The High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN)
The High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) is a National Science Foundation funded network research project, which also functions as a collaborative interdisciplinary and multi-institutional cyberinfrastructure for research, education, and first responder activities. The program includes the creation, demonstration, and evaluation of a non-commercial, prototype, high-performance, wide-area, wireless network in San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial counties.
Bear in Mind: Energy BioSciences Institute
What the Energy Biosciences Institute means for UC Berkeley
On February 1, global energy firm BP announced that it had selected UC Berkeley, in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to lead an unprecedented $500 million research effort to develop new sources of energy and reduce the impact of energy consumption on the environment.
In this edition of Bear in Mind, UC Berkeley's ongoing series of webcasts about campus is
5. The New Ethics of Stem Cell Research (March 12, 2008)
Stem cell, medicine, health, disease, science, technology, research, clinical advances, controversy, ethics, law, society, politics, economics, social issue, religion, plasma, cytoplasm, nucleus, white blood cell, chromosome, gene expression, DNA, central
3. New Research Direction (February 27, 2008)
Stem cell, medicine, health, disease, science, technology, research, clinical advances, controversy, ethics, law, society, politics, economics, social issue, religion, plasma, cytoplasm, nucleus, white blood cell, chromosome, gene expression, DNA, central
Faculty Forum on the Energy Biosciences Institute
The February 1st announcement that BP had selected UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Lab to share in a $500 million research grant to create an Energy Biosciences Institute has raised a number of important issues and many questions. Therefore, the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate has scheduled a faculty forum to provide an opportunity to have an open discussion about the Institute and its implications for the campus. The Division has invited a panel of distinguished faculty to speak
VU undergrads present research on presidential appointments
Two Vanderbilt undergraduates had the rare opportunity to present their research findings on the influence of patronage on presidential appointments and government performance at the 2010 Midwest Political Science Association Conference.
Listen: Implicit bias against Latinos affects all immigrants, Vanderbilt research shows
Research by political scientist Efren Perez offers insight into the intense opposition among many voters to passing any type of immigration reform. He conducted an original survey-experiment to demonstrate that the participants had an automatic negative attitude toward Latino immigrants that shaped their immigration judgments in general. Listen to That’s Vanderbilt with Efren Perez.
Sustainability in Action, an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Course at Penn
The 2010-11 theme year entitled the Year of Water is the impetus behind 15 academic courses at the University of Pennsylvania that focus on the environment, including Sustainability in Action, a new undergraduate class taught by Mark Alan Hughes, a Penn professor and founding director of sustainability for the City of Philadelphia.  ÂÂ
As reported in the Penn Current, "In 2007, Penn President Amy Gutmann signed the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment, pledging th
Malaria research begins to bite
Scientists at The University of Nottingham and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge have made a significant breakthrough in the search for cheap and effective vaccines and drugs to stop the transmission of malaria.
Innovation Research
Innovation Research - Lorraine Warren
Keywords:Innovation Research
Encouraging Inquiry-Based Research
Students categorize questions they generate in preparation for pursuing answers that expand their existing knowledge.
Natural Inquirer Journals: Southern Research Station
In the Spring 1999 Edition of the Natural Inquirer you will learn about Fusiform Rust Disease, Nematodes, Black Seed Rot, Fungi, Slash Pines, river rafting, and much more!
Penn State's Deer Research Center studies herd health options
White tail deer studies at Penn State can be traced back to the 1920s. Throughout the years, a variety of research initiatives have focused on improvements in nutrition as well as studies in buck and doe growth, healthy reproduction cycles and humane repellents and fencing to protect forest regeneration. Current research at the facility includes a collaborative effort with the National Wildlife Research Center in Fort Collins, Colorado. This study focuses on the overpopulation of deer herds in m
Northeastern breaks ground on state-of-the-art facility for security research
The George J. Kostas Institute for Homeland Security to address areas critical to national defense.
Auburn University Post-Gulf oil spill oyster research
Despite the reopening of Alabama's coastal waterways to fishing in mid-August, reminders of the oil spill remain on Dauphin Island. Fishermen are once again bringing in fresh seafood, but questions remain about the safety of their catch.
SSOC101 Research
SSOC101 02/25/08 Research Sharon Squires
Epitaxial Graphene Research at Georgia Tech
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Bob Slavin discusses the Center for Research and Reform in Education
Bob Slavin discusses Success for All , student learning, and his latest research.
Research on Oregon's Largest Glacier
Oregon State University has returned to Oregon's largest glacier for the first time in almost 20 years and found that the size of the glacier decreased significantly from its size in the late 1980s, findings that are consistent with glacial retreat all over the world and provide some of the critical data needed to help quantify the effects of global change on glacier retreat and associated sea level rise.
Research at Google
At its core, Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Alfred Z Spector, vice president of Research and Special Initiatives at Google, shares the Internet giant's approach to research innovation in this talk at the University of Washington. Spector shares some of Google's most promising advances in translation, speech and vision, and considers computer science's greatest future challenges.
