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Public Release: 19-May-2013
Digestive Disease WeekASGE and ASGE foundation hold Crystal Awards dinner as part of Digestive Disease Week®, May 19, in Orlando The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) will honor important contributions to the field of endoscopy during the ninth annual ASGE Crystal Awards on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Hosted by ASGE and the ASGE Foundation, this year's event will begin at 6:30 p.m. at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla. Contact: Anne Brownsey
Public Release: 19-May-2013
Digestive Disease WeekAGA honors distinguished clinicians, researchers and educators with prestigious recognition awards Each year, the American Gastroenterological Association recognizes several individuals for their outstanding contributions and achievements in gastroenterology through its esteemed recognition awards. Contact: Rachel Steigerwald
Public Release: 17-May-2013
Study of 'screen time' on mood, memory, and cognition wins top NIH Addiction Science Award An exploration of electronic "screen time" and sleep on mood, memory and learning was given the top Addiction Science Award at the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair -- the world's largest science competition for high school students. The awards are coordinated by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, and Friends of NIDA, a coalition that supports NIDA's mission. 
NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse
Contact: NIDA Press Team
Public Release: 17-May-2013
UCSB assistant professor Michelle O'Malley receives 2013 DOE Early Career Award Michelle O'Malley, an assistant professor in UC Santa Barbara's Department of Chemical Engineering, has received a 2013 Early Career Award by the US Department of Energy's Office of Science. O'Malley is among 61 recipients of the annual research award, chosen from a pool of approximately 770 proposals. Contact: Sonia Fernandez
Public Release: 16-May-2013
USAID Sixth Annual Small Business ConferenceURC receives USAID's Excellence in Mentorship Award The United States Agency for International Development awarded University Research Co., LLC (URC) the first ever Excellence in Mentorship Award during the agency's Sixth Annual Small Business Conference on May 16th in Washington, D.C. Barbara N. Turner, the President of URC, accepted the award, which recognized the significant developmental assistance the company provides to its small business protégé, Women Influencing Health Education and Rule of Law, LLC.
US Agency for International Development
Contact: Elizabeth Ransom
Public Release: 16-May-2013
MARC Travel Awards announced for the SDB 2013 72nd Annual Meeting FASEB MARC Program has announced the travel award recipients for The Society for Developmental Biology 72nd Annual Meeting in Cancun, Mexico from June 16-20, 2013. Contact: Gail Pinder
Public Release: 16-May-2013
MARC Travel Awards announced for the ENDO 2013 95th Annual Meeting FASEB MARC Program has announced the travel award recipients for The Endocrine Society 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA from June 15-18, 2013. Contact: Gail Pinder
Public Release: 16-May-2013
MARC Travel Awards announced for the 2013 60th Annual ACSM Meeting & 4th World Congress FASEB MARC Program has announced the travel award recipients for the 2013 American College of Sports Medicine 60th Annual Meeting & 4th World Congress on Exercise is MedicineTM in Indianapolis, IN from May 28 – June 1, 2013. Contact: Gail Pinder
Public Release: 16-May-2013
Art of Science exhibit celebrates the 'unpredictability of beauty' The Princeton University Art of Science 2013 exhibit can now be viewed in a new online gallery. The gallery features aesthetically intriguing images produced during the course of scientific research.
Princeton University
Contact: Teresa Riordan
Public Release: 16-May-2013
Mathematicians analyze social divisions using cell phone data Human society fractures along lines defined by politics, religion, ethnicity, and perhaps most fundamentally, language. Although these differences contribute to the great variety of human lives, the partitions they create can lead to conflict and strife, impeding efforts toward social justice and economic development. David Meyer, a mathematician at UC San Diego, has developed a new way of understanding how characteristics like ethnicity and religion coincide to define communities and ultimately influence our actions.
Office of Naval Research, US Department of Defense, Army Research Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Science Foundation
Contact: Susan Brown
Public Release: 16-May-2013
David Byrne receives national 2013 Carroll R. Miller Award for peach research Dr. David Byrne, Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist in College Station, has received the Carroll R. Miller Award from the National Peach Council. Contact: Kathleen Phillips
Public Release: 15-May-2013
Cameroon researcher wins prestigious 'Green Oscar' Ekwoge Enang Abwe, a conservationist working in Cameroon has just been awarded the prestigious Whitley award. The Whitley award is an international competition that is often called "The Green Oscars" because it celebrates the extraordinary achievements of some of the world's leading conservationists working in developing countries. Abwe was selected for the award due to his efforts to learn about and preserve Cameroon's Ebo Forest and its wildlife inhabitants.
San Diego Zoo Global
Contact: Christina Simmons
Public Release: 15-May-2013
James Cameron to be publicly honored with Scripps Nierenberg Prize Ocean frontier explorer and world-renowned filmmaker James Cameron has been named by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego as the recipient of the 2013 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. Also, Scripps's capacity to probe the deep sea has been considerably boosted with a key gift of technology from Cameron, who has donated an extreme-depth unmanned undersea exploration system known as a "lander" to Scripps for future deep-sea exploration endeavors.
The Nierenberg Family
Contact: Mario Aguilera
Public Release: 15-May-2013
Interim provost Paula Myrick Short named Fulbright Specialist Paula Myrick Short, interim senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Houston, was selected as a Fulbright Specialist. She is one of 98 academics and professionals in the disciplines of humanities, social sciences and natural sciences who will join a Roster of Specialists for a five-year term. The Fulbright Specialist Program promotes linkages between US academics and professionals and their counterparts at overseas universities or institutions with education-focused programming.
Fulbright Scholar Program
Contact: Richard Bonnin
Public Release: 15-May-2013
Gladstone's Lennart Mucke wins MetLife Foundation award Lennart Mucke, M.D., who directs neurological research at the Gladstone Institutes, today received the MetLife Foundation's 2013 Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease at a scientific briefing and awards ceremony in New York. Contact: Anne Holden
Public Release: 15-May-2013
2 leading Alzheimer's disease researchers recognized with MetLife Foundation awards MetLife Foundation today announced the recipients of its 2013 Awards for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease: Yueming Li, Ph.D., member and professor, Sloan-Kettering Institute and director and professor, Graduate Program in Pharmacology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and Lennart Mucke, M.D., director, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, Joseph B. Martin Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco.
MetLife Foundation
Contact: Dennis Tartaglia
Public Release: 14-May-2013
Carnegie Mellon to present Leslie Ungerleider with Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences Carnegie Mellon University will award the first Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences to Leslie G. Ungerleider, chief of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at the National Institute of Mental Health. The prize, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as part of its centennial celebration, recognizes trailblazers in the mind and brain sciences whose research has helped advance the field and its applications.
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Contact: Shilo Rea
Public Release: 14-May-2013
'Practicing Sustainability' chosen for a silver Nautilus Book Award Practicing Sustainability, published by Springer, has been selected as a silver-award winner of the 2013 Nautilus Book Awards, in the "Green Living / Sustainability" category. The award program honors and promotes books that "inspire and connect our lives as individuals, communities and global citizens." Previous winners of the Nautilus Awards include His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra and Barbara Kingsolver. Contact: Alexander Brown
Public Release: 14-May-2013
Center for Clinical and Translational Science awards new pilot grants The University of Illinois at Chicago's Center for Clinical and Translational Science has selected six research projects to receive pilot grants in 2013. The $30,000 per year pilot grants, designed to give researchers a chance to test new ideas, have been given by the center since 2006.
University of Illinois at Chicago/Center for Clinical and Translational Science
Contact: Sharon Parmet
Public Release: 14-May-2013
Vijay Tiwari awarded the Bruno Speck Award 2013 Dr Vijay Tiwari, a Group Leader at the Institute of Molecular Biology in Mainz, has been awarded the Bruno Speck Award by the Swiss Foundation of Haematological Research. The award recognizes outstanding work by young scientists in the fields of haematology and stem cell research. Contact: Dr. Ralf Dahm
Public Release: 13-May-2013
Beaumont cardiologist Kavitha Chinnaiyan, M.D., receives excellence in research award Kavitha Chinnaiyan, M.D., director of Advanced Cardiac Imaging Education at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, has received the Frank J. McDevitt, D.O., Award for Excellence in Health Policy Research for Physicians.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Michigan
Contact: Angela Blazevski
Public Release: 13-May-2013
Making a greener lawnmower Inspired by two of their fathers, who work cutting lawns and driving a truck, a team of University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering students have created a device that attaches to a lawnmower and significantly cuts its harmful emissions. Contact: Sean Nealon
Public Release: 12-May-2013
Electronics innovation wins Global Award A revolutionary circuit board, which will provide a clean alternative to existing highly toxic technology, has won a Global Innovation Award. Contact: Helen Wright
Public Release: 9-May-2013
2 UCLA faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences UCLA professors Edward De Robertis and Ernest Wright have been elected by their peers to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Contact: Elaine Schmidt
Public Release: 9-May-2013
Chuan He named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator The Howard Hughes Medical Institute on May 9 announced the selection of Chuan He, professor in chemistry and the current director of the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics at the University of Chicago, as a new HHMI investigator who will receive the flexible support necessary to move his research in creative new directions.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Contact: Steve Koppes
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