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EurekAlert! - Education
Sat Jun 27 20:29:06 EDT 2009
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Race origins and health disparites - (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.

University of Kansas becomes first US public university to pass an open access policy - (University of Kansas) Scholarly articles -- the method by which a professor presents original research results -- normally are published in peer-reviewed journals and available only through paid subscriptions.

Success of the academy approach? - (SAGE Publications UK) A complex picture is emerging about the controversial Academies program. Researchers analyze and report findings about academies in a special issue of the journal Management in Education, published today by SAGE. Among the issues addressed are whether academies are leading to improved student performance and higher levels of student satisfaction.

Taxpayer Alliance applauds bill to broaden access to federal research results - (SPARC) Sens. Joseph Lieberman and John Cornyn today introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act, a bill to ensure free, timely, online access to the published results of research funded by 11 US federal agencies. The proposed bill is welcomed by the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, a coalition of research institutions, consumers, patients and others formed to support open public access to publicly funded research.

AIAA presenting 'Passport to the Future' teacher workshop - (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will present a "Passport to the Future" Teacher Workshop Aug. 3-4 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, sponsored by the Lockheed Martin Corp.

UT San Antonio researcher wins $917,000 from NIH to study memory - (University of Texas at San Antonio) University of Texas at San Antonio neuroscience researcher Brian Derrick has won $917,000 in funding from the National Institutes of Health to research the effects of time on the preservation of episodic, or autobiographical, memories by the brain's dentate gyrus.Although memory loss is most commonly associated with aging, it is also symptomatic of more debilitating diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, which collectively afflict 9.3 million people around the world.

New data show jump in science and engineering graduate study - (National Science Foundation) New data show that enrollment in US science and engineering (S&E) graduate programs in 2007 grew 3.3 percent over comparable data for 2006 -- the highest year-over-year increase since 2002 and nearly double the 1.7 percent increase seen in 2006.

New book explores computational modelling - (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is pleased to announce that the new book "Computational Modelling and Simulation of Aircraft and the Environment: Volume I: Platform Kinematics and Synthetic Environment" is now available through the AIAA Educational Series.

Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation collaborative symposium on health-care experience and delivery - (Mayo Clinic) The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation will host Transform, a collaborative symposium on innovations in health-care experience and delivery, Sept. 13-15.

'Canadian excellence' strengthened by extensive adoption of open access - (BioMed Central) BioMed Central and Wilfrid Laurier University today announce the launch of Laurier IR, an institutional repository that provides a visible point of open access archiving of intellectual output for all members of the university community.

World-renowned nanotechnology expert proves there is big potential in the smallest of matter - (Lemelson-MIT Program) As director of Northwestern University's International Institute for Nanotechnology, the impact of Dr. Chad Mirkin's work is anything but small. A prolific inventor and entrepreneur, his innovations have the potential to transform the future of medical diagnostics and patient point-of-care and to ignite change across many industries. For his revolutionary discoveries and contributions to science and invention, Mirkin is awarded the prestigious 2009 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize.

UT School of Public Health researchers develop game for HIV-positive youth - (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) Researchers at the University of Texas School of Public Health have developed a game for HIV-positive youth, +CLICK, designed to reduce secondary transmission of the virus.

Afghani children suffering from post-traumatic stress - (Wiley-Blackwell) Children who live in Afghanistan are more prone to developing PTSD.

UTSA wins San Antonio Area Foundation grant to further chlamydia research - (University of Texas at San Antonio) The San Antonio Area Foundation's Semp Russ Foundation has awarded UTSA a $32,000 grant to study the role of CD8-positive T-cells in chlamydia infections.The recipient of the grant, Ashlesh Murthy, earned UTSA's first Ph.D. degree in cellular/molecular biology in 2006.

Zero in on ozone with fluorescent solution that detects harmful molecule in air and body - (University of Pittsburgh) Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a fluorescent substance that glows bright green when exposed to even minute amounts of ozone in the air and in biological samples such as human lung cells. A molecule consisting of three oxygen atoms, ozone is at once a harmful pollutant and lung irritant, and a possible natural weapon that certain research suggests the human body employs against infections.

Rice computing pioneer wins IEEE Computer Society award - (Nanyang Technological University) Rice University computer scientist Krishna Palem, who also heads the Institute for Sustainable Nanoelectronics at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, has won the prestigious 2008 W. Wallace McDowell Award for his pioneering contributions to the growing field of embedded computing.

Springer launches MyCopy service for eBook users - (Springer) Following the successful completion of the MyCopy pilot project, the specialist publishing group Springer Science+Business Media has, with immediate effect, extended this eBook service to all academic libraries in the United States and Canada that have purchased Springer eBook Collections. All registered library patrons will be able to order a soft cover copy of a Springer eBook for their personal use by clicking on a button on the Springer platform www.springerlink.com.

Citizens in 34 countries show implicit bias linking males more than females with science - (University of Virginia) Implicit stereotypes -- thoughts that people may be unwilling to express or may not even know that they have -- may have a powerful effect on gender equity in science and mathematics engagement and performance, according to a new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

New book explores the global airline industry - (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is pleased to announce the publication of a new book, The Global Airline Industry, available through AIAA's Library of Flight series. The book thoroughly analyzes today's rapidly changing air transport environment, with detailed coverage of air transportation economics, airline planning and operations, aviation's effect on the global environment, aviation infrastructure, aviation safety and security, industrial relations and human resources issues and airline pricing and distribution.

The SIB recognizes the next generation of bioinformaticians - (Swiss Institute of Bioinoformatics) The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics today announced the winners of the 2009 SIB Best Graduate Paper and the SIB Young Bioinformatician Award at the 7th annual [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference.

Cutting greenhouse gases could grow the economy - (Queen's University Belfast) Over £14 ($23) billion more in products and services could be produced in Northern Ireland's economy each year if greenhouse gas producing resources were used as efficiently as they are in the rest of the UK, a research group at Queen's University Belfast has predicted.

Success of Socrates Fellows program shows after 1 year - (University of California - San Diego) For ninth-grader Priscilla Maestro, it is just a normal day in her biology class at Castle Park High School in Chula Vista as she and fellow students evaluate mock samples of urine and blood as part of learning a medical procedure used by hospitals and clinics to determine diabetes in patients.

Online tutorials help elementary school teachers make sense of science - (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Interactive Web-based science tutorials can be effective tools for helping elementary school teachers construct powerful explanatory models of difficult scientific concepts, and research shows the interactive tutorials are just as effective online as they are in face-to-face settings, says a University of Illinois expert in science education.

Another JDRF partner moves research forward with collaboration agreement for diabetes treatment - (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International) JDRF industry partner Bayhill Therapeutics Inc., based in California, entered into a collaboration agreement with Genentech Inc., a wholly owned member of the Roche Group, to further develop and potentially commercialize a novel antigen-specific immunotherapeutic designed to reverse the immune response that causes type 1 diabetes.

WPI provost and department head elected American Society for Engineering Education fellows - (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) John A. Orr, provost and senior vice president at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and WPI Chemical Engineering Department Head David DiBiasio were elected fellows of the American Society for Engineering Education during the organization's annual meeting in Austin, Texas, on June 17. The grade of fellow is conferred upon ASEE members with extraordinary qualifications and experience in engineering or engineering technology education in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field and to ASEE.