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.
The National Science Foundation, which runs the U.S. Antarctic Program, is accepting written requests from professional journalists to visit Antarctica during the 1999-2000 research season.
Sangeeta Bhatia, assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego is among 24 of the nation's most promising young university researchers awarded the 1999 Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
The Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest University has been approved to participate in a sentinel node biopsy clinical trial sponsored by the National Cancer Institute's National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project.
Four Ohio Wesleyan faculty members received a grant of $799,338 for research on degradation of bird feathers to continue exploring bacteria in chickens that breaks up bird feathers.
Seventy years to the day after Adm. Richard E. Byrd became the first person to fly over the South Pole, a ski-equipped New York Air National Guard LC-130 landed at the National Science Foundation's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Nov. 29, 1999 (local time).
The University of Maryland is creating the nation's first living-learning entrepreneurship program that will bring together undergraduate students from different disciplines to study entrepreneurship, live and work together in a specially equipped dorm, and perhaps even create their own startup businesses.
Two University of Arkansas professors have received a $250,000 grant from IBM for studies in two crucial research areas involving the computation of large molecules.
Astrophysicists in Huntsville and around the world are mourning the death on Nov. 2 of Dr. Johannes "Jan" van Paradijs.
Scott McMillin, Cornell Professor of English, has been awarded the Sohmer-Hall Prize for outstanding work in early English theater and staging. McMillin shares the honor with his collaborator, Sally-Beth MacLean, executive editor for the Records of Early English Drama project at the University of Toronto.
Carilion Health System, in partnership with Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia, is launching the Carilion Biomedical Institute. With university research and a private 12-hospital network, the goal is development and commercial application of health-related products.
AmericasDoctor.com announced an agreement with SCIREX Corporation.
With estimates of more than 40 million Americans contracting influenza each winter, the National Council on Patient Information and Education announced "Do You Have Flu...and What You Can Do," a nationwide awareness and education campaign.
The National Football League Players Association has teamed up with Outreach Inc. in a series of the Public Service Announcements designed to inform the public, particularly the African-American community, about the dramatic increase in HIV infection. The campaign kicks off Tuesday, Nov. 23, at 9 a.m. at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
The National Science Board named Christine C. Boesz as Inspector General of the National Science Foundation.
A new University of Wisconsin-Madison online science course in geology based on the content of the popular Why Files Web site promises to draw sciencephobes like claim jumpers to a gold strike.
The United American Nurses, the newly created national labor entity of the American Nurses Association, has announced its founding members. Current members of the UAN include 16 state nurses associations and four collective bargaining programs.
Al Johnson, a driving force in urban entrepreneurship development for many decades, has been named "Man of the Millennium" by the University of Illinois at Chicago's Center for Urban Business.
David Perlmutter, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego, has been elected president of the Linguistic Society of America.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has developed the region's largest and most comprehensive center for diagnosing and treating ADHD.
With the help of the National Science Foundation, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and four Wisconsin school districts have launched a comprehensive initiative to reinvigorate the way science and math are taught and learned at the primary, middle and high school levels.
A husband-and-wife team of psychiatrists at the University at Buffalo has received a $4.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to search for a gene or genes linked to bipolar disorder, commonly referred to as manic depression.
An initiative to make Brooklyn a leading center for graduate study in ethnogerontology (the study of the role of culture and ethnicity in human development) is underway, thanks to a $540,000 Career Leadership Award to Psychology Professor Carol Magai.
Lula Mae Phillips, Nursing Professor at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, with 5 foster children, begins volunteer childhood wellness program for homeless children and parents and is awarded a Hearst scholarship for a new nine-month program on child abuse.
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