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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:11:43 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Ecology of Infectious Diseases (EID)
Ecology of Infectious Diseases (EID)
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:31:23 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Call for Nominations for 2011 National Science Board Honorary Awards
NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
2011 VANNEVAR BUSH AWARD
Honoring Exceptional Service to the Nation in Science and Technology
The Vannevar Bush Award is awarded annually to truly exceptional lifelong leaders in science and technology who have made substantial contributions to the welfare of the Nation through public service activities in science, technology, and public policy. Recent recipients include: Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief, Science
Magazine; Mildred Dresselhaus, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Norman Augustine, former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Lockheed Martin Corporation.
To nominate, visit www.nsf.gov/nsb/awards/bush.jsp.
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2011 NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD
Honoring Service in Public Understanding of Science and Engineering
The National Science Board (NSB) Public Service Award honors individuals who and groups that have made substantial contributions to increasing public understanding of science and engineering in the United States. These contributions may be in a wide variety of areas that have the potential of contributing to public understanding of and
appreciation for science and engineering - including mass media, education and/or training programs, entertainment, etc. Recipients of the NSB Public Service Award include NUMB3RS, the CBS television drama series; Ira Flatow, Host and Executive Producer of NPR's "Science Friday"; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Bill Nye The Science Guy; and NOVA, the PBS television series.
To nominate, visit http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/awards/public.jsp.
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Deadline for Award Nominations: November 3, 2010
Please contact Jennifer Richards at jlrichar@xxxxxxx with any questions.
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:44:04 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Aerosols Control Rainfall in the Rainforest
Aerosols Control Rainfall in the Rainforest
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:38:00 -0500
A team of environmental engineers, who might better be called "archeologists of the air," have, for the first time, isolated aerosol particles in near pristine pre-industrial conditions.
Working in the remote Amazonian Basin north of Manaus, Brazil, the researchers measured particles emitted or formed within the rainforest ecosystem that are relatively free from the influence of anthropogenic, or human, activity.
The finding, published in a paper in the Sept. 17 issue ...
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