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Public Release: 11-Jun-2013
NIH awards UCI $10 million to study early-life origins of adolescent mental disorders With $10 million in new federal funding, UC Irvine researchers will study how maternal signals and care before and after birth may increase an infant's vulnerability to adolescent cognitive and emotional problems, such as risky behaviors, addiction and depression. 
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health
Contact: Tom Vasich
Public Release: 11-Jun-2013
Hyundai Hope on Wheels awards grant to UCLA's Children's Discovery and Innovation Institute Hyundai Hope on Wheels and Los Angeles-area Hyundai dealers have awarded a $75,000 Hyundai Scholar Grant to Dr. Vivian Chang, a clinical instructor in pediatric hematology and oncology and co-director of the Pediatric Cancer Predisposition Clinic at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, for her work researching DNA sequencing technology to identify cancerous genes.
Hyundai Hope on Wheels
Contact: Amy Albin
Public Release: 11-Jun-2013
Columbia Nursing develops online tool to reduce stress in Hispanic caregivers of dementia patients Although the prevalence of dementia in the Hispanic community is more than twice the national average, most research to help alleviate caregiver burden is focused only on the general population. Now, a team of researchers led by Robert J. Lucero, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.N., Assistant Professor at Columbia University School of Nursing, will develop and test a Web-based intervention designed to address the special needs of Hispanic caregivers.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Rachel Zuckerman
Public Release: 11-Jun-2013
UT Arlington civil engineering professor studying Texas high-speed rail plan A UT Arlington civil engineering associate professor is studying the feasibility of placing a high-speed rail line within the public right of way from North Texas to Houston and San Antonio. UT Arlington's share of the TxDOT grant is $125,868.
Texas Department of Transportation
Contact: Herb Booth
Public Release: 11-Jun-2013
£3.5m project to research ancient music Dr Rupert Till -- who is already renowned for projects such as a recreation of the acoustics of Stonehenge -- is one of a team of researchers throughout Europe who have devised the European Music Archaeology Project. Its aim is to seek a common European musical heritage rooted in antiquity. Dr Till himself will oversee the creation of a special record label, which will feature the project's findings.
EU Culture Programme
Contact: Megan Beech
Public Release: 10-Jun-2013
MIT and Wilson Center receive NSF grant to develop synthetic biology research agenda The MIT Center for International Studies and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars are collaborating on a $233,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to help realize potential benefits and address potential ecological effects of synthetic biology. Contact: Aaron Lovell
Public Release: 10-Jun-2013
Kessler Foundation awarded more than $500,000 in grants by NJ Commission on Brain Injury Research Two neuroscientists at Kessler Foundation received grants from the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research. Jeanne Lengenfelder, Ph.D., assistant director of Neuropsychology Research, was awarded a three-year $397,941 to evaluate impaired emotional processing in individuals with TBI. Victoria Leavitt, Ph.D., research scientist, received a two-year $170,296 grant to study the effect of aerobic exercise on memory in individuals with TBI. Brain scans will be taken pre- and post-treatment to assess changes in the brain.
New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research
Contact: Lauren Scrivo
Public Release: 10-Jun-2013
With new $1.7 million grant, U-M, Johns Hopkins researchers will develop dementia treatment tool With the help of a $1.7-million grant from the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Nursing Research), researchers from the University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins University will design an easy-to-use, web-based tool that helps caregivers track, understand and treat the behavioral symptoms of dementia.
NIH/National Institute of Nursing Research
Contact: Justin Harris
Public Release: 10-Jun-2013
Brandeis scientist wins 2013 Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize The Gruber Foundation today awarded its 2013 neuroscience prize to Eve Marder, a pioneering researcher at Brandeis University who has dedicated her career to understanding the nervous system's basic functions. Marder studies a relatively simple network of some 30 large neurons found in the gut of lobsters and crabs -- a small yet elegant window into humans' unfathomably rich nervous system, home to billions of neurons and trillions of interconnections.
The Gruber Foundation
Contact: Laura Gardner
Public Release: 8-Jun-2013
Researcher sets out to better understand social cohesion Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have received 14 of the 27 Sapere Aude grants awarded by the Danish Council for Independent Research this year. One of the recipients is associate professor of political philosophy Nils Holtug, who was granted 12 million kroner to fund a research project that will investigate which strategies work to improve solidarity, trust and compassion in society. The goal of the project is to influence debate about the topic.
Danish Council for Independent Research
Contact: Nils Holtug
Public Release: 7-Jun-2013
Immortality research at UC Riverside awarded additional $100,000 The John Templeton Foundation has awarded UC Riverside philosophy professor John Martin Fischer an additional $100,000 to support research on issues related to immortality.
John Templeton Foundation
Contact: Bettye Miller
Public Release: 7-Jun-2013
Biomechanics experts at SMU team with Mark Cuban to research phony falls in basketball Biomechanics experts at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, have teamed with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to study the unsavory practice of player flopping in basketball and other sports. Athletes engage in dramatic flopping to create the illusion of illegal contact and bait officials into calling undeserved fouls on opponents. Cuban-owned Radical Hoops Ltd. awarded more than $100,000 for the 18-month study. Researchers will investigate the forces in basketball collisions, said SMU biomechanics expert Peter Weyand.
Radical Hoops Ltd.
Contact: Margaret Allen
Public Release: 7-Jun-2013
NSF-supported Antarctic science documentary is also a teaching tool for aspiring film students An unusual Rutgers University program that involves undergraduates in making documentary films about science has released a three-minute trailer for a project that was filmed in the ice and beneath the frigid waters of the Antarctic Peninsula. The film project was supported by a National Science Foundation grant. Contact: Peter West
Public Release: 7-Jun-2013
Reynolds grant supports aging education of doctors A grant of $1 million over four years will support a program at Brown University to train medical residents, hospitalists and other local physicians in the medicine of healthy aging.
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
Contact: David Orenstein
Public Release: 7-Jun-2013
Jaguar Land Rover and EPSRC announce £10 million virtual engineering research program Jaguar Land Rover will lead a five year research program with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and four leading UK universities. The research projects will give the UK the opportunity to take a global lead in virtual simulation technology. Five new academic research projects that will advance the UK's role in developing virtual simulation technologies were unveiled today by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, The Rt.Hon Dr. Vince Cable MP. Contact: Press Office
Public Release: 7-Jun-2013
Research on geological storage of CO2 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions £3.27 million has been awarded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, as part of the Research Councils UK Energy programme, to four research projects to study the geological viability and safety of storing CO2 underground in depleted North Sea oil and gas fields or saline aquifers. Contact: Press Office
Public Release: 6-Jun-2013
$18 million to study deadly secrets of flu, Ebola, West Nile viruses In an effort to sort out why some viruses such as influenza, Ebola and West Nile are so lethal, a team of US researchers plans a comprehensive effort to model how humans respond to these viral pathogens.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Yoshihiro Kawaoka
Public Release: 6-Jun-2013
UH receives $1 million endowment to train math, science teachers A $1 million endowment funded by the ExxonMobil Corporation will help the University of Houston teachHOUSTON program continue training the next generation of secondary science and math teachers. The endowment is part of a matching program coordinated through the National Math and Science Initiative. A partnership between UH's College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and the College of Education, this teacher-preparation program is changing the way science and math teachers are trained.
ExxonMobil Corporation
Contact: Lisa Merkl
Public Release: 6-Jun-2013
Governor, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center announce over $100 million in capital grant funding Governor Deval Patrick and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center today announced over $100 million in grants for life-sciences-related capital projects in western Massachusetts, including $95 million for the University of Massachusetts Amherst and $5.5 million for the Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute, a joint venture of Baystate Medical Center in Springfield and UMass Amherst.
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
Contact: Angus McQuilken
Public Release: 6-Jun-2013
'Living' biofilters could reduce greenhouse gas emissions Biofilters containing naturally occurring microscopic organisms that live on methane gas could help reduce hard-to-manage greenhouse gas emissions in the petroleum, forest and agriculture industries. The three-year project recently received $495,100 from the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation though its Biological Greenhouse Gas Management Program.
Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation
Contact: Mark Lowey
Public Release: 5-Jun-2013
TechConnect-National Innovation SummitPartnership aims to reduce pollution from 'microplastics' A grant to a VIMS research team will help them develop and test a biodegradable replacement for one of the two main sources of marine microplastic pollution -- the "microbeads" found in scores of household products.
Virginia Innovation Partnership
Contact: David Malmquist
Public Release: 5-Jun-2013
Crowd funding for medical research? U-M team wins national prize for innovative approach Crowd funding is all the rage these days. But could the concept work for medical research? A University of Michigan team wants to find out -- and they have just won a national prize for their prototype of a web-based platform to do it. Contact: Kara Gavin
Public Release: 5-Jun-2013
Going wild could improve winged workforce Every spring in the United States, bees pollinate crops valued at about $14 billion. A Michigan State University professor and a team of scientists are using a five-year, $8.6 million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to keep this winged workforce operating efficiently.
US Department of Agriculture
Contact: Layne Cameron
Public Release: 4-Jun-2013
National Psoriasis Foundation awards $450,000 in research grants Six of the top scientists studying psoriasis -- the most common autoimmune disease in the country, affecting 7.5 million Americans -- and psoriatic arthritis, an inflammatory joint and tendon disease affecting up to 30 percent of people with psoriasis, received National Psoriasis Foundation research grants totaling $450,000 for projects that aim to discover new treatments and a cure for these chronic diseases.
National Psoriasis Foundation
Contact: Noe Baker
Public Release: 4-Jun-2013
What role does sleep play in memory and learning? A research team led by Maxim Bazhenov, a neuroscientist at UC Riverside, has been awarded a nearly $7.5 million grant from the Department of Defense to investigate the role of sleep in memory and learning. The team will develop biologically realistic computer models of a brain -- models that will learn complex patterns, consolidate the resulting memory traces over time in a process that is similar to human sleep, and retrieve the patterns given a cue.
US Department of Defense
Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala
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