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Public Release: 16-Nov-2012
{DISSERTATION} Collaring tapirs to help them survive A team of Michigan State University researchers will soon be heading into the rainforests of Nicaragua to help an endangered species known as a Baird's tapir co-exist with local farmers whose crops are being threatened by the animals. 
National Science Foundation, Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund
Contact: Tom Oswald
Public Release: 16-Nov-2012
 BioScience{DISSERTATION} Indirect effects of climate change could alter landscapes Studies of a northern hardwood forest in New England point to unexpected ecological trends resulting from documented changes in the climate over 50 years. Some of the changes now taking place can be expected to alter the composition of the forest and the wildlife present. The observations may have implications for other northern forests and suggest directions for future research and monitoring.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture Forest Service
Contact: Tim Beardsley
Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference{DISSERTATION} Medical vital-sign monitoring reduced to the size of a postage stamp Electrical engineers have developed new technology to monitor medical vital signs, with sophisticated sensors so small and cheap they could fit onto a bandage, be manufactured in high volumes and cost less than a quarter. When commercialized, the technology could have many potential applications due to its powerful performance, small size, and low cost.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Patrick Chiang
Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
Scientific Reports{DISSERTATION} These bots were made for walking: Cells power biological machines They're soft, biocompatible, about 7 millimeters long -- and, incredibly, able to walk by themselves. Miniature "bio-bots" developed at the University of Illinois are making tracks in synthetic biology. The walking bio-bots demonstrate the Illinois team's ability to forward-engineer functional machines using only hydrogel, heart cells and a 3-D printer. The bio-bots could be customized for specific applications in medicine, energy or the environment.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Liz Ahlberg
Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders{DISSERTATION} Youth with autism gravitate toward STEM majors in college -- if they get there It's a popularly held belief that individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) gravitate toward STEM majors in college (science, technology, engineering mathematics). A new study, co-authored by Paul Shattuck, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, confirms that view yet finds that young adults with an ASD also have one of the lowest overall college enrollment rates.
National Science Foundation, Autism Speaks, NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, Institute of Education Sciences
Contact: Leslie McCarthy
Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
{DISSERTATION} UMass Amherst shares $6.24 Million NSF grant to improve computer science education UMass Amherst's CAITE will share the new five-year, $6.24 million NSF grant with Georgia Computes!, a project at Georgia Tech, to create a national resource for other states that want to learn how to successfully broaden participation in computer science education. Together, the UMass Amherst and Georgia Tech projects will form an Expanding Computing Education Pathways alliance to offer new approaches and best practices in computing education to other states seeking the same goals.
National Science Foundation, National Air and Spance Administration Astrobiology Institute, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact: Janet Lathrop
Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
{DISSERTATION} Extracting meaning from the social web The National Science Foundation has awarded Clemson's Social Media Listening Center two grants to conduct research for better collecting, analyzing, and extracting meaning from the social web.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Brian Mullen
Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
{DISSERTATION} Federal grant funds University of Michigan effort to attract diverse group of science, math and engineering students The number and diversity of University of Michigan students graduating with degrees in science, engineering and mathematics will increase significantly through a cross-campus effort funded by a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jim Erickson
Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
Molecular Cell{DISSERTATION} Scientists show protein-making machinery can switch gears with a small structural change process, which may have implications for immunity and cancer therapy, compared to the movie The Transformers For the past several years, Min Guo, an assistant professor at The Scripps Research Institute, has focused on the intricate actions of an ancient family of catalytic enzymes that play a key role in translation, the process of producing proteins. in a new study, Guo, Ehud Razin of The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, and a large team of international scientists have shown that this enzyme can actually also work in another fundamental process in humans.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, National Foundation for Cancer Research, Global Frontier Project, Ministry of Education
Contact: Eric Sauter
Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Controlling heat flow through a nanostructure MIT researchers find that heat moving in materials called superlattices behaves like waves; finding could enable better thermoelectrics.
National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship
Contact: Sarah McDonnell
Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
{DISSERTATION} US bolsters national push to expand computing education Through a five-year, $6.24 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts Amherst will form a partnership to further grow the pipeline of students in US computer science programs and broaden participation in this fast-growing field.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Brendan Streich
Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Physicists skirt thermal vibration, transfer optical signal via mechanical oscillator Using tiny radiation pressure forces, physicists converted an optical field, or signal, from one color to another, aided by a "dark mode." The conversion occurs through the coupling between light and a mechanical oscillator, without interruption by thermal mechanical vibrations.
National Science Foundation, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Contact: Jim Barlow
Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Rare meteorites created in violent celestial collision A new study shows that the origin of "space gems"--or pallasite meteorites--was more dramatic than first thought.
National Air and Space Administration, National Science Foundation
Contact: Peter Iglinski
Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Archaeologists identify oldest spear points A collaborative study found that human ancestors were making stone-tipped weapons 500,000 years ago at the South African archaeological site of Kathu Pan 1 – 200,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, National Science Foundation, Hyde Family Foundation
Contact: Julie Russ
Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Archaeologists identify spear tips used in hunting a half-million years ago A University of Toronto-led team of anthropologists has found evidence that human ancestors used stone-tipped weapons for hunting 500,000 years ago – 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. Hafted spear tips are common in Stone Age archaeological sites after 300,000 years ago. This new study shows that they were also used in the early Middle Pleistocene, a period associated with Homo heidelbergensis and the last common ancestor of Neandertals and modern humans.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, National Science Foundation, Hyde Family
Contact: Sean Bettam
Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
PLOS Genetics{DISSERTATION} How insects domesticate bacteria Two years ago, a 71-year-old Indiana man impaled his hand on a branch after cutting down a dead crab apple tree, causing an infection that led University of Utah scientists to discover a new bacterium and solve a mystery about how bacteria came to live inside insects.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Lee J. Siegel
Public Release: 14-Nov-2012
{DISSERTATION} Keeneland Project deploys new GPU supercomputing system for the National Science Foundation Georgia Tech, along with partner research organizations on the Keeneland Project, including the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, the National Institute for Computational Sciences and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, announced today that the project has completed installation and acceptance of the Keeneland Full Scale System.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Joshua Preston
Public Release: 14-Nov-2012
{DISSERTATION} Spatial cognition researchers will connect through grant-funded virtual institute The Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center, headquartered at Temple, has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to form the Thematic Network in Spatial Cognition, a virtual institute which will connect researchers from around the world in support of advancing the study of spatial cognition.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kim Fischer
Public Release: 14-Nov-2012
Psychological Science{DISSERTATION} Exploring the financial costs of sadness Your emotions can certainly impact your decisions, but you might be surprised by the extent to which your emotions affect your pocketbook. New research published in Psychological Science explores how impatience brought on by sadness can in turn produce substantial financial loss.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Anna Mikulak
Public Release: 14-Nov-2012
{DISSERTATION} OU research groups awarded NSF grants to expand research and training in science and engineering University of Oklahoma research groups will be able to expand the capabilities of research and training in science and engineering on the Norman campus with the assistance of almost $2 million in grants from the National Science Foundation. The three NSF grants achieved by OU as part of the NSF's Major Research Instrumentation Program total $1,873,595 and are designated for the acquisition or development of shared instrumentation.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jana Smith
Public Release: 14-Nov-2012
ACM CoNEXT 2012{DISSERTATION} Researchers find way to boost WiFi performance 400-700 percent As many WiFi users know, WiFi performance is often poor in areas where there are a lot of users, such as airports or coffee shops. But researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new software program, called WiFox, which can be incorporated into existing networks and expedites data traffic in large audience WiFi environments -- improving data throughput by up to 700 percent.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 14-Nov-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Tropical Indo-Pacific climate shifts to a more El Niño-like state Climate models predict a slowdown of the Walker circulation with global warming. Atmospheric models, however, have failed to reproduce the slowdown already observed over the last 60 years, casting doubt on their ability to simulate slow climate change. Now a study published in this week's issue of Nature has succeeded in simulating the slowdown and shows that changes in the sea surface temperature pattern across the Indo-Pacific are the cause.
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology, National Basic Research Program of China, NASA, National Science Foundation, NOAA
Contact: Gisela Speidel
Public Release: 13-Nov-2012
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society{DISSERTATION} Roots of deadly 2010 India flood identified; Findings could improve warnings New research indicates that flash flooding that swept through the mountain town of Leh, India, in 2010 was set off by a string of unusual weather events similar to those that caused devastating flash floods in Colorado and South Dakota in the 1970s.
National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: Vince Stricherz
Public Release: 13-Nov-2012
eLife{DISSERTATION} New type of bacterial protection found within cells UC Irvine biologists have discovered that fats within cells store a class of proteins with potent antibacterial activity, revealing a previously unknown type of immune system response that targets and kills bacterial infections.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Spanish Ministry of Science & Innovation
Contact: Tom Vasich
Public Release: 13-Nov-2012
European Space Agency conference on Earth Observation and Cryosphere Science Environmental Research Letters{DISSERTATION} Warming temperatures will change Greenland's face Global climate models abound. What is harder to pin down, is how a warmer global temperature might affect any specific region on Earth. Dr. Marco Tedesco, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, and a colleague have made the global local. Using a combination of climate models, they predict how different greenhouse gas scenarios would change the face of Greenland and impact sea level rise.
National Science Foundation
Contact: JESSA NETTING
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