 |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| News From the National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) — For more information about NSF and its programs, visit www.nsf.gov NSF Funded News
Key: Meeting
Showing releases 151-175 out of 701 releases.
Public Release: 21-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} Georgia Tech wins NSF award for next-gen supercomputing The Georgia Institute of Technology today announced its receipt of a five-year, $12 million Track 2 award from the National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure to lead a partnership of academic, industry and government experts in the development and deployment of an innovative and experimental high-performance computing system. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Stefany Wilson
Public Release: 21-Oct-2009
 Nature{DISSERTATION} Why sex with a partner is better OK, it takes two for human reproduction, and now it seems that plants and animals that can rely on either a partner or go alone by self-fertilization give their offspring a better chance for longer lives when they opt for a mate.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Jim Barlow
Public Release: 21-Oct-2009
Neuroscience 2009 Behavioural Brain Research{DISSERTATION} Light at night linked to symptoms of depression in mice Too much light at night can lead to symptoms of depression, according to a new study in mice. Researchers found that mice housed in a lighted room 24 hours a day exhibited more depressive symptoms than did similar mice that had a normal light-dark cycle.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Randy Nelson
Public Release: 20-Oct-2009
Eos{DISSERTATION} Cuts to Mississippi levees could build new land in sinking delta Sediment-rich Mississippi River water could deposit a significant chunk of new land in the river's delta in the coming century if much of the river's flow was diverted through cuts in levees below New Orleans, a new study shows. The land buildup, as simulated by a computer model, would equal almost half the amount of delta acreage otherwise expected to vanish in that period due to sea-level rise, land subsidence and reduced river sediment.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Peter Weiss
Public Release: 20-Oct-2009
Nature Materials{DISSERTATION} Penn team uses self-assembly to make molecule-sized particles with patches of charge Physicists, chemists and engineers have demonstrated a novel method for the controlled formation of patchy particles, using charged, self-assembling molecules that may one day serve as drug-delivery vehicles to combat disease and perhaps be used in small batteries that store and release charge.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Defense
Contact: Jordan Reese
Public Release: 20-Oct-2009
Journal of Molecular Biology{DISSERTATION} Genomes of 2 popular research strains of E. coli sequenced Researchers from the United States, Korea, and France have sequenced and analyzed the genomes of two important laboratory strains of E. coli bacteria, one used to study evolution and the other to produce proteins for basic research or practical applications. The findings will help guide future research and will also open a window to a deeper understanding of classical research that is the foundation of our understanding of basic molecular biology and genetics.
Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Consortium National de Recherche en Genomique, DOE Office of Science, National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Contact: Kendra Snyder
Public Release: 20-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} Virginia Space Grant Consortium project provides geospatial technology Web portal A geospatial technology Web portal for Virginia's Community College System will serve as a repository for pathway models, curriculum, professional development materials, career awareness materials and other resources. The project will consolidate the community colleges' efforts and facilitate coordination and collaboration among faculty members.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lynn Davis
Public Release: 20-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} National Science Foundation Fellow uses ultrasound to research bog turtles National Science Foundation Fellow N. Danielle Bridgers of Suffolk, Va., a fisheries and wildlife sciences graduate student at Virginia Tech, is using ultrasound in her research of the less-than four-inch long bog turtle in order to pinpoint when they will lay their eggs and help protect the endangered creatures.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lynn Davis
Public Release: 20-Oct-2009
JOM{DISSERTATION} New material could boost data storage, save energy North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far exceeding the storage capacities of today's computer memory systems.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 20-Oct-2009
Proceedings of the Royal Society B{DISSERTATION} It takes 2 to tutor a sparrow It may take a village to raise a child, and apparently it takes at least two adult birds to teach a young song sparrow how and what to sing.
National Science Foundation, American Museum of Natural History, American Ornithologists' Union, Animal Behavior Society, University of Washington Royalty Research Fund
Contact: Joel Schwarz
Public Release: 19-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} International glass institute receives second 5-year grant from NSF The institute, a partnership also involving Penn State University, seeks a greater role for glass in meeting the National Academy of Engineering's 14 "grand challenges" for the 21st century. These include making solar energy economical and providing greater access to clean water. The institute has built a global reputation for teaching, research and outreach, maintaining ties with researchers in 32 countries, sponsoring educational and research exchanges and sponsoring "Winter Schools" in Japan and China.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kurt Pfitzer
Public Release: 19-Oct-2009
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine{DISSERTATION} Caltech scientists create robot surrogate for blind persons in testing visual prostheses Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual" experience of a blind person who has been implanted with a visual prosthesis, such as an artificial retina. An artificial retina consists of a silicon chip studded with a varying number of electrodes that directly stimulate retinal nerve cells. It is hoped that this approach may one day give blind persons the freedom of independent mobility.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lori Oliwenstein
Public Release: 19-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} RIT scientists use supercomputers to 'see' black holes Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology have won time on one of the fastest computers in the world in their quest to "shine light" on black holes and test unexplored aspects of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. The team is also collaborating with scientists at other institutions to create an open toolkit and cyberinfrastructure to model black holes, neutron stars and accretion disks.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Susan Gawlowicz
Public Release: 19-Oct-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Arctic lake sediments show warming, unique ecological changes in recent decades An analysis of sediment cores indicates that biological and chemical changes occurring at a remote Arctic lake are unprecedented over the past 200,000 years and likely are the result of human-caused climate change, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Yarrow Axford
Public Release: 18-Oct-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} Time in a bottle: Scientists watch evolution unfold A 21-year Michigan State University experiment that distills the essence of evolution in laboratory flasks not only demonstrates natural selection at work, but could lead to biotechnology and medical research advances, researchers said.
National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Contact: Mark Fellows
Public Release: 16-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} National Science Foundation awards grant to Oklahoma structural biology group The Oklahoma Structural Biology Nexus -- a new statewide group of structural biologists with similar interests in this high-tech field -- will establish a Robotics Crystallization Core Facility on the University of Oklahoma's Norman campus with the National Science Foundation award of a $360,000 grant for sophisticated robotics equipment.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jana Smith
Public Release: 16-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} Blue highways In January, Williams College Professor of Chemistry Anne Skinner, along with six Williams students, will visit the headwaters of the Blue Nile to conduct archeological research. The project is part of a National Science Foundation grant. The three-year $330,000 NSF grant, under the direction of Professor John Kappelman of the University of Texas-Austin, is supporting research on "Blue Highways: Evaluating Middle Stone Age Riverine-Based Foraging, Mobility and Technology Along the Trunk Tributaries of the Blue Nile."
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jo Procter
Public Release: 15-Oct-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Caltech researchers reveal unexpected sources of nitrogen fixation Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have identified an unexpected metabolic ability within a symbiotic community of microorganisms that may help solve a lingering mystery about the world's nitrogen cycling budget. A paper about their work appears in the October 16 issue of the journal Science.
National Science Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Contact: Kathy Svitil
Public Release: 15-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} Grant to design neutrino detector A consortium led by UC Davis physics professor Robert Svoboda will design the world's largest neutrino detector under a $4.4 million contract recently awarded by the National Science Foundation.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Andy Fell
Public Release: 15-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} Montana State University historian heads international project on 19th century scientist Montana State University historian Michael Reidy is leading an international effort to transcribe and publish the letters of John Tyndall, one of the most influential scientists of the 19th century but relatively unknown today.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Evelyn Boswell
Public Release: 15-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} NSF authorizes $29 million for preliminary design of world's deepest underground laboratory UC Berkeley's proposal to build the world's deepest underground laboratory in an abandoned South Dakota mine has received an additional $29 million in support from NSF. The funds, which are for a preliminary design for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, set the stage for later construction funds that would create underground space for experiments in physics, geology and biology.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Robert Sanders
Public Release: 15-Oct-2009
IEEE Electron Device Letters{DISSERTATION} Quantum computer chips now 1 step closer to reality In the quest for smaller, faster computer chips, researchers are increasingly turning to quantum mechanics -- the exotic physics of the small. The problem: the manufacturing techniques required to make quantum devices have been equally exotic. That is, until now.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Paul R. Berger
Public Release: 15-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} CCNY researchers study scientific collaboration in age of Internet An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the City College of New York is studying how virtual organizations, where people work in different locations, sometime halfway around the world, change and affect the production of scientific knowledge. They are supported by a new grant from the National Science Foundation of $368,210 over three years. The investigators hope to identify the conditions under which virtual organizations can enable and enhance scientific production and innovation.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Ellis Simon
Public Release: 15-Oct-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Tiny test tube experiment shows reaction of melting materials at the nano scale Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have conducted a basic chemistry experiment in what is perhaps the world's smallest test tube, measuring a thousandth the diameter of a human hair.
Robert A. Welch Foundation, National Science Foundation, Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
Contact: Tim Green
Public Release: 14-Oct-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} Absent pheromones turn flies into lusty Lotharios When Professor Joel Levine's team genetically tweaked fruit flies so that they didn't produce certain pheromones, they triggered a sexual tsunami in their University of Toronto Mississauga laboratory. In fact, they produced bugs so irresistible that normal male fruit flies attempted to mate with pheromone-free males and even females from a different species -- generally a no-no in the fruit fly dating scene.
Swiss National Science Foundation, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canada Research Chair
Contact: Nicolle Wahl
Showing releases 151-175 out of 701 releases.
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
