The University of Illinois at Chicago has licensed the worldwide rights to develop betulinic acid, a compound that in animal tests has shown activity against malignant melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, to Advanced Life Sciences, Lemont, Ill.
Ohio University has selected two doctoral programs -- one in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the other in the Department of Psychology -- for the initial round of selective enhancement under a new Ohio Board of Regents directive.
Purdue University will upgrade its research computing facilities with a $10 million IBM supercomputer that will be among the most powerful research tools in the nation.
The California Cancer Research Program has awarded a University of California, San Diego, physician-scientist a $600,000 grant to conduct a 3-year study of colon cancer in African-Americans.
A four-year, $1 million federal grant to continue research on how people's sense of control affects their health as they age has been received by two Ohio State University sociologists.
The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation presented five Mary Woodard Lasker Awards for Public Service in Support of Medical Research and the Health Sciences at a dinner in Washington, DC.
A near million-dollar grant will provide LSU's Earth Scan Lab with a new satellite-data receiver system that will show such detail that researchers will be able to see a specific house or tree. The day-and-night radars will be particularly useful for damage assessment during or after a hurricane.
Patrick White will join FASEB as its Director of Legislative Relations on July 5; Mr. White will serve as senior legislative advisor, gather intelligence on legislative issues and assist FASEB leaders by proposing, planning and executing legislative and advocacy strategies.
Southwestern Energy Company and the University of Arkansas will join forces to search for new gas reserves and to study the tectonic history and petroleum geology of the Arkoma Basin in north-central Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma.
Broadcast, print, and on-line journalists are invited to submit entries to the annual media awards competition of the American Psychiatric Association, which will honor outstanding contributions to the public understanding of mental illnesses, psychiatric treatment, and psychiatry.
The Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center (AEWC) at the University of Maine will celebrate its leadership in this area of research with a grand opening June 1.
Purdue University announced 5/23/00 that Martin C. Jischke, president of Iowa State University, will become Purdue's 10th president. The board is expected to confirm the appointment at its June 1 meeting, and Jischke will assume the responsibilities of the office on Aug. 14.
Steven C. Beering will leave a 17-year legacy of growth in academics, facilities and reputation when he relinquishes the Purdue University presidency this summer.
Christopher Merrill has been appointed director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa; he also will have a faculty appointment as professor in the UI department of English.
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine is announcing a call for entries for its year 2001 ACOEM Corporate Health Achievement Award competition.
NSF has awarded high performance network connections for ten additional universities, bringing the total number of institutions assisted through such grants to 177.
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine announces that Dow Chemical Company, General Electric Power Systems, and Sherman Health Systems are winners in its fourth annual Corporate Health Achievement Award competition.
General Mills, GTE Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation, and U S WEST were named winners of the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership.
Susan Okie, medical reporter at The Washington Post, has been named the recipient of the 2000 ASM Public Communications Award. Her winning entry is a two-part series that examines the worldwide battle against tuberculosis.
Cultivating positive emotions produces an upward spiral that broadens habitual modes of thinking and acting, and builds personal resources for coping, says Barbara L. Fredrickson, a University of Michigan assistant professor of psychology who received the Templeton Positive Psychology Prize for her innovative broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions.
A University of Michigan researcher has received the largest monetary prize ever awarded in the field of psychology for creating a new theory explaining the beneficial effects of positive emotion.
The School of Management at Boston University announced a unique program offering concurrent Masters degrees in business and information systems to prepare future CEOs for the new economy.
For landmark discoveries of how human cells respond to hypoxia, Gregg L. Semenza of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Johns Hopkins Institute of Genetic Medicine received the annual E. Mead Johnson Award, for pre-eminent contributions to American pediatrics.
The Board of Directors for FASEB voted May 9 to admit the Society for Gynecologic Investigation as an associate member; the addition of SGI brings the number of FASEB societies to 21.
David B. Agus, M.D., a cancer researcher and clinician who previously headed the Laboratory of Tumor Biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, has joined the medical staff of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles as research director of its new Prostate Cancer Institute.
The University of Texas at Austin announced that San Antonio businessman Red McCombs, owner of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings, has given a $50 million cash gift to the university's business school, which will be named the Red McCombs School of Business.
Arizona State University has announced that Charles J. Arntzen, currently president and CEO of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, will join ASU as the Nelson Presidential Chair in Plant Biology.
Rite Aid Corp. has donated $50,000 to the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy to partially fund renovations to its Pharmacy Practice Lab; the gift represents the first half of a two-year, $100,000 commitment to the school.
CIIT plans to nearly double its wet lab space to meet growth needs and expanded research sponsored by the chemical industry; the human health institute will spend $5 million on new labs and equipment.
The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting a national conference May 22-24 to explore future trends in poverty issues.
President Clinton today named 200 teachers to receive the 1999 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the nation's highest honor for mathematics and science teachers in grades K through 12.
Patients and physicians with questions about digestive diseases now can turn to a newly launched website for answers; the Johns Hopkins Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology announces the launch of their in-depth Gastroenterology and Hepatology Portal.
Aether Systems, Inc., and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, have initiated a $510,000 research and education partnership to strengthen the Baltimore region's role in the rapidly growing field of wireless and mobile computing.
The Washington State University International Business Institute has launched the first cooperative MBA program involving an American and a Vietnamese university.
Every picture tells a story, and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons will tell the stories of artists with orthopaedic conditions and the physicians who treat them through a special art exhibit -- eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Orthopaedics in Art.
A $10 million commitment from Purdue alumnus Jerry Rawls, one of the largest private gifts in the university's history, has pushed the Krannert School of Management's fund-raising campaign past its halfway mark.
Eamon M. Kelly will continue as chair of the National Science Board and Anita K. Jones will serve as vice chair, the board announced today.
The American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) will honor some of the most visionary and recognized leaders of the U.S. engineering community at the AAES' 21st Annual Awards Ceremony and Banquet, May 8 at the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, D.C.
The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of California, San Diego $220,000 over the next two years to fund 40 scholarships for underrepresented and low-income undergraduates who are pursuing degrees in computer science, engineering or mathematics.
ScienceWise.com, the workplace on the Web for science and engineering, has completed strategic partnerships with some of the world's most prestigious publishers and technology organizations to provide access to science and engineering-related books and articles.
A $20 million philanthropic gift from John Moores, majority owner of San Diego Padres and Regent of the University of California, and his wife Rebecca, is among the largest gifts from private individuals ever received by UCSD and the largest given toward the Cancer Center initiative.
Richard D. Kolodner, professor in the Department of Medicine and in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Journalists are invited to attend the two open sessions of the National Science Board on Thurs., May 4, at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va.
UT Southwestern Allied Health Sciences School is collaborating with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to support online instruction for students interested in earning a bachelor's degree in nuclear medicine technology.
A memorial service for Peabody Awards Director Barry L. Sherman, who died suddenly in Athens May 2, has been scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday, May 5, in Hodgson Hall of the Performing Arts Center on the University of Georgia campus.
Joseph Schlessinger, Director of the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine and the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Professor of Cell Biology at New York University School of Medicine, was today elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
ADDitude: The Happy, Healthy Lifestyle Magazine for People with ADD launches in mid-May with a new twist on attention deficit disorder: success. "We're out to show that people with ADD have enormous energy, talent, and creativity," says magazine founder and editor Ellen Kingsley.
Vassar College will provide a fun and inexpensive way for girls, boys, and their parents to enjoy the summer while learning valuable game tips from an accomplished team of college coaches.
Princeton has established an interdisciplinary research center to investigate the biology behind such elusive and quintessentially human aspects of our being as consciousness, moral behavior and logical thought.
APL's licensing agreement grants Akorn, a specialty pharmaceutical company, exclusive worldwide rights to a patented method for treating a type of age-related macular degeneration.
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