Agricultural biotech giant Monsanto is lending a hand to Madison Area Technical College (MATC) students with a $10,000 grant.
The money will help pay for some state-of-the-art equipment that students will use to learn biotechnology techniques that they may soon see in the workplace, officials said.

Mesa Public Schools has received a grant worth $900,000 over three years to train up to 24 teachers assigned to bioscience courses and to provide support for students researching the genome of a bacterium.
The Science Foundation Arizona grant will provide training for teachers at Mesa, Red Mountain, Mountain View, Westwood and Dobson high schools. Some [...]

UCB, Inc. announced today the national roll out of the 2007 Crohn’s Scholarship Program, which will award 30, one-time scholarships of up to $10,000 to people diagnosed with Crohn’s disease who demonstrate academic ambition and who are reaching beyond the boundaries of their condition. The program is an expansion of UCB’s pilot scholarship program in [...]

Rowan-Cabarrus Community College has received a $61,109 grant from the N.C. Biotechnology Center.
RCCC will use the funds to develop and conduct “Train the Counselor” workshops under which counselors from community colleges, local four-year colleges, public high schools and area career centers will learn how to advise students and clients on biotechnology-related careers in the Charlotte [...]

The federal government is betting money that biotechnology could be one of the brightest prospects for the area’s future.
On Friday, Northampton Community College announced that it had received a $713,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor.
NCC was one of just three community colleges in Pennsylvania chosen, and it will use the money to expand [...]

One of Rotorua’s female secondary students has just received a jump start to her future career thanks to a scholarship from Rotorua-based Crown Research Institute, Scion.
Sujeetha Jayaprakash, from Western Heights High School, is the 2006 recipient of the 13th annual Scion Suffrage Scholarship. She will receive a $1500 cash grant towards her tertiary studies, as [...]

California-based Amgen Inc. has selected MIT as a site for its national scholarship program.
BMIT is scheduled to receive two grants of $1 million each from the Amgen Foundation for its Amgen Scholars program for undergraduate students interested in science and biotechnology.
The money from one grant is earkmarked to fund a 30-student summer [...]

Ph.D. Position in Mass Spectrometry/Analytical Biotechnology/Ion Physics
Improved peptide and protein structural analysis by instrumental advances in mass spectrometry. Particularly, development and implementation of electron injection systems for ion-electron interaction in FT-ICR MS to increase the efficiency of electron capture dissociation (ECD) and associated techniques.
Requirements: M.Sc. in biochemistry, molecular biotechnology, analytical chemistry, physical chemistry, technical physics [...]

Ryan Fischer can’t talk long, he’s on his way to a biochemistry class.
It’s a good class – one that figures prominently into his eventual goal of using technology to further medical treatment.
“It’s my theory that we’re on the verge of a medical revolution,” Fischer said. “There’s been a lot of breakthrough technologies regarding minimally invasive [...]

“Stem cells,” Sonia Wallman said with a sigh. The issue of stem cell research was very much in the news on the day I stopped by to visit Wallman at the Pease campus of N.H. Community Technical College, where Wallman directs the Biotechnology Education and Technology Center.
While President Bush vetoed a bill, his first in [...]