Media Coverage
Media Coverage
| Date | Media Coverage | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 2011 |
''A Real Choice for Parents on Their Kids’ Health'' “At a time when 21 million students across the U.S. are receiving free or low-cost school lunches, Congress has voted to block new guidelines that would have limited the use of potatoes and sodium in the National School Lunch Program.” Source: The Huffington Post |
School Food |
| Jan 2, 2013 |
A Mother's Plea for Swifter Implementation of Food Safety Regulations An opinion editorial written by Kathleen Chrismer about the need for swift approval and implementation of new food safety regulations. Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal |
Food Safety |
| Nov 10, 2009 |
''3 Years After E. Coli Outbreak, Is Spinach Safer?'' ''Three years after an E. coli outbreak, thought to be linked to spinach, took three lives and left 205 people sick, ABC's "Good Morning America" discovered that while the industry instituted new safety standards to prevent bacterial contamination, there are no requirements to test salad products before they get to market.'' Source: ABC's Good Morning America |
Food Hazards |
| Mar 11, 2013 |
2012 Scholar Profiled in National Geographic Dinu Florin Albeanu, a 2012 Pew Scholar, was profiled in National Geographic’s “Only Human” series, which highlighted his success as a Romanian scientist. Having lived in Bucharest for most of his life, Dr. Albeanu recognizes the challenges facing Romania’s scientific enterprise. Since relocating to the United States, the assistant professor of neurology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has co-founded a summer program for aspiring neurologists in Romania. Source: National Geographic |
Biomedical Research |
| Jun 13, 2013 |
2012 Pew Scholar Receives Grant to Study Cataracts in Infants Salil Lachke, a 2012 Pew scholar and assistant professor in University of Delaware’s Department of Biological Sciences, has received a $60,000 grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. As one of 19 researchers across the country to receive this award, he aims to identify biological pathways leading to genetic cataracts.Source: UDaily |
Biomedical Research |
| Jul 1, 2013 |
2012 Pew Scholar Profiled in The Scientist Peter Cornish, a 2012 Pew scholar and assistant professor at University of Missouri’s Department of Biochemistry, is featured in a profile in The Scientist magazine.Source: The Scientist |
Biomedical Research |
| Apr 2, 2013 |
2012 Pew Scholar Earns ARI Young Investigator Grant Salil Lachke, a 2012 Pew scholar and assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Delaware, has been selected by the Alcon Research Institute as a 2013 Young Investigator. As one of just eight researchers worldwide to receive the $50,000 grant, Dr. Lachke will continue his work on an online tool he created to discover genes related to glaucoma and other eye diseases. Source: UDaily |
Biomedical Research |
| Feb 28, 2013 |
Jeff Gore, 2011 Pew Scholar and assistant professor of physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has won the Paul Allen Distinguished Investigators Award to Unlock Fundamental Questions in Biology. The award, announced today by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, provides $7.5 million in exploratory grant funding to a carefully selected group of scientists who will embark on five new pioneering research projects that aim to unlock fundamental questions in biology. Dr. Gore will use single-celled yeast to explore how ideas from game theory can provide insight into cellular decision making. Source: The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation |
Biomedical Research |
| Feb 6, 2013 |
2011 Pew Scholar Uncovers Clues to Cancer and the Aging Process 2011 Pew Scholar Eros Lazzarni Denchi, an assistant professor at Scripps Research Institute, has uncovered the details of a protein that help keep chromosomes from sticking together. In a paper published online ahead of print in Nature, Dr. Denchi described how the protein TRF2 actively and passively suppresses DNA repair machinery that would fuse chromosomes together. This work has significant implications for our understanding of cancer and the aging process. Source: Scripps Research Institute |
Biomedical Research |
| Mar 17, 2013 |
2011 Pew Scholar is One of ''America's Best and Brightest Minds'' In celebration of what would have been Albert Einstein’s 134th birthday, FoxNews.com ran an article highlighting young researchers, including 2011 Pew scholar Ann Morris. Thanks to her creative research on vision in zebrafish, Dr. Morris was mentioned among scientists who are “poised to change the way we live today, and will continue to influence our culture in the coming decades. Source: Fox News |
Biomedical Research |
