AScribe Science News Service articles from December 2008

AScribe Science News Service archives from December 2008

UC Berkeley MBA Students Partner With National Lab Scientists to Commercialize Clean Tech.
December 1, 2008... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Bringing clean tech innovations into the market place faster is the purpose of a new partnership launched this fall between scientists at the...

Library of Congress Names UC Santa Barbara Visionary a 'Pioneer of Digital Preservation'.
December 4, 2008... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- On Nov. 3, election night, almost every television news station and Web news site displayed an interactive map of the United States with...

Purdue Has a Holiday Gift Idea: Name a New Species of Bats.
December 8, 2008... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Would you like to name a bat species this holiday season for a family member or friend, securing their immortality? Purdue University is auctioning the naming...

Fisheries Stock Assessment Software Now Publicly Accessible.
December 8, 2008... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The most widely used software package for the development of state-of-the-art fisheries stock assessment methods, AD Model Builder, or ADMB,...

Johns Hopkins, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Launch Gifted Program; Summer Program to Serve Asian Pacific Rim, Starting in Summer 2009.
December 8, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Dec. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology will be working together to serve gifted and talented...

Two National Labs Win ACM Gordon Bell Prizes for High-Performance Computing Achievements; Oak Ridge Attains Fastest Performance of a Scientific Supercomputing Application; Berkeley Lab Recognized for Predicting Efficiency of Nanostructure Solar Cells For Energy.
December 11, 2008... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) presented the 2008 ACM Gordon Bell Prizes to teams of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge...

University of Virginia Engineers to Create Parts of Virtual Crash Test Dummy.
December 11, 2008... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Dec. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- You really can learn a lot from a dummy. For decades, automakers have been crashing test dummies to gain insight to how various auto safety systems...

Obama Picks Berkeley Lab Director Steve Chu for Energy Secretary.
December 15, 2008... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- President-elect Barack Obama has nominated Steve Chu, Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), to be Secretary of...

Cal State Long Beach Researchers Find Continuing High Levels of DDT, PCB Contamination in Southern California Marine Mammals.
December 15, 2008... Byline: Calif. State University, Long Beach LONG BEACH, Calif., Dec. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- From the late 1940s through the early 1970s, Southern California manufacturing firms dumped large quantities of waste laden with the pesticide DDT...

ACM Urges Obama to Include Computer Science as a Core Component of Science and Math Education; Statement Emphasizes Critical Role of Computer Science as 21st Century Skill.
December 16, 2008... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- As Arne Duncan is announced as the next U.S. Secretary of Education, ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) today issued a set of recommendations...

Chabot Space & Science Center's Techbridge Program Awarded $561,000 Grant From Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Encourages Girls to Pursue Careers in Technology and Science.
December 17, 2008... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Techbridge, Chabot Space & Science Center's innovative program to encourage science, technology and engineering careers for girls in underserved...

Duke Researchers Coax Bright White Light From Unexpected Source.
December 18, 2008... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University and United States Army scientists have found that a cheap and nontoxic sunburn and diaper rash preventative can be made to produce brilliant light best...

Six UC Santa Barbara Faculty Members Named AAAS Fellows.
December 18, 2008... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Six faculty members at University of California, Santa Barbara have been awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Association for...

Two Brookhaven Lab Physicists Receive Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
December 19, 2008... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Dec. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory - Mickey Chiu and Hooman Davoudiasl - were among 68 researchers honored at a...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Salutes President Wendy Hall's Appointment as DBE by Queen Elizabeth II; Recognition of Her Contribution to the Field of Computing.
December 31, 2008... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following is a statement from Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) CEO John White on the announcement by Buckingham Palace of ACM President Wendy...