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Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
UWM study explores why women leave engineering careers A study getting under way at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee is the first systematic study of women's retention in engineering. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the study, POWER (Project on Women Engineers' Retention) includes an online survey open to all women who have completed at least a bachelor's degree in engineering, whether or not they have worked as engineers. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Nadya Fouad
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Can stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation help CHD patients prevent future heart attacks? The National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute will fund a $1 million collaborative study by the Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi University of Management Research Institute and Columbia University Medical Center to determine whether the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique can help patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) prevent future heart attacks, strokes and death.
NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Contact: Ken Chawkin
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Brown professor to lead $6-million NIH grant to study rare brain disease Walter Atwood, professor of medical science, will lead research efforts to determine how the JC virus, which can cause a rare brain disease known as PML, attaches to host cells. He will collaborate with research teams at Dartmouth College and the University of Tübingen in Germany.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Mark Hollmer
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
American College of Phlebology 2009 Annual MeetingVein Clinics of America announces $150,000 grant to American College of Phlebology Foundation Vein Clinics of America announced today its commitment of $150,000 to the American College of Phlebology Foundation over the next five years. VCA's support will be used to advance research, education and growth in the field of phlebology and represents one of the largest contributions made to the ACP Foundation by a vein practice network.
Vein Clinics of America
Contact: Nikki Kidd
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
Montana State University to figure out tricky viruses, adapt for gene therapy Montana State University has a new grant to tap into the talent that viruses have for invading cells and seizing control.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Evelyn Boswell
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
Keystone Symposia announces new three-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Keystone Symposia is pleased to announce that it has received a second grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation worth $2.7 million over three years to fund meetings and Global Health Travel Awards in the Keystone Symposia Global Health Series. Currently, five 2010 scheduled conferences will fall within this grant. Keystone Symposia is offering a total of 52 conferences in its 2010 season in a diverse array of life science disciplines.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Contact: Yvonne Psaila
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
UAB awarded $11.5 million to explore ways to test youth for HIV, link them to care Two new grants are for leadership and coordination of the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Intervention (ATN), a research network in the United States and Puerto Rico working to curb the epidemic through prevention, testing and treatment for youth ages 12 to 24. Projections show at least one-half of all new HIV infections each year worldwide are in youth under age 25, says Craig Wilson, M.D., a UAB professor and ATN leader.
NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Contact: Troy Goodman
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
Federal stimulus funds support studies geared to improving HIV care and prevention One study will look at using mobile phone text messages linked to a web-based personal health record to help HIV patients' adherence to pill-taking regimens. The other study will test the feasibility and acceptability of a Web-based strategy that seeks to reduce drug and alcohol use and accompanying HIV risk behaviors and improve antiretroviral medication adherence by HIV positive patients.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Jeff Sheehy
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
Kent State receives $2.7 million NSF training grant for environmental aquatic resource sensing Kent State University has been awarded a training grant in the amount of $2,756,719 by the National Science Foundation under its Integrative Graduation Education and Research Training program. This is the first IGERT grant to be awarded to Kent State. The grant, which is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, runs through 2014.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Emily Vincent
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
Massive Antarctic project takes Montana State University to one of Earth's final frontiers An "unparalleled opportunity" to drill through the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica and explore the world underneath it will involve Montana State University faculty and current and former students over the next five years.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Evelyn Boswell
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
Rice wins NIH funding for oral-cancer test Rice University has won a $2 million NIH stimulus grant to develop an inexpensive test for oral cancer that a dentist or oral surgeon could perform by passing a brush over a suspicious lesion. Oral cancers have a five-year survival rate around 50 percent, largely because of late diagnoses. Rice's test would take less than 30 minutes, require no scalpels or off-site lab tests and could be ready for clinical tests within two years.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Jade Boyd
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
Stimulus grant to help MSU team improve drug development from plants Scientists at Michigan State University are receiving nearly $3 million from the National Institutes of Health to uncover how several popular plants make medicinal compounds.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Jason Cody
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
$11 million NIH grant for stem cell research awarded to Rhode Island Hospital Rhode Island Hospital has received an $11 million grant that will fund research that will lead to a general understanding of stem cell biology and identify unique approaches to tissue regeneration in lung and marrow diseases. The 5-year grant, awarded to Peter Quesenberry, MD, director of hematology/oncology at Rhode Island Hospital, also provides funding for the development of a major stem cell research center at Rhode Island Hospital.
NIH/National Center for Research Resources
Contact: Nancy Cawley Jean
Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
Genomic research will enable greener cleanup of military explosive test sites Lowly bacteria, it turns out, hold the power to help militaries and munitions manufacturing plants around the world clean up toxic waste on test sites.
Genome British Columbia
Contact: Rachael Froese Zamperini
Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
Professor receives grant to develop more rapid technology for screening blood samples Dr. Jennifer Brodbelt, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, has received a $734,068 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new method for rapidly screening blood samples for biomarkers.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Jennifer Brodbelt
Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
OU achieves $10 million in stimulus grants for 33 projects on the Norman campus The University of Oklahoma at Norman has received more than $10 million in research grants from three funding agencies as part of the federal stimulus program, bringing the total amount of stimulus funding received by OU researchers to $23 million. Thirty-three projects achieved stimulus funding for research ranging from archaeology to weather.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Interior
Contact: Jana Smith
Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
NIAID announces new human immunology research awards to help fight emerging infectious diseases The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded approximately $208 million to two programs that support research to better understand the human immune response to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, including those that may be introduced into a community through acts of bioterrorism.
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Contact: Julie Wu
Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
NSF awards $20 million to SDSC to develop 'Gordon' The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build and operate a powerful supercomputer dedicated to solving critical science and societal problems now overwhelmed by the avalanche of data generated by the digital devices of our era.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jan Zverina
Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
K-State creating tools to show how decisions about aquifer affect people, local economies Kansas State University is pooling experts from multiple disciplines to understand how policy changes affect people in communities that depend on the Ogallala Aquifer in western Kansas.
National Science Foundation
Contact: David Steward
Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
NIAID awards five-year, $56 million contract to continue study of asthma in inner-city children The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has renewed the contract to continue studying asthma in children living in lower-income, inner-city environments. This five-year, $56 million award will support the Inner-City Asthma Consortium , a nationwide clinical trials network to evaluate promising new therapies to reduce asthma severity and prevent disease, and to perform basic research to understand how these therapies work.
NIH/ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Contact: Julie Wu
Public Release: 3-Nov-2009
Jefferson researchers receive $3.9 million in Challenge grants Four researchers from Thomas Jefferson University have received $3.9 million in Challenge grant funds as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Emily Shafer
Public Release: 3-Nov-2009
UIC receives $1 million grant to study 'fat taxes,' diet, obesity UIC researchers have received $1 million to study the relationship between "fat taxes" and food consumption, diet quality and obesity.
NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Contact: Sherri McGinnis Gonzalez
Public Release: 3-Nov-2009
UCSD engineering students help San Diego region secure $154 million in solar bonds Engineering students at UC San Diego played a critical role in helping the university and the San Diego region secure a total of $154 million in federal bonds for solar installation projects.
Internal Revenue Service
Contact: Andrea Siedsma
Public Release: 3-Nov-2009
Specialists in hearing, HIV come together to study AIDS patients Specialists in HIV and in hearing at the University of Rochester Medical Center are teaming up to measure the hearing of people with AIDS.
NIH/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Contact: Tom Rickey
Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
2 grants to ASU will help change the way the US generates and consumes energy The US Department of Energy has awarded Arizona State University two grants for alternative energy research that are part of a special DOE program to pursue high-risk, high-reward advances with the potential to change the way the nation generates and consumes energy. ASU's grants, totaling more than $10 million, are among 37 new DOE grants totaling $151 million to support the program.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Skip Derra
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