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Adds Weight To Findings On Science And Parenthood Judge's ruling against Vassar College supports studies showing that wives and mothers can also be productive scientists. For a century, female researchers have been disputing the notion that marriage and motherhood are impediments to serious scientific work. Over the past several decades, sociological studies have emerged to bolster their position. These studies have found that marr

NBS Chief Named Scientific `Genius' Recognized Mentoring By Mail Global Publishing Senate Support Inventive Minds H. Ronald Pulliam, a professor of ecology at the University of Georgia in Athens, has been appointed the first director of the United States Department of Interior's National Biological Survey (NBS). Pulliam, 48, replaces F. Eugene Hester, the acting director of the new agency, which has a staff of more than 1,800. The

Elevate Status Of Minority Biomedical Scientists Author: KAREN YOUNG KREEGER, pp.1 Date: July 11,1994 Researchers, National Institutes of Health administrators, and government officials say the first director of a newly created NIH minority-support program is a fitting choice to lead an office whose creation is long overdue. The new leader is appropriate, they say, because he is both a veteran advocate of minorities in science and

Critics Charge Author: FRANKLIN HOKE, pp.1 Date: July 11,1994 Disputing what they see as unproductive preoccupation with HIV-specific studies, they step up campaign for a `wider window' of research Progress in AIDS research has faltered in the United States since the mid-1980s, according to some scientists, owing to a premature narrowing of the research focus by the scientific and administrative leadership of the National Inst

Planning To Address Needs Of A Maturing Discipline Author: NEERAJA SANKARAN, pp.1 Date: July 11,1994 The formation of a new scientific organization, the Gaithersburg, Md.-based International Society for Vaccines (ISV), signals that vaccinology is finally coming of age as a discrete discipline, according to Jonas Salk, the developer of the first effective vaccine for polio--whose own experience in the field spans more than a half-c

ACS 208th NATIONAL MEETING At the fall meeting of the American Chemical Society, from August 21 to 25 in Washington, D.C., the division of chemical education will be sponsoring a series of symposia scheduled to run through all five days of the conference. The sessions will feature 270 papers on a variety of topics relating to chemical education, including the teaching of undergraduate chemistry, "distance" learning for individuals

" 'Bucky' Fuller was a really special guy," says William Reach, a Philadelphia songwriter who was the principal force in organizing the event. Reach first became interested in the visionary engineer in 1977, when he attended a talk given by Fuller in Los Angeles. His enthusiasm eventually led Reach to launch a recent effort to educate the public about Fuller's ideas--resulting in the symposium, which was supported in part by the Nat

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David McLaughlin -- NYU's Courant Institute Appoints Director Noted Genome Researcher, Francis Collins, Gets Environmental Health Award James Osteryoung -- NSF Names Chemistry Division Head Paleontologist William Elgin Swinton -- Obituary Date: July 11, 1994, pp.22 David W. McLaughlin, formerly a professor of mathematics at Princeton University in New Jersey, assumed his post as the new director of the Courant Institute of Ma

Critics Charge Author: FRANKLIN HOKE, pp.1 Date: July 11,1994 Disputing what they see as unproductive preoccupation with HIV-specific studies, they step up campaign for a `wider window' of research Progress in AIDS research has faltered in the United States since the mid-1980s, according to some scientists, owing to a premature narrowing of the research focus by the scientific and administrative leadership of the National Inst

Elevate Status Of Minority Biomedical Scientists Author: KAREN YOUNG KREEGER, pp.1 Date: July 11,1994 Researchers, National Institutes of Health administrators, and government officials say the first director of a newly created NIH minority-support program is a fitting choice to lead an office whose creation is long overdue. The new leader is appropriate, they say, because he is both a veteran advocate of minorities in science and