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Pulitzer-winning dramatist honored
10-18-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks will receive the 2006-2007 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts on Oct. 27 at MIT.
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- Laurie Garrett on health workers sentenced to die in Libya
10-27-2006 · EurekAlert!
In an essay published urgently in the international open access journal PloS Medicine, Pulitzer Prize winning author Laurie Garrett warns that if Libya proceeds with the executions of six foreign health workers accused of infecting children with HIV, the appalling injustice will threaten health workers worldwide and endanger their patients in the poorest parts of the world.
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- Brookhaven Lab Honored with EPA Environmental Achievement Award
10-17-2006 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory is being honored with a National Partnership for Environmental Priorities (NPEP) Achievement Award for reducing both its mercury waste generation and its inventory of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The NPEP encourages public and private organizations to form voluntary partnerships with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce the use or release of any of 31 priority toxic chemicals and metals identified by the EPA.
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- UT Southwestern researcher honored by American Heart Association
11-01-2007 · UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dr. Helen Hobbs, director of the Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development and an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been named by the American Heart Association as a Distinguished Scientist.
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- Squirrels place winning bet in unpredictable world
12-21-2006 · EurekAlert!
In an evolutionary game of tug-of-war, red squirrels have gained the upper hand over the cunning spruce trees, says new University of Alberta research that suggests the clever animals are staying one step ahead of its food source.
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- Weeds survive the wild better than natives
07-03-2007 · EurekAlert!
Weeds are winning the battle when it comes to surviving in the wild with foliage eating insects preferring the taste of native plants, according to a study by Queensland University of Technology. Eve White, from QUT's School of Natural Resource Sciences, has been investigating the effect weeds can have on native plants especially when foliage eating insects, also known as herbivores, are involved.
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- Three ORNL technologies honored by Southeast tech transfer group
10-26-2006 · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Three technologies developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have earned Excellence in Technology Awards from the Southeast Region of the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer during its annual meeting in Nashville.
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- MIT pair honored for biopsy advance
11-06-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Two MIT graduate students reached the finals of last week's Collegiate Inventors Competition, organized by the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation, for their work on a device that makes needle biopsies less invasive.
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- Squirrels winning at outwitting trees' survival strategy
12-21-2006 · EurekAlert!
In Science, Andrew McAdam at Michigan State outlines how red squirrels have figured out a way around the elaborate ruse trees have used to protect their crops of tasty seeds.The remarkable part: The squirrels are divining the arrival of bumper crops of spruce cones months before the cones ever materialize and then betting on those crops with the most expensive evolutionary collateral -- a second litter of pups.
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- July 2007 Story Tips
07-12-2007 · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Story ideas from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The latest tips include: "Energy - Power forward," "Environment - Award-winning recipe," "Homeland Security - Bio watchdog," "Biology - Eucalyptus sequencing"
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- Four WHOI Researchers Recognized for Contributions to Science and Engineering
11-09-2006 · Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
Staff honored with endowed awards.
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