Thursday, March 17, 2005 • Vol 11, Issue 6

Dr. Martin McIntosh's team includes (clockwise from lower left) software engineers Brendan MacLean, Matthew Bellew and Mark Igra. Photo by Todd McNaught

• 'Wizards' of computational science
  Software engineers, many from Microsoft, help ease proteomics-data bottleneck, advance center's early detection, fundamental research
  
  
• Findings on finasteride
  SWOG, PHS lead study to determine prostate-cancer prevention drug's impact on survival for men age 55 and older
  
  
• Dietary guidance could help rural residents prevent cancer
  Public Health Sciences Division study uses low-intensity, low-literacy strategies to affect dietary change in low-income populations
  
  
• Adolescent smokers may model parents who quit
  Results of PHS smoking study show benefits of including parents in primary-prevention programs for children
  
  
• Science through the back door
  Kristi Stiffler's 'journey of discovery' has taken her across the world and back again into a career on the administrative side of science
  
  
• Attending with compassionate care
  Ali Johany award recipient Dr. Michael Linenberger sets "excellence as a standard" in care for blood stem-cell transplant patients, families
  
  

• Meeting the need for knowledge
  New comprehensive research-training courses strengthen administrative support for scientific grantsmanship
  
  

• Learn about biology of color blindness at Science Friday forum March 25 in Pelton
  
  
• Science lecture series begins March 22 in Pelton
  
  
• Wickedly scientific women
  
  
• Taco Time coupons support center
  
  
• Healthy Challenge update
  
  

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