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> ISSNAF Research Interaction Opportunities - (IRIO - 10)
A major objective of ISSNAF is to promote research interactions among students and scholars in North America and Italy. An effective mechanism to further this program is the creation of fellowships. The areas of interest include Economic and Social Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Engineering and Information Sciences, Humanities, Medicine and Biology, and Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. To this end, ISSNAF is developing a database where topics of existing or potential collaboration are identified. The database will be visible on the web site. The database will also be used by ISSNAF to raise funds for the fellowships from the private and public sectors in Italy and in North America. More...
ISSNAF encourages Italian and North American Researchers interested in the Program to post their research projects using this Form. |
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Mauro Ferrari Will Lead TMHR |
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Sunday, 15 August 2010 00:47 |
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Mauro Ferrari * was appointed President and CEO of The Methodist Hospital Research Institute. Intended as a "home" for translational and clinical research, the Methodist Hospital Research Institute is perfect match with Ferrari, a visionary and internationally recognized expert in the development, refinement and application of biomedical nanotechnology, trained in Mathematics (University of Padova, Italy), Engineering (University of California, Berkeley) and Medicine (Ohio State University).
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* A founding member of ISSNAF, Dr. Ferrari serves as Professor, Brown Institute of Molecular Medicine, Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Professor of Experimental Therapeutics, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX., Professor of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston TX., Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston TX. and President, of the Alliance for NanoHealth, Houston TX.
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Italians in the Lab - Roman Stocker |
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Saturday, 14 August 2010 00:00 |
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A Peek Into Roman Stocker's Tiny World
Roman Stocker * is the principal investigator of the Environmental Microfluidics Group at MIT Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering. An environmental fluid mechanician educated in Italy -- Stocker received his PhD in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Padova in 2003 -- he joined MIT's CEE faculty in 2005. Stocker has also worked at Perth, Australia, and claims other excellent international collaborations. Stocker Group's website allows a wonderful peek into his research interests and the "tiny world" that he passionately studies. On his desk, reportedly, four stuffed giant microbes. Most recently, with an international team of researchers, Stocker recreated in the lab a microcosm of the ocean environment, and, using microfluidic technology, was able to "visualize the behavior of marine microorganisms" just like "ecologists have done with macro-organisms for a long time." Stocker recorded microbes within a tiny channel, swimming toward the chemical dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) released into the channel. The scientist's report of chemoattraction throughout the ocean's microbial food webs has important implications regarding ocean chemical cycling processes and, most conspicuously, confirms that marine microorganisms' behavior may ultimately have "a powerful influence on Earth's climate" -- affecting the heat balance of the atmosphere.
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* Roman Stocker is a member of ISSNAF
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World Universities Rankings - ARWU 2010 |
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Present and Future of the Italian University
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Friday, 13 August 2010 10:36 |
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The Chinese rankings -- Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities, www.arwu.org -- released today -- August 13 -- amid familiar criticism of global ranking models, show Harvard University topping the list for the eighth year in a row, with the University of California, Berkeley, second, and Stanford University third. The list of 500 institutions, compiled by Jiao Tong University's Centre for World-Class Universities, is available at www.arwu.org. Business as usual?
Meanwhile, the heat is on for rival THE (Britain's QS-Times Higher Education), whose revised model is forthcoming -- EU planned implementation for its own ranking project at the beginning of 2011.
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Friday, 13 August 2010 02:22 |
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Summer Time Blues, the third Report in a series on Stimulus spending unveiled by senators Coburn and McCain on August 3, re-ignites debate over funding for science programs. A number of research on substance abuse and public health studies, supported by NIH and NSF grants fell among the hundred projects listed as "wasteful spending." NIH director Francis Collins and supporters of science stimulus package argued back. An article by Louise Radnofsky, published in the WSJ, offers an overview of the discussion.
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* Cochran Eddie: Summertime Blues Lyrics
Postilla -- Francis Collin's Balancing Acts. Meredith Wadman's report on Francis Collin's first year at the helm of NIH, published in Nature, highlights some of the most difficult choices that Collins is confronting vis a vis NIH grantees. Read here |
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Colwell Honored with the 2010 Stockholm Water Prize |
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Inside ISSNAF -
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Thursday, 12 August 2010 05:20 |
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* ISSNAF founding member and Distinguished Professor from the University of Maryland
and Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States.
The Award to Rita R. Colwell is an honor to ISSNAF
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To Andrew Viterbi the IIC Lifetime Achievement Award |
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Inside ISSNAF -
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Wednesday, 11 August 2010 02:56 |
The Viterbi Museum at the University of Southern California Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering "is a hidden jewel." The murals realized by Sandro Chia for the walls of the museum evoke memorable moments from Viterbi's public and private lives.
On August 18, 2010, Andrew J. Viterbi * will receive the IIC Lifetime Achievement Award by the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles -- a tribute and a ceremony under the auspices of the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles, in collaboration with the department of cultural affairs of the City of Los Angeles, and ISSNAF.
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* Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UCSD and a founding member of ISSNAF |
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