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Released: 12-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Radio Telescopes in the New Movie "Contact" Dish Up Real Science
National Science Foundation (NSF)

In the new movie "Contact," astronomer Ellie Arroway, played by actress Jodie Foster, searches for signs of extraterrestrial life using massive, Earth-bound radio telescopes.

Released: 12-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Better Peroxidase Improves Disease Diagnosis
Purdue University

When Purdue University geneticist Rick Vierling first looked for ways to add value to soybeans, he didn't expect that he could help doctors diagnose AIDS in China. But that's exactly where his research is leading.

Released: 12-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Story Ideas From Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

1) Fusion -- Smooth Skies; 2) Materials -- Letting Off Steam; 3) Space -- Next Stop, Mars; 4) Environment -- A Spreading Problem

Released: 11-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Disease still threatens poultry and human health
Cornell University

Significant progress in controlling poultry-borne infection was reported recently at a Cornell University meeting, the 69th Northeastern Conference on Avian Diseases. Still, two diseases (avian influenza or AI and infectious laryngotracheitis or ILT) threaten the economic health of the American poultry industry and at least one (Salmonella enteritidis) worries Americans who eat eggs.

Released: 11-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
New international infant, child growth standards
Cornell University

Cornell nutritionists play key roles in calling for and constructing new international growth references for infants and children. Current standards result in too many faulty decisions.

Released: 11-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Business schools cross-train grads for new age in industry
Purdue University

Universities nationwide are using new tools to prepare future executives for a complex business environment. It all happens in the computer lab, which simulates an entire firm's data flow.

Released: 11-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Media Availability with NSF Acting Deputy Director
National Science Foundation (NSF)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has asked the science and engineering (S&E) community to contribute its views on two significant agency-wide efforts this year.

Released: 11-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Research advances across broad front
Sandia National Laboratories

Eight Sandia winners of R&D 100 awards proposed devices -- newly or nearly in use -- in fields ranging from medicine to computers, and from manufacturing to resource exploration to the prevention of widespread power failures.

Released: 11-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Biology of a Monogamous Bond
Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University

The hormones oxytocin (OT) and vasopressin (AVP) play a vital role in influencing complex social behaviors such as affiliation, parental care, territorial aggression and several behaviors associated with monogamy (pair bonding, paternal care, mate guarding). Scientists at Yerkes Primate Center at Emory University are examining these hormones in rodents to eventually help develop treatments for autism and schizophrenia, both of which result in social isolation and detachment.

   
Released: 11-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Jamaican Nutrition Study Provides New Foundation for Developing World Food Policies
University of Maine

A nutrition project being conducted by Pauline Samuda, a University of Maine graduate student, has global implications, particularly for developing countries struggling with malnutrition and hunger. Samuda, who grew up in Manchester, Jamaica, is on leave from her job as a public health nutitionist in the Jamaican Ministry of Health. The result of her efforts will be the most accurate picture to date of the nutrients in the foods Jamaicans eat. The bottom line, Samuda says, is improved food and nutrition information to guide school lunch programs, food import policies, nutrition education and special diets for people with diabetes, heart disease and other health problems.

Released: 11-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
U-M laser does high-precision eye surgery
University of Michigan

University of Michigan laser performs high-precision corneal surgery not possible with current technology.

Released: 11-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Using Internet, Doctor Saves Life In Argentina
Stony Brook Medicine

A neonatologist in NY, using the internet, saves the life of a premature infant in Argentina.

   
Released: 10-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Phase II Efficacy Trial Of Antex's Campylobacter Vaccine Announced
Spectrum Science Communications

Antex Biologics, SmithKline Beecham, and the United States Navy today jointly announced the start of a Phase II clinical trial for Antex's Campylobacter vaccine. This study will evaluate the efficacy of this oral vaccine against infectious Campylobacter, which causes 400-500 million cases of diarrhea annually.

Released: 10-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
UMass Alum Chief Scientist on Mars Pathfinder Mission
University of Massachusetts Amherst

A University of Massachusetts graduate is the chief scientist on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission. Matthew Golombek, who has worked with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the mission since its inception five years ago, studied the geology of Mars, Earth, and the moon while earning his master's and doctoral degrees in geology from the University in 1978 and 1981, respectively.

Released: 10-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Lucent Technologies Wins Emmy Award for Work on Digital TV
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs

Lucent Technologies will receive a Primetime Engineering Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in ceremonies in Beverly Hills, Calif., Thursday (July 10) for its work on digital television as part of the High-Definition TV (HDTV) Grand Alliance.

Released: 10-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Linda Alexander Named ASHA President/CEO
American Sexual Health Association (ASHA)

Linda Alexander, who has a strong military and academic background and specializes in women's health, is the new president and CEO of the 83-year-old American Social Health Association. ASHA is dedicated to stopping sexually transmitted diseases.

10-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
US literacy: "huge inequalities" in reading performance
University of Delaware

Only Finnish children read better than U.S. kids--yet, too many 17-year-old minority children read at roughly the same level as the average 13-year-old white child, a University of Delaware educator reported July 10, when he urged U.S. policymakers to help correct such "huge inequalities."

Released: 10-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Novel Androgen Inhibitors Show Promise in Treatment of Prostate Cancer
University of Maryland, Baltimore

Castration has long been the primary strategy for the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer. However, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified new androgen inhibitors that they believe could supplant castration as the primary method of treatment.

Released: 10-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
FASEB Report on Graduate Education in Biomedical Research
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)

The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) has released its report on graduate education in biomedical sciences.

Released: 10-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
UMass Grad is "Rock Czar" on NASA's Mars Pathfinder Mission
University of Massachusetts Amherst

A recently graduated geologist is one of the two scientists with University of Massachusetts degress who are working on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission. Nathan Bridges earned his doctorate in geology this past April, before being hired by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for a postdoctoral position.

10-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Bilinguals Devote Distinct Areas of the Brain to Native and Second Languages
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

In a study that sheds new light on how the brain organizes language, researchers report that the organization of the brain's language-production region in bilingual individuals is directly related to whether they learned a second language as toddlers (simultaneously with their native language) or as young adults. Using a new, non-invasive imaging method called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers found that bilingual persons who acquire a second language as young adults have distinct areas in the brain associated with their native and second languages.

   
Released: 9-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Sandia Labs and Goodyear to Develop New Manufacturing Technology
Sandia National Laboratories

Goodyear and the U.S. Department of Energyís Sandia National Laboratories will work together to develop new and more efficient manufacturing processes.

   
Released: 9-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Developing Methods To Detect, Neutralize Land Mines
Missouri University of Science and Technology

The University of Missouri-Rolla is leading a team of five universities in a five-year project to develop new methods to detect and neutralize the concealed land mines that currently endanger the populations of more than 60 nations. Research includes the use of sound waves, ground-penetrating radar, electromagnetic pulses, robotic vehicles and shooting streams of water underground to look for and "float" the mines to the surface.

Released: 9-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Curriculum 2000: Today's Training Ground For Tomorrow's Medical Leaders
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Who will train today's medical students to become tomorrow's doctors and deal with the constantly-changing realities of health care? The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has overhauled its curriculum and will begin to implement Curriculum 2000, beginning with the August 1997 class. Curriculum 2000 represents the first time a major medical school has revamped its entire four-year curriculum to better train students for the future of medicine as practicing physicians.

Released: 8-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
What's in a Name? A Complimentary Means of Persuasion
[email protected]@mcdougallpr.com

There is now a way to increase marketing sales by 239 percent, an amount which should have all sales executives and representatives paying attention. New research has unearthed a key to increased sales compliance, a key neither expensive nor time consuming...

Released: 8-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
In Dual-Income Families Dads Are Helping, But It is Stressful, and Gender Gap Remains
University of Tulsa

Working fathers involved in child care tend to do more of the low-stress, pre-arranged activities and less of the unpredictable situations such as staying home when a child suddenly gets sick, according to a University of Tulsa professor.

   
Released: 8-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Deep Space Maneuver Retargets NEAR for Asteroid 433 Eros Encounter
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

The trajectory of the Near Earth Asteroid Rendevzous (NEAR) spacecraft was adjusted July 3 to target the spacecraft for an Earth swingby in 1998.

Released: 8-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Genetic Tests Helpful, but Consequences Should Be Considered
University of Iowa

The consequences of genetic testing should be carefully considered by patients and health care providers before a test is administered, according to a University of Iowa nursing professor.

Released: 8-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Asteroid Mathilde Reveals Her Dark Past
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

A 25-minute flyby of the asteroid Mathilde by the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft took place June 27. This resulted in spectacular images of a dark, crater-battered little world assumed to date from the b eginning of the solar system.

Released: 7-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Information Age Fails to Deliver
University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business

Despite the world-wide investment of trillions of dollars (and other world currencies) in more than 20 years, technology still falls short of providing the information we most need and want, finds Thomas H. Davenport, director of the information management program at The University of Texas at Austin and a regular columnist for CIO magazine.

   
Released: 7-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
AAP--"Immunize for Healthy Lives" This August
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Nearly one million American children under age 2 go unprotected against life-threatening, yet preventable, childhood diseases every year because they are not fully immunized, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Released: 7-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
AAP--Schools Must Prepare for Students with HIV
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Children with HIV are living longer and staying healthier, which means more HIV-infected children can be expected to attend schools in years to come, according to a study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics on this months Pediatrics electronic pages.

Released: 7-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
My Mother Caused My Illness
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

One child's eight-year ordeal as a victim of Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome (MBPS) is chronicled in a study in this month's issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Released: 7-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
AAP-Sleep Position Guidelines Not Practiced at Childcare Centers
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

A new study of child care centers found that staff members at many child care centers are unaware of the association between infant sleep position and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and few centers have policies regarding sleep position.

Released: 7-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF)

Many women may be waiting for the swollen joints, stiffness and pain typically associated with arthritis to occur before they become concerned about osteoporosis, according to an urgently issued Public Health Advisory from the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF).

Released: 7-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Finding Minerals with Mars Pathfinder Camera
Cornell University

When Mars Pathfinder lands on Mars on July 4, James Bell, research associate in the Cornell astronomy department's Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, will help determine what types of minerals and rocks are present on the Martian surface, making use of a video camera on the lander which uses about a dozen color filters to discriminate individual minerals.

Released: 7-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Study Injects New Interest in How Vaccines Work
Purdue University

A popular theory about how a major component of vaccines works within the body has been shot down by a Purdue University study.

Released: 7-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Students Play the Market, Benefit from Profit
Purdue University

Students at universities around the country are learning money management and investment skills by making real-life stock market investments with donated money.

Released: 7-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Cornell University, Johnson School

Donations of leftovers by restaurants to food pantries and other human service agencies are declining marketdly as restaurants become better managed, according to a study by Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration.

Released: 7-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Cornell University, Johnson School

Cornell University researchers have found that pay hikes, not promotions, are critical in retaining high-performing employees. Looking at more than 5,000 petroleum company employees showed that high salary growth proved critical in retaining high performers. promotions, on the other hand, had no effect on turnover of those high performers.

Released: 7-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
A Strong Show of Support for Engineering and Technology
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)

Jim Adam agreed to chair a major fund-raising campaign for ASME International (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and donate $150,000 of his company's funds.

Released: 7-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
FOSTER WHEELER PLEDGES STRONG SUPPORT FOR ENGINEERING
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)

Foster Wheeler Corp. has contributed $200,000 to a fund-raising campaign operated by ASME International (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), a philanthropic gesture which demonstrates the firm's commitment to the future of mechanical engineering throughout the world.

Released: 7-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
HIGHLIGHTS FAMILY PRACTICE MANAGEMENT June 1997
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

Highlights Family Practice Management June 1997 1. Inner City Primary Care 2. Computerized Medical Practice 3. Embracing Alternative Medicine 4. Family Practice in Rural America 5. Cash Patients in Managed Care 6. Giving Back to the Community

Released: 7-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Phillips Petroleum Contributes Gift to Engineering Group
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)

Phillips Petroleum Company announced the pledge of $150,000 to a foundation operated by ASME International (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) to recognize the significance of technical personnel to Phillips, and at the same time helping to ensure the health of the mechanical engineering profession today and in the future.

Released: 7-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
U.S.-Japan Study Group Offers Environmental Policy Recommendations
Yale School of Medicine

Trade and environment experts from the United States and Japan today (July 2) issued a joint statement offering recommendations for better management of environmental issues by international organizations such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Recommendations included a more focused mandate for the WTO's Committee on Trade and Environment, and closer attention by policy makers to the idea of forming a global environmental organization that would operate in tandem with the WTO.

   
26-Jun-1997 12:00 AM EDT
High blood pressure speeds brain shrinkage and memory loss in elderly, researchers find
American Heart Association (AHA)

High blood pressure speeds the loss of memory and other cognitive abilities in the elderly, and actually causes their brains to shrink in size, according to a new study reported in the American Heart Association Journal Stroke.

26-Jun-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Calcium channel blockers -- controversy in treatment revisited in study by Boston researchers
American Heart Association (AHA)

Boston researchers say they have evidence that supports the safety of nifedipine, a calcium channel blocker used to treat high blood pressure. Their report appears in the July issue of the American Heart Association journal Hypertension.

Released: 3-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Too Much of a Good Thing?
Stanford Graduate School of Business

In business, too much of a good thing can be hazardous to your health, says Stanford Business School's William Barnett, who took a close look at the volatile semiconductor industry to see why certain companies survive the industry's notorious shakeouts and others do not. He found that when a company introduces more than one product at a time, the firm benefits from its larger size, but also suffers a higher risk of failure. In other words, while growth is good, growing all at once is not.

Released: 3-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
New "Child Indicators" Report Offers Data To Track Children's Well-Being
National Science Foundation (NSF)

The Federal Agency Forum on Child and Family Statistics released today, in Washington, D.C., a new report that offers a composite picture of the well-being of the nation's children.

Released: 3-Jul-1997 12:00 AM EDT
New therapies at M. D. Anderson now can be found on the World Wide Web
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Cancer patients wanting cutting-edge therapy or whose disease no longer responds to traditional treatment may find new hope on the "information super highway." The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has posted its clinical trials available for cancer patients on a World Wide Web site.



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