Three Rutgers Professors Named Fellows of Top National Science Association

Three Rutgers scholars are among 531 scientists the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elevated to the rank of fellow. The pre-eminent national scientific organization selects fellows based on their efforts in advancing science or fostering applications considered scientifically or socially distinguished.

• Susan M. Cachel is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the graduate interdisciplinary Quaternary Studies Program. She studies the origins of higher primates; the origins the human family (hominization); the origins of anatomically modern humans; and evolutionary processes such as speciation and extinction.
• Lee Clarke is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences. Clarke works on problems concerning the environment, disaster, complex organizations and science.
• James M. Tepper is a professor in the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers-Newark. His primary research interests center around understanding the functional organization of the basal ganglia, a group of interrelated subcortical nuclei in the brain that promote voluntary movement, certain types of learning as well as higher cognitive functions.
  

Joining the 40 previous Rutgers fellows, the new inductees will be presented with an official certificate and a gold rosette pin Saturday, Feb. 20, at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the 2009 AAAS Annual Meeting in San Diego.

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NEA announces grants to Rutgers and NJ

Sixteen New Jersey organizations, including the state Council on the Arts, received $985,300 from the National Endowment for the Arts, part of $77.4 million in 1,014 grants the federal agency announced today.


The grants include $25,000 to Rutgers University-New Brunswick
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Glider Completes Historic Ocean Crossing: New Technology Advances Climate Understanding - 7thSpace Interactive

The first-ever 7,300-mile Atlantic Ocean crossing by an unmanned underwater glider is opening up a new world of ocean technology. A ceremony on Dec. 9 in Baiona, Spain, will celebrate the partnership effort among the U.S. interagency Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) through Rutgers University, NOAA, Puertos Del Estado (Spanish Port Authority), the National Oceanographic Partnership Program, and other European partners.

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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Rutgers University Partner with BioImagene to Develop Companion Algorithms™ for Digital Pathology

The Laboratory for Computational Imaging and Bioinformatics (LCIB) at Rutgers, Hospital at University of Pennsylvania, and the Digital Pathology company, Bioimagene, have just signed a 3 year sponsored research and licensing agreement to develop digital pathology image analysis algorithms for detection and grading of prostate cancer. Under this 3 year research agreement, Bioimagene will support Rutgers (PI: Anant Madabhushi) and UPENN (PI's: Michael Feldman, John Tomaszewski) with a $300,000 grant. Further, Bioimagene will sponsor a visiting scientist at LCIB and pathology fellow at UPENN, in addition to providing a commercial whole slide digital scanner and computational servers to the two academic institutions. Under this agreement, Bioimagene will license digital pathology algorithms developed at Rutgers and UPENN (Inventors: Anant Madabhushi, Scott Doyle, John Tomaszewski, Michael Feldman) for use in their commercial whole slide digital pathology scanners.


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