AScribe Science News Service articles from February 2007

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University of Chicago Scientists Available to Comment on Fourth Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
February 1, 2007... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Friday, Feb. 2, will release in Paris a summary of its Fourth Assessment Report (the full text of the report will follow...

New Technologies Applied to Ancient Sites at Mesa Verde; Kacyra Family Foundation Receives National Park Service Grant.
February 1, 2007... Byline: Kacyra Family Foundation ORINDA, Calif., Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Kacyra Family Foundation has received a grant from the U.S. National Park Service's National Center for Preservation Technology and Training for the purpose...

Media Advisory Scientific Experts Available to Respond to International Climate Report.
February 1, 2007... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are available to comment on many of the subjects covered in the summary report to be...

Battle of the Brains: New York City 'Brain Bee' Draws Students From 29 High Schools; Competition Set for Wednesday, Feb. 7, 4:30 p.m. at The New York Academy of Sciences.
February 5, 2007... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The New York Academy of the Sciences today released the following advisory. - - - - WHAT: Students from 29 New York City high schools will participate in...

Astronomers Must Maximize Knowledge Derived From GLAST and UV-COS/Hubble Astronomical Data, Says Astro-Cosmology Author Jerome Drexler.
February 5, 2007... Byline: The Drexler Foundation LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Astronomers are building more and more advanced telescopic systems by utilizing space platforms, employing adaptive optics, and by combining images...

The Science of Color Is Serious Study at Rochester Institute of Technology; RIT Offers Ph.D. in Color Science, the Only Program of Its Kind in the United States.
February 6, 2007... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Color science provides standards of measurement and quality control to make sure one batch of red iPods is the same shade as the next, that a can of...

Paul Alivisatos of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Wins E.O. Lawrence Award.
February 7, 2007... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Paul Alivisatos, director of the Materials Sciences Division for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), and a professor of...

University of Texas at Dallas Mourns Passing of Nobel Laureate Alan G. MacDiarmid, Endowed Chair at University for Nearly Five Years.
February 7, 2007... Byline: University of Texas at Dallas RICHARDSON, Texas, Feb. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Texas at Dallas today mourned the passing of Nobel laureate and faculty member Alan G. MacDiarmid, 79, who died this morning in...

University of Virginia Scientists Identify 'Missing Link' in Process Leading to Alzheimer's Disease.
February 7, 2007... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the University of Virginia have identified what appears to be a major missing link in the process that destroys nerve cells in Alzheimer's...

Research Aims to Calm Your Car's Rattling.
February 8, 2007... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Purdue University are getting close to eliminating those rattling and squeaking noises in your car's headrest and other components, major sources...

Shedding New Light on Proteorhodopsin.
February 9, 2007... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- New light has been shed on proteorhodopsin, the light-sensitive protein found in many marine bacteria. Researchers at the U.S. Department of...

Students Get Daily Dose of Vitamin C at Rube Goldberg Contest.
February 9, 2007... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University students will create complex machines to put the squeeze on oranges as they seek new ways to make juice during the regional Rube Goldberg...

Michigan State University Expert: See Scientists Run - for School Board.
February 12, 2007... Byline: Michigan State University SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- To improve science literacy, a scientist can teach. But a scientist can also run. National science literacy expert and Michigan State University...

Embedded Communicators: Bringing Them Along for the Science Ride.
February 12, 2007... Byline: Michigan State University SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Often, it's like scientists are from Mars, and communications specialists are from Venus. The professions usually have different languages, different paces...

MacArthur Foundation to Assess Climate Change Threats and Fund Responses.
February 14, 2007... Byline: MacArthur Foundation NEW YORK, Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Recognizing that global warming is occurring and threatens biodiversity conservation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will make an initial investment of...

It's Not Easy Being Green: Ethanol Production Requires Careful Management for Maximum Environmental Benefits.
February 16, 2007... Byline: Michigan State University SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- When it comes to ethanol, it's not easy being greener. Compared to gasoline, producing and using corn ethanol adds fewer greenhouse gases to the...

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Awards $5.9 Million to Burnham Institute; Scientific Excellence Through Exploration and Development Grants Will Launch Innovative Stem Cell Research.
February 16, 2007... Byline: Burnham Institute for Medical Research LA JOLLA, Calif., Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) will receive $5,925,878 in grants awarded from the California Institute for Regenerative...

University of Texas at Dallas Schedules Remembrance Ceremony for Late Nobel Laureate Alan G. MacDiarmid; March 4 Event to Celebrate Faculty Member's Life, Achievements; University Announces Establishment of MacDiarmid Memorial Fund.
February 20, 2007... Byline: University of Texas at Dallas RICHARDSON, Texas, Feb. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Texas at Dallas will hold a ceremony of remembrance for the late Nobel laureate and member of the UT Dallas faculty Alan G. MacDiarmid,...

First Woman to Receive Association for Computing Machinery's Turing Award: IBM Fellow Emerita Frances Allen Responsible for Innovations to High Speed Computing; Work Inspired Generations of Computer Scientists.
February 21, 2007... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, Feb. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named Frances E. Allen the recipient of the 2006 A.M. Turing Award for contributions that fundamentally...

NASA's Spitzer First to Crack Open Light of Faraway Worlds.
February 21, 2007... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured for the first time enough light from planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, to identify...

John E. Heyning, Ph.D., Whale Expert, Deputy Director at Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
February 22, 2007... Byline: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- John E. Heyning, Ph.D., Curator of Marine Mammals and Deputy Director at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, died Saturday,...

Web Site Launched for Students Keen on Math, Science.
February 26, 2007... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Feb. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Imagine if a teen-age Stephen Hawking could have sparred with Einstein over physics. For gifted teens in the United States and worldwide -- perhaps including future...

Chabot Space & Science Center Launches "Micronauts"; Program Encourages Space Literacy Among K-4th Grade Students.
February 26, 2007... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chabot Space & Science Center will launch its Micronauts ("junior astronauts") program on March 1 - the first program of its kind in Northern California....

University of Chicago to commemorate accomplishments of mathematics alumnus J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.
February 27, 2007... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Feb. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., who received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago as a 19-year-old in 1942, will be honored by the University at a special event...

Nonprofit Scholarly Publishers Call for Exploration of Open Access Models to Improve Scholarly Communications.
February 27, 2007... Byline: Association of American University Presses NEW YORK, Feb. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Discussions of the concept of open access to scholarly information are increasingly marked by highly charged rhetoric and an unfortunate polarization...

Record $6.2 Million Research Grant to Fund 'Revolutionary' Technology; Scientists, Students at Missouri State University to Develop Carbon-Based Components to Aid Satellite Operations.
February 27, 2007... Byline: Missouri State University SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Feb. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dr. Ryan Giedd, executive director of Missouri State University's Roy Blunt Jordan Valley Innovation Center (JVIC), and JVIC corporate partners Nantero Inc....

Yerkes Study Group Formed to Consider Observatory's Future.
February 28, 2007... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Feb. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Chicago's Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics has formed the Yerkes Study Group to explore the best use of Yerkes Observatory as a site for a...

Harvard Business School Launches Executive Education Program for Leaders in Science-Based Industries; New Program Reflects HBS's Role in Harvard University's Expanding Efforts in Life Sciences.
February 28, 2007... Byline: Harvard Business School BOSTON, Feb. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today the creation of a new Executive Education program, Leading Science-Based Enterprises, which will address the many...