A new molecular imaging center that will develop innovative ways to see gene-based therapies at work in the human body was launched at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center. The $9.8M UCLA Center for In Vivo Imaging in Cancer Biology is the first such molecular imaging center on the West Coast.
President Clinton has appointed Johns Hopkins Children's Center psychiatrist James Harris, M.D., to the Health and Human Services Committee on Mental Retardation. Harris was sworn in to the position Jan. 12 for a two-year term.
Cornell University Library's "Project Harvest" will explore the idea of creating permanent electronic archives for the digital editions of scholarly journals, with the goal of setting up a pilot archive of agricultural journals.
The American Geriatrics Society, the nation's premier professional organization of health care providers dedicated to improving the health and well-being of older adults announced that it has joined the Medical Society eCooperative.
Barry Mills of New York has been elected the 14th president of Bowdoin College, one of the nation's oldest and most selective liberal arts colleges.
Nine medical organizations representing 80,000 members announced today the creation of the Medical Society eCooperative to strengthen their physician and other members professionally using new and expanded Internet-based information and connectivity services.
The National Science Foundation has awarded $2.5 million dollars to the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research to continue technical, engineering and traffic analysis support to the high-performance networking and applications communities.
Purdue University today (Friday, 1/5) cast its spotlight on the future of the entertainment industry. "The arts and sciences of moviemaking will come together in Purdue's new International Center for Entertainment Technology," said the center co-director.
Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research played a key role in developing an award-winning Web site that provides pilots with accurate weather forecasts of winds, turbulence, icing, and thunderstorms.
The UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute is allocating $1 million to develop a new neurodevelopmental genomics laboratory for the study of biomarkers and other early warning signs of autism and neurodevelopmental disorders.
The annual technology forecast from IEEE Spectrum is the first issue of the relaunched magazine.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded Wake Forest University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry a $400,000 grant to assess the scope and adequacy of adult day services in the United States.
Professor of engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has received the $450,000 Japan Prize for his discoveries of the materials critical to the development of lightweight rechargeable batteries.
Cornell University will create an online library of solid earth geoscience information as part of the National Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education Digital Library for science education. The library will include tools that make the information useful to students at all levels from K-12 up.
Cornell University researchers have received a NSF one-year grant of $799,085 to develop a proposed architecture for the National Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education Digital Library.
Elmhurst College will introduce a new master's degree program in supply chain management during the fall of 2001. This graduate-level program, the sixth at Elmhurst, was created to address the needs of the new economy.
Just in time for Christmas, St. John's University proudly announced a gift in the amount of $10M. This is the second Christmas in a row St. John's has received a gift of this size.
University of Arkansas Research Frontiers, the twice-yearly journal that showcases faculty research, can now be viewed online.
ZeTek Power Corp. will soon be using technology licensed from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and setting up shop in East Tennessee.
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded Colorado College a $4 million grant to help build the Russell T. Tutt Science Center, which will house several departments and programs in the natural sciences, including environmental science.
Kent State University has become the first public university in the United States to negotiate a long-term research contract with Adobe Systems Incorporated to pursue Network Publishing.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $15.1 million to an international consortium, led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to develop new drugs to fight African sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis -- diseases killing millions in developing nations.
A national nonprofit offers the latest psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis news and information on its redesigned Web site, www.psoriasis.org.
Joseph L. Reid, professor emeritus of physical oceanography in the Marine Life Research Group at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, is being honored with the Maurice Ewing Medal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for his outstanding scientific contributions to ocean sciences.
A Center for Mind, Brain and Learning to conduct innovative research on early brain and behavioral development has been created at the University of Washington with a $35.5M pledge.
The State of Michigan Life Sciences Corridor has awarded the first grants from tobacco settlement revenue to support life sciences research and economic development throughout the state. University of Michigan awards totaled $47.8M.
MSU scientists - working to understand structural biology, developing medical instruments and stopping food poisoning outbreaks - are among the first to receive funding under Michigan's Life Sciences Corridor. MSU received $40.4M in tobacco settlement money.
Associate professor of medicine in the UCSD School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, is one of nine researchers worldwide to receive one of the first-ever Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation grants for the development of tuberculosis vaccines.
A first for the Ivy League, the Ven. Tenzin Gephel, a monk at the Namgyal Monastery in downtown Ithaca, became the first Tibetan Buddhist chaplain at Cornell United Religious Work.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President announced that the Institute has obtained a gift of $130M from an anonymous donor to construct two major new facilities: a biotechnology research building and an electronic media and performing arts center.
The Sequella Global TB Foundation announced the first recipients of the inaugural series of VIP grants designed to fund high risk/high reward research that could lead to successful new vaccines against tuberculosis.
Carnegie Mellon University and NASA have formed a High Dependability Computing Consortium whose mission is to eliminate failures in computing systems critical to the welfare of society.
Dr. Justin Congdon, a senior research ecologist with the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, has been awarded the 2000 Longevity Prize by the Fondation IPSEN, a French organization that supports work in the field of longevity.
People will be able to retrieve the law as it stood at any point in time, thanks to a $100,000 grant to Cornell's Legal Information Institute from the Red Hat Center, a nonprofit foundation in North Carolina that seeks to make shared information freely available to the public.
Outer space will come to earth today with the formal opening of the Arkansas-Oklahoma Center for Space and Planetary Sciences on the University of Arkansas campus with facilities that will allow scientists to simulate conditions found on other planets and in space.
The California NanoSystems Institute - a wide-ranging research enterprise poised to make a major impact in areas ranging from information technology and household lighting to medical treatment - was named as one of the three research efforts statewide to receive $100M in state support to help propel the future of the state's economy.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine announced the formation of the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. Uniting eight departments, several hundred scientists and initiating a $125 million funding campaign.
Governor Gray Davis announced that the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, led by UC San Diego in partnership with UC Irvine, has been selected as one of three California Institutes for Science and Innovation.
The University of Colorado community and the public will celebrate the grand opening of the Anschutz Centers for Advanced Medicine. This the first new building of the new University of Colorado Health Sciences Center campus at Fitzsimons.
Carnegie Mellon University and NASA will hold a news conference to announce details of a new High Dependability Computing Consortium, whose mission is to eliminate failures in computing systems critical to society.
The Johns Hopkins University, supported by a $10 million "seed" gift, is establishing a research center to tackle the complex technological, legal, ethical and public policy challenges of keeping information private and computer systems secure in an increasingly electronic world.
A new product, the EcoFire Super-Grate greatly reduces the pollution from wood burning, while increasing radiant heat. Recommended by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for reducing particulate and gaseous pollutants.
Comprehensive web site presents accumulated resources of leading drug information and global medical publisher, Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science.
Definity Health (formerly HealtheCare), which this fall launched a new consumer-driven health benefit, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Johns Hopkins University and Health System that will provide Definity Health members access to the academic center's extensive consumer health and wellness resources.
Clineguide, proven effective by physicians and hospital administrators, premiers at eHealthcare World.
CIIT - an institute long respected for environmental health research is changing its name to reflect a new research agenda and a new funding approach.
Beginning in the fall of 2001, Michigan State University will offer a unique on-line program that will give eligible educators the chance to earn a master of arts degree in education.
The Cancer Information Service of New York was recently awarded one of four grants totaling $932,000 from the National Cancer Institute to improve awareness of and access to Internet-based cancer information in minority communities throughout the country.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has opened its new Zakim Center for Integrated Therapies. In addition to conducting clinical trials to study the safety and effectiveness of complementary therapies, physicians and researchers will create an array of research programs to increase patient and medical staff knowledge of these therapies.
University of Michigan psychologist James S. Jackson has been awarded more than $8 million to conduct a landmark study of African American life at the start of the 21st century.
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