HANOVER, New Hampshire, July 1 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news: * * * Arts and Sciences Faculty Receive Tenure and Promotions Fourteen faculty were promoted to full professor this year, and 14 were promoted to associate professor and granted tenure. - The Dartmouth Board of Trustees approved promotions for faculty across the Arts and Sciences on June 12. This year, 14 faculty members were promoted to full professor, and 14 were promoted to associate professor and granted tenure. "I'm delighted to congratulate these excepti more PR

WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, June 30 [Category: Biology] -- The Marine Biological Laboratory, an affiliate of the University of Chicago, posted the following news: * * * Jellyfish Can Heal Wounds in Minutes. Scientists Want Their Secrets. * A decade ago this summer, at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Jocelyn Malamy watched jellyfish cells "walk" toward each other to close a wound for the first time. An associate professor in Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago, Malamy had received transparent, dime-sized medusae more PR

VALHALLA, New York, July 1 -- New York Medical College issued the following news: * * * The Inquiring Minds of Student Research A thriving culture of student-driven science builds skills from coding to communication, analyzing the tiniest cellular changes--and broadest swaths of data--to improve health outcomes. - As an undergraduate logging time in the lab, Jason Jin's first taste of research was "rote and scripted, just going through the motions for each particular experiment," he recalls. But later in his research career, including at N more PR

LA JOLLA, California, July 1 (TNSjou) -- Sanford Burnham Prebys issued the following news release: * * * Parsing the pathology of prostate cancer Researchers identify epigenetic mechanism that explains why some prostate cancers grow slowly and remain localized but others become aggressive and metastasize - The prostate is the single organ most frequently afflicted by cancer in men. Prostate cancer affects approximately 4 million American men, with another 330,000 men expected to be diagnosed with the condition this year alone. Most prost more PR

DUBUQUE, Iowa, June 30 -- The University of Dubuque posted the following news release: * * * UD Professor Develops Ethics Module for an International Antibiotic Discovery Research Curriculum * DUBUQUE, Iowa - Undergraduate student researchers collecting soil samples worldwide to unearth new antibiotics can now examine the ethics of such collection thanks to recently developed curricular resource created by a University of Dubuque professor. Adam Kleinschmit, PhD, professor of biology, was partially inspired by conversations and values wit more PR