An Out-of-This-World Competition

What useful things can be shot into the stratosphere? Budding scientists and engineers are being invited to figure that out. Tomorrow is the deadline for the annual BalloonSat High Altitude Flight competition. U.S. high school students propose science experiments that are launched high above the earth, using weather balloons as satellites. Projects have included light … Read more

Medicare Card, National Institutes of Health launches summer institute on mHealth

The National Institutes of Health today announced the creation of the first NIH Health, or mobile health, Summer Institute. Scheduled for the summer of 2011, this week-long workshop will bring together leaders in mobile health technologies, behavioral science researchers, federal health officials and members of the medical community to provide early career investigators with an … Read more

Medicare, USAID Administrator Shah to deliver major global health address at the National Institutes of Health

On Feb. 15th, USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah will deliver the David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture at the National Institutes of Health. This is thought to be the first ever address to NIH staff at-large by a sitting USAID Administrator. In his remarks, Dr. Shah will chart a course forward for President Obama’s Global … Read more