The grant will pave the way for a major regional collaboration among The Southern California Tribal Chairman's Association Southern California tribes, and the University of California, San Diego, as well as a wide network of schools, colleges, and agencies serving the tribal communities.
The University of Colorado Hospital announced a gift of $30M from The Anschutz Foundation, to assist in building the hospital's inpatient pavilion at the Fitzsimons campus. The gift is in addition to $25M given by the Foundation in January 2000.
The National Science Foundation has pledged $1.35M over three years for the Smithsonian Institution's new permanent exhibit, "Explore the Universe," which will open in September 2001 at the National Air and Space Museum.
"Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism," by Clara Claiborne Park is a book deserving of a wide audience.
Denver orthopaedic surgeon Charles Hamlin, MD, was concerned when he made a trip to the Navajo reservation in Chinle, Az., and discovered that the residents were unable to get treatment for hand injuries.
For more than a decade, groups of OWU students have spent spring break doing community service work in the U.S. and abroad. This year, trip organizers have entered the world of online auctions to raise money for the trips.
The $14.5 million Roger Milliken Science Center at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC, brings together visually, physically and emotionally all of the disciplines -- humanities, the arts and science.
AMGA has formed a strategic partnership with Aventis Pharmaceuticals to develop a national data warehouse that will allow medical groups to access key practice management, clinical, health outcome, economic, and quality benchmarks.
Announcement that Dr. Fran Berman will succeed Dr. Sid Karin as director of the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
The Texas Healthcare & Bioscience Institute has elected renowned researcher Robert Gracy, PhD, of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, to its board of directors.
Harold J. Simon, M.D., Ph.D., a founding member of the UCSD School of Medicine faculty and a leader in the field of international health and health policy, has been honored with the establishment of an endowed chair in his name in International Health and Cross-Cultural Medicine.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., has broadened use of its Satellite Communications Facility to include industrial space organizations for the first time. The Laboratory has already signed contracts with three companies.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been recognized by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for their efforts in the commercialization of important laboratory-developed technologies.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins announced the debut of Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, a new journal designed to help keep practicing allergist/immunologists stay current with the burgeoning research in their field.
One of America's most renowned poets, Louise Gluck is the winner of the coveted Bollingen Prize in Poetry. She is the Preston S. Parish '41 Third Century Senior Lecturer in English at Williams College.
MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical research and development company, announced that the U.S. Patent Office has issued a patent on the use of its new class of superoxide dismutase enzyme mimetic drugs for the alleviation of acute and chronic pain.
Orthopaedic surgeons will grab shovels, wheelbarrows, etc. to build accessible playground 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. in San Mateo, Calif. at Coyote Point, Feb. 27, the day before the American Acaddemy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 68th annual meeting in San Francisco (Feb. 28-March 4).
Alumni donors at Whitman College are giving members of the student-run Whitman Investment Company the chance for hands-on experience in the stock market. After managing a virtual portfolio for the past year students will now manage the Allen-Boeing Endowment.
A new process to manufacture thin films has has been developed by Virginia Tech's Director of the Fiber and Electro-Optics Research Laboratory, Rick Claus, a distinguished professor in the electrical and computer engineering department.The development helped Claus earn Virginia's Outstanding Scientist Award for 2001.
R. Nathan Link, MD, has been appointed to the position of Chief of Medical Service at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Dr. Link is a specialist in primary care.
Dr. Anastasios Raptis, MD, FACP, PhD has joined the clinical staff of Midwestern Regional Medical Center at Cancer Treatment of Centers of America in Zion, Illinois as Director of the bone marrow transplant program.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has funded a $500,000 research project involving Cornell University, the University of California-Santa Barbara and Pennsylvania State University. on the behavior of rock-derived nutrients and the accumulation of toxic elements in relation to ecosystem age and climate
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center announces the appointment of John J. Regan, M.D., an internationally recognized orthopedic surgeon, to Director of Research and Education at the new Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders, the largest multidisciplinary spinal center in the Western United States.
Beginning Feb. 10, travel to Ambato, Ecuador, via the WOW.UAB.EDU Web site with a team of UAB medical volunteers as they lead a week-long medical mission of mercy to provide reconstructive surgery for cleft lips, cleft palates, ears, feet and other deformities to underprivileged children.
The American Society of Civil Engineers has awarded Richard Seymour, a Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego engineer the 2000 John Moffatt and Frank Nichol Harbor and Coastal Engineering Award.
UCSD Professor of Neurosciences John S. O'Brien, M.D., internationally known for his discovery of the genetic cause of Tay-Sachs disease and his development of screening tests for the disease, passed away Thursday, February 1, in his La Jolla home.
The Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson has accepted three physicians to its integrative medicine fellowship.
Cornell University food scientists have won a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the NIH to investigate how Listeria monocytogenes volve and travel in food, humans, animals, water and soil.
Carrie S. Cox, Corporate Executive Vice President and President, Global Business Management, Pharmacia Corporation, is the recipient of the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association 2001 "Woman of the Year" award.
Virginia Tech Photonics Laboratory won a $1.8 million grant to continue its work in self-calibrating temperature and pressure sensors that will help commercialize the energy saving device.
NSF Director Rita Colwell will host a media breakfast for journalists attending the annual meeting of the AAAS in San Francisco.
University of Maryland Biotechology scientists are unraveling the molecular structure and function of recoverin and other key eye proteins to help solve retinitis pigmentosa and other eye diseases.
For the second consecutive year, scientists at UCLAÃs Jonsson Cancer Center have earned more CaP CURE prostate cancer research awards than any other single institution nationwide. In all, 10 UCLA scientists will receive grants this year totaling more than $1 million.
The University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) announces its 2001 Media Award for Excellence in Coverage of Women and Gender. Submissions will be accepted for print and electronic (radio/television/on-line) media.
Researchers and engineers from New York to California are forming a collaborative network via the Internet to speed the design of structures that minimize earthquake damage and loss of life. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced 11 awards totaling $45 million.
The Center for Biomedical Inventions at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has launched its first technology partnership, marking a milestone in the center's efforts to help build a biomedical industry in North Texas.
Elmhurst College has received a prestigious grant for a comprehensive faculty-student research study on possible future expansion of nearby O'Hare International Airport.
The National Academy of Engineering and Ohio University awarded a $500,000 prize to two individuals who invented the first human heart pacemaker. Earl Bakken and Wilson Greatbatch are the first recipients of the Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize, one of the top two engineering prizes in the world.
To encourage more minority students to apply to the S. C. Johnson School of Management at Cornell University and to reinforce ties with minority alumni around the country, the school has launched the "Pipeline to the 21st Century" initiative, funded by a grant from Citibank/Salomon Smith Barney.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded a $583,964 grant to Wake Forest University School of Medicine to support an evaluation of managed care patient protection laws.
The Graphic Communications Association recently announced that Daryl G. Grecich will serve as the organization's new Vice President of Marketing and Communication. In his new position, Grecich will manage all marketing and communications functions, from media relations to membership functions.
SignTel Inc. announced the availability of the beta version of the SignTel Interpreter(tm), a new communications system designed to improve interactions between the country's hearing individuals and the deaf/hard of hearing community.
As it prepares to graduate its third class of physician-fellows trained in the theory and practice of integrative medicine, the University of Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine is accepting applications for its 2002 fellowship class.
The National Science Board has selected author Dava Sobel to receive its 2001 individual Public Service Award. The NSB honored Sobel for fostering awareness of science and technology among broad segments of the general public.
With a $58.5 million gift from an anonymous donor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is launching an Institute for Cell Engineering, fostering research that not long ago would have been marked as science fiction.
With the use of a new sensing device, energy intensive industries should find that they can become less dependent on energy needs. The use of these sensors should also reduce the emissions of pollutants.
ASME International (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers), in cooperation with leading U.S. universities, now offers online gradutate-level courses for engineers and technical professionals.
Editors, news directors: Reporters and photographers are invited to attend the announcement of the first winner/s of a half-million-dollar international award that will recognize achievements in engineering.
The Physician Assistant Foundation has announced four winners of the 2000 Innovations in Health Care: AAPA/PA Foundation/Pfizer Recognition Program.
The Association of Cancer Online Resources (ACOR), announces the launch of Cancer-pain.org to provide patients with the education and support they need to obtain effective relief from pain.
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