David Perry, director of the Great Cities Institute, a university-wide urban affairs research center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has assumed duties as interim dean for the university's College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs.
Princeton University has received $745,000 in grants to co-direct a program that allows high-school teachers to work side-by-side with research scientists at six universities in New York and New Jersey.
Northern Michigan University in Marquette will issue 4,200 IBM ThinkPads(r) to full-time undergraduate students through Aug.27. This will mark IBM's largest single distribution at a public university.
The 2000 edition of The Best College for You, from TIME magazine and The Princeton Review, has named Sarah Lawrence College as the liberal arts college of the year.
ScienceWise.com, the Workplace on the Web for scientists and engineers, announced a master sponsorship agreement with SciQuest.com, providing members with access to a leading supplier of scientific equipment on the Web.
A major new prize in the amount of $100,000, named for human cognition pioneer David Rumelhart, a founder of the University of California, San Diego, Department of Cognitive Science, has been established.
The dean of The Anderson School at UCLA announced the formation of an academic track that focuses on the school's course offerings for MBA students interested in studying management issues in the information economy.
A method for detecting fecal contamination on fresh meat, developed by researchers at Iowa State University and the USDA's Agricultural Research Service, has been awarded a 2000 R&D 100 Award.
AHRQ awarded contracts to nine research consortia to establish the Integrated Delivery System Research Network. This model of field-based research will enable AHRQ to accelerate the pace of its research on concerns such as medical care quality and safety, access to services and costs.
Ursinus College has joined the ranks of the nation's "most wired" colleges this year, with all new students scheduled to receive laptop computers when they arrive on campus in three weeks.
Boston University has implemented a broadly available version of IBM's ASCI White, the most powerful supercomputer ever built. It will help researchers on projects in fields such as quantum physics, genome research as well as investigations into a cure for Alzheimer's.
Louisiana State University has received a grant from NSF to establish a ground-breaking new curriculum in hurricane engineering. The program is a joint project of the LSU Hurricane Center and the LSU College of Engineering.
ScienceWise.com will launch ScienceWise Europe in Belgium on Sept. 1, 2000. The company has also increased its management team with the appointment of three new corporate officers.
Abbie Brown, assistant professor of educational technology at Washington State University, has received a $1.4 million, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education to prepare teachers to use technology more effectively in the classroom.
PhotoSecure, Inc., announced that GenuOne, Inc., has invested one million dollars in the development of the company. PhotoSecure was incubated in the Boston University Photonics Center.
More than 100 applied but only 42 were selected as Associate Fellows for the University of Arizona's Program in Integrative Medicine as part of its new distributed learning program that begins Aug. 15.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine won a highly competitive federal grant for helping young faculty build research careers in women's health.
Researchers at DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and their collaborators have developed three of the 100 most significant innovations of 2000, according to R&D Magazine. Resulting technologies are reducing losses on food production lines, helping to ensure the safety of food and may replace glass with engineered plastics in electronic display panels.
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has been awarded $45 million from NSF to provide "terascale" computing capability for U.S. researchers in all science and engineering disciplines.
The next U.S. supercomputing system operating at speeds well beyond a trillion calculations per second will reside at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center through an expected $45-million award from NSF.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has joined forces with an international consortium to help build and operate a major new South African observatory.
A collaborative venture between the University of Georgia's business school and a company in Northern Ireland will result in a joint e-commerce project that will test marketing ideas for agricultural exports.
Marking a first for research in an oceanic system, the William S. Cooper Award has been given to four scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, for their investigation of one of Earth's largest underwater kelp forest.
Wim Wiewel, dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago was named dean of the business school, Provost Elizabeth Hoffman has announced.
Beginning this fall, the University of Illinois at Chicago's Great Cities Institute will offer an online professional certificate management program to nonprofit professionals across the country.
As concerns mount over the integrity and ethical standards of the journals in which medical and scientific results are published, JAMA editor Catherine DeAngelis will address the topic Sept. 13 in a lecture at the University of Michigan.
Journalists are invited to attend the next open session of the National Science Board on Aug. 3 at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will issue a nearly $45 million grant to Harvard Medical School for the creation of a partnership that will develop a replicable model for controlling multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Aetna U.S. Healthcare today announced that they have entered into an agreement for HMS to become the flagship medical content partner of InteliHealth (www.intelihealth.com), Aetna U.S. Healthcare's online health information subsidiary.
Cornell University has been chosen by NASA to lead the science team for the next mission to the surface of Mars, to be launched June 4, 2003, and land Jan. 20, 2004. Steven Squyres, Cornell professor of astronomy, will be principal investigator on the Athena science package to be carried by the rover.
Edward J. Benz, Jr., an internationally recognized hematologist, has been named the next president of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Benz is currently chair of the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Barbara F. Reskin, Harvard University, was elected the 93rd President of the American Sociological Association, and Elijah Anderson, University of Pennsylvania, was elected Vice President.
A journal about man's oldest technology -- stone tools -- is embracing the modern world by going on-line. Lithic Technology, published at The University of Tulsa, now has a Web site.
Neurosurgeon Keith L. Black, Director of the Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, has been selected to receive the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, an honor that provides up to seven years of research funding from NINDS.
The first annual Tom Creed Compassionate Pioneer Award has been presented to Patrick Wiseman, professor of law at Georgia State University. The award is named in honor of the late Tom Creed, a CSB/SJU professor of psychology.
Starting July 31, 2000, the National Science Foundation will have a new telephone system and will be operating with the new telephone numbers.
The new UCSD School of Pharmacy, which will accept its first class in Sept. 2001, will provide academically based professional training for pharmacists, and foster pharmaceutical sciences research and public service programs to advance the science and practice of pharmacy.
Following a national search, Duke University Dean and Vice Chancellor Edward W. Holmes has been named as the new UCSD vice chancellor for health sciences and dean of the school of medicine.
The Association of American Medical Colleges announces the online availability of the journal Academic Medicine for the first time; Academic Medicine is the oldest English-language peer-reviewed journal devoted to issues related to the training of physicians.
Press conference will be held to announce new coalition of hospitals, health systems, national hospital associations and businesses focused on preserving access to health care services for communities across America.
A $200,000 gift from Marla Oros, an assistant dean at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, and her entrepreneur husband, David Oros, will make it possible for the school to purchase and outfit a third mobile health clinic to serve uninsured children and adults in Maryland.
Governor Gray Davis announced that the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technologies [Cal-(IT)2], a joint proposal of UC San Diego and UC Irvine, has been selected among the six finalists to be submitted for final consideration as a California Institute for Science and Innovation.
Steven D. Douglas, director of the Section of Immunology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, received the Erwin Neter Award of the Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists; this national award recognizes major lifetime accomplishments.
Marketing Research Association announces the launching of an Online bookstore as part of the Amazon.com Associates Program.
Boston University announces the creation of a Washington Journalism Program for both graduate and undergraduate students who will report on national politics with a New England angle for the program's newly created BU-Washington News Service.
Columbia University's Institute of Human Nutrition will provide its expertise in nutrition education to the development of online course content for NutritionU.com. Courses will be designed to make practical and understandable nutrition information accessible to a broad audience.
The first health center staffed exclusively by advanced practice nurses officially opened in the Dominican Republic city of Haina, 20 minutes from the capital Santo Domingo.
The B2B workplace on the web for science & engineering has launched a new web site to bring more resources to scientists and engineers. With its new Webforia platform, ScienceWise.com now offers expanded collaboration tools, additional partners, and more member benefits.
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Technology 2020 have formed a partnership to help create more jobs in East Tennessee. Called the Center for Entrepreneurial Growth, the partnership will focus on taking technology developed at ORNL and using the technology to form new companies.
Westminster College will create a first-class aeronautical institute thanks to a $7.4 million grant from a private, charitable foundation, announced Westminster College President Peggy Stock.
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