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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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October 6, 2008
3 Virus Researchers to Share Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Three scientists will share the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of deadly viruses, Sweden’s Karolinska Institute announced this morning.
The winners are Harald zur Hausen, of the German Cancer Research Center, in Heidelberg, Germany; Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, of the Pasteur Institute, in Paris; and Luc Montagnier, of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, also in Paris.
Dr. zur Hausen, who is being recognized for his discovery that human papilloma viruses cause cervical cancer, will receive one-half of the prize, which is worth about $1.4-million this year. Ms. Barré-Sinoussi and Mr. Montagnier are being honored for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus, the microbe that causes AIDS. They will share the other half of the prize.
The award, along with other Nobel Prizes to be announced this week, will be presented in December. —Andrew Mytelka
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Do we have any sense of why Robert Gallo would not have received co-recognition with Luc Montagnier for identification of HIV as the viral cause of AIDS?
— Joe Erwin Oct 6, 07:04 AM #
Gallo? You clearly have not been paying attention to this now 20+-year old issue. Here, today’s Chicago Tribune, once again, reviews the ugly history.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-100608-hiv-discovery-nobel-
— jon Oct 6, 01:08 PM #
www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-100608-hiv-discovery-nobel-prizeoct07,0,7068937.story
— jon Oct 6, 01:19 PM #