EurekAlert! - Awards

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
University of Minnesota honored with 7 2012 AAAS Fellows
Seven faculty at the University of Minnesota have been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are: R. Lawrence Edwards, Kenneth Heller, James Kakalios, David Kohlstedt, Carston Wagner, Renata Wentzcovitch and Robin Wright.

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
5 Rutgers professors named fellows of top national science association
Five Rutgers professors are among 702 scholars that the American Association for the Advancement of Science has elevated to the rank of fellow. The pre-eminent national scientific organization selects fellows based on their efforts in advancing science or fostering applications considered scientifically or socially distinguished.

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Explaining that 'A-ha!' moment: Chinese scientist wins Psychological Award for Excellence
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced that Dr. Chang Liu, professor of psychology at Nanjing Normal University, has won the first annual Wiley-IPCAS prize for excellence in Chinese psychological science. The prize, valued at $5000, is awarded by Wiley in partnership with the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IPCAS), China's national psychology research institute.

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
WCS photo of rare cat in Bolivia wins BBC prize
A photograph taken by Wildlife Conservation Society scientists of a little known Bolivian cat species called an oncilla has won a BBC Wildlife camera-trap photo competition.

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012

16th Annual Healthcare Internet Conference
Mayo Clinic inducted into 2012 Healthcare Internet Hall of Fame
Mayo Clinic has been inducted into the Healthcare Internet Hall of Fame Class of 2012 at the 16th Annual Healthcare Internet Conference in Las Vegas. Mayo is one of two organizations that received the honor for Innovative Products and Services. Additionally, Mayo Clinic was honored with five eHealthcare Leadership Awards, presented by eHealthcare Strategy & Trends.

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Tumor registry at LSUHSC earns top NCI quality honor
The Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Program of the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute awarded the Louisiana Tumor Registry at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health with a 2012 Data Quality Profile First Place Award. LSUHSC's Louisiana Tumor Registry is the only SEER expansion registry to receive a first place award. This is the fourth time LSUHSC's Louisiana Tumor Registry has earned this award, and the third consecutive year.

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
NJIT distinguished professor named inaugural Fellow of Math Society
NJIT Distinguished Professor Robert M. Miura has been named a 2013 inaugural Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. This first class will honor 1119 scholars, representing more than 600 institutions.

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Sanford-Burnham research projects selected to go to space
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute announces that two of the Institute's research teams have won Space Florida's International Space Station Research Competition. Eight teams were selected from a pool of international applicants to send experiments to space in late 2013. The projects will address the cardiovascular effects of spaceflight and analyze molecular processes in microgravity.

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
AAAS and the University of South Florida announce 2012 Fellows
Fifteen faculty members at the University of South Florida in Tampa, have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012

2013 AAAS Annual Meeting
7 University of Tennessee faculty named AAAS Fellows
From cave art to clean water to nuclear security, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, faculty are being recognized for their teaching and research in a variety of disciplines.

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
With 18 new AAAS Fellows, Ohio State remains near the top of the national class
Eighteen Ohio State University faculty have been elected among the newest class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
2 Berkeley Lab scientists named AAAS Fellows
Susan Celniker of the Life Sciences Division and Wim Leemans of the Accelerator and Fusion Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been named 2012 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

US Department of Energy

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Industrial carbon management research gets $3.75 million boost
Carbon Management Canada (CMC) has awarded a total of $3.75 million to eight new research projects. Carbon Management Canada (CMC) was established in 2009 as a national network with a mandate to radically reduce carbon emissions in the upstream fossil energy industry and in large stationary emitters. CMC has over 160 investigators, more than 200 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, network agreements with 28 Canadian academic institutions, and industry and government sponsors.

Carbon Management Canada

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012

2013 American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting
4 from University of Cincinnati named AAAS Fellows
University of Cincinnati (UC) President Santa Ono, PhD, and three other UC faculty have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
3 Tufts University professors selected as 2012 AAAS Fellows
Three faculty members at Tufts University have been elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. Professors Joanne Berger-Sweeney, Barbara Brodsky, and Krishna Kumar are among 702 new Fellows recognized by AAAS this year for their distinguished efforts to advance science.

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012

2013 AAAS Annual Meeting
6 faculty named Fellows of AAAS
Six Penn State faculty members have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution biologist Ketten named AAAS 2012 Fellow
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution biologist Darlene Ketten has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for her contributions to the understanding of the biophysics of hearing in mammals and for development of ultra-high resolution imaging for diagnosis of hearing impairments. Ketten is among 702 members awarded this honor in 2012 by AAAS because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.

Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Science magazine prize goes to problem-solving course
Hodges created an undergraduate course that asks students to attack a huge multifaceted problem from many angles. Known as Solving Complex Problems, the course is the winner of the Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction.

Public Release: 28-Nov-2012
Dr. Deluca of Kessler Foundation receives medical excellence award for MS research
John DeLuca, PhD, Vice President for Research and Training at Kessler Foundation, was named this year's recipient of the Medical Excellence Award by Musical Moments for MS. Dr. DeLuca will be honored at the 10th Anniversary of Musical Moments for MS on Tuesday, Dec. 11 at NJPAC in Newark, NJ. This major event, which stars Olivia Newton-John, benefits the New Jersey Metro Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Neurological Institute of NJ at New Jersey Medical School.

Musical Moments for MS

Public Release: 28-Nov-2012
LSUHSC's Tilton awarded prestigious Hower Award
The Child Neurology Society presented Ann Henderson Tilton, MD, Clinical Professor of Neurology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, with the 2012 Hower Award at the 41st Annual CNS Meeting in November. The award, given to one child neurologist each year, honors an outstanding teacher and scholar whose contributions to the specialty have been recognized at national and international levels.

Public Release: 27-Nov-2012
University of Tennessee supercomputer sets world record for energy efficiency
An Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer named Beacon, deployed by the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) of the University of Tennessee, tops the current Green500 list, which ranks the world's fastest supercomputers based on their power efficiency.

National Science Foundation

Public Release: 27-Nov-2012
Pioneering electrical engineering work recognized
Alexander A. Balandin, a professor of electrical engineering in the Bourns College of Engineering and founding chair of materials science and engineering at the University of California, Riverside has been named an IEEE Fellow for 2013.

Public Release: 27-Nov-2012
The Journal of Nursing Research receives impact factor ranking
The Taiwan Nurses Association announced today that its official publication, The Journal of Nursing Research, is now recognized by the 2011 Journal Citation Reports� and is the first Taiwan nursing journal to receive an Impact Factor ranking . The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a Wolters Kluwer Health business.

Public Release: 27-Nov-2012
UC Riverside geophysicist awarded Roebling Medal
Harry W. Green II, a distinguished professor of the Graduate Division in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded the 2012 Roebling Medal by the Mineralogical Society of America. The medal is the highest award given by the society for scientific eminence as represented primarily by scientific publication of outstanding original research in mineralogy. Green also was made a "Life Fellow of the Society."

Mineralogical Society of America

Public Release: 26-Nov-2012
Thomas Jefferson University honoring Axel Ullrich with Lennox K. Black International Prize
Thomas Jefferson University will honor the renowned biotech researcher whose discoveries led to a slew of innovative drugs that revolutionized treatment including Herceptin -- one of the first gene-based medications for breast cancer -- with its prestigious Lennox K. Black International Prize for Excellence in Biomedical Research.


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