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.
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.
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