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.
Washington State University will build an antimatter-physics research laboratory with a $1.1 million grant awarded by the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles; the grant will be used to purchase and install an accelerator.
Dr. Frank Mora, associate professor and chair of international studies at Rhodes College, has joined a group that will help shape future U.S. defense policy toward Latin America.
Nearly one out of every 150 Americans suffers from celiac disease, according to research from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The disorder can cause severe intestinal problems, but few people have ever heard of it.
California State budget includes $34 million to support medical research into the causes and treatments of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, attention deficit disorder and dyslexia at the Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute.
The American Sociological Association is pleased to announce the winners of the ASA Awards for 2000 to be presented in a ceremony at the Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., in August.
Cornell University, its Weill Medical College, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and The Rockefeller University announced the creation of a $160 million collaborative program in basic biological research focusing on new technologies such as computational biology and nanotechnology.
The UCSD Department of Pediatrics has received a five-year, $2.5 million grant to expand physician training into the community, giving young doctors the skills, motivation and commitment for outreach, involvement and interaction with a diverse patient population.
The Intellectual Property Owners Assoc. is honoring William Cohn, a Beth Israel Deaconess cardiothoracic surgeon, for inventing a device that makes it possible to perform coronary artery bypass surgery on a beating heart without using a heart-lung machine.
AHRQ announced the availability of new sets of data files that provide information on demographics, charges and payment source, diagnoses, and discharge status for patients treated in outpatient surgery settings in Colorado, Florida, New Jersey, New York and Utah.
PhotoDetection Systems, Inc., has received a first round of venture funding in the amount of $2.75 million. The company develops advanced, low-cost, 3-D medical imaging systems that can detect very small tumors and determine whether or not they are malignant.
The federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality today unveiled a newly redesigned Web site that offers reporters easier access to AHRQ news and information through its online Newsroom.
Researchers and engineers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won three R&D 100 Awards, pushing their national lab-leading total to 107 since the awards began in 1963.
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Aventis Pharma signed agreements covering the joint development and commercialization of inflammatory disease drugs; joint development of new drug discovery technologies; transfer of elements of Millennium's technology to Aventis; and purchase of an equity interest in Millennium by Aventis.
Michael S. Benninger, Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, is the new Editor in Chief of the jounal Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery.
Scientists studying the ability of bacteria to clean up contaminated groundwater and soil will be able to do basic research at a field site at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Reservation.
UAB has received a three-year, $805,000 grant from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality to establish one of seven national Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics of musculoskeletal disorders such as arthritis and osteoporosis.
A field research facility in the Amazon rainforest sponsored by NASA and the Brazilian government will be completed this month as part of an experiment to study the region's impact on global change and develop information for sustainable resource management.
Purdue University, IBM and Dassault Systemes announced Friday (6-23) a collaborative alliance to create a digital enterprise applied-research center in the School of Technology on the university's West Lafayette campus.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recently awarded the UIC School of Public Health $347,000 to increase the number of African-Americans and Latinos enrolling and graduating with advanced degrees in the public health sciences.
The New York Botanical Garden has entered into a licensing agreement with San-Mar Laboratories, Inc., to develop botanical-based consumer products that promote environmental awareness and support conservation programs of the Garden.
AEGON has committed $2 million to Johns Hopkins for prostate and breast cancer research. The Oncology Center will split the funds with the Free University Oncology Research Institute in Amsterdam for a collaborative research project.
An award-winning business professor at Elmhurst College has authored a research article, which will be unveiled June 19-20 at the U.N. forum in Geneva, that focuses on the development of online trading in the U.S.
Environmental engineer Charles O'Melia wins $50,000 prize for career studying water pollution; he plans to give the money to educational institutions where he and his wife studied.
Press briefing to discuss June 21 JAMA article that presents first-ever recommendations for establishment of stroke centers in hospitals is slated for June 20 at National Institutes of Health.
As this summer's gasoline prices soar skyward, Purdue University has joined with the Midwest Consortium for Sustainable Biobased Products and Bioenergy, which was created to combine research efforts in the development of new, renewable chemical products.
The University of Missouri-Rolla in fall 2000 will become the first university in Missouri to offer a master's degree program in manufacturing engineering.
Former astronaut and lunar explorer Col. Buzz Aldrin, USAF (Ret.), Ph.D., joined the Scientific Advisory Board of ScienceWise.com, the B2B workplace on the Web for science and engineering.
Colgate University professor of anthropology Gary Urton, who has been working to crack the code of the quipu, an ancient system of dyed, intricately knotted strings that the Incas used to record their history, environment and culture, has been selected to be a MacArthur Fellow.
The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and School of Medicine will share a $1.6 million gift from the estate of Evelyn Grollman Glick, the Baltimore philanthropist and golf champion who died last year.
Drexel will operate as a fully wireless CyberCampus as of fall 2000, University President Constantine Papadakis recently announced.
BioMedNet is creating a new resource which will allow researchers to create their own customized "virtual journals."
Exactly how toxic substances in the environment adversely affect human health will be the focus of a new UCSD Superfund Basic Research Program, established with a five-year federal grant, funded by NIEHS, of approximately $20 million to the School of Medicine.
The Association of American Medical Colleges, in collaboration with Pfizer, Inc., and the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative, awards five U.S. medical schools with grants to develop medical student-initiated services and programs to local communities.
The National Drosophila Species Stock Center-the major source of diverse species of living Drosophila flies used by scientists around the world-is moving to the University of Arizona.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has launched a spin-off company, Dot21 Real-Time Systems Inc. (Dot21), to commercialize a type of APL-developed software, commonly referred to as message-oriented middleware.
A doctoral student at UAlbany has won a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program for Minorities for his work on urban issues; he is writing his dissertation on "The Politics of Black-Church Based Community Development."
Fred Schubert of Boston University is one winner of the DISCOVER Magazine Awards. Schubert's Photon Recycling Semiconductor Light-Emitting Diode combines up to three different wavelengths of light to produce a highly efficient, long-lasting, white light suitable for many lighting situations.
A U.S. Department of Education grant totaling $1.14 million over a three-year period will allow Ohio University's African Studies and Southeast Asian Studies programs to expand their outreach across the state through educational programs for teachers, students and residents.
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