AScribe Science News Service articles from November 2004

AScribe Science News Service archives from November 2004

WestEd, Council of Chief State School Officers Selected to Develop 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress Science Framework.
November 1, 2004... Byline: WestEd SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- WestEd, a national nonprofit research, development, and service agency, in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), a national nonprofit organization of...

Get Ready to Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Einstein's Miracle Year of 1905.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Killen & Associates PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Michael Killen, President of the Palo Alto, Calif., firm Killen & Associates and producer of the Webcast series "Einstein's Great Discoveries: Influence on the...

National Science Foundation Picks UC Santa Barbara for New International Center for Materials Research.
November 3, 2004... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Nov. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of California, Santa Barbara has been selected by the National Science Foundation to host a new center under the...

Press Conferences to Highlight Latest Cassini Results.
November 5, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cassini scientists will report on the latest results from the mission during two press conferences at the Division for Planetary Sciences meeting in...

Radar Image Shows Titan's Surface Live, in Color.
November 5, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Saturn's moon Titan shows a sharp contrast between its smooth and rough edges in a new false-color radar image. Titan's surface lies beneath a thick coat...

Duke University to Celebrate CIEMAS Opening Nov. 18-19; Facility Will Significantly Expand Engineering and Other Research.
November 8, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University community members, key donors and industry leaders will celebrate the grand opening of the Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Honored by Scientific American.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has been named by Scientific American Magazine as a research leader within the 2004 Scientific American 50...

Cassini Radar Sees Bright Flow-Like Feature on Titan.
November 9, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A strikingly bright feature that is consistent with an active geology has been seen in one of Cassini's first radar images of Saturn's moon Titan. There are...

Keck Zooms in on Weird Weather of Uranus.
November 10, 2004... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Capitalizing on the incomparable optical capabilities of the Keck Telescope, scientists have gained an unprecedented look at the atmosphere of Uranus,...

Asian Soybean Rust: Iowa State University Experts Available for Comment.
November 10, 2004... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, Nov. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed today that Asian Soybean Rust has been found in Louisiana, the first known incidence of the disease in North America. ...

UC Santa Barbara Physicist David Awschalom Wins American Physical Society's Buckley Prize.
November 10, 2004... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Nov. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- David D. Awschalom, a professor of physics and of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has...

Pitt Student Adam Striegel Discovers New Genus, Species of Ancient Amphibian; Only the Third 300-Million-Year-Old Amphibian Skull Fossil Ever Found.
November 11, 2004... Byline: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Nov. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- While on a geology class trip, an undergraduate student at the University of Pittsburgh came across a previously unknown genus and species of a 300-million-year-old...

MacArthur Foundation Awards $2 Million Grant to The University of the South Pacific's Institute of Applied Sciences; Grant Funds Will be Used to Promote Biodiversity Conservation in the Region.(John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)
November 15, 2004... Byline: MacArthur Foundation CHICAGO, Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced a grant of $2 million to the University of the South Pacific (USP) for its Institute of Applied Sciences....

Earthquake Simulation Network Launched.
November 15, 2004... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of California, Davis', Center for Geotechnical Modeling joins a national effort in earthquake simulation with the launch of the George E....

The Burnham Institute's President/CEO Tapped for Prop. 71 Stem-Cell Research Governing Body.(John C. Reed, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine)
November 16, 2004... Byline: The Burnham Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., Nov. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- California State Controller Steve Westly today appointed Dr. John C. Reed, President and CEO of The Burnham Institute, to the Independent Citizen's Oversight...

MacArthur Foundation Provides More Than $2.8 Million in Grants to Help Protect the Biodiversity of Madagascar.
November 19, 2004... Byline: MacArthur Foundation CHICAGO, Nov. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced 10 grants totaling more than $2.8 million in support of conservation and sustainable development efforts in...

Cassini Shows Grandeur of Two Saturn Moons.
November 23, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- New views of two of Saturn's moons, Titan and Tethys, represent the most detailed look at these moons to date and show a sharp contrast between them -- one is...

UC Santa Cruz Scientist Endorses Nitrogen Management Efforts.
November 29, 2004... Byline: University of California, Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Nov. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- As a soil scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Marc Los Huertos helps farmers on the Central Coast manage nitrogen levels to...

Bringing to Life the Genome of an Ancient Mammal.
November 30, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Nov. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- A group of researchers has re-created with remarkable accuracy part of the genome of the common ancestor of all placental mammals, a small shrew-like...