Dentistry’s Daniel Malamud Receives NIH Grant for HIV Research
Daniel Malamud, professor of basic science and craniofacial biology
at the College of Dentistry, has been awarded a five-year, $6.2 million
grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
(NIDCR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to head up a
research collective consisting of four interrelated research projects,
along with administrative, biostatistical, and clinical core
components.
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Furman Center Study Shows Mixed Impact of Business Improvement Districts
Over the past few decades, New York City and other major cities have
fostered the development of business improvement districts (BIDs) to
finance services and streetscape improvements in commercial areas.
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New Fossils Found in Kenya Challenge Current Views on Early Evolution of Genus Homo
Two new fossils discovered in Kenya cast fresh light on a little
understood and important period of human prehistory at the dawn of our
own genus, Homo.
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Psychology Study Offers New Insights Into Visual Ability of Infants
Four-month old infants are able to discriminate between pictures of
structurally possible and impossible objects, according to a study by
lead researcher Sarah M. Shuwairi, a doctoral student in the Department
of Psychology.
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Study Warns of Potential ‘Reverse Brain Drain’ of U.S. Immigrant Entrepreneurs
More than one million skilled immigrant workers—including Indian and
Chinese scientists and engineers—and their families are competing for
120,000 permanent U.S. resident visas each year, creating a sizeable
imbalance likely to fuel a “reverse brain drain” with skilled workers
returning to their home country, according to a report released by the
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
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