Science news articles about 'professors'

At Harvard, the social psychologist Daniel Gilbert is known as Professor Happiness.

... Yorkers, but the region has more to lose than time if it erects a bridge that destroys local habitat, according to two University at Buffalo professors who study environmental impacts of structures.

... including Chaiten -- to be potentially active, said CU-Boulder geological sciences department Professor Charles Stern. Stern said the pyroclastic flow and ash-fall deposits he and Chilean colleagues ...

... and best manage brand extensions globally is addressed in a recent paper by Rohini Ahluwalia, professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management forthcoming in the ...

A professor of geosciences arrives in China 40 minutes before killer quake, watching Three Gorges Dam.

A Western Illinois University physics professor has discovered a way to understand lasing without inversion, which will allow the generation of X-ray and gamma-ray laser light without needing large ...

... become scientists have earned Robert Tai, a high school physics teacher-turned-university professor, the 2008 Award for Education Research Leadership from the Council of Scientific Society Presidents.

... fact than mere science fiction. University of Florida mechanical and aerospace engineering associate professor Subrata Roy has submitted a patent application for a circular, spinning aircraft design ...

MIT chemistry professor Dan Nocera tells Guardian science correspondent Alok Jha why chemistry can solve the energy crisis

Uwe Burghaus, assistant professor of chemistry and molecular biology at North Dakota State University, Fargo, has received a $426,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

Matthew Lee, professor of sociology at LSU, has taken an intense look at the phenomenon of violence in rural areas. His article, "Civic Community in the Hinterland: Toward a Theory of Rural Social ...

... of major storms, a new tracking software service co-developed by Columbia University computer science professor Tony Jebara instantly shows people where the hottest clubs or hangouts are, in real ...

Manil Suri is by day a professor of mathematics. By night, he is a novelist, creating narratives set in his native India.

The University of Surrey is proud to confer the honorary degree of Doctor of the University to Professor Richard Casten for his work in the field of nuclear physics. The award was made on Tuesday, 17 ...

... government encourages people to spend their economic stimulus checks to boost the economy, a professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business says Americans should do the opposite. ...