Carol Folt Starts New Era As 11th Chancellor

Posted On Friday, July 5, 2013 By . Under NORTH CAROLINA  Tags: , , , ,   
Carol Folt Starts New Era As 11th Chancellor Carol L. Folt, former interim president of Dartmouth College and the Dartmouth Professor of Biological Sciences, took office Monday (July 1) as Carolina’s 11th chancellor. Folt, the first woman to lead Carolina, is an internationally recognized environmental scientist and was an award-winning teacher at Dartmouth, a member of the prestigious Ivy ...

New Drug Shows Promise in Ability to Fight Rare Type of Breast Cancer

Posted On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 By . Under DELAWARE  Tags: , , , ,   
New Drug Shows Promise in Ability to Fight Rare Type of Breast Cancer Researchers in the University of Delaware's Department of Biological Sciences are investigating a new drug that has shown positive results in early tests of its ability to fight a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer. A small, pilot study of the drug found that inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) tumors in ...

NBA Legend Bill Walton to Speak On Life, Basketball As Part of Pac-12 Tour

Posted On Thursday, February 7, 2013 By . Under ARIZONA  Tags: , , , ,   
NBA Legend Bill Walton to Speak On Life Pac-12 Networks and ESPN have teamed up to welcome Hall of Famer and UCLA legend Bill Walton back to the broadcasting chair with a nine-school road trip and speaking tour across the Pac-12 Conference that includes a stop at the University of Arizona on Feb. 6. The talk, which will ...

Carnegie Mellon’s Alison Barth Receives Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award

Posted On Wednesday, December 12, 2012 By . Under PENNSYLVANIA  Tags: , , , ,   
alisonbarth_200x300b.jpg Carnegie Mellon's Alison Barth Receives Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award From McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Alison Barth has received a 2013 Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award from the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. Barth is one of four researchers to receive the ...

LSU Community Mourns the Passing of Alumni Professor Emeritus Marion Socolofsky

Posted On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 By . Under LOUISIANA  Tags: , , ,   
par BATON ROUGE 'e2'80ldblquote The LSU College of Science is saddened to report that Alumni Professor Emeritus Marion 'e2'80'9cSoc'e2'80'9d Socolofsky passed away on the morning of Nov. 2 at the Mid-City Baton Rouge General Medical Center.par par A legendary figure in the former Department of Microbiology and in the current Department of ...