From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:28 PM

How can chemical engineering contribute to solving some of the world’s most pressing issues related to energy, the environment and health care? Dr. Nance Dicciani, president and CEO of Honeywell Specialty Materials, highlights trends and needs for the 21st century. Ranked by Forbes magazine as o...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:28 PM

Mark Zoback is professor of geophysics at Stanford University and an expert in earthquake prediction. From the Series:InterChange

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:28 PM

Mary Sue Coleman, President of the University of Michigan, discusses innovation challenges in science and technology at the National Press Club.

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:28 PM

In this classic episode of 'The Johns Hopkins Science Review,' host Lynn Poole and guest, Abel Wolman, delve into the nature of the research university and why the work of researchers is so important, even when it appears not to be of any use. ...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:28 PM

Andrew Kane and Ana Baya of the Veterinary Medicine Program will talk about labs that are helping to keep the Chesapeake Bay and it’s inhabitants healthy. They will also discuss water quality and fish health research being done in two labs at the University of Maryland. From the Series:R...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:28 PM

The University of Washington is studying basic nearshore ecosystem processes ranging from a few square meters on the beach to circulation along the entire Sound. Of particular interest is sediment movement, plankton productivity and the distribution of important biota along the shoreline, such a...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:28 PM

James Head’s research centers on the study of the processes that form and modify the surfaces, crusts, and lithospheres of planets, how these processes vary with time, and how such processes interact to produce the historical record preserved on the planets. Comparative planetology, the...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:28 PM

Molecular and Cellular Biology graduate and MSTP student, Mario Pineda always intended to become a physician for underserved populations. While pursuing this goal as an undergrad, he became engaged in HIV/AID research. He learned about the Medical Science Training Program (MSTP) offere...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:28 PM

From genetics to cosmology to nanotechnology, science is on the brink of numerous and extraordinary mega-revolutions that will change the very nature of life. Closer to Truth brings together leading scientists, scholars and artists to debate many of today’s fundamental issues. Joining ...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:28 PM

From genetics to cosmology to nanotechnology, science is on the brink of numerous and extraordinary mega-revolutions that will change the very nature of life. Closer to Truth brings together leading scientists, scholars and artists to debate many of today’s fundamental issues. Joining ...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:28 PM

Experts predict that by the end of the 21st century, over 80 percent of the world’s population will be concentrated in urban areas. An increasing number of urban poor will rely on urban waterways for recreation, food, and escape from urban pressures. Today's urban water problems are difficu...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:28 PM

In this October, 1951 episode of 'The Johns Hopkins Science Review,' the show looks at the role the glassblower played in the scientific lab of a research university in the 1950s. Opening and closing comments by John Astin, who also appears in the original episode when he was a student...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:28 PM

Are catastrophic and dramatic weather events becoming more common? How do the media interpret weather statistics? To explore such questions, Penn State Public Broadcasting, Penn State Research Publications and the PBS program 'NOVA scienceNow' present an afternoon of conversation with ...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:28 PM

Public opinion on climate change has shifted dramatically over the past 20 years, thanks to intense media coverage about global warming - coverage that, for better or worse, shaped both popular attitudes and the national political debate. Social Scientist Jon Krosnick of Stanford University argu...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:28 PM

American theoretical physicist Lee Smolin, author of “The Trouble with Physics,” states that physics has lost its way amid failed experiments and wasted funding. He cites repeated unsuccessful attempts by scientists to develop a “theory of everything,” or a single model to explain the theories o...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:28 PM

Lovell and Hagberg join Andrew Wolvin, Ph.D., to discuss traffic reporting and tracking through the use of cellular and digital phones, and genetic research linking high blood pressure diagnosis with our DNA. From the Series:Researching Maryland

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:28 PM

Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) graduate student Marcella Cervantes, describes the importance of leaving one’s original community to gain exposure to other career options. She discovered unexpected opportunities in the MCB program at the University of Washington that she never imag...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:27 PM

Writers of fiction have long envisioned a seamless interplay between synthetic materials and living tissue. But the interface of pen and paper is a very different from that of titanium and bone. How might ideas from modern biology and materials science be combined to save lives, prolong life and...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:27 PM

In cloning the first mammalian clock gene, Dr. Joseph S. Takahashi and his colleagues provided clear evidence that circadian genes in mammals and fruit flies are closely related. Dr. Takahashi explains how researchers used genomics and computer-based informatics to tease out the secrets of how c...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:27 PM

Jeffrey Wigand, the tobacco executive whose decision to expose wrong-doing in that industry was dramatized in the film "The Insider," speaks at the University of Houston Law Center about his experience. Wigand was vice-president for research and development for Brown & Williamson, the country’s ...