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Public Release: 20-May-2013
Buckley receives American Psychiatric Association commendation Dr. Peter F. Buckley, a psychiatrist and Dean of the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, has received the American Psychiatric Association Special Presidential Commendation in recognition of his exemplary leadership and substantial contributions to psychiatry and US academic medicine. Contact: Toni Baker Public Release: 20-May-2013
Wolters Kluwer Health receives 13 awards from the ASHPE Wolters Kluwer Health is pleased to announce that its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins published journals won 13 ASHPE awards in 10 categories. ASHPE's annual awards competition recognizes member articles and publications for editorial, design, print and online award categories. Contact: Connie Hughes Public Release: 20-May-2013
NTU student-built innovations to help improve and save lives Nanyang Technological University students have developed new and practical life-saving innovations inspired from everyday problems, including improving the safety of cyclists on the roads and keeping the dengue menace in check. Contact: Lester Kok Public Release: 19-May-2013
ASGE 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
AGA 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. 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
URC 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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
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