| 07/29/2010
12:00 AM Nano's brightest coming to Rice
(Rice University) Registration is open for Year of Nano events to be held Oct. 10-13 in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the carbon 60 molecule, the buckminsterfullerene, at Rice. |
| 07/29/2010
12:00 AM Playing with pills
(University of Stavanger) Drug calculations is a particularly hard course for many nursing students. A specially made computer game, developed at the University of Stavanger, is set to help students pass this vitally important exam. |
| 07/29/2010
12:00 AM Grant to revive pre-contact Chamorro fishing techniques
(University of Guam) The University of Guam Sea Grant Extension Program received a $92,000 grant from the National Marine Fisheries Service Pacific Islands Region Program Office to revive, demonstrate and teach pre-contact indigenous Chamorro fishing techniques. |
| 07/28/2010
12:00 AM NJIT professor receives Fulbright to study at University of Salerno
(New Jersey Institute of Technology) Anthony D. Rosato, Ph.D., a professor in the department of mechanical and industrial engineering at NJIT has received a Fulbright Senior Research Award to study the dynamic behavior of systems composed of particles at the University of Salerno, in Fisciano, Italy. He'll start the four-month program next May. |
| 07/28/2010
12:00 AM UC education researcher announces iPad plan to reduce paper trail
(University of Cincinnati) Experiments involving iPads are becoming a trend at universities across the country. A new UC teacher-education initiative aims to reduce the pounds of paper used in reports to evaluate the professional development of teachers. |
| 07/28/2010
12:00 AM AWARD Fellowship highlights critical role of African women in agricultural research
(Burness Communications) A passion fruit pathologist, a catfish breeder, and a pigeon pea researcher are among the 60 outstanding women agricultural scientists from 10 African countries who received a fellowship today from African Women in Agricultural Research and Development. The fellowship will help these top researchers strengthen their research and leadership skills, and enhance their contributions to poverty alleviation and food security across the continent. |
| 07/28/2010
12:00 AM Teachers can close gender gap in classroom leadership during medical school, finds UCLA study
(University of California - Los Angeles) A UCLA study shows that female medical students volunteer for leadership roles in the classroom significantly less than their male peers. Subtle pep talks from teachers can even out the playing field. |
| 07/27/2010
12:00 AM Ben-Gurion U lecturer Etgar Keret awarded prestigious Chevalier medallion
(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev lecturer Etgar Keret from the Department of Hebrew Literature has received the Chevalier (Knight) Medallion of France's Order of Arts and Letters. Recipients are recognized for the quality of their work and their close ties with the French public. |
| 07/27/2010
12:00 AM Symposium to explore broadening partnerships to spur medical advances for war injuries
(Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine) The USU-HJF Military Medicine Symposium will gather prominent civilian and military researchers and clinicians to discuss current research and identify opportunities to collaborate and share information that could speed treatments to wounded warriors. Co-hosted by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Inc., the symposium will be held Sept. 23 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. |
| 07/27/2010
12:00 AM American Chemical Society's highest honor goes to pioneer in 'ultraslow-motion' imaging
(American Chemical Society) Ahmed H. Zewail, Ph.D., the 1999 Chemistry Nobel Laureate and the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry & Professor of Physics at California Institute of Technology, has been named the winner of the 2011 Priestley Medal by the American Chemical Society. The award will recognize Zewail's development of revolutionary methods to capture "slow-motion" images of ultrafast processes in chemistry, biology and materials science. The award is the highest honor bestowed by ACS. |
| 07/27/2010
12:00 AM Biology, computer science combine efforts to fight cancer
(University of Houston) The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas awarded $2.4 million to the University of Houston to fund promising young cancer researchers working on new multidisciplinary approaches to fighting cancer. The money will fund postdoctoral scientists at UH whose research combines cancer biology with computational disciplines like computer science, theoretical physics or chemistry. The grant builds on UH's existing collaborations with the Texas Medical Center within the Keck Center for Interdisciplinary Bioscience. |
| 07/26/2010
12:00 AM Undergrad engineers research everything from water quality to wildfires this summer
(University of California - Riverside) Twenty-one undergraduate students in the UC Riverside Bourns College of Engineering are working with faculty mentors this summer researching everything from water quality to wildfires to materials that could lead to new medical devices. |
| 07/26/2010
12:00 AM Not as Web savvy as you think
(Northwestern University) College students trust Google so much that a Northwestern University study has found many students only click on websites that turn up at the top of Google searches to complete assigned tasks. If they don't use Google, researchers found that students trust other brand-name search engines and brand-name websites to lead them to information. |
| 07/26/2010
12:00 AM American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry jointly launch sustainability websites
(American Chemical Society) Two of the world's largest chemical societies today unveiled a new website showcasing cutting-edge scientific research that could help corral climate change, curb the depletion of vital natural resources and ensure global sustainability for future generations. The American Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry created www.acs.org/acsrscalliance to shine a spotlight on efforts to develop sustainable energy, provide abundant food and water, maintain environmental equilibrium and solve other emerging global challenges. |
| 07/26/2010
12:00 AM Children with brain injuries have problems with story-telling
(University of Chicago) Children with brain injuries have difficulty developing story-telling skills even though other language abilities, such as vocabulary, tend to catch up with other children as they mature, research at the University of Chicago shows. "Our findings suggest that there may be limitations to the remarkable flexibility for language functions displayed by children with brain injuries," said Özlem Ece Demir, a researcher at the University of Chicago and lead author of a paper reporting the research. |
| 07/26/2010
12:00 AM Negative stereotypes shown to affect learning, not just performance
(Indiana University) While the effect of negative performance stereotypes on test-taking and in other domains is well documented, a study by Indiana U. social psychologist Robert J. Rydell and his colleagues in IU's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences is the first to show that the effects might also be seen further upstream than once thought, when the skills are learned, not just performed. |
| 07/26/2010
12:00 AM Special news media briefing and reception during American Chemical Society national meeting
(American Chemical Society) Two world-renowned food chemists -- Sara Risch, Ph.D., and Shirley Corriher (also an award-winning cookbook author) -- will present a briefing on the Chemistry of Stadium Foods during the American Chemical Society's 240th National Meeting Aug. 22-26 in Boston. It will be held on Monday, Aug. 23, at 5:30 p.m. at Jerry Remy's Sports Bar and Grill, 1265 Boylston St., next to Fenway Park. |
| 07/26/2010
12:00 AM Rest requirements for residents unlikely to improve outcomes in 2 common surgeries
(Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed)) As the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education seeks to further limit residents' work hours, a new study reports that outcomes in two common surgeries were similar among residents who had worked less than 16 hours and those who had worked more than 16 hours. |
| 07/25/2010
12:00 AM Why more education lowers dementia risk
(University of Cambridge) A team of researchers from the UK and Finland has discovered why people who stay in education longer have a lower risk of developing dementia -- a question that has puzzled scientists for the past decade. |
| 07/23/2010
12:00 AM Getting young scientists into the science teacher pipeline
(Indiana University School of Medicine) Producing science teachers who can keep up with rapidly advancing fields and can also inspire students is not an easy task. With a grant from the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Scholarship Program, the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis is challenging science majors -- individuals who enjoy and appreciate science -- to transfer their enthusiasm and knowledge to students in middle school and high school classrooms. |
| 07/22/2010
12:00 AM Resident scientists
(Northwestern University) Seven Northwestern University graduate students will be "resident scientists" at Chicago-area middle and high schools this fall, integrating his or her research into the science curricula, thanks to an NSF $2.7 million Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education grant. The goal of the University's new program, called Reach for the Stars, is to train graduate students in communicating their complex research to people of all ages and to bring computational thinking into the K-12 classroom. |
| 07/22/2010
12:00 AM Graphene oxide gets green
(Rice University) Rice scientists have found a way to synthesize graphene oxide in bulk in an environmentally friendly way, eliminating toxic and explosive chemicals from the process. They have also found a class of common bacteria breaks down graphene oxide into environmentally benign graphene. |
| 07/22/2010
12:00 AM Study reveals a secret to the success of notorious, disease-causing microbes
(National Science Foundation) A study published in the July 23 issue of Cell identifies the mechanism used by several types of common, virulent microbes to infect plants and cause devastating blights. Microbes using this infection mechanism include fungi that are currently causing wheat rust epidemics in Africa and Asia, and a class of parasitic algae, called oomycetes, that resulted in the Irish potato blight of the 19th century. These microbes remain an agricultural scourge today. |
| 07/22/2010
12:00 AM 'Cradle of Hope' earns patent for FSU creators
(Florida State University) An alumna of the interior design program and a facilities engineer from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at the Florida State University have received a patent for their prototype of a portable cradle perfect for infants in family homeless shelters. |
| 07/22/2010
12:00 AM Stevens hosts 2010 metro area NEMS/MEMS Workshop
(Stevens Institute of Technology) Nanomanufacturing Workshop hosted by Stevens Institute of Technology on July 26 in Hoboken, N.J. |
