EurekAlert! - Awards

Public Release: 26-Nov-2012
Argentina honors Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher for enriching scientific cooperation
Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University, is a winner of the Dr. Luis Federico Leloir Prize of International Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation from Argentina's Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation. One of Argentina's most prestigious awards, it recognizes Dr. Glimcher's contributions to enriching international scientific cooperation with the nation.

Public Release: 23-Nov-2012
Michener Institute honors St. Michael's Hospital's interprofessional education program
The St. Michael's Student Cafe team has been awarded the Michener Institute Award for Clinical Interprofessional Collaboration and Education.

Public Release: 23-Nov-2012
An international competition reaffirms the potential of bioinformatics in the diagnosis of disease
The biosciences are generating enormous amounts of data at unprecedented speeds. Making sense of these data and extracting reliable information from databases is an increasingly difficult and complex task. Backed by the scientific community, IBM Research and PMI R&D launched IMPROVER (Industrial Methodology for PROcess VErification in Research) with the aim of challenging the world's best computational researchers to demonstrate the power of their methods to exploit genomic information to extract predictive and clinical indicators that are reliable and verifiable.

Public Release: 22-Nov-2012
ESF awards 14th European Latsis Prize to Professor Uffe Haagerup
The European Science Foundation has awarded this year's European Latsis Prize to Professor Uffe Haagerup, an eminent mathematician at the University of Copenhagen. The theme for this year's prize was "Mathematics" and Professor Haagerup was awarded the prize for his ground-breaking and important contributions to operator algebra, in addition to other new and challenging areas of mathematics.

Latsis Foundation

Public Release: 22-Nov-2012
Following in Marie Curie's footsteps
More than a century ago, a brilliant young chemist and physicist named Marie Curie, won a Nobel Prize for her ground-breaking discoveries in radioactivity. Emma Martin Rodriguez, a post-doctoral researcher in Concordia's Department of Chemistry, is carrying on Curie's spirit of trail-blazing scientific inquiry, thanks to a prestigious research fellowship, created in Curie's name.

Public Release: 21-Nov-2012
Outstanding contributions earn UH mathematician top honor
From a field of mathematical scientists from more than 600 institutions around the world, University of Houston professor Roland Glowinski has been named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society for 2013. Whether applying math to the medical or petroleum industries, Glowinski is one of the world's leading researchers in applied mathematics and scientific computing, and much of his work involves computer simulations to describe scientific, medical and engineering problems mathematically.

Public Release: 21-Nov-2012

INFORMS Annual Meeting
US Coast Guard, USC win INFORMS Wagner Prize for protecting american ports from terrorists
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences today announced the award of the Daniel H. Wagner Prize by CPMS, the association's Practice Section, to the US Coast Guard and its research partner, the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering. The winners used analytics and operations research to ramp up protection of America's ports and waterways from unpredictable terrorist attack.

Public Release: 21-Nov-2012
Nicole George wins 2012 Journal of Experimental Biology Outstanding Paper Prize
Nicole George from the University of Washington has been awarded the 2012 Journal of Experimental Biology Outstanding Paper Prize for her paper, 'Temperature gradients drive mechanical energy gradients in the flight muscle of Manduca sexta', coauthored with Simon Sponberg and Tom Daniel.

Public Release: 20-Nov-2012
Dr. Joan Miller selected to deliver the prestigious Edward Jackson Memorial Lecture
Dr. Joan W. Miller was selected by the American Academy of Ophthalmology to deliver the prestigious Edward Jackson Memorial Lecture. She discussed research developments in age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness.

Public Release: 20-Nov-2012
Michael Barnett of Boston College named Professor of the Year for Massachusetts
Boston College Lynch School of Education Associate Professor of Science Education and Technology G. Michael Barnett has been named the 2012 Massachusetts Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education in recognition of his teaching excellence and positive influence on the lives and careers of students. It is the only national program that recognizes excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring.

Public Release: 20-Nov-2012
Queen�s Professor joins ranks of engineering elite
A Queen's University Professor has joined Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world-wide-web, as one of only a small number of engineers worldwide to have been awarded the Mountbatten Medal.

Public Release: 19-Nov-2012
University of Texas team claims 'Student Cluster Challenge' victory at SC12
The University of Texas at Austin team, mentored by staff of the Texas Advanced Computing Center, won the seventh annual Student Cluster Competition this year at the Supercomputing '12 conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. The University of Texas team took first place in the overall standings, breaking Team Taiwan's (National Tsing Hua University) two-year winning streak.

Public Release: 19-Nov-2012
UBC professor wins Canada's top pharmaceutical research award
University of British Columbia microbiologist Robert E.W. Hancock has received the Prix Galien 2012 Research Award, widely considered the most prestigious honor in Canadian pharmaceutical research and innovation. Hancock is being recognized for pioneering work unraveling the complex interactions between antibiotics and bacteria.

Innovation Life Canada

Public Release: 19-Nov-2012
Columbia awards 2012 Naomi Berrie Award to Drs. Christophe Benoist & Diane Mathis
Columbia University Medical Center presented the 2012 Naomi Berrie Award to Christophe Benoist, MD, PhD, and Diane Mathis, PhD, both of Harvard Medical School, for their contributions to expanding understanding of the disease mechanisms underlying type 1 diabetes over the past three decades. research. Hongxia Ren, PhD, the junior award recipient, is an associate research scientist in the laboratory of Domenico Accili, MD in the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center.

Russell Berrie Foundation

Public Release: 19-Nov-2012
CAMH scientist wins Polanyi Prize
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is extremely proud to announce that psychiatrist Dr. Aristotle Voineskos, Koerner New Scientist and head of CAMH's Kimel Family Translational Imaging-Genetics Research Laboratory in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, has been named one of five winners of the prestigious Polanyi Prize for university research in Ontario.

Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities

Public Release: 19-Nov-2012
Former JLab director honored with prestigious Slack Award
Hermann Grunder, founding director of the US Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, has been awarded a Francis G. Slack Award by the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society in recognition of his outstanding career and contributions to physics.

American Physical Society

Public Release: 16-Nov-2012

National Conference for the Social Studies International Assembly
National Council for Social Studies names Distinguished Global Scholar
Josiah Tlou, a professor emeritus of education at Virginia Tech, has been named Distinguished Global Scholar of the year by the National Council for Social Studies.

Public Release: 16-Nov-2012
Dartmouth professor Stephon Alexander wins physics society award
Dartmouth physicist Stephon Alexander, the E.E. Just 1907 Professor, has been named the 2013 Edward A. Bouchet Award recipient by the American Physical Society.

American Physics Society

Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
IUPUI mathematicians awarded fellowships
Two Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis mathematicians have earned selection to the initial class of American Mathematical Society Fellows for 2013 in recognition of their international excellence in mathematical science and service. Distinguished Professor Alexander Its, Ph.D., and Professor Michal Misiurewicz, Ph.D., both in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, are among the 1,119 international mathematicians representing more than 600 global institutions announced Thursday, Nov. 1, by the society as inaugural AMS Fellows.

Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
Authors of landmark study on infant mortality and electronic medical records receive Garfield Award
The authors of a landmark study on the use of electronic medical records to reduce infant mortality will receive the 2012 Garfield Economic Impact Award. Amalia R. Miller, Ph.D., and Catherine E. Tucker, Ph.D., are being honored for their paper, "Can Health Care Information Technology Save Babies?" The award, presented by Research!America, recognizes economists whose work contributes to our understanding of the ways in which medical and health research -- and new, research-based technologies and treatments -- impact the economy.

Public Release: 15-Nov-2012
Finalists of air pollution sensor challenge announced
Four finalists have been selected in the My Air, My Health Challenge, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and its challenge partners. Each finalist will receive $15,000, and will transform their designs to measure air pollutants and related physiological measurements into working systems. One overall winner will receive a cash award of $100,000 to be announced in June 2013.

NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Public Release: 14-Nov-2012
Winners named in 2012 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award Competition
Stories about the microbial hitchhikers we all harbor, the largest dam-removal project in North America, and issues raised by the new era of personal genomics are among the winners of the 2012 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. The awards, administered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since their inception in 1945, go to professional journalists for distinguished reporting for a general audience.

Kavli Foundation

Public Release: 14-Nov-2012
All-female team ties for first at National Engineering Management contest
A team of undergraduate students from the University of Arizona student chapter of the American Society for Engineering Management traveled across country to the annual meeting of industry professionals in Virginia Beach, Va., and captured first place in the national engineering student competition.

Public Release: 13-Nov-2012
Collegiate inventors honored for innovative science and technology advances
Recognizing the innovative ideas of today's college and university students, the 2012 Collegiate Inventors Competition, a program of Invent Now, today announced that a novel delivery therapy for treating cancer and a way to facilitate suturing in abdominal surgery have won top prizes during the Competition's culminating ceremony at the Newseum in Washington, DC.

United States Patent and Trademark Office, Abbott Fund, Kauffman Foundation

Public Release: 13-Nov-2012
UTSW 1 of 2 academic medical centers to win 2 major patient satisfaction awards
UT Southwestern Medical Center is one of only two academic medical centers in the country to receive two major patient satisfaction awards from Press Ganey, a national consulting firm specializing in health care performance.

Press Ganey


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