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Recent Press Releases

NSF PR 04-142 NSF Awards $37.2 Million in Grants to Study Biocomplexity in the Environment
NSF PR 04-139 Head Lice Study Supports Direct Contact Between Modern and Archaic Humans
NSF PR 04-128 NSF Announces Six New Centers for Nanoscale Research
NSF PR 04-127 NSF Awards 22 New Projects for Plant Genome Research
NSF PR 04-126 NEON Design Consortium and Project Office to Coordinate Design of Ecological Observatories
NSF PR 04-122 NSF Announces Six 'FIBR' Awards to Tackle Some of Biology's Most Challenging Questions
NSF PR 04-120 Ecology of Infectious Diseases Grants Awarded by National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
NSF PR 04-117 Research Uncovers Added Value of Streamside Forests
NSF PR 04-116 Twelve Women are Among NSF-Supported Young Scientists and Engineers to Receive Presidential Award for Early Career Achievements
NSF PR 04-115 NSF Funds First U.S-based 4Pi-Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope
NSF PR 04-114 Complex Cells Likely Arose from Combination of Bacterial and Extreme-Microbe Genomes
NSF PR 04-105 Viruses on the Attack
NSF PR 04-102 No Longer Just For Biology, RNA Can Now Be Built Into 3-D Arrays
NSF PR 04-096 NSF Awards $10 Million in Grants to Ocean Sites for Long-Term Ecological Research
NSF PR 04-083 150 U.S. Graduate Students Embark on Research Experiences in East Asia and Australia
NSF PR 04-082 Pepper Prodigies Pursue Plants Like Those Picked by Parents
NSF PR 04-068 New Research Supports Theory that Indirect Transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease Possible in Mule Deer
NSF PR 04-066 President Bush Honors Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring
NSF PR 04-063 President Bush Names 20 Promising, Young Scientists and Engineers to Receive Awards
NSF PR 04-055 Oldest Hemoglobin Ancestors Offer Clues to Earliest Oxygen-Based Life
NSF PR 04-054 Morning Glory Colors Reveal Why Evolution is Stuck in 'Forward'
NSF PR 04-049 In Bowerbirds, Young Females Go More for Blue, Less for Strutting
NSF PR 04-037 Ferns Diversified in Shadow of Flowering Plants
fs04hsd Human and Social Dynamics - Fact Sheet
NSF PR 04-18 Looking at Science Through New Eyes: NSF and AAAS Launch Second Visualization Challenge
NSF PR 04-14 Cyberinfrastructure Poised to Revolutionize Environmental Sciences and Other Disciplines
NSF PR 04-12 NSF Fiscal 2005 Budget Request Is $5.745 Billion
NSF PR 04-11 Microbial Biofilm Yields Community Genomes, Metabolic Clues
NSF PR 04-08

Protein Data Bank Opens New Era With Broader Support
    Contacts
    Chronology
    Impacts

NSF PR 04-04 If We Are What We Eat, Some Lake Fish Are Made of Maple Leaves
NSF PR 04-01 RNA Lariat May Tie Up Loose Ends to Decades-Old Mystery of Retrovirus Life Cycle
NSF PR 03-148 "Panning for Gold" in the Maize Genome
NSF PR 03-139 Mustard-Root Map Breaks New Ground Tracking Gene Expression
NSF PR 03-121 President Names Eight Elite Scientists and Engineers to Receive National Medals of Science
NSF PR 03-119 Ecology of Infectious Diseases Grants Awarded by National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
NSF PR 03-116 NSF Awards $31.9 Million in Grants to Study Biocomplexity in the Environment
NSF PR 03-114 Plant Genome Research Gets $100 Million Boost From NSF
NSF PR 03-106 NSF'S 'FIBR' to Mix Disciplines, Use Breakthroughs on 5-Year Explorations into Biology's Mysteries
NSF PR 03-104 National Science Foundation Announces $14M Planetary Biodiversity Inventory Awards
NSF PR 03-95 Baboon Fathers Really Do Care About Their Kids
NSF PR 03-93 Microbes Active in Colorado Snows Fuel Tundra Ecosystem
NSF PR 03-86 Genome Sequence for Tomato-Infecting Microbe May Show How Bacteria Adapt to Plant Defenses
NSF PR 03-84 Microbe from Depths Takes Life to Hottest Known Limit
NSF PR 03-79 New "Knockout" Map Helps Study Gene Functions in Model Plant
NSF PR 03-75 Biodiversity's Response to Ecosystem Productivity Depends on Historical Plant and Animal Relationships
NSF PR 03-72 US-EC Biotech Task Force Keys on Research, Collaboration
NSF PR 03-71 Plant Diversity has "Luxury" Effect, Say Scientists
NSF PR 03-70 For Ferrets, GPI Means 'Get Pregnancy Initiated'
NSF PR 03-63 Going with the Grain: A Tale of Rice's Smallest Chromosome
NSF PR 03-62 Ancient Pollen Yields Insight into Forest Biodiversity
NSF PR 03-58 From Cell-Cycle Secrets to NSF's Waterman Award Amon Earns Top Honor for Young Scientists
NSF PR 03-55 Pattern Recognition Method Zeroes in on Genes that Regulate Cell's Genetic Machinery
NSF PR 03-52 NPR's "Living on Earth" Series Launches New Segments on Environmental Research
NSF PR 03-51 Artificial Life Experiments Show How Complex Functions Can Evolve
NSF PR 03-48 NSF Director Names 2003's Distinguished Teaching Scholars
NSF PR 03-44 Bread Mold Yields a Genome First for Filamentous Fungi
NSF PR 03-35 From Biology to Computing and Back Again
NSF PR 03-34 Forest Fragmentation May Increase Lyme Disease Risk
NSF PR 03-26 With Toxic Crystals, Bacterium Targets - and Takes out - Nematodes
NSF PR 03-13 A Ferrous Wheel in the Forest
NSF PR 03-12 Multiple Factors Affect Flight Power Curves Among Species
NSF PR 03-08 New Study Suggests Missing Link that Explains How Dinosaurs Learned to Fly
NSF PR 03-03 Scientists Find First Active 'Jumping Genes' in Rice
NSF PR 02-98 Increases in Rainfall Variability Related to Global Climate Change Alter Productivity and Plant Community Composition
NSF PR 02-95 Plant-Fungal Symbiosis Found in High-Heat Extreme Environment
NSF PR 02-94 Discovering the Tree of Life
NSF PR 02-85 National Science Foundation, USDA to Fund Mapping of Plant-Devouring Mold Gene
NSF PR 02-79 NSF Awards $75.6M For Plant Genome Research
NSF PR 02-70 Songbirds use Mental Pointer When Playing Tunes
NSF PR 02-65 Twenty-Years of Long-Term Ecological Research: National Science Foundation Releases Review Report
NSF PR 02-62 First of Crop Killer's Genome Sequence Available
NSF PR 02-58 Deformed Frogs Form When Parasites and Pesticides Combine
NSF PR 02-51 Botanists Discover New Conifer Species in Vietnam
NSF PR 02-40 President Bush Names 15 to Receive National Medal of Science
NSF PR 02-37 Researchers Compare Anthrax Genomes
NSF PR 02-34 Ancient Flower Fossil Points to Underwater Origins
NSF PR 02-32 Alzheimer's, Other Diseases, May Benefit from First Live Studies of Key Cell Structures
NSF PR 02-31 From Arts to Neurobiology - Versatile Duke Scientist Chosen for NSF Waterman Award
NSF PR 02-27 New Post-Genomic Technique Chronicles Protein Life Cycles
NSF PR 02-26 Popular Weed Killer Disrupts Frogs' Sexual Development
NSF PR 02-24 Microbiology Team Probes Bacterium's Surprising Survival Tactics
NSF PR 02-23 Researchers Project Future Shrinking Biodiversity of Mexican Species
NSF PR 02-18 Protein Plays Espionage Role in Bacterial Attack on Plants
NSF PR 02-15 Researchers Discover Mechanism of Plant Resistance to Pathogens
NSF PR 02-13 NSF/EPA Team Up on Grants to Treat Pollution with Plants
NSF PR 02-06 Predators Drive Evolution of Virtual Prey Appearance
NSF PR 02-09 Water Lily May Provide a "Missing Link" in the Evolution of Flowering Plants
NSF PR 02-07 New Understanding of Complex Virus Nano-Machine for Cell Puncturing and DNA Delivery
NSF PR 01-104 Researchers Find Closest Living Relative Of First Land Plant
NSF PR 01-101 Agrobacterium Genome Sequence is Complete
NSF PR 01-96 World’s Smallest Lizard Discovered in the Caribbean
NSF PR 01-89 NSF Boosts for Plant Genome Research
NSF PR 01-77 NSF Announces $43.8 Million in Awards for Arabidopsis Plant Genome Research
NSF PR 01-60 Dinosaurs' Large Noses May Have Been Key to Physiological Processes
NSF PR 01-59 Reserchers' Mathematical Model Provides Chagas Disease Insights
NSF PR 01-54 Microbiologists Find a New Source of Nitrogen Fixation
NSF PR 01-52 Important Pathogens and Cures Belong to Little-Known Group of Fungi
NSF PR 01-48 Marine Snail Study Suggests Conservation Efforts Should Move Beyond Genetic
Diversity
NSF PR 01-47 Secret Channel Holds Key To Metabolic Mysteries

NSF PR 01-42 "Silent" DNA Speaks up for the First Time
NSF PR 01-15 Plant Genome Offers Clues to Longevity
NSF PR 01-14 Biologists Create a New Tool for Observing a "Messenger" Molecule in Living Cells
NSF PR 01-09 Scientists Shake Up "Family Tree" of Green Plants
NSF PR 00-98 New Sub-Cellular Structure Discovered
NSF PR 00-97 Carbon Cycling and Species Composition: Seeing the Forest for its Trees
NSF PR 00-94 First-Ever Complete Plant Genome Sequence Is Announced
NSF PR 00-92 DNA "Motors" Are Key to Virus Replication
NSF PR 00-86 Ecology of Infectious Diseases Grants Jointly Announced by National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation
NSF PR 00-74 Putting Muscle in the Nucleus
NSF PR 00-73 NSF Awards $52.5 Million in Grants to Study Biocomplexity
NSF PR 00-69 International Research Group Sequences Genome of Ubiquitous Microbe
NSF PR 00-67 Biodiversity Databases: Biodiversity Information on Every Desktop
NSF PR 00-64 Whitehead Institute Receives National Science Foundation Grant to Sequence Neurospora
NSF PR 00-61 NSF Announces First Awards in New Information Technology Research Initiative (ITR)
NSF PR 00-60 NSF Boosts Research for Understanding Structure and Function of Complex Plant Genomes
NSF PR 00-56 Tale of the Ice, Revealed
NSF PR 00-54 'Gatekeeper' Protein is Key to Cellular Life
NSF PR 00-39 Valuable Arabidopsis Data Released Through Unique Public-Private Partnership
NSF PR 00-34 Shedding Light on Luminescence: Scientists Visualize Structure of the Photoprotein Aequorin
NSF PR 00-33 NSF Awards $4.2 Million Grants to Three Coastal Sites for Longterm Ecological Research
NSF PR 00-23 Researchers Find Key to Spurring Methane Conversion
NSF PR 00-19 NSF Honors Yale Biochemist Jennifer Doudna with the Alan T. Waterman Award
NSF PR 00-05 President Seeks More Than $4.5 Billion for NSF in 2001
NSF PR 00-03 Twelve Pioneering Researchers Will Receive the 1999 National Medal of Science
NSF PR 99-73 Scientists Report First Complete DNA Sequence of Plant Chromosomes
NSF PR 99-70 Human Plague Cases Increases in Southwest
NSF PR 99-64 NSF Announces $10-Million Center for Bioengineering Educational Technology
NSF PR 99-58 NSF Awards Large Grant for Arabidopsis Information Resource
NSF PR 99-56 NSF Grants Provide Boost to Research on Inner Workings of Plants
NSF PS 99-16 Statement by Dr. Eamon M. Kelly, Chairman, National Science Board -- On Action by Kansas Board of Education on Evolution
NSF PR 99-45 National Science Board Approves Five New NSF Science and Technology Centers
[of special interest to BIO -- S&T; Center for Behavioral Neuroscience]
NSF PS 99-13 Statement by Dr. Rita R. Colwell, Director NSF
NSF PR 99-46 National Science Board Calls for Significant New Investment in Research on the Environment
NSF PR 99-41 'Altered State' May Be Responsible for Creating Important Brain Chemicals
NSF PR 99-17 Researchers Uncover 3-D Structure of Virus Replication Technique
NSF PR 99-11 Molecular Control Mechanism of Embryonic Development Unraveled
NSF PR 99-3 Rare Fossil Shows Theropod Dinosaurs are Fast, Dangerous 'Turbocharged' Reptiles
NSF PR 99-1 Serendipity: Cell Structure Study Uncovers Taxol's Secrets
NSF PR 98-80 Scientists Describe Structure of an Enzyme That Uses Iron to Make Hydrogen
NSF PR 98-66 Major Plant Genome Research Project Grants Renewed
NSF PR 98-57 Upcoming 'Century of Biology' Given Head Start by NSF
NSF PR 98-46 Glowing Cyanobacteria Gives Researchers New Clues to Circadian Rhythms
NSF PR 98-25 Bison Grazing Increases Biodiversity in Grasslands
NSF PR 98-23 Infant Dependency Drives Menopause, NSF-Supported Researcher Reports
NSF PR 98-1 Early Career Development Grants Foster Faculty Research and Education
NSF PR 97-70 Biological Clocks No Longer Found Only in the Brain
NSF PR 97-65 Twenty NSF-Supported Young Scientists and Engineers Receive Presidential Award
NSF PR 97-63 NSF Funds First Long-Term Studies of Urban Ecology
NSF PR 97-58 NSF Awards 28 Grants for Learning and Intelligent Systems
NSF PR 97-47 Breakthrough Research on Ocean Algae Could Lead to Freeze and Drought Resistant Crops
NSF PR 97-45 Researcher Closing in on Birth Control Pill for Men, Love May Indeed be Blind
NSF PR 97-40 Biochemists Advance Knowledge of Transport Through Membranes
NSF PR 97-36 Value of the World's Ecosystem Services
NSF PR 97- 35 First Circadian Clock Gene Identified and Cloned in Mammals
NSF PR 97-31 Study of "MIRROR IMAGE" Molecule Supports New Approach for Drug Design
NSF PR 97-29 Evolution of Fish Antifreeze Gene Sheds Light on Climate History
NSF PR 97-25 Natural Selection Study Shows Animals Can Adapt Dramatically Fast
NSF PR 97-24 Pulitzer-Prize Winning Biologist to Share Expertise, Teaching Techniques on CD-ROM
NSF PR 97-21 Environments on Other Planets and Earth One and the Same?; New NSF Funding Initiative Seeks Answers
NSF PR 96-88 Disease Resistance Mechanism Identified in Plants
NSF PR 96-86 Scientists Discover Smallest Frog
NSF PR 96-78 No Such Luck: Nitrogen From Air Pollution Unlikely to Moderate Global Warming
NSF PR 96-66 Fertilization Protein Structure to Aid in Leukemia Treatment
NSF PR 96-56 Green Glow: Not Only for Halloween, New Fluorescent Protein Useful in Gene Therapy
NSF PR 96-50 Major Plan Genome Research Project Underway, First Complete Gene Sequence of Plants to Result
NSF PR 96-31 NSF Funds International Protein Data Bank; Fuels Research in Biotechnology
NSF PR 96-28 Scientists Discover New Class of Genes
NSF PR 96-19 Never the Same Song Twice From Song Sparrows
NSF PR 96-17 Research Group Cultivating Family Tree of Plant Life
NSF PR 96-14 New Report Links Emerging Technologies to the Biosciences
NSF PR 96-11 Light Sets the Molecular Controls of Circadian Rhythm
NSF PR 96-6 "Laser Tweezer" Technique Measures DNA "Mechanics"

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Media Tip Sheets/Advisories

Sept 10, 2004 Lecture on Ecology of Infectious Diseases - Monday, September 20, 2004
Apr 15, 2004 Challenging Shrubland Fire Management
Feb 20, 2004 Workshop Relates Long-Term Ecological Research to Ecosystem Management
Feb 4, 2004 NSF Speakers Tackle Biocomplexity and Science Workforce at AAAS Annual Meeting
Dec 23, 2003 NSF Science Highlights From 2003
Dec 9, 2003 Environmental Changes Affect Plant Diversity
Oct 30, 2003 Workshop Takes 'Systems' View of Information Processing in Organisms
Oct 9, 2003 Discover the Physical World Through the National Science Digital Library
June 11, 2003 What's Next as Biology, Math Combine Forces, Reciprocate in Discovery
Apr. 16, 2003 Long-Term Ecological Research Reveals Unusual Winter Lake-Ice Conditions; New Map Charts the Protein Universe
Mar. 27, 2003 Using Computational Power Tools to Bolster Systems Biology
Nov 5 , 2002 Lake Microbes Hold Keys to Understanding of Basic Biology
Oct 31, 2002 Tiger Moths Use Sonic Defense to Trick Bats
Oct 22, 2002 Biological Mission to an (Almost) Unknown Planet
Sept 19, 2002 NSF Invites Science Journalists to Workshop Exploring Microbial Life on Earth
July 8, 2002 New Evidence Found for "Oxidative Stress" Theory of Aging

June 19, 2002 Dispatches and Images Available: Human Impact on Giant Panda Habitat

June 12, 2002 Galápagos Iguana Deaths Reveal Surprising Damage From Low-Level Oil Spills
June 4 , 2002 Colorado Alpine Lakes Show Troubling Changes
May 28, 2002 Highlights from the American Society for Microbiology General Meeting
May 14, 2002 Life at the Extremes - Astonishing Diversity Found in Spain's "River of Fire"
May 7, 2002 Gene Study Determines How Humans are Related to Fruit Flies and Nematode Worms
Mar. 19, 2002 Biologists Aim to Find and Grow "Bugs" Responsible For Greenhouse Gas Methane
Dec. 19, 2001 Habitat Fragmentation Can Amplify Ecological Stresses More Than Previously Thought
July 23, 2001 Lab Time Points Undergrads to Biotech Careers
May 22, 2001 NSF Official Honored Posthumously By Genetics Society of America
May 7. 2001 Protecting Plant Biodiversity Helps Safeguard Ecosystems
Apr. 10, 2001 Hotspots No Panacea for Endangered Species or Biodiversity
Mar. 12 2001 Biologists Uncover Darwin's "Missing Evidence" for Divergence of Species--In a Warbler's Song
Feb. 14 2001 NSF Funds An Expanding Catalog of Bryophytes, Early Indicators of Environmental Degradation
January 16, 2001 Genes Reveal New Clues About the First Flower
Dec. 12, 2000 NSF Director to Speak at Nature Press Conference on Plant Genetics Milestone
Nov. 20, 2000 Genetic Triggers Keep Plants "On Schedule"
August 23, 2000 From the Shore to the Mountains There's no Vacation from Science
May 15, 2000 Inner Workings of Protein Machinery That Feeds Bacteria Unraveled (title of tipsheet is "Indian Ocean Pollution Substantially Cuts Sunlight Reaching Earth's Surface")
March 2000 Information Technology ResearchMay Produce Better Batteries (See Revised Model of Protein-Drug Interactions Makes Drug Design Easier)
August 1999 Scientists Use Noise to Sort Proteins
June 1999 U.S. Science And Engineering Workforce Is Really Much Bigger Than You Think
April 1999 Researchers Find Unexpected Feature in Zooplankton Nervous System
April 1999 Effort to Decode Rice Genome is Planned
March 1999 NSF Director Testifies to Need for Research Integration
May 1998 Increasing Threat of Extinction for Amphibians? Scientists to Seek Answers at NSF Workshop
March 1998 Study of Microbes May Hone Predictions of Mining Impacts
November 1997 Scientists Demonstrate New Need to Preserve Biodiversity
June 1997 Plants and Their 'Bodyguards' Are Mutually Beneficial
May 1997 Sea Sawduct Enriches Tropical Oceans, Increased Ultraviolet Light Harms Antarctic Algae, Ocean Drilling Expedition Hopes to Shed Light on Sea Level Changes
Jan. 1997 Bacteria Tell Time; Scientists Find Clue on How Deforestation Affects Global Carbon, New Agreement Assigns Air National Guard to Fly all U.S. Ski Planes in Antarctica
Dec. 1996 Recreating a Species: Evolution Turns Predictable; Scientists Discover Smallest Frog, and Grants from NSF Augment and Foster Research at St. Louis Herbarium
Dec. 1995 Microbes to the Rescue and other Subjects

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