Fairview Health Services and the University of Minnesota have announced a gift of $50 million from Caroline Amplatz, J.D., to honor her father, former University professor and medical device pioneer Kurt Amplatz, M.D. In recognition of the gift, the new facility will be named University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital. The hospital, which broke ground [...]

Dr. Wenbo Zhi, a postdoctoral fellow in the Medical College of Georgia Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, has received a two-year fellowship to study biomarkers associated with type 1 diabetes.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $1.24 million grant to The University of Arizona and two other universities to fund a research center to investigate new clean-water technologies.

There was a time when peeking at another student’s work during class was a problem. Then again, there was a time when only televisions had clickers, not classrooms.
Starting in January, not only do students in the undergraduate biology lab sections at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have clickers, they are using them in a new way [...]

Today U.S. Senator Herb Kohl, Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, successfully amended the Senate stimulus package to allow the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide necessary flexibility and consider the costs of compliance as health care providers begin to implement new requirements for health information technology (HIT). Under [...]