Incubators and R&D

The Association of American Universities has posted the text of a September 17 letter written by Rita Colwell, Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), that outlines the Bush Administration’s opposition to S. 2817, a…

The EPSCoR Centers Development Initiative (CDI) is gearing up to offer technical assistance to EPSCoR university research teams preparing ‘large-scale’ proposals (i.e., with budgets of at least $2 million) for NSF’s upcoming ITR (Information Technology…

Expansion plans delayed at least a year. Officials at Rocky Mountain Labs in Hamilton announced Friday they will conduct a more exhaustive environmental study before breaking ground on a new biological research lab that would…

Fishing for tools to improve human gene therapy, two Stanford scientists may have found a remarkably effective genetic hook hidden in the trout genome. Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff Writer In the current issue of Nature…

Far-flung pots Greece and Utah are a long way apart, but they both produced pottery that interests Michael Peed, an art professor and expert on indigenous ceramics. With a Scholarship and Creativity Grant from MSU,…

HAMILTON – Five steps from the front door of Rocky Mountain Laboratories, past the prison fence and the security guards, there is a moat. It’s filled with nothing but asphalt now. But Marshall Bloom smiles…

"When is somebody going to figure out a good use for knapweed?" The question has been asked rhetorically, over and over, in western Montana, where spotted knapweed, or Centaurea maculosa, has, in a relatively short…

Four major Northwest research organizations are bringing together industry, processors, growers, universities and federal laboratories to develop new methods for converting agricultural and food processing residue and wastes into commercially valuable bio-based energy and industrial…

Anthrax and plague are just some of the scary diseases that could end up in some terrorist’s bag of tricks. They are also infections that can jump from animals to people, like brucellosis and salmonella,…

LONDON — In the quiet stone halls of Cambridge University, a distinctly 21st century battle is brewing over a question that has vexed academic institutions around the world. Who owns faculty members’ ideas — some…