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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:18:33 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Membrane Breaks Through Performance Barrier
Membrane Breaks Through Performance Barrier
Engineers have developed a new method for creating high-performance membranes from crystal sieves called zeolites; the method could increase the energy efficiency of chemical separations up to 50 times over conventional methods and enable higher production rates.
The ability to separate and purify specific molecules in a chemical mixture is essential to chemical manufacturing. Many industrial separations rely on distillation, a process that is easy to design and implement but consumes ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:57:28 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Life Underground Critical to Earth's Ecosystems
Life Underground Critical to Earth's Ecosystems
"I wonder if I shall fall right through the Earth!" mused Alice-in-Wonderland as she tumbled down the rabbit-hole." How funny it'll seem to come out among people that walk with their heads downwards! The antipathies, I think ..."
Alice's experiences in a below-ground world, written about by Lewis Carroll in 1865 in his famed Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, were fiction.
Or were they?
If the work of biologist Diana Wall of Colorado State ...
This is an NSF News - Biology item.
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:58:41 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Research Experiences for Undergraduates
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:21:51 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering
NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:23:59 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI)
Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI)
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Public Comment: This solicitation replaces documents NSF 07-575 and NSF 09-503
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:25:56 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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Public Comment: Please see the solicitation, NSF-09-566, associated with these FAQs.
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:30:05 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Organization of Projects on Environmental Research in the Arctic
Organization of Projects on Environmental Research in the Arctic
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:35:22 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: NSF Selects University of Michigan Historian to Head Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
NSF Selects University of Michigan Historian to Head Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected University of Michigan historian Myron Gutmann, director of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, to head its directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). The directorate supports research that builds fundamental knowledge of human behavior, interaction, social and economic systems, and organizations and institutions.
Gutmann, who specializes in historical demography and ...
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Message: 9
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:37:15 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: 'Til Mortgage Do Us Part: The Science
'Til Mortgage Do Us Part: The Science
On July 29, the National Science Foundation will examine the human dimensions of the nation's mortgage crisis in a virtual press briefing. One year after passage of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 that authorizes $300 billion in new 30-year fixed rate mortgages for subprime borrowers, top economists answer media questions about how the psychology and neurobiology of individual investors affects the housing market.
Yale University economist Robert Shiller, who predicted ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:38:17 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: What Scientists Know About Jewel Beetle Shimmer
What Scientists Know About Jewel Beetle Shimmer
"Jewel beetles" are widely known for their glossy external skeletons that appear to change colors as the angle of view changes. Now they may be known for something else--providing a blueprint for materials that reflect light rather than absorbing it to produce colors.
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta recently discovered jewel beetles change color because of the light-reflecting properties of the cells that make up their external skeletons, not ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:36:31 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Researchers Link Jellyfish, Other Small Sea Creatures to Large-Scale Ocean Mixing
Researchers Link Jellyfish, Other Small Sea Creatures to Large-Scale Ocean Mixing
The ocean's smallest swimming animals, such as jellyfish, can have a huge impact on large-scale ocean mixing, researchers have discovered.
"The perspective we usually take is how the ocean--by its currents, temperature, and chemistry--is affecting animals," says John Dabiri, a Caltech bioengineer who, along with Caltech graduate student Kakani Katija, discovered the new mechanism. "But there have been increasing suggestions that the inverse is also important, ...
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Message: 12
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:03:42 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: New Hope for Fisheries on the Horizon?
New Hope for Fisheries on the Horizon?
Scientists have joined forces in a groundbreaking assessment on the status of marine fisheries and ecosystems.
The two-year study, led by Boris Worm of Dalhousie University and Ray Hilborn of the University of Washington and including an international team of 19 co-authors, shows that steps taken to curb overfishing are beginning to succeed in five of the 10 large marine ecosystems that they examined.
The paper, which appears in the July 31 issue of the journal Science, ...
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Message: 13
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:07:02 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Life Underground Critical to Earth's Ecosystems
Life Underground Critical to Earth's Ecosystems
"I wonder if I shall fall right through the Earth!" mused Alice-in-Wonderland as she tumbled down the rabbit-hole." How funny it'll seem to come out among people that walk with their heads downwards! The antipathies, I think ..."
Alice's experiences in a below-ground world, written about by Lewis Carroll in 1865 in his famed Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, were fiction.
Or were they?
If the work of biologist Diana Wall of Colorado State ...
This is an NSF News item.
Message: 14
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:59:27 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Membrane Breaks Through Performance Barrier
Membrane Breaks Through Performance Barrier
Engineers have developed a new method for creating high-performance membranes from crystal sieves called zeolites; the method could increase the energy efficiency of chemical separations up to 50 times over conventional methods and enable higher production rates.
The ability to separate and purify specific molecules in a chemical mixture is essential to chemical manufacturing. Many industrial separations rely on distillation, a process that is easy to design and implement but consumes ...
This is an NSF News item.
Message: 15
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:55:02 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Materials World Network: Cooperative Activity in Materials Research between U.S. Investigators and their Counterparts Abroad
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Message: 16
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:08:31 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering
Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering
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