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.
Centre College, a liberal-arts school with 1,050 students, has become one of 12 finalists to host a presidential debate next year. Janet Brown, executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates, visited the campus this week and confirmed that Centre's facilites meet all the basic requirement for a host site.
Herbert I. Schiller, professor emeritus and founder of the Communication Department at the University of California, San Diego, is the 1999 recipient of the Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
The Kennebec Coalition announced that the decommissioning of Edwards Dam has received a 1999 Popular Science "Best of What's New" Award.
Several key members of the National Medical Association's Board of Trustees were installed in leadership positions at the 1999 Annual Convention & Scientific Assembly in Las Vegas.
Rhodes College has established a website for businesses and corporations.
Information about archeological sites soon will be just a mouse click away. A grant from the Nat'l Park Service has funded the development of a North American library of archeological information gathered through remote sensing technologies.
The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health is one the first universities in the country to install a large-scale wireless laptop network, enabling students, faculty, and staff members to access the School's computer network without being restricted to overcrowded computer labs.
HHS Secretary Donna Shalala announced the award of $450,000 to four national aging organizations to improve the quality of care in nursing homes.
The Health Care Financing Administration today announced that it has designated Nov. 15-20 as National Medicare Y2K Testing Week, during which health care providers will be able to test their own billing systems with Medicare's systems.
The Conference Board has begun to process corporate entries for the Ron Brown Award, the only Presidential Award honoring companies for outstanding achievements in employee and community relations. This year's Award will be presented by the President of the United States in early spring.
Two groups of investigators in Colorado State University's microbiology department have received $6.25 million to continue groundbreaking research programs into drugs that can cure tuberculosis.
The nation's future physicians are embracing the Internet as a powerful research and learning tool, now that the majority of U.S. medical schools are providing access to MD Consult, announced the online clinical information service.
Push a number on a cell phone and the signal travels to a chip some five orders of magnitude smaller than the button. Cornell University has received a $330,000 contract from the Semiconductor Research Corp. to investigate the challenges presented by this huge discrepancy in size, a field called "electronic packaging."
To provide high school teaching fellowships for college graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the sciences and mathematics, the National Science Foundation has awarded Cornell University a three-year, $1.35 million grant.
A laboratory dedicated to detailed scientific observation of how alternative fuels, including plant-based biofuels, operate in a working engine is among the new capabilities being unveiled this month at an event celebrating expansion of the Combustion Research Facility, part of Sandia National Laboratories.
The Nutrition Center of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has received a $500,000 Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Nutrition Research Grant to support clinical and basic research in human nutrition for both healthy and chronically ill children.
Countering the national trend of rising college tuition costs, Marlboro College will freeze its current tuition rate for the second year in a row.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center participated in U.S. Commerce Secretary William M. Daley's Business Development Missions to the Middle East earlier this month. Secretary Daley inaugurated a Cedars-Sinai office in Israel and participated in a live telemedicine conference linking Jerusalem with Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles.
The health of Caribbean coral reefs and related educational and economic development opportunities for the U.S. Virgin Islands will be the focus of a new Joint Institute for Caribbean Marine Studies established Nov. 2. Four universities and two U.S. Departments will work together in this partnership.
Mauro Ferrari, professor of internal medicine and mechanical engineering, and director of the Biomedical Engineering Center at Ohio State, is one of two researchers to receive the first Wallace H. Coulter Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
A leading ecosystem researcher and associate dean of the College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University has been elected the new president of The Ecological Society of America.
The National Science Foundation has awarded almost $6 million over four years to help institutions of higher learning that traditionally serve minority communities prepare for the next generation of information technology and computer networks.
The National Cancer Institute has awarded more than $1 million to support a new partnership between Meharry Medical College and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center to conduct collaborative research and patient care initiatives to help close the racial gap in cancer incidence and death.
Swarthmore College, the primary beneficiary of the estate of the late James Michener, is devoting the bulk of the funds to the support of faculty research.
AHCPR announced today that over the next five years the agency will establish up to four "centers of excellence" with the purpose of identifying practical tools and strategies to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in the health care system.
Two medical time capsules, dated 1911 and 1931, will be opened at the University of Minnesota at noon Thursday, Oct. 28. The contents will not be known until the opening.
A new University of Michigan research center, funded by a $10 million grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) will allow U-M researchers to delve deeper into research on the detrimental health effects of being poor.
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