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Research grants sought for new marine science program
Asbury Park Press
— Richard Stockton College of New Jersey is already involved in underwater research, and plans to apply for a federal grant for more extensive studies, said Steve Evert, manager of the Marine Science and Environmental Field Station of Richard Stockton ...
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A celebration of women in science and engineering
MIT News
A two-day symposium at MIT this week celebrated the research accomplishments of some of the top minds in science and engineering. The event, titled “Leaders in Science and Engineering: The Women of MIT,” brought together “the greatest collection of ...
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Three years on, science awards list finally out
Times of India
Prime Minister's scientific adviser CNR Rao has asked Karnataka not to start another engineering college at Chikkaballapur and instead set up an institute for innovation in technology, education and research. Rao will meet chief minister Yeddyurappa ...
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Technology College to study economic impact of Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge
TheSportsCampus.com
Dr. Hassan, a specialist in sports studies at the UK's fifth largest university, has extensive research experience in establishing the social and economic impact of major events, including the FIA World Rally Championship and Special Olympics. ...
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Carleton Commemorates Partnership with Canada Science and Technology Museums ...
Exchange Morning Post
Ottawa – Carleton University and the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation have established a partnership to foster innovation and leadership in real-world research. To that end, Carleton President Roseann O'Reilly Runte signed a ...
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NewsWatch: Columbia nonprofit lands $95.8M NASA contract
Gazette.net Montgomery County Sports
... analytical and theoretical research in support of NASA's strategic Earth and space science objectives. The Goddard Earth Technology and Research Studies and Investigations agreement is to be annually funded up to $20 million and run from May 11 to ...
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Human Impacts On Marine Ecosystems Of Antarctica
RedOrbit
The researchers are Richard Aronson (Florida Institute of Technology), Sven Thatje (SOES), James McClintock (University of Alabama at Birmingham) and Kevin Hughes (British Antarctic Survey). The research was supported by the US National Science ...
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Glenmark discovers GBR 401, initiates IND studies
Pharmaceutical Business Review
GBR401 has been developed completely in-house by Glenmark's Biologics Research Centre located in Switzerland, using an advanced technology. GBR 401 targets lymphomas, leukemia's of B-cell origin and inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis. ...
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Teen Girls Discover Digital Technology as 'COMPUGIRLS'
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
“I was concerned with the low participation of young women from higher needs school districts in science, technology, engineering and math,” says Scott. “Excluded from the fastest growing technological fields, their economic prospects were grim; ...
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
Steve Wolff Named New Internet2 Interim Vice President and Chief Technology ...
PR Newswire (press release)
In this role, Wolff will serve as the main liaison to multiple research communities as well as to the Internet2 Research Advisory Council (RAC) and important federal science offices including the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy ...
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Transgenomic, Inc. Presentations to Describe High-Sensitivity Detection of ...
PR Newswire (press release)
OMAHA, Neb., April 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Transgenomic, Inc. (OTC/BB: TBIO) announced today that its scientists have completed studies employing the company's high-sensitivity cancer mutation assays using two proprietary technologies, Ice COLD-PCR and ...
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Taking the Shot: When to Go Green With Your Data Center
Campus Technology
So when Loyola IT staff moved forward with its data center overhaul, it only made sense for them to seek out the most energy-efficient technology available. As part of their research, Loyola CIO Susan Malisch and Dan Vonder Heide, ...
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Ecopetrol and Pacific Rubiales to test new oil extraction technology
Colombia Reports
The companies will carry out a pilot test of STAR (Synchronized Thermal Additional Recovery) technology in Quifa field in the Llanos Orientales (Eastern Plains). After numeric simulations, studies and tests carried out in research labs in the ...
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From science fiction to research breakthrough
ScienceBlog.com (blog)
Together with colleagues at the Nano-Science Center, her team has been able to combine nanoscale materials and technologies that are traditionally used for electronic devices with individual living cells. The researchers have shown that cells can grow ...
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Enhanced Oil Recovery Technologies and Higher Energy Prices Enable Economical ...
InvestorIdeas.com (press release)
Importantly for domestic producers, studies estimate that the US has as much as 73% of the world's recoverable shale oil in contrast to only 5% of the world's recoverable crude oil. Historically, vertically drilled wells were the most economical method ...
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Research on satellite imagery aims to advance sustainable agriculture
EurekAlert (press release)
López-Granados and a team of researchers reported on field studies they designed to evaluate the potential of multispectral reflectance and seven vegetation indices in the visible and near-infrared spectral range for discriminating and classifying bare ...
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Stephanie Miller and Jonathan Peled
New York Times
Stephanie Elena Miller and Dr. Jonathan Uriah-Chaim Peled are to be married Sunday by Rabbi William Berman at Temple Chaverim in Plainview, NY The bride, 32, is a vice president of the Investment Technology Group, a research and trading firm in New ...
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Of mice and men
Chemistry World
'GM mouse technology has been used recently to: create a new model of Parkinson's disease, which may replace some research using monkeys; study a new compound that may halt Alzheimer's disease; discover genetic similarities between prostate cancer and ...
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Chemistry World
Japan, SA research project to mitigate seismic risks in local mining industry
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
Aimed at upgrading the South African National Seismograph Network (SANSN) in the mining sector, the $3-million bilateral project will deploy between 40 and 50 research- ers and is mainly funded by the Science and Technology Research Partnership for ...
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Gulf Coast Consortia Awarded $12.6 Million for Cancer Research
Newswise (press release)
Peter Davies, MD, Ph.D., provost and executive vice president for research at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), is the principal investigator and will also serve as the program's co-director with Michael Mancini, ...
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Research and Markets: The World Subsea Hardware Market Report 2011-2015
Business Wire (press release)
Detailed case studies highlight various aspects and technologies in production or planned for subsea production and processing. The volume and value of subsea production and processing equipment installed is shown for the period 2006-2010 and forecast ...
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From Novels to Nanostructures: UCF Engineer Among World's Best
University of Central Florida
Indira Gandhi, the then-Prime Minister of India, gave him the Indian National Science Academy's Young Scientists Medal, which was reserved for researchers under the age of 30 who have made significant contributions to science, technology, ...
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University of Central Florida
Updated media sources on Japan disaster and aftermath
UC Davis
Contact: John Rundle, Computational Science and Engineering Center, (530) 752-6416, jbrundle@ucdavis.edu. Researchers at UC Davis' Keck Center for Active Visualization in Earth Sciences (Keck CAVES) use virtual reality technology to study earthquakes. ...
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CSIR inaugurates Institutional Review Board
Ghana News Agency
Ms Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Environment, Science and Technology (MEST), in a speech read for her, lauded the CSIR for taken concrete steps to establish the two institutions which would put in place comprehensive human and animal subject protection ...
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Mobile health startup iRx Reminder takes aim at research market
MedCity News
... has developed an app that's a research tool used to conduct medication or behavioral intervention studies with chronic disease patients, said CEO Anthony Sterns. Despite the company's name, Sterns said iRx Reminder's technology does more than just ...
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New museum to use science to tell Bible's history
USA Today
He is director of the collection and research professor of manuscript studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. One of Carroll's earlier efforts to make the ancient world accessible led to a standing exhibition at the Smithsonian on his online ...
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USA Today
A Conversation With Christopher J. Calhoun, CEO of Cytori Therapeutics
The Atlantic
With ever-increasing access to information, patients are doing more research on their conditions, and instead of only having access to treatment at their local medical facility, their reach becomes global. So when new technology is developed and ...
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Study: 'Jet-fuel' crop success hinges on sites, seeds
CNET (blog)
Robert Bailis, an assistant professor, and Jennifer Baka, a doctoral student, of Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies led the research. They concentrated on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that were reduced in a given ...
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CNET (blog)
Students find the solution
NorthJersey.com
The project was inclusive of many academic disciplines: math, to design the trails to scale; science, to research specific areas for the informational markers; physical education, to design fitness components; art, to design and create the makers; ...
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UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News
UPI.com
Deployment to Iraq was linked to a significantly higher risk of asthma compared with stateside duty, other studies reported last year. SOUTHAMPTON, England, March 31 (UPI) -- The native fauna and ecology of the Southern Ocean, the vast body of water ...
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Enough rice by 2013: ex-PhilRice exec
Sun.Star
Moreover, the study, using cellphone-based survey forms for PhilRice field data collection presented by Arturo C. Arocena Jr. from PhilRice, won the best paper award under the theme Technology promotion and delivery for narrowing the yield gap. ...
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From science fiction to research breakthrough
From science fiction to research breakthrough. (Nanowerk News) Focusing on interdisciplinary research is now leading to breakthroughs in bio nanotechnology research. A new method for drug development has become a reality. ... The project benefits considerably from the interdisciplinary background of Trine Berthing, PhD student in Nanoscience, who has been working on this project since the beginning of her graduate studies in Nanoscience in 2007. ...
Nanowerk Nanotechnology News - http://www.nanowerk.com/
Grant bolsters molecular imaging resource | Research News ...
By Leigh MacMillan
Caprioli has pioneered imaging mass spectrometry techniques and expects the new Research Resource to move this technology from the instrumental development laboratory to the biological and clinical research laboratory as a routine imaging ... New biological applications will include high spatial resolution imaging of serotonin neurons in neurodevelopmental disorders, studies of cervical and brain cancers, studies of age-related macular degeneration and studies of tumor ...
Vanderbilt News - http://news.vanderbilt.edu/
SERS Substrates Made With Pocket Change | Science & Technology ...
More Science & Technology Concentrates. Blocking Bitterness; ACS Meeting News: Two compounds eliminate bitter aftertaste; Plastics Created From Yeast-Made Monomers; ACS Meeting News: With genetic engineering, chemists coax yeast into making ... Metal substrates needed for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS ) can be made with everyday objects—even coins—reported Jordan F. Betz, a graduate student in Gary W. Rubloff's research group at the University of Maryland. ...
Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News - http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/news.html
Yahoo! Keynote to Address Implications of Video Content at Fall ...
By BO News Network
Parks Associates announced today that Bradley Horowitz, Director of Technology Development, Search & Marketplace Group, Yahoo! Inc. will present the day's closing keynote on November 10, 2005, for Fall Focus: Making Media Meaningful. ... Founded in 1986, Parks Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small start-ups through market reports, multiclient studies, consumer research, workshops, and custom-tailored client solutions. ...
Technology Blog Online - http://www.technologybo.com/
JRF/ Project Fellow Position in Rajiv Gandhi Science & Technology ...
Scholarship Description: Applications are invited on plain paper giving detailed bio-data for one post of “Junior Research Fellow/Project Fellow” in Rajiv Gandhi Science & Technology Commission, Govt. of Maharashtra sponsored research ...
Scholarships for College Students,... - http://scholarship-positions.com/
4/8 MITH Digital Dialogue: Richard Grusin, "The Future of 21st ...
By admin
The reconceptualization of historical studies in light of these concerns? The deployment of 21st century modes of research, analysis, and presentation? Richard Grusin, the new director of the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) at University ... RICHARD GRUSIN is Professor of English and Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Previously he was a professor at the College of William and Mary, Georgia Institute of Technology, ...
Maryland Institute for Technology... - http://mith.umd.edu/
Serious Medicine Strategy: Newt Gingrich and Serious Medicine ...
By James P. Pinkerton
Such a vision would be news to the leaders who mobilized science and technology to win, say, World War Two, or to eradicate smallpox or to build the Internet, but it's a strong and well-funded impulse in Washington today. .... The FDA is too restrictive, and the NIH, in the mordant phrase of Lou Weisbach, co-founder of the American Center for Cures, “seems more interested in doing curiosity studies” than in focusing on translational research. It would, indeed, be easier ...
Serious Medicine Strategy - http://seriousmedicinestrategy.blogspot.com/
Alumni News » Archive » New partnership embeds York researchers at ...
By Karl Rigelhof
The partnership will realize important benefits to the research communities at both institutions and for the general public, says York Professor Michael Siu, associate vice-president research, science & technology, ... Ritvo will work with Southlake clinicians to extend current intervention studies that use Blackberry smartphones and innovative software applications to help patients reduce health risks by way of healthy exercise, diet and improved medication adherence. ...
Alumni News - http://alumni.news.yorku.ca/
New Hires (January 2011) - The Scarlet
By admin
Archana Rangabashyam, Biological Sciences, Research Technician III. Samantha Rivera, Panhandle Research and Extension Center, Program Coordinator I. Kenneth Smith, Educational Media, Information Tech Specialist ... Amy Virgl, Southeast Research and Extension Center, Administrative Associate. Stephen Witte, Center of Great Plains Studies, Research Assistant Professor. Nathan Woita, Agricultural Research and Development Center, Ag Research Technician II ...
The Scarlet - http://scarlet.unl.edu/
School of Communication Home » Blog Archive » Professor Ellen ...
By Dana
This project seeks to develop new strategies to guide cyberinfrastructural development by focusing on the material aspects of technology. Research outlined here is rooted in science, technology and society studies, and is part of a 'new sociology ... think about technology, and using insights generated to develop a typology of technology affordances and constraints, which will be applied to cyberinfrastructures. Posted: Friday, April 1st, 2011 @ 1:45 pm. Categories: News. ...
School of Communication Home - http://www.cmns.sfu.ca/
A Critique of the Meyers Briggs Type Indicator
By Michael
Among the comprehensive, authoritative and negative reviews are those of Professor David J. Pittenger, currently Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Marshall University, and veteran researcher in the area of social science statistics ...
Recruiting News - http://www.recruiter.com/recruiting-news/
ICON Selects Oracle Health Sciences LabPas to Automate its Phase I ...
By Megan Spears
News Facts ICON plc, a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, has selected the Oracle Health Sciences LabPas solution, delivered via the Oracle Health Sciences Cloud, to support subject recruitment, ... The Company specialises in the strategic development, management and analysis of programs that support clinical development – from compound selection to Phase I-IV clinical studies. ...
TTKN News - http://www.ttkn.com/
Fat Stigma increases worldwide, study says | ZME Science
By Tibi Puiu
According to a research conducted by anthropologists from Arizona State University, there seems to be a big increase in the general negative attitude people.
ZME Science - http://www.zmescience.com/
An Alzheimers Vaccine in a Nasal Spray? | Health Medicine Daily News
By Health
But researchers led by Dr. Dan Frenkel of Tel Aviv University's Department of Neurobiology at the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences are working on a nasally-delivered 2-in-1 vaccine that promises to protect against both Alzheimer's and stroke. ... "In early pre-clinical studies, we've found it can prevent both brain tissue damage and restore cognitive impairment," he adds. Modifying a vaccine technology owned by Glaxo Smith Kline, a multinational drug company, ...
Health Medicine Daily News - http://www.healthmagdaily.com/
Library News for German Studies: Workshop--Paperless Reference ...
By Brian Vetruba
Mendeley is like iTunes for your papers. Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Zotero can: ...
Library News for German Studies - http://wulibraries.typepad.com/germannews/
The Science and Technology of Gaming Continues to Evolve » Blog ...
The research and development company Scurlock Oster INC, which did most of the work on creating this new technology, will get a huge payoff as it auctions its products off to gaming technology industry heavy weights. ... Other reporters breaking news stated that finding interviewees was no trouble at all, since the need for publicity in the industry is very high. Although the gaming technology news was received well by most, their was some concern at the local 359 labor ...
The Science and Technology of... - http://www.persmaitb.com/
Cancer Knowledge Database: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News
By John Spratt
A section of the AIDS virus's protein envelope once considered an improbable target for a vaccine now appears to be one of the most promising, new research indicates. The section, a twisting strand of protein known as the V3 loop, is an attractive vaccine ..... Researchers need to proactively engage lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in health studies and collect data on these populations to identify and better understand health conditions that affect them . ...
Cancer Knowledge Database - http://cancer-knowledge-database.blogspot.com/
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2011 Retail Technology Trends Study | Retail Research | RIS News ...
For the first time in three years retailers are going on the offensive, opening stores and investing in IT for innovation and growth.
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