Is There An Invisible Tug-of-war Behind Bad Hearts and Power Outages?

Posted On Friday, June 21, 2013 By . Under NEW JERSEY  Tags: , , , ,   
Systems such as a beating heart or a power grid that depend on the synchronized movement of their parts could fall prey to an invisible and chaotic tug-of-war known as a "chimera." Sharing its name with the fire-breathing, zoologically patchy creature of Greek mythology, a chimera state arises among identical, ...

UMD’s C.D. Mote Jr. Elected NAE President

Posted On Friday, May 31, 2013 By . Under MARYLAND  Tags: , , ,   
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - C.D. "Dan" Mote Jr., past president and Regents Professor of the University of Maryland, has been elected as the next president of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). His six year term will start July 1, 2013. Mote succeeds Charles M. Vest. "It is inspiring to be ...

CU-Boulder organizing effort to establish unmanned aircraft test site in Colorado

Posted On Monday, May 27, 2013 By . Under COLORADO  Tags: , , ,   
A state application organized by the University of Colorado Boulder has been submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration for the development of one of six unmanned aircraft systems test sites slated to be established across the United States. Submitted this month, the seventh and final volume of the Colorado application is ...

Purdue Professor Part of National Study of Science-Education Specialists

Posted On Saturday, May 18, 2013 By . Under INDIANA  Tags: , , , ,   
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A new type of science faculty, those who specialize in science education, is on the rise, but less than half have formal training in education, according to a recent study. Nancy Pelaez, a Purdue University associate professor of biological sciences, was part of a team that performed ...

New Kind Of Stem Cell Spurs Regenerative Medicine Research

Posted On Friday, February 1, 2013 By . Under WASHINGTON DC  Tags: , , , ,   
Stem Cell Spurs Regenerative Medicine Research Researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center say the powerful cells they first created in the laboratory more than a year ago constitute a new stem-like state of adult cells that may eventually make regenerative medicine possible. In a recent article in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National ...

Study Explains Skin’s Response to UVA Light

Posted On Thursday, January 24, 2013 By . Under RHODE ISLAND  Tags: , , , , ,   
sensitive trigger Researchers have strengthened their understanding of how skin cells called melanocytes sense ultraviolet light and act to protect themselves with melanin. In a new study, they report experiments showing that an ion channel well-known elsewhere in the body for its chemical sensitivity, plays a central role in this process. PROVIDENCE, R.I. ...

Higher-Math Skills Entwined with Lower-Order Magnitude Sense

Posted On Monday, October 29, 2012 By . Under GEORGIA  Tags: , ,   
In a previous study, Emory University psychologist Stella Lourenco found that even before babies learn to speak, they are organizing information about numbers, space and time in more complex ways than previously realized. The ability to learn complex, symbolic math is a uniquely human trait, but it is intricately connected to ...

Neuroscientists Find the Molecular “When” and “Where” of Memory Formation

Posted On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , , ,   
Neuroscientists from New York University and the University of California, Irvine have isolated the “when” and “where” of molecular activity that occurs in the formation of short-, intermediate-, and long-term memories. Their findings, which appear in the journal theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offer new insights into the ...

Jens Ludwig elected to prestigious Institute of Medicine for research on social determinants of health

Posted On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 By . Under ILLINOIS  Tags: , , ,   
Jens Ludwig, one of the nation’s leading researchers applying scientific tools to the study of social issues such as crime, poverty, and health, has been elected to the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine. Ludwig, the McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law and Public Policy, and Director of ...