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SPACE.com Mars Rover to Celebrate New Year’s Eve at Big Crater 12/29/2010 NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has its plans for New Year’s Eve all sorted out — it will be poking around a football-field-size crater called Santa Maria. And Santa Maria is special as far as craters go. The crater appears to be extremely young […]

AsiaNews.it Hong Kong becoming a leading centre for genomic research 12/29/2010 Hong Kong is poised to become international gene sequencing and genomics research hub, thanks to Beijing’s drive to turn the country into an international science powerhouse by 2020. Already it houses some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers and gene sequencers, the result of […]

The New York Times In pursuit of a mind map, slice by slice 12/27/2010 In September, the National Institutes of Health handed out $40 million in grants to researchers at Harvard, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Minnesota and the University of California, Los Angeles , to pursue connectomics, an emerging field that […]

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Vladimir B. Birman, PhD, associate professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $324,815 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Bronsted Acid Catalysis in Enantioselective Acyl Substitution.” … Ian MacMullen, PhD, assistant professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $55,000 Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship from […]

South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) HK to become world genomics research hub 12/27/2010 Hong Kong is poised to become international gene sequencing and genomics research hub, thanks to Beijing’s drive to turn the country into an international science powerhouse by 2020. Already it houses some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers and gene sequencers, […]

Scientific American
 A losing personality
 12/23/2010 In recent years, psychologists have begun looking at personality traits as critical variables in the dieting equation. In fact, your personality may well be the strongest predictor of how likely you are to shed pounds, says psychiatrist C. Robert Cloninger of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. […]

Adrienne D. Davis, JD, the William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, has been appointed vice provost at Washington University, effective Feb. 1, 2011. Edward S. Macias, PhD, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, made the announcement of this new position in his office.

E Science News
 Cornstarch might have ended the Gulf spill agony sooner
 12/22/2010 When British Petroleum attempted to stop the Gulf oil spill by pouring heavy mud down the well bore, physicists watching the situation speculated that the top kill effort would fail due to an instability problem. Washington University in St. Louis physicist Jonathan […]

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