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NEWS Sep 7 2001

HHMI Awards Predoctoral, Medical Student Fellowships for 2001

Ninety-two graduate students and 69 medical students have won new fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The predoctoral fellowships are five-year awards for students working for...

NEWS Aug 31 2001

An Undergraduate Education Challenge

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has issued a challenge to science professors across the United States: Show the same ingenuity in your undergraduate teaching that you do in your...

NEWS Aug 31 2001

Football and Microbiology—A Winning Team

Microbiology classes kick off this time of year on college campuses all over the country. So does college football. Oregon State University senior Calvin Carlyle will be there—in the microbiology lab...

NEWS Jul 10 2001

UC Paleontology Museum Puts Evolution On-line

Evolution is the central organizing principle of the life sciences, yet it remains a source of controversy. Teachers, students and the public often have a hard time getting a handle on exactly what...

NEWS Jul 10 2001

At Ease with Science in Alabama

Picture an elementary school where students can't wait for their next science lesson. It would have to be a school whose teachers feel comfortable teaching science. A recent poll of Alabama...

NEWS Jul 10 2001

HHMI Awards $12 Million for Informal Science Education

Twenty-nine science museums, nature centers, aquariums, zoos and other informal science education centers will receive new grants totaling $12 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The...

NEWS Jul 10 2001

Imaginarium Draws on Native Wisdom

The vast state of Alaska gives new meaning to the word "rural." Isolated communities are rich in native cultural knowledge and tradition, but often lack resources for teaching science in the schools...

NEWS Jun 18 2001

Biology to Go

Lupe Quinones looks more than a little skeptical as she gingerly pokes at the owl pellet in front of her. Lupe's reluctance to touch the regurgitated lump of undigestable food doesn't bother Mobile...

NEWS May 2 2001

Mentoring Runs in the Family

Thomas Weickert—a soft-spoken National Institutes of Health neuropsychologist—decided to mentor high school students and teachers when one of his colleagues suggested he would enjoy the role. The...

NEWS Mar 9 2001

Human Genome in a Box

As scientists around the world celebrated the publication of the completed human genome in February, teenagers from Montgomery County, Maryland took a Human Genome Project multimedia kit for a trial...

NEWS Feb 19 2001

GrantsNet Launches New Online Database to Assist Undergraduate Science Programs

GrantsNet, the free Web site that provides information on grants and fellowships for young biomedical researchers, today introduced a new database on undergraduate-level programs. Professors and...

NEWS Feb 13 2001

A Valentine Tale: This Twosome Has Won Some

Helen Kim and Ronald Cohen were just a year apart at Cornell University Medical College, and their labs were on adjacent floors. Both had HHMI medical student fellowships. But they never discovered...

NEWS Jan 16 2001

El HHMI otorga 15 millones de dólares en subsidios para apoyar a científicos biomédicos en el Báltico, en Europa Central y Oriental y en la antigua Unión Soviética

El Instituto Médico Howard Hughes (HHMI) ha concedido una nueva serie de subsidios por un total de 15 millones de dólares a 46 investigadores biomédicos de nueve países del Báltico, de Europa Central...

NEWS Jan 16 2001

HHMI Awards $15 Million in Grants to Support Biomedical Scientists

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded a new round of grants totaling $15 (US) million to 46 biomedical researchers from nine countries of the Baltics, Central and Eastern Europe and...

NEWS Dec 13 2000

Determination Paves Her Way From the Streets to Medical School

When Mimi Black was a homeless teenager, living on the streets of San Francisco, she used to sleep in front of a police station. "It seemed like the safest place," she says. Then she moved to the...

NEWS Nov 27 2000

Clockwork Genes: Holiday Lectures Explore the Biological Basis of Circadian Rhythms

Teenagers tend to have a harder time functioning in the morning than their parents do. Long flights can cause jet lag. Both phenomena are related to "biological clocks," molecular mechanisms that...

NEWS Nov 10 2000

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awards Fellowships to Train Physician-Scientists

Forty-four physicians who want to combine clinical medicine with laboratory research have received new postdoctoral fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The fellowhips provide...

NEWS Nov 3 2000

Excited Teachers Plus Exciting Experiments Equals Learning That's Fun

As a teenager, Judy Brown thought that science was only for "really smart" kids. She didn't count herself among them. Brown entered college planning to major in English. Then she took a freshman...

NEWS Sep 26 2000

Robots Welcome Inner-City Middle Schoolers to College

Clustered around an improvised, cardboard-walled arena in a lecture hall at Villanova University, boys and girls from Philadelphia's Julia de Burgos Middle School whoop as knee-high robots scoot...

NEWS Aug 16 2000

Muscle Research Across the Sea

When it comes to making machines the size of molecules, says Raúl Padrón, a Venezuelan structural biologist who has spent the past two decades studying the molecular basis of muscle contraction, the...

NEWS Jul 26 2000

HHMI Awards $15 Million to Scientists Outside United States

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded $15 million in grants to help scientists outside the United States develop new approaches to overcoming malaria, tuberculosis, Chagas disease,...

NEWS Jul 26 2000

El HHMI otorga 15 millones de dólares a científicos que trabajan fuera de los Estados Unidos para ayudar a superar enfermedades infecciosas y parasitarias

El Instituto Médico Howard Hughes (HHMI) ha otorgado 15 millones de dólares en subsidios para ayudar a científicos que trabajan fuera de los Estados Unidos a desarrollar nuevas metodologías para...

NEWS Jul 14 2000

HHMI Invites Museums to Compete for Grants

Sometimes the most effective science education occurs outside of the classroom. Recognizing that, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has invited approximately 800 museums and other centers...

NEWS Jul 6 2000

HHMI Awards $50.3 Million in Undergraduate Grants

Fifty-three colleges and universities in 22 states and Puerto Rico will receive $50.3 million in awards for undergraduate biological sciences education. The four-year grants come from the Howard...

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HHMI Awards Predoctoral, Medical Student Fellowships for 2001

An Undergraduate Education Challenge

Football and Microbiology—A Winning Team

UC Paleontology Museum Puts Evolution On-line

At Ease with Science in Alabama

HHMI Awards $12 Million for Informal Science Education

Imaginarium Draws on Native Wisdom

Biology to Go

Mentoring Runs in the Family

Human Genome in a Box

GrantsNet Launches New Online Database to Assist Undergraduate Science Programs

A Valentine Tale: This Twosome Has Won Some

El HHMI otorga 15 millones de dólares en subsidios para apoyar a científicos biomédicos en el Báltico, en Europa Central y Oriental y en la antigua Unión Soviética

HHMI Awards $15 Million in Grants to Support Biomedical Scientists

Determination Paves Her Way From the Streets to Medical School

Clockwork Genes: Holiday Lectures Explore the Biological Basis of Circadian Rhythms

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awards Fellowships to Train Physician-Scientists

Excited Teachers Plus Exciting Experiments Equals Learning That's Fun

Robots Welcome Inner-City Middle Schoolers to College

Muscle Research Across the Sea

HHMI Awards $15 Million to Scientists Outside United States

El HHMI otorga 15 millones de dólares a científicos que trabajan fuera de los Estados Unidos para ayudar a superar enfermedades infecciosas y parasitarias

HHMI Invites Museums to Compete for Grants

HHMI Awards $50.3 Million in Undergraduate Grants

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HHMI Awards Predoctoral, Medical Student Fellowships for 2001

An Undergraduate Education Challenge

Football and Microbiology—A Winning Team

UC Paleontology Museum Puts Evolution On-line

At Ease with Science in Alabama

HHMI Awards $12 Million for Informal Science Education

Imaginarium Draws on Native Wisdom

Biology to Go

Mentoring Runs in the Family

Human Genome in a Box

GrantsNet Launches New Online Database to Assist Undergraduate Science Programs

A Valentine Tale: This Twosome Has Won Some

El HHMI otorga 15 millones de dólares en subsidios para apoyar a científicos biomédicos en el Báltico, en Europa Central y Oriental y en la antigua Unión Soviética

HHMI Awards $15 Million in Grants to Support Biomedical Scientists

Determination Paves Her Way From the Streets to Medical School

Clockwork Genes: Holiday Lectures Explore the Biological Basis of Circadian Rhythms

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awards Fellowships to Train Physician-Scientists

Excited Teachers Plus Exciting Experiments Equals Learning That's Fun

Robots Welcome Inner-City Middle Schoolers to College

Muscle Research Across the Sea

HHMI Awards $15 Million to Scientists Outside United States

El HHMI otorga 15 millones de dólares a científicos que trabajan fuera de los Estados Unidos para ayudar a superar enfermedades infecciosas y parasitarias

HHMI Invites Museums to Compete for Grants

HHMI Awards $50.3 Million in Undergraduate Grants

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