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Public Release: 9-Jul-2013
NREL research earns 3 prestigious R&D 100 Awards A new energy-efficient approach to building occupancy detection, a better way to detect heat loss in electric-vehicle batteries and a high-efficiency silicon solar cell – all developed or advanced at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory -- have been named among this year's most significant innovations by R&D Magazine. Contact: David Glickson Public Release: 9-Jul-2013
ORNL wins 6 R&D 100s Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have received six R&D 100 awards, presented each year by R&D Magazine in recognition of the year's most significant technological innovations. Contact: Jennifer Brouner Public Release: 9-Jul-2013
Carnegie's Chris Field receives Max Planck Research Prize Christopher Field, the founding director of Carnegie's Department of Global Ecology has been awarded one of Germany's most prestigious prizes, the Max Planck Research Prize with Markus Reichstein "because they have significantly increased our knowledge of how life on Earth responds to climate change and what reactions can be anticipated between the biosphere and the atmosphere… their work also helps us to estimate the consequences of climate change for the people of the planet." Contact: Tina McDowell Public Release: 8-Jul-2013
AIT's Prof. Kanchana inducted into global Internet Hall of Fame Known as "Mother of the Internet in Thailand", she is the first Thai in the Internet Hall of Fame. Contact: Bajinder Pal Singh Public Release: 8-Jul-2013
Diana Lados receives international honor for seminal contributions to structural integrity Diana Lados, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and founding director of the university's Integrative Materials Design Center, received the inaugural Constance Tipper Silver Medal from the World Academy of Structural Integrity at the academy's International Conference on Fracture, held in Beijing June 16-21. She was honored for her outstanding and seminal research, technical accomplishments, and pioneering contributions with worldwide impact in the fields of metal fracture and fatigue. Contact: Michael Dorsey Public Release: 8-Jul-2013
'Watermark Ink' device wins R&D 100 Award A device that can instantly identify unknown liquids based on their surface tension has been selected to receive the 2013 R&D 100 Award -- known as "the Oscar of Innovation" -- from R&D Magazine. Invented by a team at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, the "Watermark Ink" device offers a cheap, fast, portable way to perform quality control tests and detect liquid contaminants. Contact: Kristen Kusek Public Release: 8-Jul-2013
Rotman Professor receives fellowship to study employee stock ownership An assistant professor of accounting at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management has received the Accurate Equity Fellowship for 2013-2014. Over the next year, Prof. Francesco Bova will assess the causes and effects of variations in equity-based compensation across international employees of US multinationals. The Fellowship was established at the Rutgers' School of Management and Labor Relations in order to support academic research on broad-based employee stock ownership. Contact: Ken McGuffin Public Release: 8-Jul-2013
The University of Cambridge wins SAUC-Europe '13 at CMRE The University of Cambridge triumphed over 7 other teams to win the 8th Student Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge -- Europe. The 2nd prize went to the University of the West England with its AUV "Phoenix", while the "FeelHippo" team from the University of Florence took home the 3rd prize. The competition was held 28 June to 5 July 2013 was hosted for the 4th time in a row by the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation. Contact: Francesca Nacini Public Release: 5-Jul-2013
Danish archaeologists uncover ancient killing fields in the Ukraine For more than ten years now, archaeologists from Aarhus University in Denmark have been leading a series of excavations by the Black Sea. The main focus of the fieldwork over the past three years has been the rural area surrounding the ancient city of Tauric Chersonesos, and this has turned out to be a wise choice: the city and surrounding area have just been added to UNESCO's list of world heritage sites. Contact: Vladimir Stolba Public Release: 3-Jul-2013
Pediatric neurosurgeon honored for major contributions to epilepsy research UCLA pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Gary Mathern was recently honored with the Ambassador for Epilepsy Award by the International Bureau for Epilepsy and the International League Against Epilepsy. Contact: Amy Albin Public Release: 3-Jul-2013
Rotman professor named to the Order of Canada David Beatty, an adjunct professor of strategic management, at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management has been named as a member of the Order of Canada. Contact: Ken McGuffin Public Release: 3-Jul-2013
Reaxys announces winners of the 2013 Reaxys Ph.D. Prize Reaxys®, a unique workflow solution for chemistry research, has today announced the winners of the 2013 Reaxys Ph.D. Prize. Awarding innovative and original research in organic, organometallic and inorganic chemistry, the Reaxys Ph.D. Prize celebrates top research conducted by leading young chemists across the globe. Contact: Liz Griffioen Public Release: 2-Jul-2013
Texas-Arlington professor named Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Australia Distinguished political science professor hopes to increase mutual understanding of executive foreign policy-making during Fulbright Distinguished Chair residence in Australia. Contact: Bridget Lewis Public Release: 2-Jul-2013
BMC, BUSM geriatrician honored with Ewald W. Busse Award Thomas Perls, M.D., M.P.H., a geriatrician at Boston Medical Center and professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, has been honored with the Ewald W. Busse Research Award. Contact: Gina Orlando Public Release: 2-Jul-2013
Wayne State engineering professor wins NASF award Yinlun Huang, professor of chemical engineering and materials science in Wayne State University's College of Engineering, has been awarded the 2013 National Association for Surface Furnishing's Scientific Achievement Award. Contact: Julie O'Connor Public Release: 2-Jul-2013
ASPIRE prize winner balances ocean conservation and socioeconomic viability Dr. Carissa Klein of Australia was awarded the APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education, sponsored by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and Elsevier, on Monday by Minister Gusti M. Hatta, Indonesian Ministry of Research and Technology. Contact: Jennifer Beal Public Release: 1-Jul-2013
'Science off the Sphere' astronaut Don Pettit wins NASA Engineer of Year award Astronaut Don Pettit Wins NASA Engineer of Year award. Contact: Julie Robinson Public Release: 1-Jul-2013
Research4Life announces winner of 'Unsung Heroes' Library Impact Competition The Research4Life partnership announced today the winner of the case study competition to recognize the role played by librarians in building research capacity and boosting output among scientists, doctors and policymakers. Contact: Charlotte Masiello-Riome Public Release: 1-Jul-2013
National Pharmaceutical Council and GW award comparative effectiveness research policy fellowship The National Pharmaceutical Council and the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services today announced the selection of Chuck Shih, Ph.D., as the recipient of a new two-year fellowship in comparative effectiveness research policy. Contact: Andrea Hofelich Public Release: 27-Jun-2013
The Association for Molecular Pathology announces 2013 Leadership Award recipient Jan A. Nowak, Ph.D., M.D., has been awarded the Association for Molecular Pathology 2013 Leadership Award. This is the highest honor that AMP gives exclusively to one of its members -- one who has demonstrated exceptional leadership in the accomplishment of the mission and vision of AMP. Contact: Catherine Davidge Public Release: 27-Jun-2013
LeClair is Georgia Academy of Family Physicians Educator of the Year Dr. Bruce M. LeClair, Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, has received the 2013 Educator of the Year Award from the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians. Contact: Toni Baker Public Release: 27-Jun-2013
Course with Web-based, plus hands-on experimentation wins Science Magazine prize Because of its effectiveness as a teaching tool, the mission, an investigation of ecosystems that involves Web-based and hands-on experimentation, has won the Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction. Contact: Natasha Pinol Public Release: 26-Jun-2013
OSIRIS-REx team member selected by White House as a Citizen Science Champion of Change Dolores H. Hill from the Lunar and Planetary Lab of the University of Arizona, Tucson is the recipient of the Citizen Science Champions of Change Award for her work on "Target Asteroids!" Contact: Nancy Jones Public Release: 26-Jun-2013
LSUHSC's Hollier one of few ever awarded coveted national lectureship Dr. Larry H. Hollier, Chancellor of LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has joined Dr. Michael DeBakey and other icons in the field of vascular surgery who have been awarded the John Homans, M.D., Lecture. Established in 1950, the John Homans, M.D., Lecture was to be presented "from time to time by distinguished vascular surgeons." Very few vascular surgeons have received this distinction, and in 63 years, there have only been nine. Contact: Leslie Capo Public Release: 26-Jun-2013
Loyola nuclear medicine technologist named National Technologist of the Year Nuclear medicine technologist Rebecca Sajdak of Loyola University Medical Center has been named National Technologist of the Year by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. Contact: Jim Ritter
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