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Public Release: 9-Nov-2009
 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Hundreds of genes distinguish patients likely to survive advanced melanoma Some patients can live for years with melanoma that has spread beyond the skin to other organs. Now it may be possible to identify which patients are more likely to survive by analyzing the activity of hundreds of genes involved in the immune response and gene proliferation, according NYU Langone Medical Center scientists. 
National Institutes of Health, Cancer Research Institute, Emerald Foundation, National Science Foundation
Contact: Dorie Klissas
Public Release: 9-Nov-2009
Nature Chemistry{DISSERTATION} Engineers image nanostructure of a solid acid catalyst and boost its catalytic activity Aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and Raman, infrared and UV-visible spectroscopies pinpoint sub-nanometer clusters of tungsten oxide mixed with tiny amounts of zirconium as the active catalytic species in the catalyst. In lab tests, the clusters increased the activity of a poor catalyst by more than 100 times. Solid acid catalysts are more environmentally friendly than liquid catalysts, which evaporate, spill and cause corrosion. Tungstated zirconia's uses include the improvement of gasoline's octane content.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kurt Pfitzer
Public Release: 9-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} Iowa State psychologist is conducting 2 new studies on eyewitness misidentifications Gary Wells, a Distinguished Professor of psychology at Iowa State University who developed the dominant theory of how mistaken identifications occur, has begun work on two new studies to explore the thought processes of eyewitnesses when their memory fails as they still try to identify the perpetrator of a crime.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Mike Ferlazzo
Public Release: 9-Nov-2009
Nature Materials{DISSERTATION} New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays Materials scientists have found a way to transform a chemical long used as an electrical conductor a thin film insulator potentially useful in transistor technology and in devices such as electronic books.
US Department of Energy, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Science Foundation
Contact: Phil Sneiderman
Public Release: 9-Nov-2009
16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security{DISSERTATION} Rutgers computer scientists work to strengthen online security If you forget your password when logging into an e-mail or online shopping Web site, the site will likely ask you a security question: What is your mother's maiden name? Where were you born? The trouble is that such questions are not very secure. But Rutgers computer scientists are testing a new tactic that could be both easier and more secure.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Carl Blesch
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} 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
PLoS Pathogens{DISSERTATION} Pathogen protection and virulence: Dark side of fungal membrane protein revealed Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and Montana State University have discovered a fungal protein that plays a key role in causing disease in plants and animals and which also shields the pathogen from oxidative stress.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Barry Whyte
Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Geological Society of America Bulletin{DISSERTATION} Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 years, which appears to show that the current warming and widespread loss of glacial ice are unprecedented.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Dr. Rory Howlett
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} 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
{DISSERTATION} 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
{DISSERTATION} Carnegie Mellon researchers receive grant Carnegie Mellon's Lucio Soibelman, H. Scott Matthews and Jose M.F. Moura received a three-year $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to identify inexpensive ways to track energy consumption.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Chriss Swaney
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Why nice guys usually get the girls For the insects called water striders, the pushiest guys don't always get the girls, according to a research team led by a University of Arizona scientist. The finding provides support for the theory of multilevel selection and contradicts previous laboratory experiments that suggested that the most aggressive males are the most successful at reproducing.
Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Mari N. Jensen
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Airborne nitrogen shifts aquatic nutrient limitation in pristine lakes The impact of airborne nitrogen released from the burning of fossil fuels and wide-spread use of fertilizers in agriculture is much greater that previously recognized and even extends to remote alpine lakes, according to a study published Nov. 6 in the journal Science.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Margaret Coulombe
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
Science Express{DISSERTATION} Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding star UC Berkeley post-doc Dovi Poznanski was looking through seven-year-old data when he chanced upon a very strange supernova that flashed and was gone in less than a month, when 3-4 months is typical. The unusually rapid supernova appears to match the predicted behavior of a thermonuclear explosion on a white dwarf that is drawing helium from its binary companion. This mechanism is quite different from the two standard types of supernovae.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, Katzman Foundation
Contact: Robert Sanders
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Caught in the act: Butterfly mate preference shows how 1 species can become 2 Breaking up may not be hard to do, say scientists who've found a population of tropical butterflies that may be splitting into two distinct species. The cause of this particular break-up? A shift in wing color and mate preference. In a paper published this week in the journal Science, the researchers describe the relationship between diverging color patterns in Heliconius butterflies and the long-term divergence of populations into new and distinct species.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lee Clippard
Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} Community education and evacuation planning saved lives in Sept. 29 Samoan tsunami Community-based education and awareness programs minimized the death toll from the recent Samoan tsunami, according to a team of researchers that traveled to Samoa last month. Funded by a National Science Foundation grant, the team collected data to document the impacts of the earthquake and ensuing tsunami that occurred on Sept. 29.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Nancy Fullbright
Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} 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
Nature{DISSERTATION} Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, behaving in bizarre ways. The work, published this week in the journal Nature, represents the first time scientists have detected single atoms in a crystalline structure made solely of light, called a Bose Hubbard optical lattice.
National Science Foundation, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, US Army Research Office, US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Contact: Steve Bradt
Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} Materials scientists find better model for glass creation Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that includes common window glass.
National Science Foundation, Harvard University, Hans Werthén Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Göteborg, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, University of Almeria, KAKENHI
Contact: Steve Bradt
Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} 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
Geophysical Research Letters{DISSERTATION} New insight into predicting cholera epidemics in the Bengal Delta In Bangladesh cholera epidemics occur twice a year. Scientists have tried, without much success, to determine the causes -- and advance early detection and prevention efforts. Now, researchers from Tufts University have proposed a link between cholera and fluctuating water levels in the region's three principal rivers -- the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Alexander Reid
Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} Mimicking nature, scientists can now extend redox potentials New insight into how nature handles some fundamental processes is guiding researchers in the design of tailor-made proteins for applications such as artificial photosynthetic centers, long-range electron transfers, and fuel-cell catalysts for energy conversion.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: James E. Kloeppel
Public Release: 3-Nov-2009
Royal Meteorological Society's International Journal of Climatology{DISSERTATION} Study gives clearer picture of how land-use changes affect US climate A study by researchers from Purdue University and the universities of Colorado and Maryland concluded that greener land cover contributes to cooler temperatures, and almost any other change leads to warmer temperatures.
US Department of Energy, NASA, National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact: Greg Kline
Public Release: 3-Nov-2009
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin{DISSERTATION} First impressions count when making personality judgments, new research shows First impressions do matter when it comes to communicating personality through appearance, according to new research by psychologists Laura Naumann of Sonoma State University and Sam Gosling of The University of Texas at Austin.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Michelle Bryant
Public Release: 2-Nov-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Deep-sea ecosystems affected by climate change The vast muddy expanses of the abyssal plains occupy about 60 percent of the Earth's surface and are important in global carbon cycling. Based on long-term studies of two such areas, a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that animal communities on the abyssal seafloor are affected in a variety of ways by climate change.
National Science Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, European Union, Natural Environment Research Council
Contact: Kim Fulton-Bennett
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