AScribe Science News Service articles from March 2009

AScribe Science News Service archives from March 2009

Genetic Alliance Continues to Expand Council; Rev. Dr. Susan King Accepts Genetic Alliance Council Appointment.
March 2, 2009... Byline: Genetic Alliance WASHINGTON, March 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Genetic Alliance announced today that the Reverend Dr. Susan King is a new member of the Genetic Alliance Council (formerly the Board of Directors). Rev. Dr. King is an...

Marine Protected Areas Get a Boost From New UCSB Web-Based Program.
March 5, 2009... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- This is what can happen when marine life and geospatial scientists collide: You get a smart, easy-to-use Web-based program that one day...

Stopping the Math Meltdown: Monterey Institute For Technology and Education Launches Developmental Math Solutions Project.
March 10, 2009... Byline: Monterey Institute for Technology and Education MONTEREY, Calif., March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Making math easier to learn could change the world. Nearly three-quarters of freshman entering community colleges have to take remedial...

ACM Turing Award Goes to Creator of Influential Innovations in Computer Software Design; MIT's Liskov, First U.S. Woman Ph.D. in Computer Science, Pioneered the Standard for Modern Programming Language and Software Reliability.
March 10, 2009... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery (http://www.acm.org/), has named Barbara Liskov of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) the winner...

Dr. Robert W. Conn Named President of the Kavli Foundation.
March 10, 2009... Byline: The Kavli Foundation SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Kavli Foundation has announced the appointment of Dr. Robert W. Conn as its new president - only the second president since the Foundation was...

Carnegie Mellon's Marija Ilic Heads Electric Energy Systems Group Dedicated to Improving the Nation's Aging Power Grid.
March 11, 2009... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, March 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University's Marija Ilic is leading a team of researchers dedicated to powering up a new smart energy grid project for the future. Ilic, a...

Cal State Northridge Geographer William Bowen's Online Atlas Allows People to See the Himalayas 'in a Way Formerly Unimagined'.
March 11, 2009... Byline: Calif. State University, Northridge NORTHRIDGE, Calif., March 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Most mere mortals will never scale the Barley Flats peak (elevation 5,630 ft.) in the nearby San Gabriels, let alone the mighty Chomolangma...

University of Virginia to Lead New $10 Million Center for Hypersonic Propulsion.
March 12, 2009... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new center to develop the analytical tools needed to design the engines for a future hypersonic aircraft - one that could fly up to 12 times the speed of...

UC Santa Barbara Scientist Wins Top Honor in Seismology.
March 12, 2009... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ralph J. Archuleta, a professor of earth science at UC Santa Barbara, has been named the recipient of the Seismological Society of...

NASA Launches 'Eyes on the Earth 3-D'.
March 12, 2009... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., March 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- New interactive features on NASA's Global Climate Change Web site give the public the opportunity to "fly along" with NASA's fleet of Earth science missions...

Hearts of Galaxies Close in for Cosmic Train Wreck.
March 16, 2009... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., March 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope offers a rare view of an imminent collision between the cores of two merging galaxies, each powered by a...

One Mars Rover Sees a Distant Goal; the Other Takes a New Route.
March 18, 2009... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., March 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- On a plain that stretches for miles in every direction, the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has caught a first glimpse on the horizon of...

Chabot Space & Science Center Gets Small for NanoDays Celebration.
March 23, 2009... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., March 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nano Science, the study of tiny particles, will be celebrated on Saturday, March 28 at Chabot Space & Science Center's NanoDays(tm) as part of a...

Berkeley Lab to Receive $115.8 Million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funding.
March 23, 2009... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., March 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will receive $115.8 million from...

Celebrating the Centennial of Robert Peary's North Pole Expedition.
March 24, 2009... Byline: Bowdoin College BRUNSWICK, Maine, March 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- On Monday, April 6, 2009, the world will celebrate the centennial of Robert E. Peary's attainment of the North Pole. One hundred years ago, after more than a...

Network Turns Soldiers' Helmets Into Sniper Location System.
March 24, 2009... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Imagine a platoon of soldiers fighting in a hazardous urban environment who carry personal digital assistants that can display the location of enemy shooters in...

Futuristic Marine Science Teaching Facility to be Built on UC Santa Barbara Campus.
March 25, 2009... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Soon, students from Santa Barbara County and all over the state will have access to a unique, new high-tech, hands-on teaching facility...

Supercluster Maximum Size of 430 Million Light Years Accurately Predicted by Drexler's Dark Matter.
March 31, 2009... Byline: The Drexler Foundation SILICON VALLEY, Calif., March 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Bell Labs-trained Jerome Drexler has written three astro-cosmology books providing overwhelming evidence that the dark matter of the universe is...

Admiral Robert Peary and the Pole: A Hundred Year Old Controversy and Reunion - by Susan A. Kaplan.
March 31, 2009... Byline: Bowdoin College BRUNSWICK, Maine, March 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- April 6, 2009, marks the centennial of Robert E. Peary's attainment of the North Pole. Following is commentary by Susan A. Kaplan on the controversy that has dogged...