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Software Pioneer Peter Naur Wins Association for Computing Machinery's Turing Award; Dane's Creative Genius Revolutionized Computer Language Design.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Peter Naur the winner of the 2005 A.M. Turing Award. The award is for Naur's pioneering work on...

From Pasadena to Mexico City, 20 of World's Top Women Scientists Honored in Paris for Groundbreaking Research in Life Sciences; Caltech Biology Professor Receives 2006 L'Oreal-UNESCO $100K Prize for North America; Only Prize That Honors Eminent Women Scientists at International Level.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Edelman Public Relations PARIS, March 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Today at UNESCO House in Paris, France, Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones, Chairman and CEO of L'Oreal, and Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, presented the prestigous...

Rube Goldberg Contestants Seek to Outwit, Outshred Each Other.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Students from Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame put their creative skills to the test as they come up with imaginative and interesting ways to...

NASA Mission Detects Significant Antarctic Ice Mass Loss.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., March 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- The first-ever gravity survey of the entire Antarctic ice sheet, conducted using data from the NASA/German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate...

NASA Announces Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Coverage.
March 3, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., March 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter begins the most critical minutes of its flight on March 10. NASA is providing mission briefings and commentary March 8 and...

Purdue Students Excel in Rube Goldberg Inefficiency Competition.
March 6, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Purdue University Society of Professional Engineers shredded their way to the top and won first place and the People's Choice award at the 23rd Purdue...

Robot Teams Face Off at Purdue 'Sporting' Competition.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University announces the FIRST Boilermaker Regional Competition where 29 teams, consisting of high school and college students, mentors and their robot...

Study Looks at Ways to Mitigate Air Pollution From Freight Transportation Along I-95; Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Delaware Team Up for Joint Project.
March 9, 2006... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The congested I-95 corridor from Maine to Florida will be the focus of a study analyzing the economic and environmental tradeoffs of different modes of...

Carbon Dioxide Promises Green Alternative for Air Conditioners, Refrigerators.
March 10, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Engineers developing technologies that use environmentally friendly carbon dioxide as a refrigerant instead of conventional, synthetic global-warming and...

Robotic NASA Craft Begins Orbiting Mars for Most-Detailed Exam.
March 10, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- With a crucially timed firing of its main engines today, NASA's new mission to Mars successfully put itself into orbit around the red planet. The...

Einstein's 'Albert': Zoom With a View; Hampshire College's Lemelson Center Sending Team to Annual Showcase of Nation's Top Student Inventors.
March 14, 2006... Byline: Hampshire College AMHERST, Mass., March 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hampshire College's Lemelson Center is sending two representatives of an innovative Five College team to the tenth annual "March Madness for the Mind," a showcase for...

Molecular Foundry Dedication at Berkeley Lab March 24.
March 15, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., March 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will signal its most significant entry into the nano-age when it dedicates a six-story, 94,000-square-foot...

Artist Views of the 'Human Machine' Featured in New York Academy of Sciences Exhibition; Anatomical Studies from New York Academy of Art on Display March 10 - April 28.
March 15, 2006... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, March 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Leonardo Da Vinci -- artist and scientist -- once noted that he "wanted to know the body beneath the clothes, the muscles beneath the skin, and the bone beneath...

NASA Announces Solar System Ambassadors Class of 2006.
March 15, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., March 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- What do a teacher, surfer, firefighter, award-winning book author and neurosurgeon have in common? A love of space and a desire to share that passion....

Weird Saturn Ring Spokes May Reappear in July, Says University of Colorado at Boulder Study.
March 16, 2006... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., March 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Unusual spokes that appear fleetingly on the rings of Saturn only to disappear for years at a time may become visible again by July, according to a new...

National Synchrotron Light Source Student-Researchers to Present at March American Physical Society Meeting.
March 16, 2006... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., March 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Each year, the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory hosts several high-school and...

Weizmann Institute Professor Wins Association for Computing Machinery Award for Computational Complexity; Best Young Computer Professional Honored with Grace Murray Hopper Award.
March 16, 2006... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, March 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has recognized Dr. Omer Reingold of the Weizmann Institute in Israel with the Grace Murray Hopper Award for...

Mars Rovers Get New Manager During Challenging Period.
March 17, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, alif., March 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's long-lived Mars rovers demand lots of care as they age and the Martian winter approaches. Dr. John Callas, newly named project manager for NASA's...

Williams College Faculty/Student Team Travel to Kastellorizo, Greece, to Study Solar Eclipse; Scientists Available for Comment.
March 20, 2006... Byline: Williams College WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., March 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of Williams College faculty and students is preparing to scientifically observe the total eclipse of the Sun that will sweep across the far side of Earth...

Human Genetics Program Is Named for Former Director Joan H. Marks; World Renowned Stem Cell Expert Irving Weissman to Speak April 4.
March 23, 2006... Byline: Sarah Lawrence College YONKERS, N.Y., March 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sarah Lawrence College is pleased to announce that the College's graduate Program in Human Genetics, the first of its kind in the nation to educate genetic...

Future Engineers Are Ready: Annual High School Engineering Competition at Christian Brothers University April 6.
March 23, 2006... Byline: Christian Brothers University MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The fourth annual High School Engineering Competition, sponsored by the Christian Brothers University School of Engineering, will be held at St. Benilde...

Yerkes Observatory to Highlight Active Astronomy for Illinois Schools at March 29 Capitol Showcase in Springfield.
March 24, 2006... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, March 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Educators from the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory will share some of their best practices for bringing hands-on astronomy into Illinois schools - even in...

NASA's New Mars Orbiter Returns Test Images.
March 24, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., March 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- The first test images of Mars from NASA's newest spacecraft provide a tantalizing preview of what the orbiter will reveal when its main science mission...

Keck Graduate Institute Presents Lecture by Robert Klein on California's Leadership Role in Advancing Stem Cell Research.
March 27, 2006... Byline: Keck Graduate Institute CLAREMONT, Calif., March 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Robert Klein, creator and primary backer of Proposition 71, will give a talk at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 11, 2006, at 6:30...

Saturn's Moon Enceladus Topic of Discussion at Astrobiology Conference.
March 27, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., March 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory today released the following media advisory. - - - - WHO: Dr. Julie Castillo, Cassini scientist at NASA's Jet...

Tutored by Sept. 11 Experience, Johns Hopkins Genetics Experts Aid Efforts to Identify Hurricane Katrina Victims.
March 29, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, March 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Experts at Johns Hopkins are joining efforts to identify more than 70 bodies recovered after Hurricane Katrina, which struck last Aug. 29, killing more...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Dedicates The Molecular Foundry.
March 30, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., March 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Traditionally, a foundry has been a place where molded objects are made. The term comes from "founding," the act of pouring a liquid material...

Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel Condemns 'Censorship' of Scientists; Calls Current Climate for Science as 'Disastrous' as McCarthy Era; Listen to Interview at Science & the City -- www.scienceandthecity.org/podcast.
March 30, 2006... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, March 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Noting that it's "a terrible time for science" in the U.S., Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel has compared the effects of government science policy to the...

Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Craft Begins Adjusting Orbit.
March 31, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., March 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter yesterday began a crucial six-month campaign to gradually shrink its orbit into the best geometry for the mission's...