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.
Too many people are unaware of the risk factors and consequences of osteoporosis, says a UAB registered dietitian.
UAB has received a $4.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a registry of blacks with early rheumatoid arthritis.
To address the critical national issue in math literacy, West Virginia University has announced creation of an Institute for Math Learning.
The nationally known University of South Florida school reform program, Project ACHIEVE, and its Stop & Think social skills component have been selected as a model program by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Substance Abuse Prevention in Rockville, Md.
President Karen Hitchcock of the University at Albany has announced plans to create a Center for Jewish Studies that will eventually establish Albany as the hub of Jewish Studies for the State University of New York system and for public higher education in the Northeast.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded a $749,968 grant to Wake Forest University School of Medicine for continued national direction of the Foundation's Substance Abuse Policy Research Program.
Research currently underway at the University of Arkansas may have a billion-dollar impact on the semiconductor industry. Scott Mason, has received a grant from Semiconductor Research Corporation for work that may revolutionize the fabrication of semiconductor wafers.
The Feminism and Legal Theory Project of the Cornell Law will sponsor an exchange program for students and faculty among the United States, Northern Ireland and Canada, thanks to an anonymous $824,000 grant.
Dr. Carlton Erickson of The University of Texas at Austin's College of Pharmacy has been recognized by one of the country's most respected addiction treatment facilities for his life's work in the research laboratory and in educating the public concerning alcoholism.
Thirteen leading researchers have joined the Department of International Health at Boston University School of Public Health, bringing to the school a wealth of international public health knowledge and the well-respected Applied Research on Child Health Program.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has announced that its interactive online program, "PE Online Review," is now available. The updated version of this web-based study course is designed to assist engineers in preparing for the professional engineering licensing examination to be administered on April 20, 2001.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has signed and agreement with Reciprocal, Inc., to create a new online publishing outlet. This initiative will enable many of ASME's codes and standards to be purchased and securely downloaded directly to a user's personal computer.
A new three-year National Science Foundation grant will enable UNC-CH researchers to, beginning in February, introduce nanotechnology and UNC-CH researchers who work within this rapidly emerging scientific field to students in two local schools.
Established by the American Chemical Society in 1955, the James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public is designed "to recognize, encourage and stimulate outstanding reporting, which materially increases the public's knowledge and understanding of chemistry, chemical engineering and related fields."
Beaming with fiber-optic technology found in only a few universities worldwide, The University of Tulsa's new multimillion-dollar Williams Communications Fiber Optic Networking Laboratory opened Jan. 17 with a dedication ceremony attended by representatives of major telecommunications companies nationwide.
Robert M. Kaplan, Ph.D. professor and chair of UCSD's Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, and member, UCSD Cancer Center, is the new editor of the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, the quarterly journal of the Society of Behavioral Medicine.
Mary A. Nichols has joined the new University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation, Inc. as assistant to the vice president.
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.
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