HHMI Bulletin August 2010: Chronicle

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	Making Research Personal

	National Awards to Foster Science Education

	Change in Leadership of HHMI Trustees

	Bishai Named Director of K-RITH

	Driving Thirst

	Mustard's Mini-Me

	Double-Checking Doublesex

	Fly Walker

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		Making Research Personal A West Virginia program pulls students into science by teaching them about the health problems in their own community. More


National Awards to Foster Science Education HHMI announces $79 million of new grants to help universities strengthen undergraduate and precollege science education nationwide. More					Fly Walker Researchers hope to learn how a fruit fly thinks by accompanying it on a stroll More


Change in Leadership of HHMI Trustees Kurt Schmoke succeeds Hanna Gray as Chairman. More					Bishai Named Director of K-RITH Prominent tuberculosis researcher will become the first permanent director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH). More


Driving Thirst Scientists identify a gene that sends flies to the water bowl. More Mustard’s Mini-Me A way to switch plants’ reproductive programs could help farmers. More					Double-Checking Doublesex Fruit fly cells don’t all know what sex they are. More

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