treatment using combination chemoradiation for regionally advanced, surgically unremovable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) appears promising and could lead to the development of a new standard of care for this disease. The treatment uses TAXOL (paclitaxel) and PARAPLATIN (carboplatin for injection), in conjunction with thoracic radiotherapy.
A unique safety device, developed by a Michigan State University engineer, will be worn by an Indianapolis 500 driver this year -- the first time the device has been used in the Memorial Day race. The device, known as HANS -- head and neck support -- is a combination helmet and yoke that supports a driver's head, helps reduce neck fatigue and avoid the accompanying injuries common among drivers.
It will never work. That's what top geneticists told Dr. David Cox when, more than a decade ago, he explained his scheme for simply and rapidly creating a map charting thousands of signposts along the DNA strands that make up humans' genetic inheritance -- the human genome.
Stanford researchers have found an unexpected target site that could be used to starve or poison the parasites that cause malaria.
Stanford investigators have succeeded in reforming delinquent immune cells that have turned against the body they are meant to protect. The researchers forced the misbehaving cells to carry the blueprint for a gene that squelches the destructive response. The researchers showed that mice destined to have an autoimmune disease benefit significantly from this treatment.
Researchers have discovered a new eating disorder in which some patients with right anterior brain lesions suddenly become compulsively addicted to thinking about and eating fine foods. Called Gourmand syndrome, the new disorder is presented in the May issue of the American Academy of Neurology's scientific journal, Neurology.
Medical professionals and patients are not being informed or warned about the serious dangers associated with a migraine drug, according to an article published in the May issue of the American Academy of Neurology's scientific journal, Neurology.
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)House of Delegates will hear testimony and vote the last week of May on over 50 resolutions addressing the physician assistant (PA)profession and the delivery of health care in the United States,including a policy paper on assisted suicide.
Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope to make the first detection of radio emission from a cosmic gamma-ray burst. This sheds the first light on long-standing questions about the actual physics of these mysterious, tremendously energetic events.
Three snowfall records were shattered in April in cities in the Northeast, all records fell before the month was 24-hours old, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. April's temperatures were cooler than normal and the month was also drier than normal.
Women may be more vulnerable than previously assumed to contracting the AIDS virus from their male sexual partners, according to findings by Dartmouth Medical School and VA Medical Center researchers.
ASME International (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) announces an online service for employers, recruiters and executive search firms seeking candidates to fill engineering positions.
The tracked vehicle that spurred the production of the military ship-to-shore amphibian tractors used in the assault on Normandy during World War II, has been cited for historic significance by ASME International (American Society of Mechanical Engineers).
Fact sheet on cancer statistics in the United States, including information on cancer incidence, mortality, and survival rates as well as background information on cancer genetics. Prepared by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Annual Meeting, May 17-20, 1997, Denver, CO.
Five new studies released at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting (Denver, CO, May 17-20, 1997) reveal novel approaches to cancer treatment show promise for next generation of cancer drugs.
Four new studies presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting (Denver, CO, May 17-20, 1997) examine the benefit of using chemotherapy and tamoxifen combined; provide new insight into managing uterine cancer risk; and the psychological benefits of lumpectomy.
Four new research studies presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting (Denver, CO, May 17-20, 1997) challenge standard prostate cancer therapies and explore innovative biological strategies.
University of Rochester 's Simon School Dean Charles Plosser Visits East Asia To Strengthen Relationships With Business, Economic And Government Leaders And School's Growing Alumni Population.
In "Tax Waste, Not Work," a new text from Redefining Progress, the authors contend that changing what is taxed in America can lead to a stronger economy and a cleaner environment. The book--co-authored by Christopher H. Stinson, a University of Texas Business School professor and a senior fellow at Redefining Progress--focuses the national debate not on HOW MUCH to tax, but, more fundamentally, on WHAT should be taxed.
Four new research studies presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting (Denver, CO, May 17-20, 1997) reveal new findings for the prognosis and treatment of those with hereditary cancer.
Fact Sheet on End-of-Life Care in the United States including information on physician assisted suicide, planning for end-of-life care, and financial and legal issues. Prepared by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Annual Meeting, May 17-20, 1997, Denver, CO.
The worldÃs leading cancer specialists today confronted some of the most controversial issues surrounding end-of-life care of cancer patients at a major session of the Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Denver, CO (May 17-20, 1997).
When it comes to cleaning up the environment, the answer may be right under our feet. A Purdue University engineer is investigating how and why bacteria in the soil eat certain toxic chemicals, and he is developing procedures for using the hungry bugs in environmental cleanup efforts.
A Purdue University travel expert predicts that the Internet will change the way travel agents do their jobs. "It's inevitable that the business of travel agencies will change," says Alastair Morrison, professor of restaurant, hotel, institutional and tourism management. "The Internet is a way to bypass travel agents, and, though it doesn't signal their demise, it is impacting the travel industry."
Psychiatric Annual Meeting Highlights: May 17-18, 1997 -- Insanity defense historical background; future of quality psychiatric care, threats to patient access to care.
Geriatric Patients and Psychiatric Issues: Neuroimaging; New medications and treatment of depression, mania, psychosis, Alzheimer's Disease, and dementia; Alzheimer's genetic risk; caregivers; elderly suicide.
Psychiatry and International Research: APA Annual Meeting (San Diego, 5/17/22/97): Korean teen criminals, Chinese medical students, suicide in the Arctic, Korean disaster, ego defense and Korean smokers, Anger attacks in France, Schizophrenia on Reunion Island, Murder in Finland, French emergency room, PTSD in Rwanda, Children with ADHD in Quebec, Bosnian Students, Eating disorders in Japan.
Women's issues at psychiatric annual meeting: psychosocial care for women with breast cancer, depression and women across the reproductive cycle, women prisoners: psychiatric disorders and HIV infection.
California Psychiatric Presenters Highlighted at APA Annual Meeting (5/17-22/97): Estrogen for depressed perimenopausal women; sleep disturbances in the elderly, controversies in child custody.
1) Cholesterol Levels Related to Death From Coronary Heart Disease in Elderly; 2) Antihypertensive Drug Treatment on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Men and Women; 3) Medical Applications of Marijuana; 4) ACP Outlines Steps for Fecal Occult Blood Testing and Interpretation in Colon Cancer Screening
Low-flying planes and an array of new surface gauges in the Walnut River watershed east of Wichita, Kansas, are gathering data from the lowest few thousand feet of the atmosphere to improve weather forecasting. Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado coordinate the experiment.
To come up with new product ideas, researchers at the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute seed consumer imaginations with tantalizing triggers such as blow-dry dog, fold clothes, or shrink car.
Scientists affiliated with the National Science FoundationÃs (NSF) Center for Biological Timing have identified and cloned a gene for the biological clock in a mouse, the first such gene to be identified at the molecular level in a mammal.
If we had to pay for the services that nature provides, how much would it cost? A paper appearing in the May 15th issue of the journal Nature, co-authored by 13 ecologists, geographers and economists, estimates this value at between $16 and $54 trillion per year.
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