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Public Release: 7-Oct-2008
International research goal: Resilient, sustainable electric power, communications infrastructures
NSF-funded research by faculty members at five universities in two countries will extend the scope and applicability of the highly optimized tolerance approach to modeling cascading events across interdependent electric power and communications infrastructures while optimally placing resources for managing the risk of blackouts due to equipment failures or extreme natural hazards.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Barbara L. Micale
blmicale@vt.edu
703-518-2714
Virginia Tech
Public Release: 7-Oct-2008
NIAID announces 25 new awards to develop radiation countermeasures
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded 25 new grants to develop new and better diagnostics and treatments for radiation exposure after a nuclear attack. Several of these grants were awarded under Project Bioshield Authority, legislation that enables NIAID within the Department of Health and Human Services to use a rapid award process to help stimulate research on medical countermeasures against chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear threats.
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Contact: Julie Wu
wujuli@niaid.nih.gov
301-402-1663
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Public Release: 7-Oct-2008
Human Microbiome Project awards funds for technology development, data analysis and ethical research
Human Microbiome Project Awards Funds for Technology Development, Data Analysis and Ethical Research
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Geoff Spencer
spencerg@mail.nih.gov
301-402-0911
NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute
Public Release: 6-Oct-2008
NSF launches third generation of engineering research centers with awards totaling $92.5 million
The National Science Foundation announces the establishment of five new NSF Engineering Research Centers for the development of interdisciplinary research and education programs in partnership with industry. The NSF ERCs share the goal of advancing knowledge, technology, and innovations that address significant societal problems and provide the workforce and technical foundation for economic competitiveness. NSF will invest approximately $92.5 million in the centers over the next five years.
Contact: Joshua A. Chamot
jchamot@nsf.gov
703-292-7730
National Science Foundation
Public Release: 6-Oct-2008
2008 SNM Wagner-Torizuka Fellowships announced
Four Japanese researchers were awarded the 2008 SNM Wagner-Torizuka Fellowship, and are currently studying in the United States through 2010 as part of the two-year program.
Contact: Amy Shaw
ashaw@snm.org
703-652-6773
Society of Nuclear Medicine
Public Release: 6-Oct-2008
Consumer electronics and society: economic, environmental and cultural connections
An AT&T Industrial Ecology grant will fund work by Arizona State University researchers to study the economic, environmental and cultural ripple effects created by rapid advances in consumer electronics.
AT&T Inc.
Contact: Joe Kullman
joe.kullman@asu.edu
480-965-8122
Arizona State University
Public Release: 6-Oct-2008
Outshining Edison: New NSF engineering research center to advance 'smart lighting'
A new research center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, funded by a five-year, $18.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, aims to supplant the common light bulb with next-generation lighting devices that are smarter, greener and ripe for innovation.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Michael Mullaney
mullam@rpi.edu
518-276-6161
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Public Release: 6-Oct-2008
APS sets aside $50,000 to help students, post-docs, in wake of Hurricane Ike
The American Physiological Society has established the Hurricane Ike Relief Fund to provide unrestricted grants of up to $2,000 to support physiology graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who suffered losses as a result of Hurricane Ike.
American Physiological Society
Contact: Christine Guilfoy
cguilfoy@the-aps.org
301-634-7253
American Physiological Society
Public Release: 3-Oct-2008
Einstein and Montefiore receive grants to expand disease-focused stem cell research
The Empire State Stem Cell Board has awarded research planning grants to Albert Einstein College of Medicine and to Montefiore Medical Center. The grants, totaling $238,000, are part of $2 million in grants announced by State Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines, M.D. The funding, awarded to 18 medical colleges, medical centers and labs will strengthen New York State's capacity for stem cell research and could lead to the development of new therapies for Alzheimer's, diabetes, Parkinson's, ALS and other conditions.
Empire State Stem Cell Board
Contact: Michael Heller
mheller@aecom.yu.edu
718-430-3101
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Public Release: 3-Oct-2008
NYU's Courant Institute receives $500,000 NSF grant to discover the learning algorithm of the brain
New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and its institutional partners -- Stanford University, MIT and the University of California, Berkeley -- have each received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the "learning algorithm of the brain."
National Science Foundation
Contact: James Devitt
james.devitt@nyu.edu
212-998-6808
New York University
Public Release: 3-Oct-2008
NASA picks ASU research team to guide study of search for life
The quest for habitable worlds has focused on searching for water, but "following the water" turns out to be too general a criterion. The list of planets that possess liquid water is growing faster than can be explored. As one of the new NASA Astrobiology Institute teams, Arizona State University researchers intend to boost extraterrestrial exploration to the next stage by refining the criteria that guide the search for life.
NASA
Contact: Nikki Staab
nstaab@asu.edu
480-727-9329
Arizona State University
Public Release: 3-Oct-2008
NIH selects Case Western Reserve University to participate in National Children's Study
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has been awarded $26 million in funding to participate in the National Children's Study, the National Institutes of Health's comprehensive study on the interaction of genes and the environment on children's health.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Christina Thompson
christina.a.thompson@case.edu
216-256-6912
Case Western Reserve University
Public Release: 3-Oct-2008
UT Health Science Center at Houston to have key role in largest US children's study
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will play a key role in local recruitment for the largest child health study in the United States.
NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Contact: Melissa McDonald
Melissa.E.McDonald@uth.tmc.edu
713-500-3308
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Public Release: 3-Oct-2008
Professor H. Quynh Dinh awarded a Honda Initiation Grant
Professor H. Quynh Dinh, from Stevens Institute of Technology's Computer Science department, has been awarded a Honda Initiation Grant sponsored by the Honda Research Institute for her proposal, "Detecting Patterns in Vector Fields." The award is for $50,000 over one year with the possibility of extended funding past the initial year. The grant is designed to foster new relationships between university faculty and Honda researchers and is an example of industry-academia partnership.
Honda Research Institute
Contact: Stephanie Mannino
smannino@stevens.du
201-216-5602
Stevens Institute of Technology
Public Release: 3-Oct-2008
Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital expand national children's study to Bristol County
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has awarded Brown University a $12-million contract to expand its participation in the National Children's Study, the largest long-term study of human health and development ever conducted in the United States.
NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Contact: Deborah Baum
deborah_baum@brown.edu
401-863-2478
Brown University
Public Release: 3-Oct-2008
UNC and N.C. roles expanded in landmark children's health and development study
The National Institutes of Health has added three more areas of North Carolina and is expanding the role played by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in a long-term, wide-ranging study of the nation's children.
Contact: Patric Lane
patric_lane@unc.edu
919-962-8596
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Public Release: 2-Oct-2008
NSF award $12M to UCSD 'science of learning center' for 3 more years of innovation
The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, founded at UC San Diego in 2006 as one of six National Science Foundation Science of Learning Centers, has just been awarded an additional $12 million for the next three years to expand its important work studying the role of time and timing in learning.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Inga Kiderra
ikiderra@ucsd.edu
858-822-0661
University of California - San Diego
Public Release: 2-Oct-2008
National Science Foundation grant expands UMCES oyster research
To help improve the success of oyster restoration efforts in the Chesapeake Bay, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science researcher Dr. Elizabeth North is leading a team of scientists in a new in-depth study to determine when oysters spawn and where their larvae go in the Chesapeake Bay's Choptank River. Her team's research is supported by a $750,000 competitive grant from the National Science Foundation.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Christopher Conner
cconner@umces.edu
443-496-0095
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Public Release: 2-Oct-2008
Dunn Foundation gives Rice $3M for collaborative research grants
The John S. Dunn Research Foundation has awarded a $3 million grant to Rice University to "jump-start" collaborative research studies in biomedical science that have the potential for clinical applications.
John S. Dunn Research Foundation
Contact: Jade Boyd
jadeboyd@rice.edu
713-348-6778
Rice University
Public Release: 2-Oct-2008
National Science Foundation grants Clemson professors award to develop nanoprobes
The National Science Foundation has granted two Clemson University professors $250,000 to research and develop nanofiber-based probes -- needles that are 10 times smaller in diameter than a human hair -- for medical diagnostics.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Doug Hirt
hirtd@clemson.edu
864-656-0822
Clemson University
Public Release: 2-Oct-2008
Penn State's Center for Nanoscale Science receives $13.2 million NSF grant for materials research
Penn State's Center for Nanoscale Science receives a six-year $13.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to continue research and educational activities in its Materials Research Science and Engineering Center.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Vicki Fong
vfong@psu.edu
814-865-9481
Penn State
Public Release: 2-Oct-2008
National Science Foundation awards grant to build 'CubeSats'
A new series of CubeSats, small satellites in the shapes of cubes, will soon take to the skies. Using the CubeSats, scientists will conduct space weather research impossible with other instruments.
Contact: Cheryl Dybas
cdybas@nsf.gov
703-292-7734
National Science Foundation
Public Release: 2-Oct-2008
Asthma research receives million dollar donation
The Center for Allergy Research at Karolinska Institutet has received a donation of $1 million for research into severe asthma. The donation was made by the Sandler Foundation.
Contact: Sabina Bossi
sabina.bossi@ki.se
46-852-486-066
Karolinska Institutet
Public Release: 1-Oct-2008
Jefferson awarded multi-million dollar grant from National Eye Institute for new clinical trial
Researchers at the Farber Institute for Neurosciences at Thomas Jefferson University and the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University were recently awarded a $3.7 million grant from the National Eye Institute to study depression in patients diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration.
NIH/National Eye Institute
Contact: Ed Federico
ed.federico@jefferson.edu
Thomas Jefferson University
Public Release: 1-Oct-2008
Annual NASA Convention
Sweat it out: UH study examines ability of sweat patches to monitor bone loss
Some health assessments that are routinely carried out on Earth are not practical when the "patients" are free-floating astronauts on long space flights, such as missions to Mars or the Moon. A new, NASA-funded study from the University of Houston department of health and human performance will examine how well sweat patches the size of adhesive strips can detect levels of chemicals that may indicate bone loss.
NASA
Contact: Marisa Ramirez
mrcannon@uh.edu
713-743-8152
University of Houston
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