Pico-World Dragnets: Computer-Designed Proteins Recognize and Bind Small Molecules
Posted On Saturday, September 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: computational biology, Engineering, Environment, Health and Medicine, Nature paper, News Releases, Research, Science, Technology, University of Washington
Computer-designed proteins that can recognize and interact with small biological molecules are now a reality. Scientists have succeeded in creating a protein molecule that can be programmed to unite with three different steroids.
The achievement could have far wider ranging applications in medicine and other fields, according to the Protein Design ...
Local Police, Firefighters Trained in Safety Measures Specific to Electric Cars
Posted On Thursday, August 29, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: College of Earth, electric cars, electric vehicle-to-grid technology, Environment, firefighters, Local police, Ocean
After a car crash, emergency responders know to cut off the fuel before it leaks on the pavement and starts a fire. Some may not be sure, though, where to start when the car is an electric vehicle that runs without gasoline.
“First responders need to know that with a wreck ...
Dare to Care: Improve Society, Environment with Ideas to SERVE Competition
Posted On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Environment, Georgia Tech’s, Ideas to SERVE (I2S) Competition, Improve Society
Rolls of tubing, uncoiling from helicopters, creating new pipelines in mere minutes; human waste, treated by the sun instead of an expensive sewer system. Is this the infrastructure of the future? If some recent Georgia Tech grads have anything to do with it, the answer will be yes.
Each spring, dozens ...
Leading quantitative conservation biologist named CU’s first Colorado Chair in Environmental Studies
Posted On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 By USA Education News. Under COLORADO Tags: Environment, Natural Sciences
October 1, 2012
The University of Colorado Boulder has hired its first Colorado Chair in Environmental Studies, an endowed chair awarded to Daniel Doak, a conservation biologist known for his quantitative analysis of how different government policies could affect the populations of species ranging from sea otters, California condors, corals and ...
Environmental Design Degree Returns To CU-Boulder Administrative Structure
Posted On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 By USA Education News. Under COLORADO Tags: Academics, Architecture, Arts & Humanities, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences
September 17, 2012
With the start of the 2012-13 academic year, CU-Boulder has resumed the administration, management and governance of a bachelor’s degree in environmental design and is beginning a visioning process for how to fully integrate environmental design into the wide array of related programs on the Boulder campus, Provost ...