Journalists interested in learning more international human rights can add to their knowledge and enhance their understanding of this complex issue through a week-long fellowship this March at Trinity College.
Want to get the scoop on what it's really like to be a medical student at UAB? The school is making it easier for prospective medical school applicants to get acquainted by linking the applicants to medical students already enrolled at UAB.
An "interactive brochure" created to inform women and their families about gastrointestinal and other medical disorders was unveiled by The American College of Gastroenterology.
Dr. Henry and Susan Samueli have donated $5.7 million to UC Irvine's College of Medicine to support research to bridge the gap between traditional and alternative medicines.
As the result of a $23 million gift from a foundation of New York investor Stanley Druckenmiller, Bowdoin College will be able to establish endowments in information and educational technology.
AHRQ and NCI seek demonstration projects that facilitate consumer and patient use of information on quality in health care decision making, and that evaluate the impact of strategies to provide information about quality to consumers and patients.
A device to help search for life beyond earth will be developed by a team of University of Idaho scientists.
Beginning winter 2000, the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham will offer the first of a series of online courses for registered nurses returning to school for their bachelor's degrees.
At the new Center for Particulate Matter Health Research, studies are underway to identify and characterize tiny particles in polluted air that contribute to respiratory ailments.
With an assist from NSF, an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo is launching a software game that addresses the lack of computer educational activities oriented toward girls.
The University of Maryland's Complementary Medicine Program has received a $7.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund a wide range of new research into alternative treatments for pain.
The Academy of General Dentistry is launching a free service to help consumers locate a qualified dentist near their home, work, or school that they would feel comfortable visiting twice a year.
The National Science Foundation's preparations for Y2K allowed them to continue uninterrupted the nation's business of fundamental scientific research.
A new research and information center, the National Environmental Respiratory Center, concentrates on how the large number of different particles, gases, and vapors in the air work together to affect public health.
Cooperation rather than competition may signal a new era of federally funded research for the nation's top scientists who develop and study mouse models of cancer.
A University of Maryland chess team claimed its third national chess championship in four years by beating the University of Toronto in the 1999 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship.
Washington and Lee University has received a $1.5 million endowment from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to establish a chair and program in business journalism.
Education writer and school-reform advocate Michael Klonsky, director of the Small Schools Workshop at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been named to the Academic Advisory Council of the National Campaign Against Youth Violence.
The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences has hired a new Vice President of Biodiversity.
Scientists from the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center have been selected to participate in the National Cancer Institute's new Mouse Models of Human Cancers Consortium. Their selection will suppport work in developing models of breast, prostate, colon, and pancreatic cancers.
The National Science Foundation is ready for the year change -- it has to be; the nation's scientists and engineers depend on NSF. It funds basic scientific research at about 2,000 institutions nationwide.
AHRQ is seeking investigators to test the effectiveness of "best practices" to improve patient safety by reducing preventable medical errors. AHRQ will award up to $2 million in fiscal year 2000 to support 4 to 6 projects.
Dr. Henry Samueli and his wife, Susan, have personally donated $50 million to the schools of engineering at UCLA and UC Irvine.
Through a four-year, $2.6 million grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation, the Association of American Medical Colleges will work to enhance the gerontology and geriatric curricula at U.S. medical schools.
Through an agreement to become the Carl Zeiss Company's exclusive West Coast research center for image-guided surgery, neurosurgeons at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute will help shape the next generations of surgical imaging devices.
Nipping heart disease in the bud is what a new health screening project in West Virginia called CARDIAC is all about.
The University of Michigan Medical School will receive $4 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to support the U-M's new program in bioinformatics.
The National Endowment for the Arts announced today that a Vermont filmmaker at Marlboro College will be awarded the NEA's only narrative film production grant in the U.S. for the year 2000 to support his production of Disappearances, a narrative feature film based on Howard Frank Mosher's award-winning novel.
A unique collaboration of regional universities is expected to enhance research, higher education and job creation throughout the Inland Northwest. Among the first anticipated impacts are advancements in environmental cleanup technologies.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported today that all 1,174 of its computer data systems have been certified Y2K compliant.
Boston University's Metropolitan College is launching a new Master of Science degree in Electronic Commerce in January 2000.
TV reporter Roberta Baskin, Professor Martha Crouch, and Dr. Nancy Olivieri will be presented the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage.
The Association of American Medical Colleges will examine the information management needs of U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals through a $450,000 contract recently awarded by the National Library of Medicine.
Williams College Russian Professor Darra Goldstein will add to her "platter" the editorship of the new journal Gastronomica and a new book series, California Studies in Food and Culture.
Charles Schwab & Co., General Atlantic Partners, LLC, and eBay have become founding partners of the Center for Electronic Business and Commerce at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
The University of Arkansas physics department has been chosen as one of four universities for a pilot program to better prepare physics doctoral students for teaching jobs at institutions other than research universities.
A research team, led by a University of Michigan Health System investigator, is launching a study to examine whether POWs realize positive outcomes from their traumatic experiences. .
Patient trials of an experimental gene therapy for early stage Alzheimer's disease will move forward, following review by the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC). The first patients are to be treated in spring 2000.
"Fresh Outlook," a new program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, is designed to address both physical and emotional remnants of domestic violence by providing reconstructive surgery and counseling free of charge for up to 24 victims of abuse.
The University of Michigan College of Engineering has entered into talks to form a unique partnership with a new Scottish Centre of Engineering Excellence being formed in Edinburgh.
The Billingsley of Bella Vista, Ark., have transformed their love of international culture into a $1.15 million gift to the University of Arkansas to help preserve music from cultures around the world.
AHRQ (formerly AHCPR) announces funding for 12 new research projects, which are aimed at developing measures of quality of care for vulnerable populations. The funding for these projects is anticipated to total $8.84 million over a 3-year period.
Advocates for Youth received the 10th Year Anniversary Merit Award for outstanding international contribution to the reproductive and family health effort in Nigeria.
University of Idaho zoologist Steven Austad first began to intensively study the biology of aging a dozen years ago. Humanity's natural preoccupation with aging has accelerated during that time, Austad says.
AHRQ (formerly AHCPR) announces funding for four new research projects which are aimed at implementing research findings, evidence-based tools, and scientific information in everyday practice, through the Translating Research into Practice RFA.
An 18-year-old senior at Centre College has become one of the youngest Americans ever named a Rhodes Scholar. He is interested in mathematical modeling as a way of studying human diseases.
Physicians will be able to chart patient information and access trusted clinical reference materials within the same online application, due to a new alliance between Elixis Corp. and MD Consult.
The Fyssen Foundation has selected Brent Berlin, Graham Perdue Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia, to receive its International Prize.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Laurel, Md., has created its first start-up company, Syntonics LLC, under an initiative to commercialize some of its inventions and space research and test facilities.
Univ. of Kansas' journalism school unveils convergent curriculum that capitalizes on technological advances like the Internet while maintaining strong editing, writing.
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