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United Airlines has donated a second commercial aircraft to Purdue University's aviation technology department.

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The National Institutes of Health has awarded researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas a four-year, $1.8 million grant to study lipodystrophy syndrome, a fat distribution disorder that more and more HIV-infected patients are developing.

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Temple University will officially commemorate the naming of its School of Business and Management for Richard J. Fox, chairman of the University's Board of Trustees.

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The National Science Foundation has awarded Cornell University $1.5 million for a new facility for research on multiscale problems in materials science and molecular biology.

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The National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health has awarded $400,000 to Wake Forest University School of Medicine for a new type of positron emission tomography (PET) scanner.

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Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have won a five-year federal grant totaling more than $12 million to develop a safe and effective vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

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The Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health today announced a new project to study and evaluate the effects of breeding large numbers of food animals in concentrated lots.

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A University of Iowa professor and space physicist has won a $4 million NASA contract in collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop and use radar in a search for underground water on Mars.

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UCSD Department of Reproductive Medicine recently received a $4 million National Institutes of Health grant to advance its research in women's reproductive health.

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Simon School announces ten new faculty appointments that enhance the school's teaching and research capabilities.

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Robert C. McNair, the Houston entrepreneur who built Cogen Technologies and his wife, Janice, have made one of the largest gifts ever by individuals to Rice University--$17.5 million to the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management.

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The National Science Foundation this week awarded $50 million in grants for broad-based research in knowledge and distributed intelligence.

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Thanks to a recent grant of nearly $1 million from Packard Foundation, Boston University scientists will apply advanced theories in quantum physics to observe what occurs at brain synapses - the sites of communication between neurons.

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Speaking at a "Next Millennium" Domestic Violence Conference in Chicago, HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala announced more than $1.25 million in grants to help communities address domestic violence.

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The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine has announced a call for entries for its year 2000 ACOEM Corporate Health Achievement Award competition.

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Laurene West, a nurse and expert in medical information systems who also is a medication- and treatment-dependent patient, has relocated to Washington to ensure that health care, maintenance drugs and controlled substances are available without interruption to all whose lives depend on them.

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Implementation of a kidney/pancreas transplant program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and guiding the development of programs in partial liver transplantation for both adults and children are top priorities for Christopher R. Shackleton, M.D.

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The American Cancer Society, the nation's leading voluntary health organization and the preeminent source of cancer information and service, has announced that Daniel E. Smith has been named its new national vice president of federal and state government affairs.

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The Foundation Fighting Blindness, Inc. has awarded researchers from the Cleveland Clinic's Cole Eye Institute and Lerner Research Institute $1.5 million over five years for the study of retinal degeneration.

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While colleges around the country announce plans for future e-commerce degrees, Marlboro College in Vermont will hold its second commencement for graduates obtaining their Master of Science in Internet Strategy Management. Another class of k-12 teachers will obtain the country's only Teaching with Internet Technologies graduate degree.

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States and managed care organizations are faced with a troubling problem: how to balance increasingly complex, often process-oriented contracts designed to protect access and quality of care with risk-based payment systems that reward underutilization.

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Rosalinde Snijders, Ph.D., a pioneer in first-trimester prenatal studies and a consultant to the National Institutes of Health in the development of the "BUN" study, has became a research scholar in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cedars-Sinai.

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Scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine are beginning a five-year study to determine which ingredients in soybeans are the active ones in protecting against heart disease, stroke, cancer and osteoporosis.

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A race to the edge of the solar system and into interstellar space could come out of a contract awarded recently by NASA for the University of Washington to develop an innovative space propulsion concept.

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WIU has been awarded $250,000 from Ameritech to extend the WIU TechKnowledgy Project to address the needs of Illinois teachers who will be required to meet the new teaching technology standards mandated for Illinois recertification.

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Walter W. Shervington, the National Medical Association's 99th President, was sworn into office last night during the Association's 1999 Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly held in Las Vegas, Nev.

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The American Public Health Association is still accepting entries for the 29th annual Ray Bruner Science Writing Award. Deadline for entries is Aug. 31.

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Cardiology: Today and Tomorrow, an award-winning distance education program, will present its first live cybersession on Aug. 21 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CDT at www.cvtt.org.

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Creighton University is offering a new master of science (MS) degree in electronic commerce.

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Two years ago this month, the National Cancer Institute and Vice President Al Gore publicly launched a historic initiative to compile on the Internet the first comprehensive record, or index, of genes involved in human cancer.

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The George Washington University was granted final approval by the District of Columbia Board of Zoning Adjustment for the construction of a $96 million, 400,000 square foot replacement hospital.

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United States Surgeon General and Assistant Secretary for Health David Satcher, M.D. today received the Bayer Institute Distinguished Physician Communicator Award.

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In an initiative prompted by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School of Management this month will launch a private business school in Hanover, Germany.

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A consortium of more than 60 neuroscientists at Emory University, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology and Atlanta University Center has been approved to become one of five new Science and Technology Centers nationwide by NSF.

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The National Health Care Purchasing Institute, a five-year, $7.7 million initiative of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), has named Margaret Thomas Trinity as deputy director. Trinity joined the team in July at its Washington, D.C.-based Alpha Center national program office.

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A Science@NASA writer shares notes from a science writing workshop, where writers honed their skills at turning scientific facts into readable prose.

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The Boston University School of Management has appointed Jennifer Lawrence, a faculty member and former vice president of Marketing at Reebok International, to the new position of Assistant Dean for Career Services. Her appointment is effective August 2, 1999.

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The University of Arkansas has won a $2 million grant from the NSF to train graduate students in high-technology fields through an innovative blend of course and field work.

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The National Science Foundation announced Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training awards to 21 doctorate-granting institutions, totaling $54.5 million over five years.

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A $2.62 million grant from the National Science Foundation will enable 28 CWRU graduate students in biology and engineering to help design agile robots with the ability to maneuver over a diverse terrain, and create devices to restore coordinated and balanced movements to individuals with impaired nervous systems.

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The nation's first turfgrass research facility on the grounds of a golf complex opened at Purdue University on Monday, July 26.

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AHCPR today announced new research topics for the agency's Evidence-based Practice Centers.

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The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) declares today (July 30) as the fifth annual "Medicare Patient Freedom Day" to draw attention to the negative impact of Medicare rules and restrictions on patient care and privacy.

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With an emphasis on patient convenience and integrated clinical, surgical and research components, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is launching a unique and comprehensive pituitary that brings together under one roof medical, surgical, research, imaging and pathology components.

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Robert M. Gates, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has been named interim dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.

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Four researchers from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., were honored by the International Astronomical Union last night by having asteroids named for them in recognition of their work in the field of space science.

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The National Science Board approved five new National Science Foundation Science and Technology Centers, agreeing to commit almost $94 million over five years in a range of important scientific and technological areas.

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Cornell University has received a $2.2 million grant to develop a prototype digital library system that will ensure the preservation of digital documents, protect intellectual property rights and provide interoperability of distributed collections.

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Far above Cayuga's waters -- really far above -- a once-obscure asteroid discovered nearly two decades ago has a new name: Cornell.

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Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman today launched an innovative scientific exchange program to enhance crop biotechnology research in Sub-Saharan Africa.