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Released: 25-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
NIH Grant to Fund Clinical AIDS Studies
UT Southwestern Medical Center

A new $4 million grant will allow UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers to offer the latest and most advanced treatments under investigation to people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS.

Released: 22-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
Purdue Plans Upgrade of Engineering Program
Purdue University

Purdue University has embarked on a long-term, $200 million expedition to upgrade its Schools of Engineering facilities and expand them by almost 60 percent.

Released: 22-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
TransWeb Organ Transplant Information Site
University of Michigan

The nonprofit TransWeb organ transplant information site marks half a decade of providing up-to-date and accurate information on transplants.

Released: 21-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
Roswell Park Cancer Institute Appointments
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Roswell Park Cancer Institute Corporation has announced two administrative appointments within the Division of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology/Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Released: 21-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
Robinson College Launches MBA in Hospitality
Georgia State University, J. Mack Robinson College of Business

Georgia State will offer an MBA degree with a concentration in Hospitality Administration.

Released: 21-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
Wake Forest Launches Research Initiative
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Wake Forest University School of Medicine will hire more than 60 new faculty members and strengthen its support of other research efforts as part of a $67 million initiative.

Released: 21-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
Wake Forest Center for Human Genomics
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Wake Forest University School of Medicine is establishing a Center for Human Genomics to facilitate the identification of high-risk genes linked to common diseases.

Released: 20-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
A Model Complementary/Integrative Care Center
Beth Israel Lahey Health

The Medtronic Foundation has awarded Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center $900,000 to support the development of core infrastructure for a clinical facility that integrates conventional and complementary care services.

Released: 19-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
NINDS Funds Neuroscience Programs
Ogilvy, DC

Five neuroscience programs at minority instutitions are being funded to prepare professionals who can assist the NIH in reducing disease disparity.

Released: 19-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
NSF Recognizes UAB Chemistry Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Work on ultrathin organic polymers that will carry an electric current and generate strong light won a UAB researcher a $370,000 Career Award from the National Science Foundation.

Released: 15-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
Gilda Radner Courage Award
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Amy S. Langer, Executive Director of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations, will receive the Gilda Radner Courage Award from the Roswell Park Alliance Community Fund-Raising Board at its 10th Annual All Star Night, Saturday, January 22, 2000.

Released: 14-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
National Prize in Neuroscience Endowed
University of North Carolina Health Care System

A distinguished scientist at the University of North Carolina has endowed a $10,000 national prize to be awarded annually for an outstanding scientific contribution to neuroscience.

Released: 14-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
Journalism Fellowship in Human Rights
Trinity College

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.

Released: 14-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
Click Here for Medical School Scoop
University of Alabama at Birmingham

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.

Released: 13-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
GI Website for Women Unveiled
American College of Gastroenterology (ACG)

An "interactive brochure" created to inform women and their families about gastrointestinal and other medical disorders was unveiled by The American College of Gastroenterology.

Released: 13-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
Samueli Family: $5.7M to UC College of Medicine
University of California, Irvine

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.

Released: 12-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
Gift Funds Advances in Technology
Bowdoin College

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.

Released: 12-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
AHRQ Seeks Proposals on Quality in Health Care
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

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.

Released: 8-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
UI Wins Grant to Detect Life on Other Planets
University of Idaho

A device to help search for life beyond earth will be developed by a team of University of Idaho scientists.

Released: 6-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
Nursing Students Learn Online
University of Alabama at Birmingham

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.

Released: 5-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
Tracking Harmful Particles in Air Pollution
NYU Langone Health

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.

Released: 5-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
"Josie True" Will Take Girls Online
University at Buffalo

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.

Released: 5-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
NIH Grant to UM Complementary Medicine Program
University of Maryland Medical Center

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.

Released: 5-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
Free Service Helps Consumers Find Dentists
Weber Shandwick, Chicago

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.

Released: 4-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
Glitch-Free Y2K Transition
National Science Foundation (NSF)

The National Science Foundation's preparations for Y2K allowed them to continue uninterrupted the nation's business of fundamental scientific research.

Released: 4-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
The Dirty Secret about Dirty Air
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI)

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.

Released: 4-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
Cooperation: Federally Funded Cancer Research
University of North Carolina Health Care System

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.

Released: 4-Jan-2000 12:00 AM EST
Chess Team Wins 3rd National Championship
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

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.

Released: 30-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
Business Journalism Program Established at W&L
Washington and Lee University

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.

Released: 29-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
UIC Educator Named to National Council on Youth Violence
University of Illinois Chicago

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.

Released: 29-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
New Vice President of Biodiversity
Academy of Natural Sciences (ANS)

The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences has hired a new Vice President of Biodiversity.

Released: 29-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
New Mouse Models of Human Cancer
Vanderbilt University

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.

Released: 24-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
NSF Is Ready for Y2K
National Science Foundation (NSF)

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.

Released: 23-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
AHRQ, Medical Errors and Patient Safety
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

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.

Released: 22-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
$50 Million Gift to Two UC Campuses
University of California, Irvine

Dr. Henry Samueli and his wife, Susan, have personally donated $50 million to the schools of engineering at UCLA and UC Irvine.

Released: 22-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
AAMC Receives $2.6 Million Grant for Geriatric Programs
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

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.

Released: 17-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
Cedars-Sinai Partnership on Imaging Technology
Cedars-Sinai

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.

Released: 17-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
Targeting Children at Risk of Heart Disease
West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine

Nipping heart disease in the bud is what a new health screening project in West Virginia called CARDIAC is all about.

Released: 17-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
$4 Million for New Bioinformatics Program
University of Michigan

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.

Released: 17-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
Film Professor Awarded NEA Grant
Marlboro College

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.

Released: 17-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
Alliance Yields New Research, Education and Opportunities
University of Idaho

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.

Released: 16-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
HHS Reports All Systems Are Y2K Ready
US Newswire (defunct; sold to PR Newswire)

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.

Released: 16-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
First E-Commerce Master's Degree in U.S.
Boston University

Boston University's Metropolitan College is launching a new Master of Science degree in Electronic Commerce in January 2000.

Released: 16-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
Civic Courage Award Recipients
US Newswire (defunct; sold to PR Newswire)

TV reporter Roberta Baskin, Professor Martha Crouch, and Dr. Nancy Olivieri will be presented the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage.

Released: 15-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
AAMC Awarded NLM Contract
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

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.

Released: 15-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
Culinary Journal and Books Added to Prof.'s Platter
Williams College

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.

Released: 14-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
Center for Electronic Business and Commerce
Stanford Graduate School of Business

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.

Released: 14-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
Physics Pilot Program Prepares Future Faculty
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

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.

Released: 14-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
Do POWs Experience Post-Traumatic Growth?
University of Michigan

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. .

Released: 11-Dec-1999 12:00 AM EST
Alzheimer's Gene Therapy Trial
University of California San Diego

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.



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