From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is one of the premier awards honoring achievements in environmental science, energy and medicine of worldwide importance. The Tyler Prize consists of a cash award of $200,000 and a solid 10kt. gold medallion. The 2004 awards were conferred ...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

Embryonic stem cells, or ES cells, are cells that can be isolated from early embryos, before they differentiate into specific types of cells. Because stem cells have the potential to generate fresh, healthy cells of nearly any type, there is interest in exploring their use to treat and cure vari...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

How has the creation of the Internet impacted teaching and learning? Consider the radical changes in data collection, information access and collaboration facilitated by the Internet. From the Series:NSFNET: The Partnership That Changed the World

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

King County Executive Ron Sims presents his vision of how the Martin Luther King, Jr. County region can address the social, economic and health inequities of climate change impacts, and what King County government is doing to reduce these disparities in our communities. This program is presented...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

The symposium and panel discussion raise the fundamental theorum of medical informatics. The keynote speaker and panelists discuss how information is used, organized and retrieved with emerging technology in health-care, research and education. The symposium presents how the informatics appro...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

Creativity is exciting, but also demanding, consuming, frustrating, and addicting. It’s inspiring, but also fickle, erratic, tricky, and risky. Experts gather to discuss this remarkable thing called creativity in a lively discussion that combines sweeping theories, fascinating stories,...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) is poised to replace bar-codes as the primary means of tracking and inventorying pallets and cases in the commerical supply chain. The uses of this technology, however, extend far beyond the supply chain. RFID will soon become an integral part of our everyda...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

Beth A. Garvy, associate professor in the department of internal medicine at the University of Kentucky, distinguishes between neonatal and adult immune functions by aiming to understand the epidemiology of pulmonary infections in infants. Also, learn about the underlying immune mechanisms respo...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

On June 15, 1987, NSF issued a solicitation for the purpose of providing a T1 backbone network to connect the supercomputer centers and the mid-level networks of colleges and universities, upgrading and replacing the original 56 kbps network. The solicitation called for a cooperative agreement t...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

The National Science Foundation began its networking program in the early 1980s in response to the research community’s demand for greater access to advanced computational resources, specialized equipment and databases, as well as better communication among researchers. While access to supercomp...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

Landowners are looking to the future with a measure of uncertainty about how their land will be managed. Many landowners and land management agencies are concerned about sustainable management plans that are ecologically sound. Two emerging strategies that address these issues are conservation ea...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

How well do we really understand gravity, the most familiar of Nature’s forces? Perhaps not as well as we'd thought! Speculation about higher dimensions and surprising recent cosmological observations have spawned a new attempt to understand gravity on the largest and smallest scales. ...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

The presence of the Y chromosome triggers a human embryo to become male. Dr. David Page describes how the Y chromosome was once very much like every other gene-filled chromosome, but in the course of vertebrate evolution has lost almost every function except making males. From the Series:HHMI’s ...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

Welcome to Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center where 'Research Frontiers' highlights several ongoing projects: The NOAA Vents Program with Bob Dziak, who studies the movement of the tectonic plates and Bill Chadwick’s research on undersea volcanoes; Chris Langdon e...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

UW faculty converse about the future of where science is going, and what role the UW will play. This program, part one of two, centers around new fields and disciplines, new frontiers of discovery and the sociology of research.

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

How do soil bacteria communicate with certain plants to achieve a mutually beneficial relationship? How do these two organisms recognize one another? Understanding the details of this beneficial symbiosis may offer insights into other bacterial infections linked to plant and animal disease, an...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

What can science tell us about one of the most visable advanced technology expressions of the earlier part of the 20th century? Dr. Tim Foecke describes the scientific study occurring over the past few years to determine the details of what might have happened to the RMS Titanic that lead to the...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

What can science tell us about one of the most visable advanced technology expressions of the earlier part of the 20th century? Dr. Tim Foecke describes the scientific study occurring over the past few years to determine the details of what might have happened to the RMS Titanic that lead to the...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

For the past 8,000 years or so, climate changes have been relatively small. Currently, changes are causing Earth’s temperature to increase and may lead to mean temperatures that are warmer than at any time in the past million years. This lecture reviews the evidence for global warming, focusing ...

From: ResearchChannel on Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:31 PM

After Katrina, the link between global warming and a perceived increase in severe weather became a critical debate topic in the science and policy arenas. Prof. Kerry Emanuel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), in his 2007 AMS Haurwitz Memorial Lecture, examines this question. Whil...