Purdue University's School of Education will offer the nation's first master of science in education degree with a higher education business and finance management specialization. In addition, the university also is partnering with three financial organizations to create the National Higher Education Treasury Academy at Purdue.
The U.S. Pharmacopeia announces the launch of its Public Policy Center, established to improve the public health through the development of objective health and science policy research.
A new type of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center for the first time will open the way to use PET imaging in basic cancer research, as well as expanding research on drug and alcohol addiction.
The nation's first regional Center for the Quilt, designed to document, preserve and share the history and stories of quilts and quilt makers, has been established at the University of Delaware, in cooperation with the Alliance for American Quilts.
MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(tm), a drug research and development company, announced that Nobel Prize winner Sir John Vane, pharmaceutical executive Joshua Boger, and venture capital entrepreneur Adolphus Busch IV have joined the company's Board of Directors.
St. John's University officially opened its Manhattan campus, marking the successful completion of a merger with The College of Insurance.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Stanley C. Jordan, M.D., was recognized for more than two decades of research when the American Society of Transplantation presented him with its Novartis Established Investigator Clinical Science Award on May 14.
Finding an improved imaging technique to detect lung diseases at an earlier stage when treatment is more likely to be effective, is emerging through leading research by University of Virginia Health System professors.
Organon Inc. announced the consumer launch of Cyclessa(tm), its new low hormone dose oral contraceptive. Recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration, Cyclessa(tm) has just 25 micrograms of estrogen , making it the lowest estrogen dose triphasic birth control pill approved by the FDA.
The University of Illinois at Chicago has appointed Lee Kite national director of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization, an organization founded at UIC that encourages student involvement in entrepreneurship activities.
Lee Teng-hui, former president of Taiwan, will travel to Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D. in agricultural economics in 1968, for a personal visit June 26-28.
UAB has received a four-year, $1.3 million grant to study how parents encourage responsible independence and self-care in adolescents with chronic illnesses such as diabetes.
Jon A. and Virginia M. Lindseth '56 have bestowed a major collection of material documenting the American women's suffrage movement to Cornell University Library.
Joseph E. Flaherty, Amos Eaton Professor of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been named dean of the School of Science following an international search.
Using nearly $5 million in federal grants, Saint Joseph's University has established a distance-learning center to prepare the country's emergency-response community for the psychological consequences of incidents involving weapons of mass destruction.
Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM), announced that LECOM has received provisional approval from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Education to establish the LECOM School of Pharmacy.
Three scientists and a diving officer with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, recently received distinguished honors from a variety of organizations.
For the first time, Hopkins is the top earner of AIDS research funding from the National Institutes of Health for fiscal year 2000.
The Family Place Pediatric Practice at UAB has a received a five-year, $200,000 grant from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau to establish a "medical home" for foster children with special needs.
Seven innovative research projects received start-up funds from Iowa State's Plant Sciences Institute. They include: High Throughput Structural Biology; Identification of Alternatively Spliced Genes in Arabidopsis; Development of NMR Tools for Metabolic Flux Maps of Soybean Seeds; A Transposable Element-based System for Site-specific Recombination in Arabidopsis.
The Center for Water and Wetland Resources celebrates its dedication on June 1, but more than 30 projects - including studies of constructed wetland systems, surveys of amphibian populations and investigations of wild turkey behavior - are already under way.
A new interactive web site that enables consumers to create customized performance reports on health plans, physicians, and hospitals has been launched by the New York State Health Accountability Foundation. The site, www.abouthealthquality.org, also helps users to evaluate caregivers' management of chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes.
A team of University of Arkansas physicists has won a National Science Foundation grant to study spintronics, a revolutionary method of making devices that use an electron's spin, or magnetic properties, to produce high-speed information transfer using less power.
Herwig Kogelnik, laser and optoelectronics pioneer, wins the IEEE Medal of Honor.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has announced that it is seeking proposals for developing a Web-based National Quality Measures ClearinghouseË™.
Mississippi State University leads a national team of academic institutions and industry partners that will support the four Department of Defense high-performance computing research centers.
Journalists from the far corners of the earth will soon have an opportunity to earn a master's degree from one of the top journalism schools in the world. The University of Missouri School of Journalism will soon open its doors to virtual students worldwide.
On June 9, 2001, the University at Albany will honor the commitment, dedication and sacrifice of its approximately 3,000 alumni who have served their country through military service since 1846 with a tribute unlike any ever given by an institution of higher education.
The University of Tulsa is among six schools awarded $8.6M by the National Science Foundation to train elite squadrons of computer security experts -- America's "Cyber Corps" -- to form the country's first line of defense against Internet hackers and terrorists.
National Science Foundation director Rita Colwell today announced NSF's first Scholarship for Service program awards to six institutions as part of an interagency, public/private effort to meet the nationwide needs for computer security and information assurance professionals.
The National Science Board, the 24-member policy body of the National Science Foundation and advisor to the President on national science policy is honoring the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo, Education Division with the 2001 NSB Public Service Award for organizations.
Rhodes College has joined a select group of 50 colleges and universities participating in the Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship Program.
The Society of National Association Publications (SNAP) selected The Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA) and the ADA News as recipients of a 2001 Gold and Silver Award in the categories of scholarly journal and association newspaper, respectively
A clinical oncologist with UCSD Cancer Center, Kenneth D. Herbst, M.D., has been named as the new Deputy Surgeon General for the U.S. Army Reserve. This is the highest-ranking position in the Medical Corps Reserve, and the holder reports directly to the Surgeon General of the Army.
Rhodes College and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have joined for the first time to create a formal research program for Rhodes students.
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) will present more than $30,000 to the Suicide Prevention Center, part of the Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center in Culver City, California.
A OWU Assistant Professor of Zoology received a $100,000 three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health for his research on mosquitoes' roles in the transmission of LaCrosse virus, the leading cause of pediatric viral encephalitis in the Midwest.
The American Cancer Society has recognized that North Texas is home to some of the country's leading cancer research and awarded an institutional research grant to the Institute for Cancer Research at the University of North Texas Health Science Center.
The trustees of Belmont Abbey College have selected Dr. James L. Gearity as the 125-year-old Catholic school's 14th president.
The University of Utah, the U.S. Geological Survey and Yellowstone National Park have agreed to establish the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory to strengthen long-term monitoring of earthquakes and the gigantic, slumbering volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park.
The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has received a $13.7M grant that establishes a Specialized Program Of Research Excellence in Lung Cancer, one of only six in the country and the only one in the southeast.
The American Dental Association Health Foundation, charitable arm of the American Dental Association, has received its largest lump-sum contribution ever from an individual in the form of a $1M gift from Dr. Samuel Harris, a retired Detroit pediatric dentist.
James B. Bramson, D.D.S., has been named executive director of the American Dental Association, the nation's oldest and largest professional organization of dentists, with more than 144,000 members.
Officials from Myanmar (formally Burma) recently declared a remote valley surrounding the old Ledo Road -- a once vital supply route for the Allies in WWII -- the nation's largest wildlife sanctuary, according to the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society.
Lynne Talley, a research oceanographer and professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, has been chosen as the recipient of the 25th annual Rosenstiel Award.
The University of Indianapolis conferred its first doctoral degrees in PsyD, or clinical psychology, this spring. U of I is one of two institutions in Indiana with a PsyD program, and its program also received accreditation from the American Psychological Association.
Creighton University is responding to the critical shortage of pharmacists by offering an on-line Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree program that will be available via the Internet.
With staffing shortages affecting hospitals nationwide, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the largest not-for-profit hospital in the western United States, is launching a concerted, sustained marketing campaign designed to draw new talent and distinguish Cedars-Sinai from other hospitals in the region. The campaign focuses on the medical center's ongoing effort to increase diversity of ethnicity and gender, and also targets the underlying reason many people decide to pursue a healthcare career in the first place.
To climb the steps and open the doors to the memorial hall under the massive Gothic tower of the Vassar College library is to feel you're entering a cathedral of learning.
The American Medical Group Association announced its new board members to begin their tenure in July 2001. The Board of Directors represents the leadership of some of AMGA's most prominent member medical groups.
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