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Apuckshunubbee (c. 1740 – October 18, 1824) was one of three principal chiefs of the Choctaw Native American tribe in the early nineteenth century, from before 1800. He led the western or Okla Falaya ("Long People") District of the Choctaw, of which the eastern edge ran roughly southeast from modern Winston County to Lauderdale County, then roughly southwest to Scott County, then roughly ...
In 2018, she completed a residency focusing on the intersection of science and art at the Djerrasi Resident Artists Program; [102] she is a co-PI for The Ocean Memory Project at the University of Washington, [103] sponsored by a National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) Challenge Grant.
Jody W. Deming (born July 2, 1952) is an American oceanographer.She is a professor of Oceanography and a marine microbiologist at the University of Washington (UW). Her research interests include studies of cold adapted microbes in their relation to astrobiology, biotechnology, and bioremediation.
Jean Beagle Ristaino is an American scientist and William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Plant Pathology.She is best known for her work on the epidemiology and population genetics of Oomycete plant pathogens in the genus Phytophthora and her work on the population genomics of historic outbreaks of the Irish famine pathogen, Phytophthora infestans
John Cumbers was born on October 5, 1979, in Watford, Hertfordshire, Eastern England, 15 miles north-west of London.Since childhood, he showed a keen interest in biology and information technology.
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation is a 2013 nonfiction book by the American author Dan Fagin. [1] It is about the dumping of industrial pollution by chemical companies including Ciba-Geigy, in Toms River, New Jersey, beginning in 1952 through the 1980s, [2] and the epidemiological investigations of a cancer cluster that subsequently emerged there.
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Ended in 2017 and the final report was published in 2018. The Awards continued through 2019. A $20,000 prize was awarded in each of four categories: Book, Film/Radio/TV, Magazine/Newspaper, and Online. The Online category was created in 2009.
[6] [5] As she began to focus on nanotoxicology, Monteiro-Riviere received funding from the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative to study how nanomaterials cross membranes to allow for their interaction with cells. [7] Through this grant, her research team found that repetitive movement could speed the uptake of nanoparticles through the ...