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Sickle Cell Sufferers Living Longer, Dying Less From Disease

Sickle Cell Sufferers Living Longer, Dying Less From DiseaseDALLASChildren with sickle cell disease — an inherited red blood-cell disorder — are living longer, dying less often from their disease and contracting fewer fatal infections than ever before, according to researchers at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Their study, which will appear in […]

May 19, 2004

Research Triangle Area to Seek 100,000 Jobs

Research Triangle Area to Seek 100,000 JobsRESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. A regional task force has launched a five-year, $5 million strategy that it says could generate 100,000 new jobs and increase employment in a 13-county region surrounding the Research Triangle area in North Carolina. The area, which draws largely upon the resources and talent of […]

April 7, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Faculty Science Positions Continue to Elude Women of Color

Faculty Science Positions Continue to Elude Women of ColorOklahoma professor’s study finds hiring, tenure remain stumbling blocksWomen and underrepresented minorities are receiving the doctorate in record numbers these days. For example, women got 45 percent and minorities 19 percent of the 39,955 doctoral degrees awarded in 2000, and both figures were all-time highs.So it comes […]

March 24, 2004

Conference to Promote Bioinformatics Education

Conference to Promote Bioinformatics EducationBy Ronald Roach CHAPEL HILL, N.C. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in association with the National Science Foundation, software firm Geospiza Inc. and Sun Microsystems are hosting a meeting to promote the teaching of bioinformatics in undergraduate education. The meeting will include hands-on practice with genomics, proteomics, microarrays […]

August 27, 2003

IBM Establishes New Academic Research Model

IBM Establishes New Academic Research ModelBy Ronald RoachWHITE PLAINS, N.Y. The IBM Corp. has launched a new funding and grant model for universities doing research in technology and life sciences, the company has recently announced. The new IBM Life Sciences Institutes of Innovation program is project-focused and represents a multi-year commitment. It offers a comprehensive […]

August 13, 2003

High School Students Selected to Compete in International Biology Olympiad

High School Students Selected to Compete in International Biology Olympiad VIENNA, Va. Four high school students were selected recently to represent the United States for the first time at the International Biology Olympiad in Minsk, Belarus, later this month. The USA Biology Olympiad (USABO) is a prestigious four-tier competition for U.S. high-school biology students. The […]

July 2, 2003

Duke University Student Wins Top Programmer Prize

Duke University Student Wins Top Programmer PrizeBy Ronald Roach CAMBRIDGE, Mass.Sun Microsystems Inc. and TopCoder Inc. named Duke University junior David Arthur, originally from Toronto, the winner of the 2003 Sun Microsystems and TopCoder Collegiate Challenge last month. At a competition in Cambridge, Mass., Arthur beat out 15 of the world’s best Java and C++ […]

May 7, 2003

Yale Researchers Find More Genes in Human Genome

Yale Researchers Find More Genes in Human Genome NEW HAVEN, Conn.A study by Yale University researchers provides preliminary evidence that there may be more than twice as many genes in the human genome than previously predicted. Using an advanced genomic technique, researchers looked for all the genes on human chromosome 22. This is the next […]

May 7, 2003

Tennessee State Honors Million-Dollar Researchers

Tennessee State Honors Million-Dollar Researchers By Ronald Roach NASHVILLE, TENN. Tennessee State University’s Office of Sponsored Research has inaugurated a Million Dollar Research Club, inducting 14 members. The elite grouping celebrates scientists and other researchers at the historically Black university who have secured research projects amounting to $1 million or more. The purpose of the […]

April 9, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Driven By Service

Driven By ServiceOprah Winfrey Scholars Program aims to give African women a ‘greater voice in their own lives’ and skills to strengthen their native countriesBy Clarence A. Haynes NEW YORKStella Chidinma Iwuagwa, of Nigeria, had long admired Oprah Winfrey’s energy and power, but never would have imagined she would be a recipient of the media […]

March 26, 2003

The Evolution of an Expert

The Evolution of an Expert Paul TurnerTitle: Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.Education: Ph.D., Zoology, Michigan State University; B.A., Biological Sciences, University of RochesterAge: 36It is expected that by the time Dr. Paul Turner comes up for tenure, the Yale University scientist will have established himself as the world’s […]

January 1, 2003

Banking on Biotech

Banking on Biotech Winston-Salem State gears up to play a key role in the hometown’s new enterpriseWINSTON-SALEM, N.C.Winston-Salem, N.C., has long been known as a tobacco and textiles town. For generations, this historic city of approximately 186,000 nestled in the rolling hills of North Carolina’s Piedmont region had been at the center of the American […]

September 25, 2002

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