Interview with Dr. Jeff Chamberlain by Leslie Streicher with the Medill News Service.
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Leslie Streicher with the Medill News Service. She is a graduate student in the Master of Science at Northwestern University
Archive for February, 2010
Interview with Dr. Jeff Chamberlain, Argonne National Laboratory
Thursday, February 25th, 2010FDA and NIH Announce Collaboration
Thursday, February 25th, 2010The research supported through this initiative should add to the scientific knowledge base by providing new methods, models or technologies that will inform the scientific and regulatory community about better approaches to evaluating safety and efficacy in medical product development.
Deluge of Scientific Data Needs to be Curated for Long-Term Use, by Phil Ciciora
Thursday, February 25th, 2010“Google is great for the front-end, for getting a thread into something,” Palmer said. “But it doesn’t offer you the context that’s important for aggregating and presenting data for research purposes.”
Neuroeconomist Mixes Money and Mind to Make Sense, by Daniel Peake
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010These are very complex behaviors that we observe, and the traditional models that people have used in economics to understand behavior can’t really account for what we observe. So now we need to make these models a little more complicated, a little more realistic. To do that, we have a lot to learn from neuroscience and psychology and sociology. So this is why the field was born.
Research!America Chooses C2ST as its February “Member Taking Action”
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010“Our rich agenda includes basic and applied science and technology from areas spanning bioscience and engineering,
Think Twice Before Cutting K-12 Music, by Wendy Leopold
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010“People’s hearing systems are fine-tuned by the experiences they’ve had with sound throughout their lives,” says Kraus. “Music training is not only beneficial for processing music stimuli. We’ve found that years of music training may also improve how sounds are processed for language and emotion.”
MSU Prof Calls for Better Ways of Measuring Energy Savings, by Tom Oswald
Monday, February 22nd, 2010“One important and useful method of measurement is “energy return on energy invested,”
Parents Still Major Influence on Child’s Decision to Pursue Science Careers, by Tom Oswald
Sunday, February 21st, 2010“Failure to build and maintain a competitive scientific work force in the decades ahead,” Miller said, “will inevitably lead to a decline in the American standard of living.”
Elusive Carp Hunt Continues With New Threats to the Economy, by Leslie Streicherand Julia Edwards
Sunday, February 21st, 2010A live fish has not been found anywhere beyond the electric barriers near the Lockport Lock and Dam. But that hasn’t lulled the fears that the voracious fish will invade Lake Michigan and calls to close the locks continue as more economic threats surface.
Registry brings awareness to women’s health research, by Tina Amirkiai
Sunday, February 21st, 2010The registry is a database of self-reported health information provided by women who complete the survey, either online or on a paper copy. Their answers go into a secure server, and when a new study or clinical trial is looking for participants, the women are linked up with the appropriate research study and have the choice to participat
