EurekAlert! - Awards

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Public Release: 6-May-2013

Canadian Association of Physicists Congress 2013
Professor Federico Rosei of INRS to receive 2013 Herzberg Medal
Professor Federico Rosei, who is also the director of the INRS �nergie Mat�riaux T�l�communications Research Centre, has been awarded the Canadian Association of Physicists' 2013 Herzberg Medal. This is the first time that an INRS physicist has received this distinction. With the medal, CAP acknowledges the importance of professor Rosei's innovative and interdisciplinary research in the field of nanomaterials and his role as a mentor for hundreds of young scientists

Public Release: 6-May-2013
MARC travel awards announced for the 2013 60th Annual ACSM Meeting & 4th World Congress
The 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.

Public Release: 6-May-2013
University of Illinois professor elected Fellow of the Royal Society
University of Illinois Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Crop Sciences and Plant Biology and Institute for Genomic Biology faculty member Stephen P. Long has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.

Public Release: 3-May-2013
NASA high school STEM challenge announces winning team
The NASA RealWorld-InWorld Engineering Design Challenge, an integrated science, technology, engineering and mathematics program focused on NASA's forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope, has named the 2012-2013 first place team. The team, which consisted of high school juniors and seniors participating in the NASA INSPIRES program, included: Abigail Radford of Ashville, N.C.; Joshua Dijamco of Jackson, N.J.; Jonathan Hernandez of Elizabeth, N.J.; Katherine Denner of Horsham, Penn.; and Jim Gerard of Merritt Island, Fla.

NASA, National Institute of Aerospace

Public Release: 3-May-2013
Princess Anne gives award to Utah biologist
For the second time in five years, the United Kingdom's Princess Anne handed the prestigious Whitley Gold Award for conservation to �ağan Şekercioğlu. The University of Utah biologist gifted the princess with mulberry molasses and dried apricots from wetlands threatened by dam construction in his native Turkey.

Whitley Fund for Nature

Public Release: 3-May-2013
American Chemical Society past president receives science communications award
An organization of leaders of 60 scientific societies representing more than 1.4 million members have honored American Chemical Society past president Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, Ph.D., for decades of efforts in promoting public understanding of science. The group, the Council of Scientific Society Presidents, has named Shakhashiri recipient of its prestigious 2013 Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science.

Public Release: 3-May-2013
Royal Society elects 2 new Fellows from the John Innes Centre
Two scientists from the John Innes Centre have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, the premier scientific accolade in the UK. Their breakthroughs in fundamental research have pioneered advances in antibiotic discovery and in crop improvement from which we all benefit.

Public Release: 2-May-2013
Strides in math education, community outreach add up to Piper honor
An ardent supporter of mathematics education at the university, high school and middle school levels, University of Houston professor Jeffrey J. Morgan has been selected a 2013 Piper Professor by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation. He will receive a $5,000 honorarium for his superior college-level teaching and will be recognized by UH President Renu Khator during a 6 p.m. ceremony May 8.

Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation

Public Release: 2-May-2013
Plant geneticist elected member of country's first learned society
Renowned geneticist Susan Wessler at the University of California, Riverside has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society, founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of "promoting useful knowledge." Wessler holds a University of California President's Chair and is a distinguished professor of genetics in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences. Wessler's research focuses on plant transposable elements and their role in the evolution of plant genomes.

American Philosophical Society

Public Release: 2-May-2013
IUPUI environmental researcher to serve as senior scientist for the US Department of State
Gabriel Filippelli, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, has been named a Jefferson Science Fellow, a prominent advisory position with the US Department of State in which he will serve as a senior scientist on international matters related to the climate and the environment.

Public Release: 2-May-2013
2 prestigious recognitions awarded to UCR Medical School Official Phyllis A. Guze, M.D.
Phyllis Guze, M.D., associate vice chancellor, health affairs and executive dean for the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside, was awarded the Dema C. Daley Founder's award by the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) on May 1. APDIM recognized her career dedication to exemplary teaching and innovative educational program management. In April, Dr. Guze received the Mastership designation by the American College of Physicians.

Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians

Public Release: 2-May-2013
New National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees received vital NSF support
Today, Andrew Viterbi, Donald Bitzer and John Daugman will be among 17 honorees inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame at the United States Patent and Trademark Office headquarters in Alexandria, VA. The honor and their accomplishments are in part a testimony to the power of funding by the National Science Foundation.

Public Release: 2-May-2013
Freeman elected to National Academy of Science
Katherine Haines Freeman, professor of geosciences, Penn State, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences for her excellence in original scientific research.

Public Release: 1-May-2013
2 faculty members at Albert Einstein College of Medicine elected to National Academy of Sciences
Two faculty members at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Robert Singer, Ph.D., and William Jacobs, Jr., Ph.D., were among the select scientists who will be inducted into the Washington-based organization at a ceremony in April 2014.

Public Release: 1-May-2013
ASPB members elected to National Academy of Sciences
Several distinguished plant scientists -- most of them members of the American Society of Plant Biologists -- have been elected as members or foreign associates of the US National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Public Release: 1-May-2013
Beaumont receives national 'green' award
Beaumont has received the 2013 "Partner for Change" award from Practice Greenhealth, the nation's leading health care membership community that empowers its members to increase their efficiencies and environmental stewardship while improving patient safety and care. The award is one of the organization's Environmental Excellence awards given each year to honor outstanding environmental achievements in the health care sector.

Public Release: 1-May-2013
Loyola's Gamelli honored by American Burn Association
Richard L. Gamelli, M.D., FACS, senior vice president and provost of the Health Sciences Division at Loyola University Chicago, has been awarded the President's Leadership Award from the American Burn Association.

Public Release: 1-May-2013
4 Rutgers professors elected members of the National Academy of Sciences
Four Rutgers professors are among 84 distinguished researchers elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences this year, one of the highest honors an American scientist or engineer can achieve.

Public Release: 1-May-2013
3 Illinois professors elected to National Academy of Sciences
Three faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been elected 2013 fellows of the National Academy of Sciences. Eduardo Fradkin, Martin Gruebele and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer are among the 84 new members and 21 foreign associates announced by the academy on April 30.


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