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Q18. Does having a sexually transmitted infection (STI) affect my risk of getting HIV? – Video

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President Obama Honors Nation's Top Scientists and Innovators

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Washington DC - infoZine - The honorees will receive their medals at a White House ceremony later this year.

"These scholars and innovators have expanded our understanding of the world, made invaluable contributions to their fields, and helped improve countless lives," President Obama said. "Our nation has been enriched by their achievements, and by all the scientists and technologists across America dedicated to discovery, inquiry, and invention."

Awarded annually, the Medal recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to science and engineering. The President receives nominations from a committee of presidential appointees based on their extraordinary knowledge of and contributions to chemistry, engineering, computing, mathematics, and the biological, behavioral/social, and physical sciences.

Among this year's 10 recipients of the National Medal of Science, nine received NSF support at some point in their research careers, for a cumulative total of more than $35 million.

Administered for the White House by the National Science Foundation, the National Medal of Science was established by the 86th Congress in 1959 as a presidential award to be given to individuals "deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical or engineering sciences." In 1980 Congress expanded this recognition to include the social and behavioral sciences.

A committee of 12 scientists and engineers is appointed by the president to evaluate the nominees for the award. Since its establishment, the National Medal of Science has been awarded to 487 distinguished scientists and engineers whose careers spanned decades of research and development. The recipients database, with information from 1962 to the present, is searchable by name, affiliation and other criteria.

The names, affiliations, and short biographies of this year's National Medal of Science Laureates follow:

Bruce Alberts, University of California, San Francisco

Bruce Alberts is an internationally-renowned biochemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco. In addition to his research in the field of DNA replication, he is an avid proponent of improving science and mathematics education and international scientific cooperation.

Robert Axelrod, University of Michigan

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MESSENGER Principal Investigator Sean Solomon to Receive National Medal of Science

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MESSENGER principal investigator Sean Solomon will receive the nations top scientific honor, the National Medal of Science. Solomon, the director of Columbia Universitys Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, will be awarded the medal at a White House ceremony later this year.These scholars and innovators have expanded our understanding of the world, made invaluable contributions to their fields, and helped improve countless lives, President Obama said in a statement on Friday. Our nation has been enriched by their achievements, and by all the scientists and technologists across America dedicated to discovery, inquiry, and invention.As head of NASAs MESSENGER mission to Mercury, Solomon has led the most comprehensive investigation yet of the closest planet to the Sun. Some of his other projects are household names in space science: the Magellan mission to Venus, the Mars Global Surveyor mission and the GRAIL mission to the Moon, which launched in 2011 and has mapped the Moons gravitational field in unprecedented detail.After nearly seven years traveling through space, the MESSENGER probe entered orbit about Mercury in 2011 and has been continuously mapping the planets interior, surface, and atmosphere. Recent discoveries include ice in Mercurys northern craters and an iron-rich core fractionally far larger than Earths. The probe will continue gathering data about the planet before it crash lands on Mercury at the end of March next year.A geophysicist who has spent much of his career studying Earths neighboring planets as well as Earth itself, Solomon became director of Lamont-Doherty in 2012 after serving for nearly two decades as director of the Carnegie Institutions Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in Washington, D.C. After finishing his Ph.D. in geophysics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, he stayed on to teach and conduct research there for two decades. In 1978, he published a paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters that explained how relatively small bodies like the Moon and Mercury evolved without the multiple tectonic plates found on Earth. This one-plate planet idea still holds in understanding the tectonics of the solar systems rocky inner planets.At MIT, Solomon ran one of the earliest ocean-bottom seismometer labs. He investigated Earths mid-ocean ridges by leaving those instruments at the bottom of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans to record earthquakes on the seafloor and measure Earths structure below. As a result, he made important contributions to understanding how Earths multiple plates generate new crust below the sea, where most plates intersect. He moved to Carnegie in 1992. Among other roles, he served as principal investigator for Carnegies part of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, which seeks to understand the origin of life on earth, and its potential to exist elsewhere.Solomon is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received numerous other awards, among them the Geological Society of Americas G. K. Gilbert Award and American Geophysical Unions Harry H. Hess Medal. When he stepped down as a director at Carnegie in 2011, colleagues arranged to have a previously discovered asteroid named after him. Asteroid 25137 Seansolomon, about a mile and half wide, is currently orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.The National Medal of Science was created in 1959 and is administered for the White House by the National Science Foundation. Awarded annually, it recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to science and engineering. The President receives nominations from a committee of presidential appointees based on their contributions to chemistry, engineering, computing, mathematics, and the biological, behavioral/social, and physical sciences.Contact:Paulette Campbell+1 240-228-6792 **paulette.campbell@jhuapl.eduMESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) is a NASA-sponsored scientific investigation of the planet Mercury and the first space mission designed to orbit the planet closest to the Sun. The MESSENGER spacecraft was launched on August 3, 2004, and entered orbit about Mercury on March 18, 2011 (UTC), to begin its primary mission -- a yearlong study of its target planet. MESSENGERs first extended mission began on March 18, 2012, and ended one year later. MESSENGER is now in a second extended mission, which is scheduled to conclude in March 2015. Sean C. Solomon, the Director of Columbia Universitys Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, leads the mission as Principal Investigator. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory built and operates the MESSENGER spacecraft and manages this Discovery-class mission for NASA.

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City gathers housing input for federal grant

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DECATUR Asking members of the Human Service Agency Consortium for input on how the city of Decatur should spend federal dollars to help low-income residents was like opening a floodgate.

Yet the city's consultant, Mary Garrison, associate professor of behavioral science at Millikin University, soldiered on with her questions during the group's monthly luncheon Thursday at Central Christian Church and distributed surveys seeking even more input.

Garrison said community perspectives are needed to set priorities for spending an anticipated $1.5 million annually from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development over the next five years.

More supportive housing was mentioned by several people at the table Thursday.

Lucy Brownlee of the Coalition for Veterans Concerns said housing for people being released from prison is a need that there's never been any funding to satisfy.

If we're going to be the highest conviction county in the state of Illinois, I think we need to address this, she said.

Kids can't go home, and they're in foster care because the parent can't find housing, said Amy Still of Webster-Cantrell Hall.

Dan O'Loughlin, owner of D&O Contractors, added there is a particular need for one-bedroom supportive housing units.

HSAC President Teri Moore and Emily Dobson, program manager for Soyland Access to Independent Living, said handicapped-accessible housing is another unmet need.

If you've got a family member who can build a ramp, or a church that's willing to do that, sometimes you get lucky, Dobson said. But I was at a home visit today with a guy who hasn't been outside his house in 10 years.

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Q19. Does sexual contact with many partners increase my risk of getting HIV? – Video

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UCSF Scientist Wins the National Medal of Science

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President Obama announced today that UCSF biochemist Bruce Alberts, PhD, is one of nine scientists to be awarded the National Medal of Science, the highest U.S. honor for scientific achievement.

These scholars and innovators have expanded our understanding of the world, made invaluable contributions to their fields, and helped improve countless lives, President Obama said. Our nation has been enriched by their achievements, and by all the scientists and technologists across America dedicated to discovery, inquiry, and invention.

Bruce Alberts, PhD, has long been aleader in science and education.Photo by Tom Kochel.

The honorees will receive the awards at a White House ceremony later this year.

Alberts, currently the Chancellors Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education, joined UCSF in 1976. His 50-year career has been one of the most illustrious in modern biology. Renowned for his fundamental discoveries on how DNA is replicated before cells divide, Alberts has been equally lauded as a tireless advocate for science and education.

I am pleased and honored to receive this award, which celebrates the great work of science in this country, Alberts said. The greatest rewards in science come from the thrill of discovery and from witnessing the many positive effects of scientific progress and of scientists on societies across the globe.

After a five-year stint as chair of UCSFs Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Alberts served two six-year terms, from 1993 to 2005, as president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). During his tenure at NAS, Alberts was instrumental in developing the landmark National Science Education standards that have been implemented in school systems nationwide.

Alberts was one of the original authors of the seminal textbookThe Molecular Biology of the Cell. Soon to be published in a sixth edition, MBOC is a landmark in scientific publishing that has introduced countless students to the field.

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The sweet science of 'The Amazing Race'

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Maya Warren wants the world to know something about scientists: Were not just nerds.

Warren, 29, intends to prove that on The Amazing Race. The Rosati-Kain High School graduate, who is completing her doctorate in food science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, races around the world with friend and lab mate Amy DeJong in the 25th season of the Emmy-winning reality competition, now underway on CBS.

Warren and DeJong compete as the Sweet Scientists because of their specialties. Warren studies ice cream (the microstructure, behavioral and sensorial properties of frozen-aerated treats); DeJong, candy.

And yes, Warrens early interest in frozen desserts was sparked in part by visits to Ted Drewes. Her on-screen tag reads Madison, Wis., but Warren is a St. Louisan through and through, explaining that she grew up in the Ferguson-Florissant area and attended grade school at the Cathedral Basilica.

I always loved food, and I loved science, and I was so excited when I found out I could combine them as a career, she says. And ice cream who doesnt love ice cream?

Warren had been a fan of The Amazing Race for years and had always thought she would try out some day. I imagined Id race with my future husband, but Im not married yet, so that was a problem.

When she learned about an open casting call in Chicago last fall, she brainstormed with DeJong, 24, with whom she shares a lab.

I was going to be in Chicago then anyway, to run the Chicago Marathon (see? not just a nerd) and I talked her into going along. We had nothing to lose, so why not?

The two wrote a skit and got a tryout in which we blabbed and blabbed. They went away thinking, cool, that was fun.

Casting producers moved them along. I think they liked our careers, Warren says. Theyve never had a team of women Ph.D. candidates before, and the fact that our specialties are ice cream and candy made us unique. We just had to make sure our personalities matched.

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Three faculty members awarded National Medal of Science

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BERKELEY

Three University of California, Berkeley, faculty members, one of whom died in 2010, were selected today (Friday, Oct. 3) by President Barack Obama to receive the National Medal of Science, the nations highest honor for a scientist.

Judith Klinman, professor emerita of chemistry.

Recipients Judith P. Klinman, 73, professor emerita of chemistry, and Alexandre J. Chorin, 76, University Professor emeritus of mathematics, will receive their awards at the White House later this year.Statistician David Blackwelldied in 2010 at the age of 91.

The three are among 10 science medalists chosen this year and nine recipientsof the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

These scholars and innovators have expanded our understanding of the world, made invaluable contributions to their fields, and helped improve countless lives, President Obama said. Our nation has been enriched by their achievements, and by all the scientists and technologists across America dedicated to discovery, inquiry, and invention.

The Presidential award is given annually to individuals deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences.

Alexandre Chorin, University Professor emeritus of mathematics. Peg Skorpinski photo.

Klinmans research is concerned with the nature of enzyme catalysis:howproteins and enzymes do everything from letting our bodies use oxygen to regulating neurotransmitters. She looks for the fundamental properties that underlie these reactions, often using isotope tracers to uncover the chemical steps involved.

Chorin, who also is aSenior Faculty Scientist in the Mathematics Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, isconsidered one of the great applied mathematicians of our time. He introduced powerful new computational methods for the solution of problems in fluid mechanics, covering the spectrum from practical software to rigorous error bounds.

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Q23. Can a person with HIV who has an undetectable viral load pass HIV to someone else? – Video

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