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Following is a sampling of print- and computer-based directories of programs for minorities in science, mathematics, and engineering sponsored by professional societies, federal agencies, and universities. Some programs are not universal in whom they serve, but may vary according to minority or ethnic group, discipline, locale, and age group. HyperAMP, a three-part multimedia database of more than 1,400 financial aid sources for undergraduates and graduate students; a description of the Nationa

After 22 years at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) the last six as director Samuel Broder will retire in April to become chief scientific officer at IVAX Corp., a Miami-based pharmaceutical company, at a salary reported to be about twice his current pay of $120,000. There is more than money behind Broder's December decision to leave, however. His is a portrait of a scientist frustrated with the politics of government service and increasingly estranged from scientific colleagues, cancer patie

Questions remain about the low-key director's handling of clinical research, Congress, and scientific misconduct Not yet two years into his tenure as head of the National Institutes of Health, Harold E. Varmus is getting high marks from many scientists for his low-key, but thorough efforts to rejuvenate the agency's biomedical research effort. Initiatives to sharpen the basic science being done on campus and to streamline the peer review of proposals from outside researchers are bringing new

A marketing partnership between the Arthritis Foundation and McNeil Products stirs controversy among rheumatologists Last fall, the Arthritis Foundation, Atlanta, and Fort Washington, Pa.-based McNeil Consumer Products Co.--a Johnson and Johnson Inc.-affiliated pharmaceutical firm best known for producing Tylenol--teamed up to market a line of nonprescription analgesics called Arthritis Foundation Pain Relievers. According to foundation officials, a minimum of $1 million from sales of the pr

National Science Foundation officials have set an ambitious goal for the agency and the scientific community--to make women an equal part of the United States scientific work force by the turn of the century. For its role in the effort, NSF has appropriated $7 million in each of the last two fiscal years, toward expanding its programs to train, encourage, and retain women in science. The funding figures, which officials hope to maintain in the current budget process, represent a 200 percent in

Denis B. McWhan, Chairman of Synchrotron Light Source Assumes Associate Directorship at BNL Academic Psychologist and Health Policy Analyst, Terrie T. Wetle, New Deputy Chief Of National Institute of Aging Obituary -- Bernard Nathan Fields Denis B. McWhan, who served as the chairman of the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) since 1990, assumed the position of associate director for basic energy sciences at the Upton, N.Y., laboratory on January 1.

The 1994 Bower Award and Prize in Science--the most lucrative United States science prize--will be presented in May to Chen Ning Yang, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist. The $250,000 award is bestowed annually by Philadelphia's Franklin Institute to a "distinguished scientist for outstanding work in the life or physical sciences." Yang is being honored for his work in forming the Yang-Mills theory, which is widely held by physicists to be as basic a contribution to science as Albert

Table of Contents New Medium, Same Message Cybermanners Dead Sea Detectives Presidents With Disabilities Holiday Cheer The late media maven Marshall McLuhan has arrived in virtual form on the Internet as Project McLuhan. The project's aim, according to Nelson Thall, president of the Marshall McLuhan Center for Global Communications, Ontario, Canada, is to revitalize and update McLuhan's work to take advantage of and address the communications power of the tens of millions of interlinked com

University groups work with Clinton administration to rewrite indirect-costs rules but will the new Congress ask for more ? Poorly understood, much maligned, and yet central to the work of research, indirect costs are due for a partial, but welcome, revamping under changes expected to be published this week by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), according to university administrators and association officials. Indirect costs represent that part of a federal research grant that reimbu

A recently established Department of Energy (DOE) initiative is expected to yield major scientific and commercial contributions as it embarks on its multimillion-dollar effort to sequence the entire genome of several free-living microorganisms. Scientists anticipate that the program will substantially expand understanding of evolutionary relationships, while it also advances genome-sequencing technology. Commercial application of the sequences, such as industrial enzymes used in cleaning up th

Researchers as well as analysts maintain that the industry's idiosyncrasies make Wall Street unnecessarily cautious After two years of a bear market, biotechnology analysts, industry officials, and researchers say they have learned some painful lessons about biotech investment, the lifeblood of the young industry. While theories vary on the reasons for what has been an erratic, often-wildly unpredictable market, many veteran industry observers cite two important and related factors: Investo

Over the past four years, research discoveries of possible genetic origins of human sexual orientation have touched off a tempest of controversy and debate among gay-rights advocates and their opponents, politicians, journalists-- even members of the science community. But investigators in this field, whose studies instigated the commotion, say they find themselves, for the most part, riding in the calm eye of the storm. Following are some recent, widely publicized articles on the biologica