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Public Release: 22-May-2013
'Landscapes of Resilience' to study how people use nature as a source of recovery
US Forest Service scientists are part of "Landscapes of Resilience," a multi-disciplinary team that, with funding from the TKF Foundation, will examine how collaborative planning and stewardship of open spaces help communities and individuals recover from tragedy.
TKF Foundation

Contact: Jane Hodgins
jmhodgins@fs.fed.us
651-649-5281
USDA Forest Service - Northern Research Station

Public Release: 22-May-2013
DFG establishes 11 new research training groups
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is establishing 11 new Research Training Groups to further support early career researchers in Germany. This decision was made by the relevant Grants Committee in Bonn. Funding of approximately 39 million euros has been awarded to the new programs for an initial period of four and a half years.

Contact: Marco Finetti
marco.finetti@dfg.de
49-228-885-2230
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Public Release: 22-May-2013
Do songbirds hold key to stuttering?
A tiny Australian songbird may hold the answer to discovering the biological source of stuttering. A team of Michigan State University scientists will investigate the brain and behavior of the zebra finch in the first in-depth study of whether stuttering stems from a lack of rhythm.
Grammy Foundation

Contact: Andy Henion
henion@msu.edu
517-355-3294
Michigan State University

Public Release: 22-May-2013
UC Riverside announces science research grants related to immortality
Phenomena related to near-death experiences, immortality in virtual reality, and genes that prevent a species of freshwater hydra from aging are among the first research proposals funded by The Immortality Project at the University of California, Riverside.
John Templeton Foundation

Contact: Bettye Miller
bettye.miller@ucr.edu
951-827-7847
University of California - Riverside

Public Release: 21-May-2013
NSF and SRC to fund research to create failure-resistant systems
Leaders of the National Science Foundation and the Semiconductor Research Corporation, the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today announced 18 new projects funded through a joint initiative to address research challenges in the design of failure-resistant circuits and systems.
National Science Foundation, Semiconductor Research Corporation

Contact: Lisa-Joy Zgorski
lisajoy@nsf.gov
703-292-8311
National Science Foundation

Public Release: 21-May-2013
Research at the cutting edge of knowledge
The Brazilian funding agency for scientific and technological research São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP, based in the state of São Paulo, announced an investment estimated in US$680 million to support 17 Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers for a period of up to eleven years. Each selected RIDC must develop opportunities to have its research results contribute to commercially and/or socially relevant high-impact applications, as well as contributing to education and dissemination of knowledge.
FAPESP -- Sao Paulo Research Foundation

Contact: Fernando Cunha
cunha@fapesp.br
55-113-838-4151
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Public Release: 21-May-2013
Gates Fellowship addresses parasite infection in developing world
Washington University in St. Louis announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Tae Seok Moon, Ph.D., assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project titled "Programmed Killing of Parasite Eggs by Probiotic Organisms."
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Contact: Neil Schoenherr
nschoenherr@wustl.edu
314-935-5235
Washington University in St. Louis

Public Release: 21-May-2013
Founding donor doubles his gift to Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced today that Hansjorrg Wyss, the entrepreneur and philanthropist who enabled the Institute's creation in 2009 with a $125 million gift, has donated a second $125 million gift to the University to further advance the Institute's pioneering work.

Contact: Kristen Kusek
kristen.kusek@wyss.harvard.edu
617-432-8266
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard

Public Release: 21-May-2013
Effort to achieve more energy-efficient computing earns science foundation's support
An ASU computer scientist's work to develop more energy-efficient computing systems earns support from Science Foundation Arizona. Carole-Jean Wu's work to convert heat into electrical energy could improve the energy-efficiency of an array of technologies that use computing systems.
Science Foundation Arizona

Contact: Joe Kullman
joe.kullman@asu.edu
480-965-8122
Arizona State University

Public Release: 21-May-2013
Fueling fitness on the final frontier
Think keeping in shape is an uphill battle? Try staying fit in space, where living quarters are cramped and prolonged weightlessness withers muscle and bone.
NASA

Contact: Andy McGlashen
andy.mcglashen@cabs.msu.edu
517-355-5158
Michigan State University

Public Release: 21-May-2013
Do men's and women's hearts burn fuel differently?
Gender differences in the heart's metabolic response to stress may shed light on heart disease.
NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Contact: Sharon Parmet
sparmet@uic.edu
312-413-2695
University of Illinois at Chicago

Public Release: 21-May-2013
Building a better team -- on Mars
Sometime in the next quarter-century, NASA plans to send the first humans to Mars, a mission that will push the boundaries of teamwork for a handful of astronauts who will spend as long as three years together in a tiny capsule. A Michigan State University project aims to arm the crew with innovative devices to monitor interactions and provide instant feedback when conflict or other issues with team cohesion arise.
NASA

Contact: Andy Henion
henion@msu.edu
517-355-3294
Michigan State University

Public Release: 21-May-2013
U-M Water Center awards $570K in Great Lakes restoration grants
The new University of Michigan Water Center today awarded 12 research grants, totaling nearly $570,000, to support Great Lakes restoration and protection efforts.

Contact: Jim Erickson
ericksn@umich.edu
734-647-1842
University of Michigan

Public Release: 20-May-2013
Year 1 status of the AGI Center for Geoscience Education and Public Understanding
Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) has awarded a significant five-year grant to the American Geosciences Institute to aid in the implementation of the new Center for Geoscience Education and Public Understanding. The new grant, which will provide the Center with $500,000 over a five-year period, will help fund projects already underway, including various Earth science and energy education initiatives.

Contact: Ann Benbow
aeb@agiweb.org
American Geosciences Institute

Public Release: 20-May-2013
Pain, pain, go away
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have been awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to apply the techniques of gene therapy to the problem of neuropathic pain -- that is, pain that arises from a malfunction in the nervous system.
NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Contact: Jim Kelly
jpkelly@utmb.edu
409-772-8791
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Public Release: 20-May-2013
Unraveling the Napo's mystery
In the United States, rivers and their floodplains are well-documented and monitored. Ecuador's largest river, however, remains largely mysterious.
National Science Foundation, NASA, World Wildlife Fund, National Geographic Society

Contact: Layne Cameron
layne.cameron@cabs.msu.edu
517-353-8819
Michigan State University

Public Release: 20-May-2013
Academy of Natural Sciences to guide coordinated region-wide watershed protection
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University has received a major grant from the William Penn Foundation to support watershed protection and restoration in the Delaware watershed that is intended to coordinate and demonstrate a region-wide impact on improving water quality.
William Penn Foundation

Contact: Rachel Ewing
raewing@drexel.edu
215-895-2614
Drexel University

Public Release: 20-May-2013
NSF approves planning grant for Center for Advanced Research in Drying
A National Science Foundation planning grant will help establish the Center for Advanced Research in Drying, a joint program of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Phyllis Picklesimer
p-pickle@illinois.edu
217-244-2827
University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

Public Release: 20-May-2013
AGA Student Research Fellowships enable 30 young investigators to further their research careers
The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Research Foundation has announced the 2013 Student Research Fellowship Award recipients. The awards are intended to stimulate interest in research careers in digestive diseases among high school, undergraduate, graduate and medical school students. The high school recipients are funded by The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.
Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

Contact: Rachel Steigerwald
newsroom@gastro.org
301-272-1603
American Gastroenterological Association

Public Release: 19-May-2013
AGA Research Foundation Research Scholar Awards advance the work of promising gastroenterologists
The American Gastroenterological Association Research Foundation is pleased to announce its 2013 research scholars. This year's honorees are outstanding young gastroenterologists working toward independent careers in gastroenterology, hepatology or related areas, and with this award, their research time will be protected.

Contact: Rachel Steigerwald
newsroom@gastro.org
301-272-1603
American Gastroenterological Association

Public Release: 19-May-2013
AGA Research Foundation grant furthers digestive cancer research
The AGA Research Foundation is honored to announce the first AGA-Caroline Craig Augustyn and Damian Augustyn Award in Digestive Cancer, which will support Andrew D. Rhim, MD, from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, as he furthers his research on the role of Zeb1 in pancreas development, regeneration and cancer progression.

Contact: Rachel Steigerwald
newsroom@gastro.org
301-272-1603
American Gastroenterological Association

Public Release: 18-May-2013
Digestive Disease Week
New gut microbiome research to explore red meat -- colorectal cancer pathway
The AGA Research Foundation announced a new grant that intends to stimulate research into the relationship between the gut microbiota, one of today's most exciting areas of science, and digestive health and disease.

Contact: Rachel Steigerwald
newsroom@gastro.org
301-272-1603
American Gastroenterological Association

Public Release: 17-May-2013
Underrepresented minority students receive fellowships in digestive disease and nutrition research
Illustrating a commitment to the support of underrepresented minority researchers, the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Research Foundation has announced the inaugural AGA Investing in the Future Student Research Fellowship Award recipients. Supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, this new award helps underrepresented minority students to further their research careers in digestive disease and nutrition research.
NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Contact: Rachel Steigerwald
newsroom@gastro.org
301-272-1603
American Gastroenterological Association

Public Release: 16-May-2013
Team wins cubesat berth to gather earth energy imbalance measurements
A team of scientists has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's most important frontiers in climate studies: The imbalance in Earth's energy budget and the extent to which fast-changing phenomena, like clouds, contribute to that imbalance.
NASA

Contact: Cynthia O'Carroll
cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov
301-286-4787
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Public Release: 16-May-2013
Clemson receives $5M for alliance to increase African-Americans in computer sciences
The National Science Foundation has awarded Clemson University a $5 million grant to launch the Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Sciences.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Brian M. Mullen
mullen2@clemson.edu
864-656-2063
Clemson University

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