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Showing releases 1-25 out of 118.
Public Release: 10-Feb-2012
Illinois professor elected to National Academy of Engineering Photonics pioneer James J. Coleman has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering. Coleman, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, was cited for his work in semiconductor lasers and photonic materials. Contact: Liz Ahlberg
Public Release: 10-Feb-2012
Women & Infants named Center of Excellence for Neonatal Care for sixth year For the sixth consecutive year, Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island has been named a Center of Excellence for Neonatal Care by the Clinical Sciences Institute of OptumHealth, an independent audit company. Contact: Amy Blustein
Public Release: 9-Feb-2012
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering faculty elected to National Academy of Engineering Three faculty members in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Peter C. Farrell, founder, chairman and CEO of ResMed, and a member of the Council of Advisors of the Dean of the Jacobs School, also was elected to the academy. Contact: Catherine Hockmuth
Public Release: 9-Feb-2012
ORNL's Zinkle elected to National Academy of Engineering Steven J. Zinkle, a senior materials researcher at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Contact: Bill Cabage
Public Release: 9-Feb-2012
National Academy of Engineering elects 66 members and 10 foreign associates The National Academy of Engineering has elected 66 new members and 10 foreign associates, announced NAE President Charles M. Vest today. This brings the total US membership to 2,254 and the number of foreign associates to 206. Contact: Randy Atkins
Public Release: 9-Feb-2012
Carnegie's Richard Meserve receives inaugural Garwin Award The Federation of American Scientists presented Richard A. Meserve, the Carnegie Institution president, with the inaugural 2011 Richard L. Garwin Award on Feb. 8, for "his distinguished service and significant contributions to nuclear safety as chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and for more than 30 years of leadership in science policy." The award "reaffirms his work at the intersection of law, science, and technology." Contact: Tina McDowell
Public Release: 8-Feb-2012
UT Southwestern molecular biologist wins prestigious NAS award Dr. Zhijian "James" Chen, professor of molecular biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been named the recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology for 2012. 
Pfizer Inc., National Academy of Sciences
Contact: Deborah Wormser
Public Release: 8-Feb-2012
Optical Society of America names Tufts biomedical engineer Fiorenzo Omenetto as Fellow Omenetto's laboratory has pioneered the use of silk as a material platform for photonics, optoelectronics and high-technology applications and is actively investigating novel applications that rely on this new technology platform. Contact: Alex Reid
Public Release: 7-Feb-2012
Dr. Reza Dana awarded 2012 Chancellor's Award in Neurosciences and Ophthalmology Mass. Eye and Ear Cornea Service and Refractive Surgery Service Director Reza Dana, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc., is the recipient of the 2012 Chancellor's Award in Neurosciences and Ophthalmology from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine at New Orleans. Contact: Mary Leach
Public Release: 6-Feb-2012
Chinese scientists Zhen-Yi Wang and Zhu Chen awarded 7th annual Szent-Gyorgyi Prize The National Foundation for Cancer Research announced today that Dr. Zhen-Yi Wang and Dr. Zhu Chen have been awarded the 7th annual Szent-Gyorgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research for their innovative research that led to the successful development of a new therapeutic approach to acute promyelocytic leukemia. Contact: Silas Deane
Public Release: 3-Feb-2012
Fellowships to assist 9 UC Riverside students secure doctoral degrees The University of California, Riverside has awarded nine first-year graduate students an annual stipend of $30,000 for two years to increase underrepresented minority students in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at the doctoral level. In addition to the stipend that covers living expenses, each student's graduate tuition and fees are fully covered. Because of the fellowships, the nine students will be fully engaged in research from the outset.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala
Public Release: 3-Feb-2012
Geneticist receives EU funding to build DNA data matrix of ancient domestic animals The project will use state-of-the-art genetic tools to build up a DNA data matrix of domestic animals over the last 10,000 years. Contact: Caoimhe Ni Lochlainn
Public Release: 3-Feb-2012
AIBS names emerging public policy leaders The American Institute of Biological Sciences has selected two graduate students to receive the 2012 AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award. Lida Beninson is a Ph.D. candidate in Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado Boulder. Andrew Reinmann is a Ph.D. candidate in Biology at Boston University.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Contact: Julie Palakovich Carr
Public Release: 3-Feb-2012
Gamers on 3-D mission to save world, just don't tell them they are learning cell biology Eve Syrkin Wurtele decided the best way to get the attention of the science-deprived, gamer generation is to take the information out of a text book and put it in a medium that kids crave - video games. So she and her team developed Meta!Blast, which won honorable mention in the 2011 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is featured in the Feb. 3 issue of the journal Science.
National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Eve Syrkin Wurtele
Public Release: 2-Feb-2012
Scripps Research alumnus wins International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge A powerful 3-D animation tool created by Graham Johnson at the Scripps Research Institute has been selected as the winning video in the ninth annual International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. Contact: Mika Ono
Public Release: 2-Feb-2012
ORNL, partners earn FLC honor for cookstove technology Envirofit International, the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Colorado State University have won a Federal Laboratory Consortium award for excellence in technology transfer for a clean-burning cookstove designed for the developing world. Contact: Ron Walli
Public Release: 2-Feb-2012
Penn State team's QR code wins REACH Challenge "Real-Time Care Experience Feedback Using QR Codes," a Penn State project that allows hospital patients to inform hospital personnel of their experiences -- good or bad -- in real time, is the winner of the 2012 REACH Developer Challenge, sponsored by AcademyHealth and part of the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge.
US department of Health & Human Services
Contact: Sara LaJeunesse
Public Release: 2-Feb-2012
NPL wins MTA award for best training scheme The National Physical Laboratory has won the 2012 MTA Manufacturing Industry Award for Best Training Scheme. NPL received the award at an event on the evening of Feb. 1, at ICC Birmingham. Contact: Joe Meaney
Public Release: 2-Feb-2012
Lewis Weintraub, MD, honored for excellence Lewis Weintraub, MD, a hematologist/oncologist at Boston Medical Center and professor of medicine in the section of hematology-oncology at Boston University School of Medicine, has been named the 2011 recipient of the Jerome Klein Award for Physician Excellence at BMC. Contact: Gina DiGravio
Public Release: 2-Feb-2012
2011 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge winners announced A colorful computer illustration that depicts the emergence of structure in the universe, spanning 240 million light years, is among the entries being recognized by the 2011 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, which is sponsored jointly by journal Science and the US National Science Foundation. Contact: Natasha D. Pinol
Public Release: 1-Feb-2012
PNNL's Mike Kluse named Laboratory Director of the Year PNNL Director Mike Kluse has been named 2012 Laboratory Director of the Year by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for his support of technology transfer and commercialization. Contact: Franny White
Public Release: 1-Feb-2012
Penn State scientists elected to American Geophysical Union Michael Mann and David Pollard, both scientists in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, have been elected as Fellows of the American Geophysical Union for exceptional contributions in original research in climate change. Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 31-Jan-2012
Winner of the Relevant Evidence to Advance Care and Health Challenge announced AcademyHealth today announced that an experimental application to track patients' care experiences in real time is the winner of the Relevant Evidence to Advance Care and Health Developer Challenge.
AcademyHealth, Health 2.0
Contact: Kristin Rosengren
Public Release: 31-Jan-2012
Technical Oscar for ARRI and Fraunhofer The Munich-based producer of professional motion picture equipment ARRI and the Freiburg Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques have been awarded the "Academy Award of Merit" by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for their jointly developed ARRILASER film recorder. The Oscar statuettes will be presented on Feb. 11 in Beverly Hills. Contact: Holger Kock
Public Release: 31-Jan-2012
European Geosciences Union General AssemblyAlexandra Witze and Jane Qiu awarded EGU Science Journalism Fellowship The European Geosciences Union has named journalists Alexandra Witze and Jane Qiu as the winners of its first Geosciences Communications Fellowship for proposals on volcanology and climate change reporting, respectively. Each will receive €2,500 to cover expenses related to their projects.
European Geosciences Union
Contact: Bárbara T. Ferreira
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