EurekAlert! - Education

U Alberta researcher in same group as Darwin and Hawking

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(University of Alberta) John Vederas, a University of Alberta professor in the department of chemistry, has been named to the Royal Society, the national academy of science of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. The ceremony takes place the week of July 6 in London. Included in the Royal Society's membership are Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking. There are more than 60 Nobel laureates among the society's 1,400 members.

Overweight kids experience more loneliness, anxiety, MU study finds

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(University of Missouri-Columbia) As childhood obesity rates continue to increase, experts agree that more information is needed about the implications of being overweight as a step toward reversing current trends. Now, a new University of Missouri study has found that overweight children, especially girls, show signs of the negative consequences of being overweight as early as kindergarten.

UT multimedia program increases middle school interest in science

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) Middle school students who were part of a unique science learning program developed by the University of Texas School of Public Health showed significant increases in interest and achievement scores compared to other students, a recent study found.

Report calls for new initiative to improve math education for preschoolers

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(National Academy of Sciences) To ensure that all children enter elementary school with the foundation they need for success, a major national initiative is needed to improve early childhood mathematics education, says a new report from the National Research Council.

Graduate students win prestigious prizes for their work

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Each year, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics awards SIAM Student Paper Prizes to the most outstanding papers submitted to the SIAM Student Paper Prize Competition. SIAM is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 SIAM Student Paper Prizes who will present their papers during the SIAM Annual Meeting in Denver, Colo., July 6-10.

Liverpool to strengthen health research in Africa

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) Researchers at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the University of Liverpool will work with universities across Africa as part of a £30 million ($49 million) initiative to strengthen research into science and health on the continent.

Research output in developing countries reveals 194 percent increase in 5 years

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(Elsevier) The partners of Research4Life announced today at the World Conference of Science Journalists 2009 that a new research impact analysis has demonstrated a dramatic rise in research output by scientists in the developing world since 2002. By comparing absolute growth in published research before (1996-2002) and after (2002-2008) the advent of the Research4Life programs, the analysis has revealed a 194 percent or 6.4-fold increase in articles published in peer reviewed journals.

Nursery programs for corals receive TLC from NOAA this Independence Day

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science) As the nation celebrates its birth on the 4th of July, University of Miami Prof. Diego Lirman and fellow coral nursery scientists will be celebrating as well. NOAA announced that the Nature Conservancy and its partners' staghorn and elkhorn coral recovery projects, including Lirman's nursery in Biscayne National Park, will receive $350K in stimulus support from the ARRA to further develop large-scale, in-water coral nurseries and restore reefs along Florida's southern coast and in the US Virgin Islands.

Climate change and the mystery of the shrinking sheep

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Changing winter conditions are causing Scotland's wild Soay sheep to get smaller despite the evolutionary benefits of having a large body, researchers report in a study that shows how climate change can trump natural selection.

International team of students and scientists on month-long field course in Siberian Arctic

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(Woods Hole Research Center) Scientists and undergraduate students from across the United States and Russia are departing July 2 for a month-long field course in the Russian Arctic. The program, known as the Polaris Project, is training future leaders in arctic research and education, and informing the public about the impacts of climate change.

African institutions lead international consortia in $49 million initiative

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(Wellcome Trust) More than 50 institutions from 18 African countries -- from Senegal to Sudan to South Africa -- are to participate in international consortia under a £30 ($49) million initiative from the Wellcome Trust to strengthen research capacity on the continent.

UT Austin professor honored with prestigious mathematics award

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Mary F. Wheeler, of the University of Texas at Austin, will be awarded the Theodore von Kármán Prize at the SIAM Annual Meeting for her seminal research in numerical methods for partial differential equations, her leadership in the field of scientific computation and service to the scientific community, and for her pioneering work in the application of computational methods to the engineering sciences, most notably in geosciences.

Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden professor to receive prestigious prize in mathematics

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) The W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics will be awarded to Anders Lindquist at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Denver, July 6-10. Lindquist is being recognized for his fundamental contributions to the theory of stochastic systems, signals, and control. He is head of the Division of Optimization and Systems Theory and director of the Strategic Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics both at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Professor honored with prestigious award for work in computational mathematics

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Professor Assyr Abdulle, of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, will be honored with the James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing during the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Denver, July 6-10.

Princeton professor to receive prestigious prize in mathematics

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Weinan E, professor in the department of mathematics and program in applied and computational mathematics at Princeton University will be awarded the Ralph E. Kleinman Prize at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Denver, July 6-10.

Computational scientist receives prestigious honor

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics will honor Franco Brezzi, one of the leading computational mathematicians of our day, as the 2009 John von Neumann Lecturer during the SIAM Annual Meeting in Denver, July 6-10. Brezzi is director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technology and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Italy.

Loyola University Chicago professor honored

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Rafal Goebel, assistant professor from the department of mathematics and statistics at Loyola University Chicago will be honored with the SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory Prize. Goebel will be recognized during the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and will present a plenary session at the SIAM Conference on "Control & Its Applications."

UT Austin professor to receive prize for distinguished service

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) J. Tinsley Oden will receive the SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession on Tuesday, July 7 during the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Denver. Oden, director of ICES at the University of Texas at Austin, will be honored for his tireless service to the applied mathematics and mechanics communities.

Improving math education in early childhood

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(National Academy of Sciences) Though many consider teaching math to young children to be unnecessary or inappropriate at this stage in their educational development, research shows that as early as infancy, children start to think about the world in mathematical ways

Finding solutions to the chronic nursing shortage

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(University of Western Ontario) The Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at the University of Western Ontario has announced a $2 million research chair to address issues surrounding the chronic shortage of registered nurses in Canada and the United States. Dr. Heather Laschinger, Ph.D., was named the first Arthur Labatt Family Nursing Research Chair in Human Resource Optimization.

Relationships improve student success

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(University of Missouri-Columbia) When students are underachieving, school policymakers often examine class size, curriculum and funding, but University of Missouri researchers suggest establishing relationships may be a powerful and less expensive way to improve students' success. In a review of the research they show that students with positive attachments to their teachers and schools have higher grades and higher standardized test scores.

BGU'S Desert Research Institutes to receive Cleantech 2009 Environmenal Excellence Award

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research has won the CleanTech 2009 Excellence Award in the category of Outstanding Academic Institution in the Field of Environmental Studies.

Ecological Society of America announces 2009 award recipients

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(Ecological Society of America) The Ecological Society of America will present societal awards to five distinguished ecologists at its 94rd Annual Meeting on Monday, August 3, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. More than 3,500 attendees are expected at this year's meeting.

First riser-drilling research operations undertaken

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International) IODP drilling vessel CHIKYU has resumed operations in the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone off the Kii Peninsula of Japan using riser technology successfully for the first time in scientific ocean research.

Race origins and health disparites

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT

(Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science) To understand health disparities, researchers need to understand how today's racial categories evolved from the negative assumptions made hundreds of years ago to justify slavery.