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Public Release: 20-Nov-2009
SDSC, UC San Diego, LBNL team wins SC09 'Storage Challenge' Award
A research team from the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego and the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has won the Storage Challenge competition at SC09, the leading international conference on high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis being held in this week in Portland, Oregon.

Contact: Jan Zverinas,
jzverina@sdsc.edu
858-534-5111
University of California - San Diego

Public Release: 20-Nov-2009
Science journalism awards announced
A television feature about growing diamonds in the lab, and a radio story that dramatizes some strange coincidences in a discussion of randomness and probability won recognition earlier this month in the 2009 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. Both programs were funded in part by the National Science Foundation.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Maria C. Zacharias
mzachari@nsf.gov
703-292-8454
National Science Foundation

Public Release: 20-Nov-2009
National awards recognize outstanding contributors to health research
Six outstanding contributors to the health and medical research industry are being recognized by Research Australia in its annual "Thank You" Day awards tomorrow.

Contact: Melina Schamroth
melina@madwoman.com.au
61-040-983-3848
Research Australia

Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
WHOI'S Bruce A. Warren is awarded Sverdrup Gold Medal
Bruce A. Warren -- one of the world's pre-eminent researchers of deep ocean currents and scientist emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution -- is the 2010 winner of the prestigious Sverdrup Gold Medal, awarded by the American Meteorological Society.

Contact: Media Relations
media@whoi.edu
508-289-3340
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Bioreactor for bone tissue engineering wins professor venture fair
John Fisher, associate professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, won the Best Inventor Pitch at the 2009 Bioscience Research and Technology Review Day with a tissue engineering bioreactor system that grows bone and other types of tissue for implantation.

Contact: Eric Schurr
schurr@umd.edu
301-405-3889
University of Maryland

Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Immunology expert at Children's Hospital receives APS prize for patient-oriented research
A pediatric immunologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has received a prestigious annual award from the American Philosophical Society, an organization founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin. Jordan S. Orange, M.D., Ph.D., received the Society's Judson Daland Prize on Nov. 13 for his contributions to research and treatment of inherited immune deficiency diseases.
American Philosophical Society

Contact: Rachel Salis-Silverman
Salis@email.chop.edu
267-426-6063
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
Nanyang Technological University professor wins 8th Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing in China
Associate Professor Tai Xue-Cheng, from Nanyang Technological University's School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, has been awarded the 8th Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing. The Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing honors Chinese scientists in China and abroad for significant contributions in scientific computing. The award is presented biennially and recognizes Chinese mathematicians for their achievements in numerical linear algebra, computer aided geometric design, and numerical partial differential equations and scientific computing.

Contact: Sunanthar Lu
sunantharlu@ntu.edu.sg
656-790-6179
Nanyang Technological University

Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
'Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites' wins award from the Geoscience Information Society
The Springer book "Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites" by O. Richard Norton and Lawrence A. Chitwood has been awarded the Mary B. Ansari Best Reference Work Award 2009 by the Geoscience Information Society. This award, established in 2005, recognizes and honors significant contributions to the geoscience information profession.

Contact: Joan Robinson
joan.robinson@springer.com
49-622-148-78130
Springer

Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
'Guided Care' receives Award for Innovation in Practice Improvement
Guided Care, a new model of comprehensive health care for people with multiple chronic conditions, has received the 2009 Medical Economics Award for Innovation in Practice Improvement.

Contact: Natalie Wood-Wright
nwoodwri@jhsph.edu
410-614-6029
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
AMIA 2009 -- Biomedical and Health Informatics Symposium
AMIA 2009 Signature Awards presented to America's leaders in biomedical, health informatics
The professional association for biomedical and health informatics, the American Medical Informatics Association, honored leading informaticians working in the country today at ceremonies that opened the Annual Symposium 2009 on Biomedical and Health Informatics. The AMIA Signature Awards recognize individuals who have performed outstanding leadership in the field of biomedical and health informatics.

Contact: Nancy Light
301-275-1203
American Medical Informatics Association

Public Release: 15-Nov-2009
AMIA 2009 -- Biomedical and Health Informatics Symposium
American College of Medical Informatics inducts new Fellows
Following their recent election, 11 new Fellows were inducted into the American College of Medical Informatics this evening at ceremonies that raise the curtain on the opening of the Biomedical and Health Informatics Symposium tomorrow at the Hilton San Francisco.

Contact: Nancy Light
nlight@amia.org
301-275-1203
American Medical Informatics Association

Public Release: 13-Nov-2009
Frontiers in Diabetes Research
USC researcher and expert in metabolism to receive Columbia's 2009 Naomi Berrie Award
The Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diabetes Research goes to Richard Nathan Bergman, Ph.D, professor and chair of the department of physiology and biophysics at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Dr. Bergman and three of his labs at USC are studying different aspects of the causes of type 2 diabetes, a disease which afflicts 20 million Americans, and which is a primary cause of heart disease, blindness and kidney disease.
Russell Berrie Foundation

Contact: Alex Lyda
alyda@columbia.edu
212-305-0820
Columbia University Medical Center

Public Release: 12-Nov-2009
Former LA BioMed investigator Emil D. Kakkis, M.D., Ph.D., and county supervisor Don Knabe honored
Former LA BioMed investigator Emil D. Kakkis, M.D., Ph.D., and Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe received Spirit of Excellence awards at LA BioMed Discovery Gala.

Contact: Laura Mecoy
Lmecoy@issuesmanagement.com
310-546-5860
Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed)

Public Release: 12-Nov-2009
Louisiana Tech University honors outstanding faculty inventors
Several faculty members from Louisiana Tech University have received recognition for recent inventions, patents and licenses as well as their overall contributions to the institution's commercialization efforts.

Contact: Dave Guerin
dguerin@latech.edu
318-257-4854
Louisiana Tech University

Public Release: 11-Nov-2009
Experimental Biology 2010
Nobel laureate claims the 2010 Herbert Tabor Lectureship
Phillip A. Sharp, a world leader of research in molecular biology and biochemistry and an institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named winner of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Herbert Tabor/Journal of Biological Chemistry Lectureship.
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Contact: Angela Hopp
ahopp@asbmb.org
301-634-7389
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Public Release: 11-Nov-2009
Small Things Considered wins big at PRNews' 2009 Nonprofit Awards
Small Things Considered, a microbiology blog published by the American Society for Microbiology, has been honored with a nonprofit public relations award from PR News for best blog. The awards were announced at a luncheon held in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 3, 2009.

Contact: Garth Hogan
ghogan@asmusa.org
American Society for Microbiology

Public Release: 11-Nov-2009
ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings
K-State faculty receive national awards from American Society of Agronomy
The dean of Kansas State University's College of Agriculture and two faculty members from K-State's department of agronomy are recipients of national honors from the American Society of Agronomy.
American Society of Agronomy

Contact: Fred Cholick
fcholick@k-state.edu
785-532-6147
Kansas State University

Public Release: 10-Nov-2009
Noted entomologist to receive science excellence award
The Academy of Natural Sciences today announced it will give its highest science award to a noted behavioral ecologist who has done more than anyone to document one of the most economically important groups of insects -- grasshoppers.

Contact: Carolyn Belardo
belardo@ansp.org
215-299-1043
The Academy of Natural Sciences

Public Release: 10-Nov-2009
Winners of the 2009 AAAS Kavli science journalism awards
A radio broadcast on probability told through a tale about a drifting balloon, a newspaper series on the impact of a devastating genetic disease on a family in rural Montana, and a group of gracefully written stories about genetics and evolution are among the winners of the 2009 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Kavli Foundation

Contact: Earl Lane
elane@aaas.org
202-326-6431
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Public Release: 10-Nov-2009
David A. Asch, M.D., M.B.A., receives AAMC Distinguished Teacher Award
David A. Asch, M.D., M.B.A., the Robert D. Eilers Professor of Medicine and Health Care Management and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Wharton School, was presented with the Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award by the Association American of Medical Colleges.

Contact: Marc Kaplan
marc.kaplan@uphs.upenn.edu
215-662-2560
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Public Release: 9-Nov-2009
U. of I. business professor wins international award
A University of Illinois business professor who champions programs to combat poverty and promote marketplace literacy has earned an international award, joining past winners that include Mother Teresa and the former vice president of India.

Contact: Jan Dennis
jdennis@illinois.edu
217-333-0568
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Public Release: 9-Nov-2009
American Academy of Nursing 36th Annual Meeting
American Academy of Nursing strengthened by induction of palliative care expert
Patricia Berry, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., F.A.A.N., associate professor at the University of Utah College of Nursing was formally inducted into the American Academy of Nursing Saturday as one of the 2009 new Fellows. Berry was nominated for this honor by two current Academy Fellows and was selected by the Academy's 15-member Fellow Selection Committee for her outstanding achievements in the nursing profession.

Contact: Katie Schrier
katie.schrier@nurs.utah.edu
801-581-8919
University of Utah Health Sciences

Public Release: 9-Nov-2009
Elsevier sponsors 2009 Semantic Web Challenge
Elsevier announced the winners of the 2009 Semantic Web Challenge, which took place at the International Semantic Web Conference held in Washington, D.C., from Oct. 25-29, 2009.
Elsevier

Contact: Inez van Korlaar
i.vankorlaar@elsevier.com
31-204-853-094
Elsevier

Public Release: 9-Nov-2009
American Public Health Association Meeting
March of Dimes honors Dr. Gail Harrison for outstanding work in maternal-fetal nutrition
Gail Harrison, Ph.D., M.N.S., a professor in the department of community health sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health, will receive March of Dimes Agnes Higgins Award for outstanding achievement in maternal-fetal nutrition at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. Her work is responsible for the inclusion of fruits and vegetables to the federal Women, Infants and Children food subsidy.
March of Dimes

Contact: Elizabeth Lynch
elynch@marchofdimes.com
914-997-4286
March of Dimes Foundation

Public Release: 6-Nov-2009
Hodgkinson Prize goes to 'Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations'
Springer's Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations, edited by Ram A. Cnaan and Carl Milofsky, has been awarded the 2009 Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Prize by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. The prize is given annually to the best book on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector that informs policy and practice.

Contact: Joan Robinson
joan.robinson@springer.com
49-622-148-78130
Springer

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