MedImmune and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Present 2007 Career Development Award and Viral Respiratory Disease ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society , supported by grants from MedImmune, Inc. , will present the third annual MedImmune Career Development Award in Pediatric Infectious Disease to Jin-Young Han, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Minnesota and the second annual Viral Respiratory Disease Fellowship to Niranjan Bhat, M.D. from Johns Hopkins University....more...Corstaphney Grants Awarded To DSLCC Faculty Members (Rockbridge Weekly) Clifton Forge, May 8, 2006 - The DSLCC Educational Foundation has awarded John M. Corstaphney Grants to Gary L. Boyer, Sr. and Tondalaya VanLear....more... Hai-Chao Han Will Study Cardiovascular Mechanics Associated With Buckling Arteries (Medical News Today) Hai-Chao Han, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio, has been awarded a five-year, $400,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the cardiovascular mechanics associated with artery buckling in humans. [click link for full article]...more... NDSCS does OK in legislative session (Wahpeton News) The 2007 legislative session was a ?reasonable session? for North Dakota State College of Science, President John Richman said. The college received a significant amount of funding from final appropriations and specifically for workforce training and development....more... Carroll cares about economic growth (Carroll County Online) Mark Twain said, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." In Carroll County, everybody is talking about economic development (or should be), but is anybody doing anything about it?...more... Four districts to share $1.4M in special-ed funds (The Record) Four North Jersey school districts will share $1.4 million in state grants to expand their special-education programs as part of a statewide push to educate disabled students alongside typical peers....more... Hoeven Signs Career And Technical Education Funding Bill (KXMA-TV Dickinson) DICKINSON, N.D. – Gov. John Hoeven today was joined by legislators, educators and community officials to sign House Bill 1019, a $21.7 million Career and Technical Education bill that will help provide North Dakotans with the skills they need to ...more... Technical school launches drive to raise $157,000 (The Argus Leader) Southeast Technical Institute began a drive Tuesday to raise $157,000 from Sioux Falls area businesses to back the school's mission....more... $1.5 Million Awarded For Palliative Care Research (Medical News Today) The American Cancer Society and the National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC) are awarding $1.5 million in research grants to researchers at ten institutions for studies aimed at reducing suffering for seriously ill patients and their family caregivers. The studies will be conducted over the next two years. [click link for full article]...more... |