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UrduMayo Clinic in Rochester again has been ranked the nation’s best hospital in U.S. News & World Report’s 2019–2020 “Best Hospitals” rankings.
Category: Announcement
Keck Medical Center of USC Named to U.S. News & World Report 2019-20 Best Hospitals Honor Roll
Keck Medical Center of USC Named to U.S. News & World Report 2019-20 Best Hospitals Honor Roll among top 20 hospitals nationwide
Two ORNL researchers receive presidential early career award
Two researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory–David Cullen and Kate Page–have received a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, or PECASE.
Mayo Clinic, Boston Scientific launch effort to accelerate new medical technology that addresses unmet medical needs
Mayo Clinic and Boston Scientific Corp. have launched a new venture to accelerate the development of medical technology and new minimally invasive treatments for many health conditions that impede quality and longevity of life.
Lung Transplant Surgeon Christine Lau, MD, Selected as Next Chair of Department of Surgery at University of Maryland School of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Dean, E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, today announced that Christine Lau, MD, MBA, the George Minor Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Virginia (UVA), will become the next Chair of the Department of Surgery at UMSOM, and the Chief of Surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC).
MSU receives $2.5M for less commonly taught languages
Michigan State University was awarded a four-year, $2.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support further development in the research and teaching of less commonly taught languages, with an emphasis on Indigenous languages. This is the second Mellon grant received by the LCTL Partnership
The Congress of Neurological Surgeons Approves $1 Million Gift to the CNS Foundation
The Executive Committee of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) voted unanimously during its winter Executive Committee meeting to approve a $1 million gift to the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Foundation (CNS Foundation). The CNS Foundation’s mission is to improve worldwide patient health by supporting innovative programs that allow neurosurgeons to collaborate globally as researchers, learners, educators and caregivers.
Olin College Named to Top College Value Lists
in College of Engineering has been designated a top 10 national “Best Buy” college by Fiske Guide to Colleges. The list covers 20 private and public colleges and universities nationwide that are noted for their academic offerings and affordable cost. Olin is one of only two New England colleges named in the list.
Anesthesia Health Care Groups Join American Academy of Pediatrics in Endorsement of Guidelines for Deep Sedation and Anesthesia During Dental Procedures
In a joint statement, ASA, SPA, ASDA, and SPS join the AAP in endorsing guidelines that recommend that at least two people with specific training and credentials should be present with a pediatric patient undergoing deep sedation or general anesthesia for dental treatment in a dental facility or hospital.
Keck Medical Center of USC Named to U.S. News & World Report 2019-20 Best Hospitals Honor Roll
Keck Medical Center of USC Named to U.S. News & World Report 2019-20 Best Hospitals Honor Roll among top 20 hospitals nationwide
TMS and MRS Announce 2019-2020 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow
Recipient to serve a one-year term as a special legislative assistant on the staff of a member of Congress or congressional committee. June 26, 2019 – Pittsburgh, PA (USA): The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) and the Materials Research…
Donna Meyer to Receive Preeminent Honor in Nursing
OADN CEO named to American Academy of Nursing (June 26, 2019) OADN CEO Donna Meyer has been named to the American Academy of Nursing’s 2019 Fellows Class, garnering her the nation’s top honor in nursing. “I am deeply grateful to…
Tufts adds new solar energy systems, expands its commitment to clean energy
New additions will increase energy savings, reduce costs MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (June 26, 2019) – Two new roof-mounted solar photovoltaic installations on buildings located on the Medford/Somerville campus of Tufts University will generate 161,000 kilowatt hours of renewable energy for the…
Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Announces 2019 National Laureates
An ecologist from Stony Brook University, a theoretical physicist from University of Colorado Boulder and a chemical biologist from Harvard University Three female scientists have been named Laureates of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists, each receiving $250,000, the…
FAU Receives $1.5 Million to Train Veteran Nursing Students to Care for Other Veterans
Project Funded by HRSA will Serve Veterans in Rural, Underserved Communities Florida is home to approximately 1.5 million military veterans and has the third largest veteran population in the United States. Now, veterans will care for other veterans with a…
New Patient Resource from NCCN Helps People with Bladder Cancer Make Informed Treatment Decisions
New NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Bladder Cancer explains the lengthy surveillance process that follows active treatment for the sixth most-common cancer in the United States. PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA [June 26, 2019] — The treatment landscape for bladder cancer has changed…
ECS Partners with IOP Publishing for Journal Services
Pennington, NJ – (June 26, 2019) – The Electrochemical Society (ECS) has selected IOP Publishing (IOPP) as its journals publishing partner. Starting in 2020, IOPP will partner with ECS in the publication of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society and…
LLNL breaks ground on new facilities in support of stockpile stewardship
Leadership from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Livermore Field Office (LFO) and contractor Hensel Phelps broke ground June 5 on the Applied Materials and Engineering (AME) campus at LLNL. The ground breaking was for…
Data Science Institute Welcomes New Partnership with Viasat
Communications tech company invests in data science education and research SAN DIEGO, CA JUNE 26, 2019 — A new partnership was announced today aiming to strengthen data science educational resources delivered through the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI), the data…
Dairy Food Science Program Promotes Safety, Quality
ITHACA, N.Y. – Eileen Bonville was a senior at Binghamton University in 2013 when her microbiology professor said the two words that would change her life: Greek yogurt. “He told me the industry would be taking off in upstate New…
Gold LEED Certification Awarded to Rush Oak Brook
The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded Rush Oak Brook Gold Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. LEED is an internationally recognized system for certifying green (environmentally responsible) buildings and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction…
Wake Forest Baptist Health Unveils The Birth Center and The Dale and Karen Sisel Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – June 25, 2019 – Mothers-to-be now have a new option when it comes to their prenatal care and birth of their babies. Wake Forest Baptist Health today revealed a two-floor, state-of-the-art labor and delivery center and a leading-edge neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) on its Winston-Salem campus.…
Discovery’s Science Channel Partners With Mount Sinai Health System to Create Digital Series Featuring Innovations in Science and Medicine
Discovery’s Science Channel has teamed up with Mount Sinai Health System, one of the country’s leading academic medical institutions, to showcase some of the groundbreaking innovations in science and medicine that are transforming health care and providing new treatments for…
Mayo Clinic receives $5 million gift to establish Center for Women’s Health
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic has received a combined gift of $5 million from Penny and Bill George, and the George Family Foundation, to create the innovative Center for Women’s Health. The center will be a destination where women will receive personalized,…
Abstract Winners Selected for Clinical Research Innovation Meeting
Three abstracts focused on improving clinical trials processes have been selected for formal presentation at the Association of American Cancer Institutes’ (AACI) Clinical Research Innovation (CRI) annual meeting, July 9-11, in Chicago. The CRI Steering Committee and CRI Education Committee…
Texas Tech University’s College of Education Names New Dean
Jesse Perez Mendez, the dean of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis School of Education, will begin in his new role Aug. 1. Jesse Perez Mendez has been named dean of Texas Tech University’s College of Education, the university provost announced…
UVA Darden Taps Innovation Expert to Lead Degree Programs
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business today announced the appointment of Professor Jeanne Liedtka to the role of senior associate dean for degree programs. Liedtka, who is United Technologies Corporation Professor of Business Administration and has taught at Darden since 1990, will…
Three Honored by Society for Risk Analysis Europe
The Society for Risk Analysis – Europe (SRA-E) awarded three prestigious scholarships at its Annual Conference in Potsdam, Germany. These awards recognize individuals for their outstanding contributions to the study and science of risk analysis. This year’s awardees include: Gavin…
Research to Prevent Blindness and Partners Award $1.2 Million In Grants for Novel AMD Research
Research to Prevent Blindness, the American Macular Degeneration Foundation and the International Retinal Research Foundation announce four new grantees for the Catalyst Awards for Innovative Research Approaches for AMD. New York, NY, June 24, 2019 — Research to Prevent Blindness,…
NASA Makes Dual Investment in Ocean Worlds Research at WHOI
Agency funds five-year effort to understand the potential for life in outer solar system and establishes a new Network for Ocean Worlds The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will invest in a major new research program headquartered at the…
UTHealth program earns accreditation from the Adult Congenital Heart Association
Congenital heart disease, which used to be considered a death sentence, is now a managed disease for adults thanks to advances in medicine and specialized programs such as the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program at The University of Texas Health…
PhRMA Foundation Announces the 2019 Value Assessment Challenge Award Recipients
The Awards Support New Concepts that Help Define Innovative, Patient-Centered Approaches to Measuring Health Care Value (June 25, 2019) The PhRMA Foundation announced today the winners of the 2019 Value Assessment Challenge Awards. Designed to encourage innovative approaches in defining…
Cutting Edge Research Grants Announced by The American Macular Degeneration Foundation
Co-funded with Research to Prevent Blindness Northampton, MA – The American Macular Degeneration Foundation (AMDF), in partnership with Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB), has announced the recipients of the RPB/AMDF Catalyst Awards for Innovative Research Approaches for Age-Related Macular Degeneration,…
Ocean Medical Center Foundation Raises Nearly $250,000 at Annual Golf Classic
Brick, NJ ― June 24, 2019 ― Hackensack Meridian Health Ocean Medical Center Foundation raised nearly $250,000 at the 29th Annual Golf Classic, which took place on June 17 at Manasquan River Golf Club in Brielle. This year’s event welcomed…
Clarkson Professor Receives Prestigious Katsumi Niki Prize for Bioelectrochemistry
Clarkson Professor Evgeny Katz, the Milton Kerker Chair of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, was awarded the Katsumi Niki Prize for Bioelectrochemistry 2019 for his outstanding contribution to the fields of bioelectrochemistry, biosensors, bioelectronics, biofuel cell, and biocomputing. He…
Operating at the Speed of Thought
APL Developing Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interfaces to Control Complex Systems When a cyber-warrior defends a complex computer network, or a pilot commands a team of unmanned vehicles, or a submarine officer interacts with intricate sensor systems, they are often limited by…
Newly established Phyllis Mailman Professorship will advance the research and development of lifesaving vaccines
NEW YORK (June 24, 2019) – In honor of philanthropist Phyllis Mailman, The Mailman Foundation, the Joshua Mailman Foundation, and The Tow Foundation, have together endowed the Phyllis Mailman Professorship to support groundbreaking emerging infectious disease research at the Joseph…
MSK-ACCESS Receives New York State Approval for New Molecular Assay
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) announced that the New York State Department of Health has issued an approval for a new molecular assay called Analysis of Circulating cfDNA to Evaluate Somatic Status (MSK-ACCESS). MSK-ACCESS was developed within the Marie-Josée and…
Rush University Medical Center Joins Sexual Assault Prevention Efforts
Rush is first in Illinois to Join TIME’S UP Healthcare National Campaign Rush University Medical Center is increasing its efforts to bring safety, equity and dignity to the workplace as part of the TIME’S UP Healthcare (TUH) campaign. TIME’S UP…
Students Rate UVA Darden No. 1 for Inspiring, Supportive Professors
By Dave Hendrick Newswise— A survey of graduating students of full-time MBA programs ranks the University of Virginia Darden School of Business No. 1 in a familiar category: teaching. According to newly released student satisfaction ratings from Bloomberg Businessweek, Darden students rated the full-time MBA…
SOFIE And University Clinic Heidelberg Sign License Agreement For Theranostics That Target Cancer Associated Fibroblasts
LOS ANGELES and HEIDELBERG, Germany, June 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — SOFIE Inc. (SOFIE), a Theranostics company, is pleased to announce an exclusive global license with University Clinic Heidelberg (UKHD) for a class of molecular targeted diagnostics and radiotherapeutics (“theranostics”) that are…
DHS Small Business Innovation Research Program Awards 1,000th Contract
Washington, D.C. – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program has awarded the 1,000th SBIR contract since the program’s initiation in 2004. The 1,000th contract is one of twenty-four awarded as part of the FY19.1…
Cancer Research Institute Hosts Inaugural “Immuno-Oncology: A Future Look” Media and Investor Event in New York City
• Discussion of the next wave of scientific advancements in immuno-oncology by panel of industry and academic leaders • Conversation moderated by CNBC’s Meg Tirrell and Dr. Jill O’Donnell-Tormey, CEO and director of scientific affairs at CRI NEW YORK, June…
Cancer Research Institute Names New Stars of Cancer Immunotherapy Research
Five U.S. scientists have been awarded $1.25 million each to carry out high-risk, high-reward cancer immunology research with potential to transform cancer treatment • STARs will explore ways to improve outcomes for cancer patients treated with immunotherapy by uncovering and…
Babson College Awarded $100,000 Cummings Foundation Grant
Special partnership with The BASE to empower urban student-athletes and leaders Babson College, in a special partnership with The BASE, is one of 100 local nonprofits to receive grants of $100,000 each through Cummings Foundation’s “$100K for 100” program. Funding…
News Release: Signing Ceremony Sets Terms of NBAF Transfer From Homeland Security to USDA
Officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today signed a Memorandum of Agreement (PDF, 16 pg., 165 KB) that formally outlines how the departments will transfer ownership and operational responsibility for the National Bio…
Mount Sinai Queens Opens Expansive, State-of-the-art Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center
Mount Sinai Queens celebrated the grand opening of its state-of-the-art Cerebrovascular Stroke Center with a special ceremony and ribbon cutting on June 19. The new, fully thrombectomy-capable Stroke Center is the first of its kind in the United States and…
ASN Foundation for Kidney Research Announces 2019 Grant Recipients
ASN foundation for kidney research announces 2019 grant recipients The ASN Foundation for Kidney Research provides more than $3 million in funding for clinical and basic research for members at all stages of their careers. Highlights The ASN Foundation for…
NCCN and AstraZeneca Seek Opportunities to Improve Outcomes in Advanced Ovarian Cancer
NCCN Oncology Research Program (ORP) issues request for proposals to improve quality of care for people with stage III, stage IV, and recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer. PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA [June 20, 2019] — The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) Oncology…
Hackensack Meridian Health Children’s Hospitals Ranked Top Children’s Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report in 2019-20 Best Children’s Hospitals Rankings
Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey’s largest and most comprehensive and integrated health network, is pleased to announce that the 13th annual Best Children’s Hospital rankings by U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice, has ranked…