Public Release: 28-Aug-2008 UC team studies link between Parkinson's disease and depression
A patient who receives a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease might become depressed, and understandably so. But does the depression then exacerbate the progression of Parkinson's? That's one of the questions a team of University of Cincinnati researchers is studying, with the help of a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
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Public Release: 28-Aug-2008 Springer bee expert Juergen Tautz wins prize for public communication
Juergen Tautz will receive a special discretionary prize as part of the 2008 European Molecular Biology Organization Award for Communication in the Life Sciences. The award was made in recognition of Tautz's long-term public communication activity on a single organism using all available media. Tautz is the author of the Springer book "The Buzz About Bees," a fascinating treatise looking at all aspects of bees and bee colonies.
Public Release: 28-Aug-2008 Book on virtual teams signed by Wiley
Now that global industry generates products in every corner of the world, employees must be skilled, not only interacting with co-workers in an office down the hall, or at a neighboring facility, but often they must collaborate with team members in other states, other countries, and in ever more distant time zones.