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NSM highlights from 2008

  • Dec 29, 2008  Julie Brigham Grette, Geoscience, leads search for ancient climate secrets at Siberian lake
  • Dec 21, 2008  Gregory Tew, Polymer Science & Engineering, on research team that developed smart new synthetic compound that defeats drug-resistant bacteria
  • Dec 10, 2008  Boris Svistunov, Physics, cited in Science News article about superglass, a glasslike solid substance where some atoms flow with zero resistance
  • Dec 10, 2008  FoxNews featured uBOT-5 and Rod Grupen, Computer Science, at the Laboratory of Perceptual Robotics
  • Dec 2, 2008  Victor Lesser, Computer Science, named 2009 IEEE Fellow
  • Nov 30, 2008  Eugene Golowich and Boris Svistunov, Physics, named American Physical Society Fellows
  • Nov 20, 2008  Prashant Shenoy, Computer Science, received $163,570 BBN Technologies Corp grant for work on a GENI sensor/actuator network testbed
  • Nov 19, 2008  Computer Science’s uBOT-5 robot has received additional national coverage in U.S. News & World Report’s HealthDay and other magazines
  • Nov 17, 2008  Geoscientist Douglas Hardy’s father-son research has received national AP coverage in Boston Globe and 50 newspapers
  • Nov 16, 2008  Panayotis Kevrekidis, Mathematics & Statistics, awarded $126,548 San Diego State University grant for work on two component Bose Einstein condensates
  • Nov 16, 2008  Samuel Hazen, Biology, received 3-year $1.2M U.S. Department of Energy grant
  • Nov 15, 2008  Grant Wilson, Astronomy, awarded $102,033 Southern University and A&M College grant for Correlative Radio Observations of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Sources
  • Nov 14, 2008  Brian Levine, Computer Science, received $237,834 US Dept of Justice grant for “A System for Identifying and Gathering Evidence of PSP Trafficking”
  • Nov 13, 2008  Michael L. Williams, Geosciences, inducted as Geological Society of America fellow
  • Nov 13, 2008  Ryan C. Howard, Polymer Science and Engineering, awarded a $50,000 Army Research Office grant for Active Polymer Microconstructs
  • Nov 11, 2008  Research led by Jeffrey Podos, Biology, on Darwin’s Galapagos finches show important glimpse of early stages of speciation
  • Nov 6, 2008  Raymond Bradley, Geosciences, correlates droughts with societal failures that affected the environment over 2,000 year time frame
  • Oct 31, 2008  UMass Amherst ranked 3rd in New England for largest number of NSF awards in 2007
  • Oct 30, 2008  Computer Science’s uBot 5 cited in PC Magazine as a prototype of mobile PC-based robot with mass market potential over next 5-10 years
  • Oct 29, 2008  Douglas Hardy, Geosciences, and 14-year old son document unusual glacier-nesting finch in Peruvian Andes
  • Oct 28, 2008  Michele L. Cooke, Geosciences, keynoted NSF disability awareness event
  • Oct 20, 2008  Robert Zoeller, Biology, was cited in a Boston Globe op-ed for discoveries that public water supplies contaminated by rocket fuel can cause irreversible thyroid damage in infants
  • Oct 19, 2008  Chemistry and Biology features research by Biochemists Lila Gierasch and postdoc Beena Krishnan, who created fluorescent marker that indicates when a cell’s molecular mechanism has properly folded
  • Oct 18, 2008  Brian N. Levine and PhD candidate Aruna Balasubramanian, Computer Science, lead research team in developing wireless Internet system that can be used in vehicles
  • Oct 16, 2008  Thomas J. McCarthy, Polymer Science & Engineering, received an Outstanding Graduate Faculty Member Centennial Award
  • Oct 9, 2008  Panos Kevrekidis, Mathematics and Statistics, and colleagues report in Physical Review Letters that they have confirmed the mathematical behavior of holes in nonlinear waves.
  • Oct 5, 2008  Kevin Fu, Computer Science, received $449,000 NSF grant to improve security of implantable cardiac defibrillators
  • Oct 3, 2008  Robert DeConto, Geosciences, featured in Nature for research that Arctic ice may have formed 22 million years earlier than previously thought
  • Oct 1, 2008  Materials Science Center received $13.3 million NSF grant for basic polymer research
  • Sep 30, 2008  Gregory N. Tew, Polymer Science & Engineering, received $100,000 Univ. of Pennsylvania grant for Anti-Bacterial Foldamers research
  • Sep 30, 2008  Discovery Network’s The Science Channel featured Biologist Duncan Irshick’s research in “Sticky Gecko,” first aired on “Weird Connections” on 9/30
  • Sep 29, 2008  Campus efforts to create breakthroughs in biofuels includes research by Danny Schnell, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
  • Sep 26, 2008  Clifford Konold, Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, received $25,833 TERC grant for “System for Collaboration among Students, Teacher, and System”
  • Sep 26, 2008  Mark R. Leckie, Geosciences, received $100,000 American Chemical Society grant for research on Linking “Timing and Magnitude of Sea-Level Changes”
  • Sep 26, 2008  Biologists Duncan Irschick and Abigail Jensen and Geoscientist Steven Petsch awarded tenure
  • Sep 20, 2008  Markos Katsoulakis, Mathematics & Statistics, received $384,402 NSF grant for collaborative research on “Hierarchical Stochastic Algorithms for Materials Engineering”
  • Sep 16, 2008  Daniel N. Hebert, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, awarded $229,435 NIH grant to study Simian Virus 40 Uncoating and Penetration
  • Sep 16, 2008  Jeanne Hardy, Chemistry, received $88,000 Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation grant
  • Sep 12, 2008  Victor R. Lesser and Donald F. Towsley, Computer Science, and Thomas J. McCarthy, Polymer Science and Engineering, received UMass Amherst Outstanding Accomplishments awards in Research and Creative Activity
  • Sep 4, 2008  Douglas Hardy, Geosciences, featured in Republican article about historical findings in melting glacier
  • Sep 4, 2008  Ray Bradley, Geosciences, extends ground-breaking research on rapidly rising global temperatures
  • Sep 2, 2008  Research by Ray Bradley, Geosciences, indicates record high temperatures in Northern Hemisphere in 1,300 years
  • Aug 29, 2008  PhD candidates Bryan Thibodeau and Patrick Deegan, Computer Science, have marketed uBot5 design for further robotics research
  • Aug 26, 2008  Peter Schloerb, Astronomy, awarded $677,909 NASA grant for US/Mexico Large Millimeter Telescope
  • Aug 25, 2008  Maria Santore, Polymer Science & Engineering, received $149,372 NSF grant for “Surfaces that Selectively Manipulate and Kill Bacteria”
  • Aug 24, 2008  PhD candidate Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Levine and, Arun Venkataramani, Computer Science, have developed new advances for Wi-Fi in vehicles
  • Aug 21, 2008  Magdalena Bezanilla, Biology, received NSF CAREER award
  • Aug 21, 2008  Alfred Crosby, Polymer Science & Engineering, awarded $150,000 President’s Science and Technology Initiatives grant to promote expertise in science and engineering fields
  • Aug 21, 2008  Lila M. Gierasch, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, received $324,423 NIH grant for “Mechanism of Allostery in Hsp70 Molecular Chaperones”
  • Aug 21, 2008  Rui Wang, Computer Science, received NSF CAREER award
  • Aug 20, 2008  Eliot Moss, Computer Science, was named an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow
  • Aug 20, 2008  Lori Ann Clarke, Computer Science, awarded $500,000 NSF grant
  • Aug 19, 2008  Don Towsley and Jim Kurose, Computer Science, received ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award
  • Aug 18, 2008  Eliot Moss, Computer Science, awarded “Most Influential Paper” at International Symposium on Computer Architecture
  • Aug 18, 2008  Samuel Hazen, Biology, received DOE-USDA $1.2M grant for program to accelerate fundamental developments in bioenergy and biofuels
  • Aug 16, 2008  NSM Award for Outstanding Service: Elizabeth Connor, Biology
  • Aug 16, 2008  NSM Awards for Outstanding Research: Victor Lesser, Computer Science, and Patricia Wadsworth, Biology
  • Aug 16, 2008  NSM Awards for Outstanding Teaching: Dhandapani Ventakaraman, Chemistry and J. Zane Barlow, Biology
  • Aug 15, 2008  Chemical Biology and Computer Science received Mellon Mutual Mentoring Grants
  • Aug 15, 2008  PhD candidate Elizabeth S. Sterner, Polymer Science & Engineering, awarded $93,000 National Defense and Engineering Graduate fellowship
  • Aug 14, 2008  Donald Towsley, Computer Science, received Association for Computing Machinery’s Sigcomm Award and UMass Amherst Samuel Conti Faculty Fellowship
  • Aug 14, 2008  Michael J. Maroney, Chemistry, awarded $146,000 NSF grant for “Nickel Superoxide Dismutase” research
  • Aug 14, 2008  Rick Adrion, Computer Science named PI for Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE)
  • Aug 8, 2008  ABC News, Newsweek, New York Times, and Washington Post, feature uBot5, created by a research team headed by Rod Grupen and Allen Hanson, Computer Science as a robotic assistant to elderly patients
  • Aug 8, 2008  Computer Science sponsored IT tour for Holyoke chapter of Girls Incorporated to encourage interest in computer-related careers
  • Aug 8, 2008  The Boston Globe featured research by postdoctoral researcher Mark Besonen, Geosciences, on ocean surface temperature’s relation to hurricane activity through the centuries
  • Aug 7, 2008  Research by Kevin Fu, Computer Science, indicates that there is dangerous hacking potential in medical devices like pacemakers
  • Aug 5, 2008  The Washington Post featured PhD candidate Bryan Thibodeau, Computer Science, in an article on uBot5’s ability to help with in-home health emergencies
  • Jul 28, 2008  Research by Vincent Rotello and PhD student Mrinmoy De, Chemistry, indicates that gold nanoparticles can restore lost structure and function to misfolded proteins
  • Jul 28, 2008  Stephen Petsch and PhD candidate Sarah Schillawski, Geosciences, discovered that organic matter from ancient rocks contributes to climate change
  • Jul 23, 2008  Lori Clarke and Leon Osterweil, Computer Science, and George Avrunin, Mathematics & Statistics, work with Massacusetts healthcare professionals on ensuring bettter patient safety in medical procedures
  • Jul 17, 2008  Research by Raymond Bradley and PhD candidate Ambarish Karmalkar, Geosciences, explores possible detrimental climate changes in Costa Rica
  • Jul 15, 2008  Rui Wang, Computer Science, received $76,577 NSF grant
  • Jul 9, 2008  Joseph Kunkel, Biology, was cited as an expert in a Slate article about film Wall-E
  • Jul 5, 2008  Yanlei Diao, Computer Science, received NSF CAREER award for “Efficient, Robust RFID stream processing for tracking and monitoring”
  • Jul 1, 2008  PhD candidate, Erin Dominov, Geosciences, offered NASA Student Internship
  • Jun 26, 2008  Beverly Woolf, Computer Science, received $890,419 National Center for Education Research grant to develop Intelligent Tutoring programs
  • Jun 25, 2008  Paul Gunnells, Mathematics & Statistics, received $150,001 NSF grant for “Prolems in Number Theory and Representation Theory”
  • Jun 19, 2008  Deepak Ganesan, Computer Science, received 2008 IBM Faculty Research Award for "RiverNet: Sensing, Networking and Modeling of Data from a River Sensor Network"
  • Jun 18, 2008  Jim Kurose, Computer Science, elected to Computing Research Association Board of Directors
  • Jun 16, 2008  Don Towsley, Computer Science, received 2008 ACM SIGCOMM lifetime achievement award
  • Jun 16, 2008  Gregory Tew, Polymer Science & Engineering, has developed ‘Smart Elements’ detection for mercury levels in water
  • Jun 15, 2008  David Jensen, Computer Science, appointed to National Academies Committee to Assess the Research Program of the National Institute of Justice
  • Jun 15, 2008  James J. Chambers, Chemistry, awarded $200,000 Human Frontier Science Program grant for “Non-Invasive Tracking of Receptors in Neurons”
  • Jun 15, 2008  Richard F. Yuretich, Geosciences, awarded $195,581 NSF grant
  • Jun 12, 2008  Jeanne Hardy, Chemistry, named Cottrell Scholar
  • Jun 12, 2008  Panos Kevrekidis, Mathematics & Statistics, received SIAM award for outstanding paper
  • Jun 12, 2008  Richard Yuretich, Geosciences, appointed program director of NSF Division of Earth Sciences
  • Jun 12, 2008  Research team including Jennifer Ross, Physics, have made important discoveries about the protein that is characteristic of Alzeihmer’s and other dimentias
  • Jun 11, 2008  Aruna Balasubramanian, PhD candidate, Computer Science, awarded 2008 Microsoft Research Fellowship
  • Jun 10, 2008  Kevin Fu, Computer Science, was a panelist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s 2008 conference on security issues
  • Jun 6, 2008  Patricia Bianconi, Chemistry, awarded $74,992 Advanced Thermal Technologies LLC grant
  • Jun 4, 2008  PhD candidate Justin Henningsen, Biololgy, awarded $120,000 NSF grant to study evolution, ecology and behavior in lizards
  • Jun 3, 2008  Médéric Boquien, Astronomy, featured in “Science Daily” article that debris from colliding galaxies makes studying star formation easier
  • Jun 3, 2008  Oliver Brock and PhD student Dov Katz, Computer Science, have developed Uman, a robotic arm using a digital camera to see surroundings
  • Jun 3, 2008  PhD candidate Patrick Deegan, Computer Science, introduced “Ballmer-bot,” a robot immitation of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, at Microsoft’s TechEd developers conference
  • May 29, 2008  Ticora V. Jones (PhD ’06 Polymer Science & Engineering) named first Materials Societies Congressional Fellow
  • May 16, 2008  Todd Tripp, Astronomy, awarded $101,595 NASA grant for “Large-Scale Distribution and Physical Properties of Gas in the Cosmic Web”
  • May 15, 2008  Daniel Chase, Biochemisty & Molecular Biology, and Larry Schwartz, Biology, awarded $25,000 grant for CEAR Pilot Project Program by Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute
  • May 15, 2008  Elizabeth R. Dumont, Biology, awarded $294,700 NSF grant for “Biomesh: A Digital Resource Collection at the Biology-Engineering Interface”
  • May 15, 2008  Michael L. Williams, Geosciences, received NSF award for “Acquisition of Cathodoluminescence Detectors for Analysis of Provenance, Diagenesis, Geo-Thermochronology and Petrology”
  • May 15, 2008  PhD student Ravi Tangirala, Polymer Science & Engineering, won Bausch & Lomb Student Innovation Award
  • May 14, 2008  Edward Marram (MS ’61 Chemistry) received UMass Amherst Distinguished Achievement award
  • May 14, 2008  Michael Knapp, Chemistry, and research team have developed portable sensors to detect plastic explosives
  • May 13, 2008  Lila Gierasch, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Lynn Margulis, Geosciences, named Massachusetts Academy of Sciences fellows
  • May 12, 2008  Undergraduates studying lichens in a class with Stephen Brewer, Biology, will assist Amherst officials with inventory of town trees
  • May 9, 2008  Jim Kurose, Computer Science, elected to three-year term on Computer Research Association board of directors
  • May 9, 2008  Seniors John P. Barrett, Physics and Mathematics, and Dawn Eriksen, Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry, received 21st Century Leaders Awards
  • May 7, 2008  PhD candidate Nick Hendricks, PSE awarded NIST/GRC fellowship from the Semiconductor Research Corporation
  • May 7, 2008  Ray Bradley, Geosciences, invited to speak at UMass’ two-day “Climate Change Think Tank” with other academic and government experts
  • May 7, 2008  Sophomore Kelli Pattavina, Biology, awarded $4,000 American Society of Plant Biologists 2008 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
  • May 7, 2008  The Chemical Biology group and the Department of Computer Science awarded Mellon Mutual Mentoring Grants
  • May 6, 2008  Senior Ross Dubois, Astronomy, received Commonwealth College Dean's Award for senior project
  • May 3, 2008  Brian Levine, Computer Science, honored for excellence in science and technology by University at Albany alumni association
  • Apr 30, 2008  Jeanne Hardy, Chemistry, received $825k NIH grant to study proteins that cause cell death, affecting diseases like Alzheimers
  • Apr 29, 2008  Computer Science researchers have developed and are marketing UBot 5, a robotic assistant for the elderly
  • Apr 29, 2008  The Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute received $1.6 million in federal funds for biomedical research
  • Apr 28, 2008  J. Zane Barlow, Biology, and graduate student Shabnam Beheshti, Mathematics & Statistics, selected as 2008 UMass Amherst Distinguished Teachers
  • Apr 25, 2008  Sadie Bergeron, PhD candidate in Molecular and Cellular Biology, awarded first prize in poster contest at April 2008 Northeast Regional Meetings of the Society for Developmental Biology
  • Apr 22, 2008  Julie Brigham-Grette, Geosciences, invited to discuss climate changes in the Artic and Antarctica at University of Oklahoma’s Polar Palooza
  • Apr 21, 2008  Duncan Irschick, Biology, featured in National Geographic, Science Daily for his research on rapidly evolving lizards in transplanted environments
  • Apr 14, 2008  UMass Amherst co-sponsor of STEM Research Academy for Young Scientists after-school bird club for 4-8 graders at Greenfield’s Newton School
  • Apr 14, 2008  Ray Bradley, Geosciences, featured in 2-part radio spot on WFCR’s Field Notes discussing effects of accelerated accumulation of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere
  • Apr 11, 2008  Junior Michael Krainin, honors double major in Computer Science and Mathematics, named Goldwater Scholar
  • Apr 10, 2008  Alejandro Heuck, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, awarded $40,000 American Lung Association grant
  • Apr 10, 2008  Eric Bittman, Biology, awarded $292,159 NIH grant for Suprachiasmatic Control of Peripheral Circadian Rhythms
  • Apr 10, 2008  Michael Knapp, Chemistry, awarded $203,853 NIH grant for “Molecular Mechanisms of Hypoxia Sensing by the HIF-Hydroxylases”
  • Apr 10, 2008  Robert Hallock, Physics, received $125,000 NSF grant for “Helium Films: Localization and Transitions”
  • Apr 5, 2008  Scott Garman and Karsten Theis, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, presented their teaching initiative on enhancing faculty-student interactions in large enrollment science classes at UMass Instructional Technology Conference
  • Apr 3, 2008  13 Biology undergraduates selected for 2008 Summer Research Internship Program and $3,600 stipend
  • Apr 2, 2008  David McMillan, Sharlene Santana, and Natalia Taft, PhD candidates in Organistic & Evolutionary Biology Program, received Natural History Collections Summer Scholarships for Life Science Research
  • Apr 1, 2008  Alfred Crosby, Polymer Science & Engineering, received 2008 Rohm & Haas New Faculty Award
  • Apr 1, 2008  Liz Sterner, PhD candidate in Polymer Science & Engineering, awarded 3-year $93,000 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
  • Mar 31, 2008  Betsy Dumont, Biology, Co-PI on $982,633 NSF grant for Biomesh website to advance biological research through computer modeling techniques
  • Mar 28, 2008  Kevin Fu, Computer Science, 1 of 8 UMass professors to receive $30,000 President’s Office grants to develop promising technologies for commercialization
  • Mar 27, 2008  Lila Gierasch, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, invited speaker at National Science Teachers Association Shell Science Seminar
  • Mar 14, 2008  Andrew McCallum, Computer Science, received $113,949 grant to study “Situation Understanding Bot Through Language and Enivronment”
  • Mar 14, 2008  Neal R. Erickson, Astronomy awarded $231,922 NSF grant for Large Millimeter Telescope research
  • Mar 13, 2008  John F. Donoghue, Physics, received $320,000 NSF grant for research on “Elementary Particle, Nuclei and Relativity”
  • Mar 13, 2008  Oliver Brock, Computer Science, featured in Boston Globe article regarding interactive robot for Lou Gehrig’s patients
  • Mar 12, 2008  Jim Kurose, Computer Science, elected to Computing Research Association Board of Directors
  • Mar 12, 2008  Kevin Fu, Computer Science, featured in national news including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal for research about security flaws in cardiac defibrillators
  • Mar 6, 2008  Beverly Woolf, Computer Science, and research team develop emotional intelligence in computerized tutors
  • Mar 6, 2008  Physics faculty integral to CERN’s completion of world’s most powerful particle accelerator
  • Mar 3, 2008  Jeanne Hardy, Chemistry, awarded $825,000 NIH grant to develop “allosteric switch” in controlling human cell death
  • Feb 29, 2008  Rick Adrion, Computer Science, awarded 2008 Computing Research Association Distinguished Service Award
  • Feb 28, 2008  Alejandro P. Heuck, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, awarded $80,000 American Lung Association Grant
  • Feb 27, 2008  Maura Cannon, Biochemistry, discovery of how plants form cell walls has implications for biofuels and nanotechnology; related article is Editor’s Choice in Science
  • Feb 27, 2008  Larry Schwartz, Biology and Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute featured on 3/27 podcast
  • Feb 27, 2008  UMass Amherst produces second podcast on Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute
  • Feb 25, 2008  Beverly Park Woolf, Computer Science, awarded $185,634 NSF grant
  • Feb 25, 2008  Robert Weis, Chemistry, Anthony Shrout (PhD ’05 Chem) and Edward Esposito (PhD ’05 Chem) featured in article about their biotech business, PA Technologies LLC
  • Feb 23, 2008  Karsten W. Theis, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, awarded $516,000 American Cancer Society grant for Transcription-Coupled DNA Repair
  • Feb 20, 2008  Alfred J. Crosby, Polymer Science & Engineering, received $94,433 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute grant for Korean Research Partnership
  • Feb 18, 2008  Geosciences received $99,581 Geological Survey grant to study San Gorgonio Fault Complexity
  • Feb 16, 2008  Laura Cadonati, Physics, receives $300,000 NSF grant for gravitational waves, black hole collisions and supernova explosions research
  • Feb 15, 2008  Michael Dolan, Geosciences, elected Secretary of International Society of Protistologists
  • Feb 15, 2008  Michael Dolan, Geosciences, elected Secretary of International Society of Protistologists
  • Feb 15, 2008  Tobias Baskin, Biology, named U. S. Partner of Center for Integrated Plant Biology, Univ. of Nottingham, UK
  • Feb 6, 2008  S. “Thai” Thayumanavan, Chemistry, has findings in Nature Nanotechnology on nanopore membrane function
  • Feb 5, 2008  Thomas P. Russell, Polymer Science & Engineering, elected to National Academy of Engineers
  • Feb 1, 2008  Barry Holstein, Bill Mullin, & Boris Svistunov, Physics, received new American Physical Society Outstanding Referee Awards
  • Jan 28, 2008  Research by Steven Petsch, Geosciences, shows that natural gas reservoirs provide new information about global warming
  • Jan 24, 2008  Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Teaching Initiative offers 6 classes that foster active learning through novel teaching technology
  • Jan 17, 2008  Jennifer Ross, Physics, discovers molecule playing a role in Alzheimer’s disease
  • Jan 15, 2008  Lorenzo Sorbo, Physics, featured in New York Times about Big Brain Theory
  • Jan 11, 2008  Michael Maroney, Chemistry, featured in Chemical Heritage Foundation’s “Distillations” podcast
  • Jan 10, 2008  Min Yun, Astronomy, discovers new hydrogen clouds showing gravitational interactions between galaxies
  • Jan 10, 2008  Ryan Hayward, Polymer Science & Engineering, received NSF CAREER award
  • Jan 8, 2008  Alejandro P. Heuck, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, received $308,000 American Heart Association grant to develop cholesterol probes
  • Jan 7, 2008  Daniel McIntosh, Astronomy, works with 2 international teams that perform some of the largest-area Hubble Telescope surveys
  • Jan 2, 2008  Karsten Theis, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, awarded $516K American Cancer Society grant to study DNA repair in cancer