Nobels Bring Prestige to Calif. Colleges
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GOLETA, Calif. - The University of California system is amassing Nobel Prizes at campuses once noted more for beer bashes and odd mascots than academic excellence...
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California scientists and business boosters, who united for the first 10 months of the year to persuade voters to approve spending $3 billion on stem cell research, now are breaking rank as they foment plans for getting some of that money.
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It bills itself as the world&#39;s &quot;most  prestigious college discussion board,&quot; giving a glimpse into  law school admissions policies, post-graduate social networking  and the hiring practices of major law firms.
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Two researchers who opened up the field of heart-valve replacement and a scientist who discovered a type of cell that plays a key role in the immune system have won prestigious medical prizes.
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Their discoveries may be hard for many to comprehend, but this year's Nobel Prize winners still have to explain what they did and how they did it.
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Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk and six  academics credited with breakthrough research on the origins of  life, the universe and economic policy accepted their Nobel  prizes in Stockholm on Sunday.
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Finn Kydland, now an economics professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was recognized for his contributions to macroeconomics.
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Two Americans are sharing this year s Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. Richard Axel and Linda Buck are being recognized for their work studying the biology of the sense of smell.
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Los Alamos employees like the University of California&#39;s benefits, its academic reputation and the chance to send their children to UC at in-state prices.
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The American sweep of Nobel Prizes in science this year has filled the nation's science educators with pride over what's done well in labs and classrooms &#151; and angst over what's not.
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Two Israelis and one American won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on how a cell breaks down proteins that are damaged or have outlived their usefulness.
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One of the nation's most prominent research centers on civil rights is moving to the University of California, Los Angeles and will expand its focus to include immigration and language discrimination, the California school said.
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It's time to get down to business for stem-cell scientists and administrators after the tremendous boost they received from the passage of California's Proposition 71. Two advisory board appointments have been made; there are 25 to go. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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American researchers Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their work on the sense of smell &#151; showing how, for example, a person can smell a lilac in the spring and recall it in the winter.
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A theory of how the universe expanded and a tool used to expand global communication networks are being touted as breakthroughs worthy of this year's Nobel Prize in physics.
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Silicon Valley tycoons, Nobel laureates and Hollywood celebrities are backing a measure on California's Nov. 2 ballot to devote &#36;3 billion to human embryonic stem cell experiments in what would be the biggest-ever state-supported scientific research program in the country.
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A pair of American scientists who as co-workers and later as competitors worked out the basic biology of the sense of smell - one of the body&#39;s most enigmatic and emotion-laden functions â-ave won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.