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Wrigley Science Institute executive director receives prestigious food technology career award

CHICAGO, July 21, 2008 – Gilbert A. Leveille, PhD, executive director of the Wrigley Science Institute (WSI) has been selected as the 2008 recipient of the prestigious Institute of Food Technologists' Nicholas Appert Award, one of the highest honors in food science and technology. Dr. Leveille received this lifetime achievement award at the 2008 IFT Annual Meeting and Food Expo on June 29, 2008 and joined an esteemed panel of Nicholas Appert Award recipients that has spanned 65 years.

Nigeria: NISTL Accredits Science Laboratory Technology Programme at Lautech

In its determination to make the nation's universities offering Science Laboratory Technology (SLT) degree programme conform with minimum academic and professional standards, the Nigerian Institute of Science Laboratory Technology (NISLT) has taken its inspection tour to Ladoke Akintola University of Technology.

Quantum Receives $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to Develop Artificial Intelligence Teacher Training Software for Science

Education, Career, College & Alumni : Quantum Receives $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to Develop Artificial Intelligence Teacher Training Software for Science

Computer Science Dept. Receives Robotics Award

Buffalo, NY – The Canisius College Computer Science Department has been awarded funding from the Institute for Personal Robotics in Education (IPRE) to further its computer science curriculum through the use of personal robots. Canisius was one of 28 colleges and high schools across the country to receive the award, which includes $1,500 in funding and a Scribbler robot.

Obama Answers Science Policy Questionnaire

thebestsophist writes "A couple months ago, Scientists and Engineers for America, Science Debate 2008, and a bunch of other science organizations sent McCain, Obama, and all the Congressional candidates a bunch of questions on science and technology. Topics included biosecurity, genetics research, and national security, as well as the more common questions on research and education. Well, Senator Obama just answered." Senator McCain has not responded to the questionnaire at this point in time, but the site has a profile of his views and actions relating to science policy, which provides a good basis for comparing the candidates' stances. We've previously discussed the differences between the two candidates' technology platforms. According to a recent NPR story, both candidates intend to keep politics out of science.

Cargill receives patent for breakthrough taste modification ID technology

Cargill has received a patent for a breakthrough technology in taste tissue imaging and taste modification that is superior to the cell screening technology currently available in the flavor, food and beverage industries. The patented technology will allow Cargill to effectively discover taste modifiers – such as sweetness enhancers, bitterness blockers, savory enhancers and salt enhancers – and develop flavors that make food and beverage products taste better.

Cargill Receives Patent for Breakthrough Taste Modification ID Technology

Cargill has received a patent for a breakthrough technology in taste tissue imaging and taste modification that is superior to the cell screening technology currently available in the flavor, food and beverage industries. The patented technology will allow Cargill to effectively discover taste modifiers - such as sweetness enhancers, bitterness blockers, savory enhancers and salt enhancers - and develop flavors that make food and beverage products taste better.

Science Weekly podcast: Women in science and science in jelly

This week, the Science Weekly team discuss dark energy and the even darker matter of the gender gap with astrophysicist Sarah Bridle - recipient of a Women in Science fellowship. It's sponsored by a well-known cosmetics company - is it worth it? Do awards like this actually help to de-beard science? And isn't this a wider societal problem anyway?

Ocean Conservancy Receives Food & Wine Magazine's Eco-Ocean Award for Approach to Rebuilding Fisheries

Ocean Conservancy Receives Food & Wine Magazine's Eco-Ocean Award for Approach to Rebuilding Fisheries

Science Trumps Politics -- at Least in Theory

In this Q&A with Nina Fedoroff, science adviser to the US secretary of state, topics run from genetically modified food to the need for scientific advocacy in government. Fedoroff's take on GM food is simple: "There’s almost no food that isn’t genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution." As for science in government, Fedoroff makes the case that scientific alliances can succeed where other kinds of diplomacy fail -- "because science is more collaborative than other types of endeavors," she tells the New York Times. "It aspires to more democratic principles than many political systems because we have an external reference."

Clemson bioengineer wins prestigious Early Career Award

CLEMSON — Ning Zhang, assistant professor of bioengineering at Clemson University and the CU-MUSC Bioengineering Program, has received the prestigious 2008 Early Career Translational Research Award from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation.

New DVD From FSA For Food Safety For Businesses

Caterers and food retailers will now have extra help in achieving the right standards in food hygiene and giving extra confidence to their customers.The Food Standards Agency, the UK’s food regulator, has produced a new DVD for food businesses that aims to provide an additional route for accessing up-to-date guidance on safe methods for food preparation, handling and storage.

Autonomy etalk Receives the 2008 IP Contact Center Technology Pioneer Award

CAMBRIDGE, England and DALLAS, Texas, July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc , a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC) Customer Interaction Solutions magazine (http://www.cismag.com/) has named Autonomy etalk's Qfiniti Enterprise as recipient of the 2008 IP Contact Center Technology Pioneer Award. Customer Interaction Solutions has been the leading publication in CRM, call center and teleservices industries since 1982.

Consumers more likely to accept nanoparticles in packaging over food - study

Consumers have fewer concerns over packaging using nanoparticles than food utilizing the same technology, according to new study. The goal of the study from ETH Zurich's Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED), which was published in the journal Appetite, was to identify which food applications are more likely to be accepted by the public and which ones less likely. The researchers argue that it is important to take public views of nanotechnology into account at its early stage of development to avoid some of the problems that genetically modified (GM) technology has been faced with. They claim that their findings can help identify the food applications for which future public debates on nanotechnology could focus on.

Cargill Receives Patent for Breakthrough Taste Modification ID Technology

MINNEAPOLIS - Cargill has received a patent for a breakthrough technology in taste tissue imaging and taste modification that is superior to the cell screening technology currently available in the flavor, food and beverage industries. The patented technology will allow Cargill to eff

Introduction to Beijing's science-technology museums

BEIJING, July 22 (Xinhua) -- There are more than a dozen museums on science and technology in Beijing, among them are the Chinese Science and Technology Museum, Geological Museum of China, Beijing Museum of Natural History, and China Aviation Museum. The last will be dealt with in a separate article.

USA. Northeast Maritime Institute develops coating technology that repeals water from all consumer electronics

Golden Shellback is a unique coating that protects material against damage caused by exposure to water. The technology was developed by Northeast Maritime Institute, a private maritime education and training Institute located in Fairhaven Massachusetts. The Institute's creed is "Honor The Mariner".

(Olympic service): Introduction to Beijing's science-technology museums

BEIJING, Jul 22, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX News Network) -- There are more than a dozen museums on science and technology in Beijing, among them are the Chinese Science and Technology Museum, Geological Museum of China, Beijing Museum of Natural History, and China Aviation Museum. The last will be dealt with in a separate article.

Crystal Plane Dependent Growth of Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Sapphire

Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816−8580, Japan, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan, and Nanotechnology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST),Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan

Medical & Science Journals Urged to Adopt Common Policy on Disclosing Financial Conflicts of Interest

The Center for Science in the Public Interest today urged editors of journals of science and medicine to adopt a common standard for disclosing financial conflicts of interest among their authors, editors, and peer reviewers. The nonprofit watchdog group, whose Integrity in Science Project monitors corporate influence on science, developed a model disclosure policy with Barnett S. Kramer, Thomas F. Babor, and Wendy Cowles Husser, respectively of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the journal Addiction, and the Journal of the American College of Surgeons; and bioethicists Arthur Caplan and Jonathan Moreno, both of University of Pennsylvania.

Science Medalists Announced

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3, 2008 -- President George W. Bush has announced the recipients of the 2007 National Medal of Science and the 2007 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, considered the most prestigious honors in the fields of science and technology.

Dunn named managing director of nanotechnology centers

Robert M. Dunn, most recently the director of the Integrated Engineering and Business Practices Program in the University of Notre Dame's College of Engineering, has been named the managing director of the Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano) and the recently established Midwest Institute of Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND).

Kalyon wins Society of Plastics Engineers' 2008 Research Award

HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Dr. Dilhan M. Kalyon, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Highly Filled Materials Institute at Stevens Institute of Technology, has won the Society of Plastics Engineers' 2008 Research Award (in Memory of John C. Moricoli). Kalyon received his B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering in Ankara, Turkey, and his M. Eng. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering/Polymers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

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