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Oklahoma State University grad honored as Army’s top veterinarian

OKLAHOMA CITY An Oklahoma State University graduate has been honored as the U.S. Army’s top veterinarian.

September 23, 2007

Money in hand and facilities ready, researchers begin stem cell work

HARTFORD Conn. David Rowe says a special breed of mice he is developing at the University of Connecticut Health Center may one day help reveal new treatments for severe limb injuries, like the ones U.S. troops are returning with from Iraq.

September 22, 2007

Money in hand and facilities ready, researchers begin stem cell work

HARTFORD Conn. David Rowe says a special breed of mice he is developing at the University of Connecticut Health Center may one day help reveal new treatments for severe limb injuries, like the ones U.S. troops are returning with from Iraq.

September 22, 2007

UW-Madison researchers get $7.2M to study Lou Gehrig’s disease

MADISON Wis. Stem cell scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have received a $7.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study rats with Lou Gehrig’s disease.

September 22, 2007

Disgraced South Korean Scientist Moves Research Base

SEOUL South Korea Disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk has relocated his research base to Thailand to avoid the ethical disputes his work would cause in South Korea, a scientist close to Hwang said Wednesday.

September 19, 2007

CSUS president Alexander Gonzales defends previous support of African hunts

SACRAMENTO Sacramento State University’s president said he should have been more careful when he helped win permission for hunts in Africa to supply exotic stuffed animals for a natural history museum.

September 18, 2007

Hopkins University to receive $40 million from NIH

BALTIMORE Johns Hopkins University will create a new center that will translate promising research into medical treatments with the $40 million in federal funds it will receive over the next five years, school officials said Tuesday.

September 18, 2007

Herbal traditions gain academic interest at Appalachian college

FROSTBURG Md. Frostburg State University instructor Sunshine Brosi leads a half-dozen earnest undergraduates 20 yards through the underbrush of a shady forest. Stooping near some black cherry trees, she plucks a pear-shaped yellow berry as long as her thumb from a shin-high plant with large, graceful leaves.

September 16, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Lincoln University to Investigate Colon Cancer in the Black Community

Lincoln, a historically Black university in Pennsylvania, is collaborating with several medical institutions to investigate the prevalence of colorectal cancer among residents in northeastern Pennsylvania. The study is part of Lincoln’s long-term goal to identify specific risk factors that make Blacks across the country more prone to the disease.

August 1, 2007

UCLA researcher who oversaw important study on women dies at 71

SANTA MONICA Calif. Dr. Howard Judd, a researcher who oversaw a groundbreaking national study of the medical problems of older women, has died. He was 71.

July 28, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Some university leaders not waiting for next Missouri president

COLUMBIA Mo. As the search for a new University of Missouri president forges ahead, some high-ranking academic leaders aren’t waiting around to meet the new boss.

July 28, 2007

Experts say internal locks on classroom doors could save lives against Va. Tech-like rampages

BLACKSBURG Va. After a student gunman killed four of his classmates and his German teacher and then left, Derek O’Dell had to wedge one of his sneakers under the classroom door to keep the attacker from returning to kill even more.

July 28, 2007

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