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Hat Trick for McGill Researchers: Luc Devroye, Margaret Lock, Nahum Sonenberg Win Coveted Killam Prizes.(McGill University)
April 1, 2005... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- McGill researchers have been awarded three of the five 2005 Killam Prizes -- Canada's most distinguished annual awards for career achievements in five categories. ...

Leading Materials Engineer Linda E. Jones to Direct Smith College's Innovative Engineering Program.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Smith College NORTHAMPTON, Mass., April 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- One of the country's preeminent researchers in high-temperature materials, Linda E. Jones of Alfred University, was recently named director of Smith College's...

Science Becomes Art in 'Weird Fields'.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2005... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- The whorls and swirls of color may look like something by art nouveau painter Gustav Klimt, but the winning images from MIT's annual 8.02 "Weird Fields" contest are really...

Bates College Geologist Receives $50,190 for Climate-Change Research.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Bates College LEWISTON, Maine, April 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Michael J. Retelle, a professor of geology at Bates College, is one of 13 scientists across the nation to share nearly $1,500,000 in National Science Foundation funding...

Chemical Guidebook May Help Mars Rover Track Extraterrestrial Life.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, April 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- To help a NASA rover eventually hunt for life on Mars, scientists are writing a chemical guidebook to aid the search for...

University of Pittsburgh to Host Engineering Sustainability Conference April 10-12; Focus on Emerging Green Building, Sustainable Water Use Technology.
April 7, 2005... Byline: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, April 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Mascaro Sustainability Initiative (MSI) in the University of Pittsburgh's School of Engineering will host the Engineering Sustainability 2005 conference from...

Scripps Research Institute President Richard Lerner Honored by New York University Biotechnology Study Center.
April 7, 2005... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., April 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scripps Research Institute President Richard A. Lerner, M.D., has been selected to receive the prestigious DART/NYU Biotechnology Achievement Award from...

Hampshire College to Hold 20th Annual Girls Day in the Lab.
April 7, 2005... Byline: Hampshire College AMHERST, Mass., April 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- How do we prepare more women for leadership roles in the natural sciences? Hampshire College has been asking and answering this important question for two decades with...

Purdue's Rube Goldberg Three-Peat Takes National Spotlight.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University scored its third consecutive win in today's (Saturday, April 9) National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest with a machine that took 125 steps to...

Sexism and Science: Are Women Scientists Being Held Back? Cornelia Dean, Former New York Times Science Editor, to Lead Discussion on Women in Science, April 14.
April 12, 2005... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Was the President of Harvard, Lawrence H. Summers, correct when he stated that "innate" differences might be the reason why there are fewer women than men...

Researcher Seeks Fuel Cell Finesse.(Seth Lerner )
April 13, 2005... Byline: Kettering University FLINT, Mich., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Serendipity led Seth Lerner from building a Formula race car to building a fuel cell as part of his graduate program at Kettering. When Seth Lerner went looking...

NASA Announces Media Teleconference for Spitzer Discovery.
April 13, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Astronomers will announce a significant discovery from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope at a listen-and-logon news briefing Wednesday, April 20, at 10 a.m....

Hubble Space Telescope's 15th Anniversary: An Opportunity Too Good to Miss!
April 14, 2005... Byline: European Space Agency - Hubble GARCHING, Germany, April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the biggest scientific projects of all time and is approaching the 15th anniversary of its launch. To...

NASA Invites Media to Meet Administrator Michael Griffin.
April 15, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's 11th Administrator Michael Griffin is having his initial press conference from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. EDT, Monday, April 18. The press conference is in...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Offers $86.4 Million to Universities to Invigorate Undergraduate Science.
April 17, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., April 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- While most Americans were dropping last-minute tax returns in the mail, FedEx envelopes bearing good news headed for more than 200 research...

Earth Day Environmental News Tips: Water Research Initiatives at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
April 18, 2005... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., April 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Reporters looking for fresh environmental research angles for Earth Day (April 22) - or for environmental coverage throughout the year - can find scores...

Chabot Space & Science Center Unveils New Mural-Sized Images for Hubble 15th Anniversary, Monday, April 25; One of Five California Sites Chosen To Debut New Photographs.
April 18, 2005... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., April 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Witness a spectacular event when two new mural-sized images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will be unveiled on Monday April 25, 10 a.m., at...

Media Conference: Announcement on DOE Contract for Berkeley Lab.(Department of Energy)
April 19, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will announce the winner of the competition for management of its contract with the U.S. Department of...

Department of Energy Awards University of California Contract for Berkeley Lab.
April 19, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. Department of Energy concluded its competition for the management contract of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on April 19 by...

Deep-Fat Driving? Something's in the Engine With Diesel.(James Madison University)
April 20, 2005... Byline: James Madison University HARRISONBURG, Va., April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- James Madison University, which boasts being No. 11 nationally for "great campus food," and its Fuels Diversification Program will combine forces and fuels...

Washington State University Researcher Sees No Technological 'Fix' to Earth's Environmental Woes.(Eugene A. Rosa)
April 20, 2005... Byline: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash., April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Technology and modernization alone won't rescue our planet from the detrimental environmental impacts of industrialization and other human activities,...

Saunders Mac Lane, Key Figure in American Mathematics, Dies at 95.(Obituary)
April 21, 2005... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, April 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Chicago's Saunders Mac Lane, one of the most influential American mathematicians of the 20th century and a recipient of the National Medal of Science,...

Brain Gain at McGill: From Primates to Physics, New Hires Have It Covered.
April 22, 2005... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Did early civilizations have cemeteries? How "dark" is dark matter? Can we protect babies' brains during birth? These are a few of the questions being asked by the 19...

Take Our Children to Work Day: Sharing Power and Possibility.(Brief Article)
April 25, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., April 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory today released the following advisory. WHAT: This week many kids will take a day off from school and head into the...

American Academy of Arts & Sciences Elects 225th Class of Fellows: Scholars, Scientists, Artists, Civic and Corporate Leaders Included.
April 26, 2005... Byline: American Academy of Arts & Sciences CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 196 new Fellows and 17 new Foreign Honorary Members. The 213 men and...

CSU Bakersfield Lab One of Only Three in Nation That Perform Protein Residue Analysis of Artifacts.
April 26, 2005... Byline: California State University, Bakersfield BAKERSFIELD, Calif., April 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- A specialized laboratory at California State University, Bakersfield is one of only three labs in the United States that performs a special...

Cassini Finds Particles Near Saturn's Moon Enceladus.
April 26, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., April 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Cassini spacecraft has discovered intriguing dust particles around Saturn's moon Enceladus. The particles might indicate the existence of a dust cloud...

NYU'S Dalton Conley Is First Sociologist to Win National Science Foundation's Waterman Award; Growing-Up Years Gives Scientist Special Lens on Cultural and Sibling Inequalities.
April 27, 2005... Byline: National Science Foundation ARLINGTON, Va., April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- When he was growing up in a New York City East Side neighborhood, Dalton Conley recognized the societal advantages of being a white male with middle-class...

Cassini Captures Swiss-Cheese Look of Saturn Moon.
April 27, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- An image of Saturn's small moon, Epimetheus (epp-ee-MEE-thee-uss), was captured by the Cassini spacecraft in the closest view ever taken of the pockmarked...

NASA's Deep Impact Spacecraft Spots Its Quarry.
April 27, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sixty-nine days before it gets up-close-and-personal with a comet, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft successfully photographed its quarry, comet Tempel 1, from...

New York Academy of Sciences Issues Statement on Boycott of Israeli Universities by British Group.
April 28, 2005... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, April 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Committee on Human Rights of Scientists of the New York Academy of Sciences has released the text of a letter to the Association of University Teachers (AUT)...