Discipline in Biological News

Academy Library accepted to prestigious Biodiversity Heritage Library

... Today the library collection is world renowned and unique in the Western Hemisphere for its holdings of rare and historic printed books in every discipline of natural science. The collection contains more than 200,000 volumes and more than 250,000 manuscripts, including journals, maps, photographs, ...

Women faring well in hiring process for science faculty jobs at research universities

... research, and service. Although at first glance men seemed to have more lab space than women, this difference disappeared when other factors such as discipline and faculty rank were accounted for. However, men appeared to have greater access to equipment needed for research and to clerical support, the ...

UCSB scientists document fate of huge oil slicks from seeps at coal oil point

... student at UCSB studying marine science and earth science. "It was a great opportunity," Farwell said. "I was able to cross over into a different discipline that allowed me to make a contribution and understand the process of science as a whole." Valentine, who supervised Farwell's research, said, ...

Canadian biomedical engineering pioneer receives international award

... chemistry, University of Toronto, received the award in 2008. Selection for a Founders Award is based on long-term, landmark contributions to the discipline of biomaterials. "John has been a leading member of the world's biomaterials community for many years," said Michael Sefton, past-president of the ...

Premier issue of Ecopsychology launched by Mary Ann Liebert Inc. publishers

... human-nature relationships and understanding the multidimensional links between humankind and its natural environment is at the core of the evolving discipline called ecopsychology and is the focus of a new, peer-reviewed online journal, Ecopsychology , published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. ( ...

Oxford's Dr. Rosalind Rickaby receives 2009 Rosenstiel Award

... and atmospheric chemistry; marine biology and fisheries; applied marine physics; and marine affairs. This year's award to Rickaby falls within the discipline of marine geology and geophysics. ...

American Institute of Physics announces awards for best science writing

... in Segre's book were anything but. Reflected in its subtitle, "A Struggle for the Soul of Physics," the book's chief theme is an examination of a discipline at a major crossroads. The world of physics was undergoing a great transition. By the time of the 1932 meeting, Bohr and others had pieced together ...

UTSA wins $500,000 to develop biosensor and regenerative medicine Ph.D. program

... and students," added Anson Ong, USAA Foundation Distinguished Professor and chair of UTSA's Department of Biomedical Engineering. "Each academic discipline has a different way of thinking and a different way of solving problems. By working together, the students in this program initiative will better ...

Darwin anniversary heralds new conservation research era for Northern Ireland

... Professor Ian Montgomery, Head of the School of Biological Sciences, added: "The work will break fresh ground within the relatively new discipline of environmental economics, which values ecosystem services in financial terms, for example, the value of natural habitats such as woodland or bog in ...

Darwin's seminal impact on biology, anthropology, philosophy and psychology

... is an important missing link, which he believes is at the root of a lack of consensus in social sciences. "Anthropology is the only social science discipline in which behavioral biologists work alongside ethnologists. It is where gaps can be bridged between the two groups. Unfortunately, we neglect the ...

Human genomics in China

... recall the short but fruitful history of human genome project and coordinately explore the trend and goal of the future development of this academic discipline in China. As early as in the late 1980s, the Chinese High Technology Research and Development Program, which is also known as the 863 Program, ...

Festschrift Issue honoring Judah Folkman, M.D. in Lymphatic Research and Biology

... ). The issue is available free online at www.liebertpub.com/lrb "Not only did Judah Folkman single-handedly create the research discipline of angiogenesis, he also played a very fundamental role in the extension of the same principles to the field of lymphangiogenesis research," says ...

GEN joins Charles Darwin 2009 celebration

... Alfred Russel Wallace, there would probably be no biotechnology industry," says John Sterling, Editor in Chief of GEN . "Every life-science-related discipline is deeply grounded in evolutionary theory. This is particularly the case with genetics and molecular biology, two cornerstones of biotech research." ...

Eight ASU faculty elected as AAAS Fellows

... by AAAS for her "outstanding record of scholarship and disciplinary leadership" and because she "clearly established herself as a leader within the discipline and has left a permanent mark within American geography." Nancy Grimm is cited by AAAS for "pioneering studies of urban social-ecological systems ...

James Thomson receives 2008 Massry Prize honoring stem cell researchers

... relevant cells in the body. But getting those cells into the body in a physiologically useful form is the most challenging part and involves every discipline in medicine." UW-Madison Chancellor Carolyn "Biddy" Martin says the Massry Prize is welcome recognition of Thomson's pioneering work with human ...

Synthetic biology key in the 21st century

... DC Among the 75 people Esquire magazine recently chose as the most influential in the 21st century are three researchers in an emerging discipline that combines science and engineering in order to design and build novel biological functions and systems otherwise known as synthetic biology. ...

MIT researchers explain mystery of gravity fingers

... been unable to capture this phenomenon using mathematical models." "This was the type of problem that required someone from a different research discipline to take a look at it and come up with the solution," said Juanes, the ARCO Assistant Professor in Energy Studies. "Luis applied his expertise to a ...

NIST awards $24M in grants for new research facilities

... to operating nanoscale devices to observe dynamic processes and extremely rapid transient events at the nanoscale; quantum nanomechanics, an emerging discipline focused on the measurement and control of mechanical properties of nanostructures; interferometry with ultracold atoms, with applications ranging ...

Systems biology brings hope of speeding up drug development

... from the fact that at present researchers lack tools to assess in advance how candidate drugs work across the human's whole biological system. The discipline of systems biology represents an attempt to unite the medical research community behind a common approach to understanding and modelling the complex ...

Issues at intersection of climate change and health impact global well-being

... many vested interests with the resulting potential to frighten, confuse and/or alienate people. Health communication has therefore emerged as a key discipline in preventive medicine. The papers by Jan Semenza et al. and Ed Maibach et al. provide both empirical data and theoretical background on climate ...

GSA congratulates 2008 award winners

... University This award acknowledges outstanding early career contributions in behavioral and social gerontology. It is given to a person from any discipline in the social sciences. The Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award Presented to Barbara Resnick, PhD , University of Maryland ...

Consumer not ready for tailor-made nutrition

... Ronteltap concludes that many obstacles must be overcome before products based on nutrigenomics become a reality. Nutrigenomics is a discipline that investigates the correlation between nutrients and the human genome. This area of science can contribute to public health and disease prevention ...

New book includes advances in the science and practice of transfusion and transplantation

... COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (Oct. 28, 2008) Transfusion science, a discipline of biomedicine concerned with preventing the transmission of diseases associated with blood transfusion and tissue transplantation, has made ...

New $11 million center to speed production of new compounds for drug discovery

... that has been done before." Organic chemists traditionally have collaborated with biologists while competing with other members of their own discipline who work on the same problem. "Here the idea is different," Kozmin said. "We would like to address a problem, but we would like to see how each of us ...

A new journal where molecular biology meets clinical research

... European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) proudly announces the introduction of EMBO Molecular Medicine , a new journal dedicated to a research discipline focused on the interface between molecular biology and clinical research. The new journal, launching in 2009, will publish original research offering ...

LIAI launches new division to look at novel approaches to heart disease and inflammation

... that cholesterol plays a major role, it is not the whole story." Ley, an internationally recognized scientist who helped pioneer the scientific discipline of vascular immunology, which looks at novel immune-based approaches to heart disease, said inflammation caused by the immune system is also an ...

8 National Medals of Science awardees to be honored at gala, then the White House

... to establish its performance limits and to evaluate its performance and behavior. In these efforts, he laid the groundwork and established the discipline by which future generations of engineers would seek to model, measure and evaluate the computer and communication systems they were building. (See ...

KAUST and IBM to build 1 of the fastest and most powerful supercomputers

... Laboratory in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and is ready to provide HPC services to KAUST's research partners located throughout the world. These range in discipline and geography, from MIT in Massachusetts to London's Imperial College and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In addition, KAUST ...

Loneliness undermines health as well as mental well-being

... William Patrick, the former science editor at Harvard University Press. The book was just published by W.W. Norton. One of the founders of a new discipline called social neuroscience, Cacioppo used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) brain scans and advanced scientific techniques to document the ...

Analysis of Lake Washington microbes shows the power of metagenomic approaches

... study, said in an email that the paper describes "an interesting novel approach" and the results "constitute a significant advance in the emerging discipline of metagenomics." "I think other people can use the same approach in different environments, as long as they have an enrichment technique," ...

Scientists team up in Houston to tackle global challenges

... poster papers will shape this year's program. A host of daily lectures, symposia, sessions, workshops, and field trips are organized into topical and discipline sessions specific to each Society. Search the Joint Annual Meeting Program online at: www.acsmeetings.org/programs . There will be a Welcome ...

ICS presents prestigious Digby McLaren Medal to Cincinnati's Carl Brett

... he says. He teaches an introductory freshman course mostly using field trips. "There are not many like it in the country. We use an integrative discipline approach out in the field. We look at real rock outcrops and I ask them to think 'What does this mean?' to put each observation in terms of a broad ...

Potential new drug target to fight tuberculosis identified

... microbiologists, immunologists and cell biologists. "In the ideal collaboration, each participant brings key insights from their particular discipline to the table," Dr. Nathan says. "The results are discoveries like these." ...

2 Springer authors win important awards from the Ecological Society of America

... 4, 2008. Monica Turner, professor of ecology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, is one of the founders of the discipline of landscape ecology. Her seminal publications on the subject led to the first comprehensive textbook on landscape ecology, Landscape Ecology in ...

Ecological Society of America announces 2008 award recipients

... for meritorious contributions to ecology with the expectation of continued outstanding ecological research. Turner is one of the founders of the discipline of landscape ecology; her seminal publications on the subject led to the first comprehensive textbook on the subject in 2001. Her work in Yellowstone ...

Political participation is partially rooted in genetic inheritance

... in research is to determine why genes matter so much. They conclude, "These studies provide the first step needed to excite the imaginations of a discipline not used to thinking about the role of biology in human behavior." ...

Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga awarded Humboldt Prize

... Awards annually to scientists and scholars "whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future." Winners receive 60,000 Euros (approximately $93,000) and are ...

Volcano taming

... the current issue of the Inderscience Publication, International Journal of Global Environmental Issues. During the 1960s, Schuiling pioneered the discipline of geochemical engineering, which involves the use of natural processes to solve environmental and civil engineering problems. He recently turned his ...

New projects to raise UK profile in synthetic biology

... Council (EPSRC) have awarded funding to seven new networks in synthetic biology to allow UK researchers to build links across institutions and discipline boundaries to form a true synthetic biology community. The networks, which formally involve eight universities, will have a strong social and ethical ...

McMaster University engineering professor receives Humboldt Research Award

... granted to outstanding scientists and scholars whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in future. Award winners are invited to spend a period of up to one year ...