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.
An NIMH $1.6 million grant will fund a research project, led by an associate professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, which will involve seriously depressed patients who have suffered at least two major depressive episodes during their lives.
Two scientists at the Research Triangle Institute have been recognized by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation for the discovery of two chemotherapeutic compounds, Camptothecin and Taxol, both of which have unprecedented mechanisms of action against cancer.
For his role in helping end apartheid in South Africa and facilitating reconciliation in its aftermath, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been chosen the 2000 recipient of the Delta Prize for Global Understanding, which is an international award established by the University of Georgia with funding from Delta Air Lines.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory recently signed a technology transfer and development agreement with Timonium-based FutureHealth Corporation, licensing APL's expertise in automated and knowledge-intensive systems to automate some of FutureHealth's proprietary business operations.
In June,the first Ph.D. candidates will enter Cornell University's new W.M. Keck Program in Nanobiotechnology, which will cross-train engineeers, physicists and biologists in the use of nanotechnology for biological research.
A $78 million campaign was announced April 27 by Western Kentucky University President Gary Ransdell to enable the university to reach its vision of being the best comprehensive university in Kentucky and among the best in the nation.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Education has received a three-year, $300,000 grant for a new project that could someday help at-risk children in Birmingham improve their language skills.
Dr. Taylor McKenzie, Vice President of the Navajo Nation and a Wheaton College alumnus, will be honored at a luncheon May 6 where he will receive the Alumnus of the Year for Distinguished Service to Society Award.
An NSF grant will fund new research by two University of Georgia economics professors into some of the intriguing questions surrounding the impact of Georgia's pioneering HOPE Scholarship program.
The American Academy of Dermatology and the Chicago White Sox are teaming up to help strike out skin cancer; the White Sox players, coaches, families and front office staff will be screened for skin cancer on Melanoma Monday, May 1.
The American Academy of Dermatology and Senior PGA Tour star Hale Irwin, National Chairman of the AAD's KNOW Skin Cancer: Cover Up campaign, announced the addition of several prominent partners from the world of golf to their program to prevent skin cancer.
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a $16.5 million program project grant to an internationally recognized cancer researcher at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to establish and lead a national research consortium to study chronic lymphocytic leukemia in an entirely new way.
Noted diabetes researcher Michael Czech will receive the CIIT Founders' Award at the Institute's Annual Meeting May 9. He is being honored for his lifetime work on the molecular action of insulin.
A trip to the hospital is never fun, but a new ambulance donated to University of Missouri Children's Hospital helps make the trip a little easier.
The University of Georgia Libraries has launched the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, a program to recognize past and present Georgia writers for their contributions to the state's literary heritage.
A University of Georgia professor will use a U.S. Department of Education grant to develop a Web site, which will provide instructors of Swahili with a tool that will enhance both their teaching and students' learning skills.
The University of Georgia has been awarded a $46,620 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; the grant will be used to provide administrators with techniques to increase the representation of women and racial and ethnic minorities on journalism faculties in the U.S.
Minority and other students at Willamette University in Salem, Ore., will benefit from a $2.3 million gift of appreciated stock from an anonymous alumnus.
Several Ohio banks have pledged financial support for the new Appalachian Ohio Development Fund, a venture-capital effort developed by an Ohio University alumnus and supported with a $2 million investment from the university.
In a development that promises to further strengthen MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine's recovery, Michael D. Ezekowitz, a world authority on atrial fibrillation, has been named chair of the School's Department of Medicine.
Lynn Matrisian has been named the first chair of the Cancer Biology Department at Vanderbilt University, the first new basic science department at the medical school in 45 years.
Occupational therapy students at Boston University's Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences have begun a national initiative to raise awareness of violence in schools, violence at work, and road rage.
The Pete Lopiccola Memorial Foundation has given $120,000 to fund cancer treatment and research at the UCSD Cancer Center; the organization's gifts to treatment and research at the Cancer Center over the past decade total nearly $750,000.
A novel interferon tau mutant that three university women -- a researcher, a graduate student and an undergraduate student -- have developed for use in treating various debilitating conditions and deadly diseases has been named an invention of the year at the University of Maryland.
ZYCOS Inc. and The Schepens Eye Research Institute jointly announced April 19 that ZYCOS has acquired from Schepens an exclusive license for its alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (a-MSH)-based technology for treating autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
UCSD melanoma specialists from a variety of medical disciplines are coming together under a single program to provide comprehensive care to patients at any stage of the disease.
The University of Iowa Research Foundation has granted IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corporation exclusive, worldwide license to use a UI discovery that may help to treat prostate cancer.
A $150,000 grant to a Saint Joseph's University scholar to direct the publication of an online edition of "The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle" has been awarded by The National Endowment for the Humanities.
Massachusetts Commission on Older Workers to present findings to governor: today's tight labor markets only a preview of problems to come.
The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists' newest exclusively online journal, AAPS PharmSciTech, www.pharmscitech.com, today published its premier issue; a summary of each original research article is provided.
The American Academy of Dermatology invites reporters to attend the Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month Press Conference to learn about the latest research and most important news in skin cancer.
Sheldon Lee Glashow, a distinguished theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate who is an expert in elementary particle theory and cosmology, will join the Boston University faculty this July as the first Arthur G.B. Metcalf Professor of Science.
The National Science Board has taken the unprecedented step of naming two renowned scientists to receive the Vannevar Bush Award for lifetime achievement in science and public service.
Janean Holden, assistant professor in the UIC College of Nursing, will be given a presidential early career award at a White House ceremony on Wednesday, April 12. She is the first nurse to receive this award. Holden researches how the brain communicates pain.
ScienceWise.com, the B2B Workplace on the Web for science and engineering, today announced the launch of its website, www.ScienceWise.com.
PTEKVentures, the investment unit of PTEK Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTEK, www.ptek.com), today announced that it has led a $7 million investment round in ScienceWise.com, the B2B workplace on the Web for science and engineering.
The first clearing house for information and research on early childhood education will be housed at Ball State University.
The National Science Foundation has chosen a Yale University associate professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry to receive its most prestigious prize for young researchers, the Alan T. Waterman Award.
Boston University has won a $750,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to establish the International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History; the Center's focus will include Central Asia, Siberia, Korea, Japan, China, and mainland Southeast Asia.
Samuel Epstein, professor of environmental and occupational medicine at University of Illinois at Chicago, will receive the "Alternative Pulitzer Prize" from Project Censored for his article "American Cancer Society: The World's Wealthiest Nonprofit Institution."
Nancy Kopell, an accomplished mathematician who has applied her knowledge of nonlinear dynamics to fundamental problems in biology, chemistry, and neuroscience, has been named Boston University's first William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Mathematics and Science.
An Ohio State researcher has been selected to lead the first-ever national research effort aimed at reducing cancer among Asian Americans in the U.S.; he has accepted a $7.6 million cooperative agreement from the National Cancer Institute.
Acclaimed historian, Pulitzer Prize winning author and former Harvard professor, Doris Kearns Goodwin, is the 2000 Cushing Orator; she will speak about "Leadership in the New Millennium."
The American Association of Neurological Surgeons presented John Anthony Jane, Sr., with the 2000 Decade of the Brain Medal at the AANS Annual Meeting in San Francisco; the award was presented to Dr. Jane in recognition of his pioneering work in the area of brain injury research.
WITI Corp., a provider of wireless custom weather forecasts, has been acquired by LifeMinders.com; the acquisition makes WITI's personalized forecasts available to LifeMinders 12.5 million members.
Two separate groups of CIIT researchers were honored for their scholarship by the Society of Toxicology at its recent meeting in Philadelphia.
Dr. William F. Greenlee, President of CIIT, has been chosen to lead the Society of Toxicology; he automatically becomes President of the organization in two years.
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