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Environmental & Biological Science Drivers of Discovery Whitehead Institute Paradigm A national report says postdoctoral researchers are "indispensable" to the advancement of science, a fact often overlooked by institutions and funding agencies. Now postdocs are pushing for change. And people are listening. -- Kelli Whitlock www.whitehead.mit.edu/nap/features/nap_feature_drivers.html Spring Time In Florida Florida State University Research in Review Home to the world's largest cache of freshwater springs, Florida stands at a crossroads where competing pressures from development meet the challenge of saving a rare resource from ruin. -- James Call and Frank Stephenson www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/fall2003/springtime.html Tasting the No-Take Tonic: Rx for an Ailing Sea? Florida State University Research in Review Is it time for drastic measures to save what's left of world fisheries? Science is racing to come up with answers that will shape the course of commercial and sport fishing for decades to come. -- Parker Neils www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/summer2003/coverstory.html Second Chance Florida State University Research in Review Whatever happened to the longleaf forests of yesteryear, and why should anyone care? The plight of an endangered bird--the red cockaded woodpecker--may hold the key to saving what remains of yet another marvelous piece of nature from extinction. -- Frank Stephenson & Bruce Ritchie www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/winter2003/features.html Taking the Mystery out of Meat Florida State University Research in Review It's no surprise to meat-lovers that they eat at their own peril. Inventions by an FSU food scientist are cutting out much of consumer's fear and confusion over eating animal protein. -- Parker Neils www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/fall2003/safemeat.html Chomp! Florida State University Research in Review The business-end of T. Rex was all business, all the time.-- Frank Stephenson www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/fall2003/trex.html Singing in the Brain Florida State University Research in Review How do we learn to talk? No one really knows, but some of the best clues are being whispered by a tiny bird with a cheery song. -- Don Wood www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/fall2003/singing.html Beyond Earth Pennsylvania State U. Research/Penn State It seems we won't be dispatching astronauts to Mars any time soon--although that depends on who you listen to. In the meantime, we study Mars, we theorize about it, we photograph it and probe it, and we ponder the challenges and benefits of someday living on it. -- Charles Fergus www.rps.psu.edu/0305/earth.html Two at the Top U. North Carolina-Chapel Hill Endeavors Grad students have big-time science covered. -- Anton Zuiker research.unc.edu/endeavors/win2004/two_at_top.html Stalking SARS U. North Carolina-Chapel Hill Endeavors Twenty years ago, Ralph Baric quietly began studying corona viruses. Now he's battling a global menace. -- Anton Zuiker research.unc.edu/endeavors/fall2003/baric.html Every Breath You Take U. of Iowa Illumine What's in the air we breathe? It's nothing to sneeze at. Here's an engineer who has made it his life's work to find out what's in that dust--and what it does to us. -- Gary Galluzzo www.uiowa.edu/~illumine/ISSUES_2003/FALL/breath.html Molecular Movies U. Chicago Medicine on the Midway Although they will never be Academy Award contenders for "Best Drama," Keith Moffat's animated films reveal facets of human life at the molecular level. -- Paul Karr www.uchospitals.edu/midway/summer-03/molecular.pdf Tale of the Turtleman Ohio U. Perspectives Biologist Willem Roosenburg has a sixth sense, it seems, for where the turtles have been. Strolling along a Maryland beach where the creatures reportedly have crawled ashore to bury their eggs, he stops at an inconspicuous swatch of sand, squats down. His bare hands gently probe for the nest. www.ohiou.edu/perspectives/0301/feat_1.htm 2003 issue: A SIMPLEX PLAN U. Chicago Medicine on the Midway For more than three decades, virologist Bernard Roizman has waged microscopic war on the herpes virus. His research team has won its share of battles—some on pretty unexpected fronts.—Paul Karr http://www.uchospitals.edu/midway/fall-02/simplex.pdf A STRIKING RESEMBLANCE UNC-Chapel Hill Endeavors Con artists that crawl.—Jason Smith http://research.unc.edu/endeavors/fall2001/pfennig.htm ASTROBIOLOGY: THE SEARCH FOR LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE Research/PennState On the lookout for life of the extraterrestrial kind, today’s astrobiologists—trained in chemistry, geology, and molecular biology, as well as astronomy—have refined their ideas about where, and whether, they’re likely to find it.—David Pacchioli http://www.rps.psu.edu/0101/anybody.html BEARING WITNESS S. Illinois U-Carbondale Perspectives Microscopic sea animals can give us big clues about climate change and the causes of global warming.—Marilyn Davis http://www.siu.edu/%7Eperspect/02_fall/foram.html BIOINFORMATICS: THE ART & SCIENCE OF DECODING LIFE Georgia Tech Research Horizons The definition of bioinformatics has broadened in the past several years from analysis of gene sequence data to the process of integrating many kinds of biological data to find new meaning. Whatever the definition, most scientists agree the field holds great promise for new discoveries—and finding them faster.—Jane M. Sanders http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/reshor/rh-win01/bio.html GOING DEEP Research/PennState A mile and a half below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, hydrothermal vents—underwater hot springs—are home to some of the world’s most exotic creatures. Too deep to be reached by sunlight, these strange animals thrive on energy from the center of the earth.—Joanna Lott a href="http://www.rps.psu.edu/0301/deep.html HEART BREAKS U. Kansas Explore ‘My knife struck something so hard and gritty as to notch it. . . . the coronaries were become bony canals.’—Roger Martin RM1 IN THE BREATH OF THE FOREST UNC-Chapel Hill Endeavors Deep in Brazil, a team takes the measure of rainforest respiration.—Neil Caudle http://research.unc.edu/endeavors/spr2001/martens.htm LIFE UNDERGROUND U. Georgia Research Reporter Learning more about the life and times of termites helps prevent structural damage.—Judy Purdy http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/researchnews/summer2001/life.html NEW WEAPONS FOR THE GERM WARS Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Annual Report Inexpensive polymers can extend the range of nature’s germ-fighter arsenal.—Michael Schneider http://www.psc.edu/science/2002/klein/new_weapons_for_the_germ_wars.html OF MICE & MAGNETS Florida State U Research in Review Biology textbooks don’t teach it, but if two researchers have their way, one day they will—magnets can make a difference in how the brain works. But it helps if they’re really big ones.—Frank Stephenson http://www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/issue2001/mice.html PEARLS OF GREAT PROMISE U of Georgia Research Reporter An emerging crop in Georgia is for the birds—and farmers too. Pearl millet is poised to rival the state’s mainstay crop.—Dan Rahn http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/researchnews/summer2001/pearls.html PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Annual Report With crucial help from supercomputing, researchers answered a long-standing question about the permeability of biological cells.—Michael Schneider http://www.psc.edu/science/2002/schulten RESTORING THE RIVER OF GRASS U of Florida Explore Dozens of University of Florida scientists and their students are working to ensure that the ambitious plan to restore the Everglades is successful.—Joseph Kays http://rgp.ufl.edu/explore/v06n1/everglades.html SURVIVING PARADISE: A HAWAIIAN TALE Ohio U. Perspectives Hawaii is the world’s most remote island chain and an ecological paradise for botanists. But studies suggest invasive plants are choking the life out of many native species, painting a bleak ecological future for the islands.—Andrea Gibson http://www.ohiou.edu/perspectives/0201/home2.htm THE GREAT DARWIN DIVIDE Florida State U Research in Review It has survived a full centruy of parsing and prodding by the best from science and religion, yet Darwin’s central message still echoes across a canyon of thought dividing both camps. -- Andy Lindstrom & Frank Stephenson http://www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/issue2001/darwindivide.html THE MATING GAME U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Profile Prof. Rudi Strickler has discovered how one of the tiniest and most abundant creatures in the world’s waters—the family of zooplankters—-keeps its population afloat.—Kelly Kizer Whitt http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Grad_Sch/Publications/ResearchProfile/Vol25No1/mating.html THERE IS MORE TO A FOREST THAN TREES Virginia Tech Research There is immense profit potential in the deep forests of Appalachia from non-timber forest products NTFP such as medicinal herbs. Ginseng s becoming a model NTFP enterprise.—Lynn Davis http://www.research.vt.edu/resmag/2002summer/forestproducts.html TRACKING RATTLERS Arizona State U ASU Research ASU doctoral student Emily Taylor traipses the desert searching for rattlesnakes. Her mission is to understand how hormones influence behavior while interacting with the creatures she loves.—Kristine Wilcox http://researchmag.asu.edu/stories/rattlers.html TROUBLED WATERS Ohio U Perspectives To paint the landscape of certain pockets of southeastern Ohio, an artist wouldn’t need blue for the region’s abundant waterways. Choked with sulfur and heavy metals, their rust color is a startling sight, an unnatural hue on Mother Nature’s palette.—Andrea Gibson http://www.ohiou.edu/perspectives/0101/0003/story001.html |
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