34 Outstanding Teachers and Schools Receive $10,000 Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence
2009 Awardees Recognized in Amgen Communities Across North America THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN ) today announced the 34 science teachers in the United States (U.S.), Canada and Puerto Rico who are this year's recipients of the Amgen Award...LA BioMed researcher receives clinical teaching award
LOS ANGELES (June 1, 2009) Darryl Y. Sue, MD, an investigator at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) will receive the Serge & Yvette Dadone Clinical Teaching Award for his "sustained excellence as a teacher" on Friday. The David Geffen School of Medicine at the Universit...New doctors, teaching physicians disagree about essential medical procedures to learn
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Physicians teaching at medical schools and doctors who have just completed their first year out of medical school disagree about which procedures are necessary to learn before graduating, according to a new survey done by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicin...Watch Me Learn Offers Schools a Teaching Solution for Children with Autism
NEW YORK, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- With the rapidly growing numbers of students diagnosed with autism, parents and educators are presented a formidable challenge for classroom teachers to create individualized programs for each child. "Every child diagnosed with autism has a unique variety of lear...UT Southwestern teaching hospital halves its rate of premature births, researchers find
DALLAS Feb. 27, 2009 UT Southwestern Medical Center's primary adult teaching hospital has cut its rate of preterm births by more than half in the past 15 years, even as national rates are rising, researchers have found. The drop at Parkland Memorial Hospital, from 10.4 percent in 1988 to 4.9 ...White patients benefit more than blacks in surviving surgical complications at teaching hospitals
Elderly patients who undergo surgery at teaching-intensive hospitals have better survival rates than at nonteaching hospitals, but these better survival rates apparently occur in white patients, not black patients. "We found an advantage in surgical outcomes for patients in teaching-intensive ...Tiny Cup Attached to Eye Improves Drug Delivery For Retinal Diseases
...roughout the United States and around the world for its leadership in pediatric and adolescent health. Children's Hospital is one of America's premier teaching hospitals, affiliated with the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California since 1932. It is a national leader in pediatric resea...ARUP Laboratories Applauds FDA's Decision on the Value of KRAS-Mutation Testing in Colorectal Cancer
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Managing plant diseases that threaten the food supply and economy is a challenge for agriculturalists around the world. Sparsely stocked libraries, scarce and expensive software, and even a lack of materials in students' native languages are barriers to training plant pathologists in resource-p...Clemson chemists present revolutionary teaching concepts
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MADISON, WI, January 5, 2009 -- A new calibration tool was recently developed to help students and soil scientists calibrate their thumb and forefinger for the correct amount of pressure. C.A. Seybold and colleagues, USDA-NRCS, Lincoln, NE, write about this new tool in the 2009 issue of Journa...New manual presents robust, state-of-the-art proteomics methods for teaching and research
COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (Dec. 18, 2008) "Life happens at the level of proteins . . . They build, process, activate, and inactivate; they polymerize, repair, support, modify, degrade, fold, migrate, and transport; they shorten, signal, cleave, inhibit, digest, fluoresce, induce, excise, carry, ...Meeting the challenges of teaching agriculture
MADISON, WI, September 22, 2008 -- Agriculture in the 21st century is rapidly expanding its "product line," aiming not only to provide society with food and fiber, but also biofuels, bioproducts, carbon storage, aquifer recharge, biodiversity, and still other goods and services. Meanwhile, crit...Biophysical Society to host discussions on the teaching of evolution and on the energy crisis
The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that it will host two public affairs sessions during its Joint Meeting with the International Biophysics Congress in Long Beach, California, February 2-6, 2008. The special sessions complement the scientific talks and poster sessions that take place d...Call for Applications: The Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence
34 Outstanding Teachers Will Be Recognized in Communities Where Amgen Operates THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN ) today announced that it now invites applications for its 18th annual Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence (...Zimmer Launches New Medical Education and BioSkills Training Program
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