Mathematician wins award for shaping algebra

Arf6 wins the MVP award

The biosynthetic mevalonate pathway (MVP) produces the building blocks for a wide range of biological molecules, from cholesterol to the long-chain prenyl groups that mediate the membrane association of Ras family GTPases (1). Mutations in the tumor suppressor p53 can up-regulate the MVP, a phenomenon that enhances the invasiveness of certain breast cancer cell lines by an unknown mechanism (2)...

RCT wins CMAJ Bruce Squires Award.

Allison Bishop Wins NSF CAREER Award Allison

The flip side of the data revolution is that massive data has rendered many standard algorithms computationally expensive, necessitating a wholesale rethinking of even the most basic computational methods. To take one example: Nearest neighbors search, the classic method since the 70s for finding similarity among objects, is straightforward for small data sets: compare every object to every oth...

Biochemist James Spudich wins Lasker Award

Stanford biochemist James Spudich, PhD, has been flying small planes as a hobby since 1975. At his Pacific Ocean vacation home there’s a private runway within walking distance from his cottage. But what’s put him in the pilot seat with respect to his professional career is his consistent ability to develop evermore-precise ways of measuring molecular movements. Spudich, the Douglass M. and Nola...

Burke wins Dooley Award for tax assistance to poor

In y e s te rd a y ’s e lec tion for student body president and vice p re s id e n t a t S a in t M a ry ’s College, s tu d e n t vo tes sp lit almost evenly between the two tickets. S a ra h S ie fe r t an d Nancy Midden earned 46.9 percent of the vote while the Katie Webby and Kelly Madden ticket earned 46.8 percent of the vote. This narrow margin means a run-off e lec t ion will be he ld on ...