NewsBlog: Anthrax incident in Mississippi Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 15th August 2007 07:09 PM GMT] A graduate researcher at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMC) in Jackson, Mississippi, was treated for exposure to anthrax on Saturday (August 11), according to a news release from the University of Mississippi Medical Center. The researcher was working in the Biosafety Level 3 high containment lab on Saturday, August 11, where UMC conducts anthrax research. According to the UMC release, the student inoculated a flask of medium with anthrax cells and,... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: And the supercomputing award goes to... Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 9th August 2007 05:27 PM GMT] The wait is over for those eager to know who will be building the fastest computer in the world. Yesterday, August 8, the NSF decided to award $208 million to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, for its "Track One" proposal to build a supercomputer with more than a petaflop of processing power -- a whopping 1000-trillion calculations per second. As I... Click to continue Comment on this blog

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