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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
Public Release: 9-May-2013
The Scripps Research Institute's Ardem Patapoutian named HHMI Investigator Ardem Patapoutian, professor in the Dorris Neuroscience Center at the Scripps Research Institute, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, based on demonstrated potential to contribute significantly to biomedical science. Contact: Mika Ono
Public Release: 9-May-2013
NYU Langone Medical Center researcher named Howard Hughes Investigator The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has announced the appointment of Evgeny Nudler, Ph.D., to the 2013 class of HHMI Investigators.The appointment ranks as one of the highest honors that can be bestowed on a biomedical research scientist. Contact: Lisa Greiner
Public Release: 9-May-2013
St. Jude scientist named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Michael Dyer, Ph.D., a scientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, has been selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Contact: Summer Freeman
Public Release: 9-May-2013
Australian statistician elected Fellow of the Royal Society Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researcher Professor Terry Speed has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, the UK's national academy promoting excellence in science. Contact: Vanessa Solomon
Public Release: 9-May-2013
Fred Hutch evolutionary geneticist Harmit Malik selected as an HHMI investigator Harmit Singh Malik, Ph.D., an evolutionary geneticist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who studies genetic conflict -- the competition between genes and proteins with opposing functions that drives evolutionary change -- has been selected to become a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. He is among 27 of the nation's top biomedical scientists to receive the honor this year out of a pool of more than 1,100 applicants.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Contact: Kristen Woodward
Public Release: 9-May-2013
UMass medical school professor named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator A leader in the study of glial cells, the brain's most abundant and overlooked cell type, Marc R. Freeman, Ph.D., associate professor of neurobiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, is among 27 new Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators named today from 19 institutions across the United States. Contact: Jim Fessenden
Public Release: 9-May-2013
Peter Baumann named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Stowers Institute Investigator Peter Baumann, Ph.D., has been appointed to the prestigious position of Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Contact: Gina Kirchweger
Public Release: 8-May-2013
OU microbiologists elected as fellows in the American Academy of Microbiology Two University of Oklahoma microbiology professors are among a national group of 87 newly elected fellows in the American Academy of Microbiology. Rodney K. Tweten, OU Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, and Tyrell Conway, OU Norman Campus, were elected through a highly selective, peer-review process, based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology. Contact: Jana Smith
Public Release: 8-May-2013
Ottawa researcher named 2013 Champion of Genetics The CGCF has honored Dr. MacKenzie, along with four other scientists, for the significant contribution they have made in translational research. The chosen Champions also must be active mentors with a history of encouraging and enabling students in the field of genetics, and they must be active researchers, continuing to contribute to the Canadian genetics community. Contact: Adrienne Vienneau
Public Release: 8-May-2013
International Meeting for Autism ResearchBIDMC's Dennis P. Wall honored for autism research Dennis P. Wall, PhD, an investigator in the Department of Pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Director of the Computational Biology Initiative at the Center for Biomedical Infomatics at Harvard Medical School, was recently honored at the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR). Attended by more than 1,800, IMFAR is the world's largest international conference on autism. Contact: Bonnie Prescott
Public Release: 8-May-2013
R. Graham Cooks wins Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has announced that R. Graham Cooks, the Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University, is the recipient of the 2013 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences, conferred this year in chemical instrumentation. The international prize, awarded biennially, consists of $250,000, a citation, and a medal.
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Contact: Mark Cardillo
Public Release: 8-May-2013
Boston Medical Center awarded an 'A' for patient safety Boston Medical Center was honored with an "A" Hospital Safety ScoreSM by The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit run by employers and other large purchasers of health benefits. The Hospital Safety ScoreSM was calculated under the guidance of The Leapfrog Group's Blue Ribbon Expert Panel using publicly available data on patient injuries, medical and medication errors, and infections. U.S. hospitals were assigned an A, B, C, D, or F for their safety. Contact: Gina DiGravio
Public Release: 8-May-2013
NSF chooses US students to participate in Joint Science Education Program in Greenland The National Science Foundation has selected five high-school students from as many states nationwide to deploy to the Arctic this summer as part of a science-education and cultural-exchange program with their peers from Denmark and Greenland. Contact: Peter West
Public Release: 8-May-2013
Thijn Brummelkamp receives the EMBO Gold Medal for 2013 EMBO today announced Thijn Brummelkamp of the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam as the winner of the 2013 EMBO Gold Medal. The award acknowledges his outstanding work to accelerate the genetic analysis of human disease.
European Molecular Biology Organization
Contact: Barry Whyte
Public Release: 7-May-2013
NREL staff recognized for breakthrough technologies The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory recently recognized the professionals behind the lab's greatest innovations from the past year during its Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer Awards.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 7-May-2013
Lewis Thomas Prize to be awarded to Kay Redfield Jamison Kay Jamison, a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has made extensive contributions to the field of psychology and is considered one of the country's foremost authorities on manic-depressive bipolar illness. She is being honored for her 1993 book "Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament," which examines the relationship between artistic creativity and mood disorders. Contact: Joseph Bonner
Public Release: 7-May-2013
DFG announces recipients of 2013 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize This year's recipients of the most important prize for early career researchers in Germany have been announced. Contact: Cornelia Lossau
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