EurekAlert! - Awards

Public Release: 26-Jun-2013
MARC travel awards announced for the AAI 2013 Advanced Course in Immunology Meeting
The FASEB MARC (Maximizing Access to Research Careers) Program has announced the travel award recipients for the American Association of Immunologists 2013 Advanced Course in Immunology meeting in Boston, Mass., from July 28-Aug. 2, 2013.

Public Release: 26-Jun-2013
MARC travel award announced for the 2013 ISMB/ECCB Meeting
The FASEB MARC (Maximizing Access to Research Careers) Program has announced the travel award recipient for the 2013 Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/European Conference on Computational Biology meeting in Berlin, Germany, from July 19-23, 2013.

Public Release: 26-Jun-2013
MARC travel awards announced for the 2013 Society for the Study of Reproduction Meeting
The FASEB MARC (Maximizing Access to Research Careers) Program has announced the travel award recipients for the Society for the Study of Reproduction meeting in Montreal, Canada, from July 22-26, 2013.

Public Release: 26-Jun-2013
MARC travel awards announced for the AAI 2013 Introductory Course in Immunology Meeting
The FASEB MARC (Maximizing Access to Research Careers) Program has announced the travel award recipients for the American Association of Immunologists 2013 Introductory Course in Immunology meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., from July 13-18, 2013.

Public Release: 26-Jun-2013
MARC travel awards announced for the July 2013 FASEB Science Research Conferences
The FASEB MARC (Maximizing Access to Research Careers) Program has announced the travel award recipient for the FASEB Science Research Conferences held in July 2013.

Public Release: 26-Jun-2013
MARC travel awards announced for the 27th Protein Society Symposium 2013
The FASEB MARC (Maximizing Access to Research Careers) Program has announced the travel award recipients for the 27th Protein Society Symposium in Boston, Mass., from July 20-24, 2013.

Public Release: 26-Jun-2013
MARC travel awards announced for the GSA: 19th International C. elegans Meeting
The FASEB MARC (Maximizing Access to Research Careers) Program has announced the travel award recipients for the GSA: 19th International C. elegans Meeting in Los Angeles, Calif., from June 26-30, 2013.

Public Release: 25-Jun-2013
Chemist receives high honor from American Society for Mass Spectrometry
Yinsheng Wang, a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, has received the Biemann Medal, awarded by the American Society for Mass Spectrometry to an individual early in his or her career in recognition of significant achievement in basic or applied mass spectrometry.

American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Public Release: 25-Jun-2013
Article in ACS Nano honored for most valuable contribution to ceramics
A scientific research paper published in ACS Nano has been selected as recipient of a prestigious award from the American Ceramic Society. ACS Nano is one of more than 40 peer-reviewed journals published by the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.

Public Release: 25-Jun-2013
Prize for outstanding research theses
Three young researchers have been recognized for producing final dissertations that demonstrate scientific excellence. Their findings include new methods of naturally preserving fresh foods with hops extracts, an ultra-compact microscope that makes it possible to examine hundreds of prepared samples simultaneously, and the use of protein-protein interaction analysis to nip fungal pathogens in the bud.

Public Release: 25-Jun-2013
Automated plant factory for the prodution of vaccines
Molecular farming is an easy, fast, and safe method for producing vaccines and therapeutic proteins in plants. Now a team of Fraunhofer researchers from the USA has built up a Good Manufacturing Practices compliant plant factory.

Public Release: 25-Jun-2013
3D magnetic field measurement
Magnetic field sensors are a contact- and wear-free means of measuring the position of machine parts and products. A new generation of Hall sensors is now making the process even more precise and free of interference.

Public Release: 25-Jun-2013
Programming model for supercomputers of the future
The demand for even faster, more effective, and also energy-saving computer clusters is growing in every sector. The new asynchronous programming model GPI might become a key building block towards realizing the next generation of supercomputers.

Public Release: 24-Jun-2013
SDSC GeoComputing Lab named winner of HPC Innovation Excellence award by IDC
The High Performance GeoComputing Laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, an organized research unit at the University of California, San Diego, was named a winner of the HPC Innovation Excellence Award by the International Data Corporation for developing a highly-scalable computer code that promises to dramatically cut both research times and energy costs in simulating seismic hazards throughout California and elsewhere.

Public Release: 24-Jun-2013
Physician honored by ACOG
Patrick Sweeney, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., a long-time member of the medical staff at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, was recently presented with the Outstanding District Service Award by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Public Release: 24-Jun-2013
MARC travel awards announced for the June 2013 FASEB Science Research Conferences
FASEB MARC Program has announced the travel award recipient for the FASEB Science Research Conferences held in June, 2013. These awards are meant to promote the entry of underrepresented minority students, postdoctorates and

Public Release: 24-Jun-2013
NRL receives Navy Acquisition Excellence Award for global weather prediction model
Representing a significant milestone in the advancement of Numerical Weather Prediction systems, the NRL team receives the award for the development of NAVGEM, a high-resolution global weather prediction system.

Public Release: 24-Jun-2013
University of Copenhagen excavations in Qatar named World Heritage Site
In 2009, University of Copenhagen archaeologists signed a contract with the Qatar Museums Authority to excavate the seaport Al Zubarah, which has been hidden under desert sand in northwestern Qatar for hundreds of years. As the only well-preserved 18th century city in this part of the world, it is of exceptional cultural importance, and on June 22nd UNESCO inscribed Al Zubarah on its World Heritage List.

Public Release: 24-Jun-2013

AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting
AcademyHealth recognizes leading health services researchers
Today, AcademyHealth announced the winners of its 2013 awards, each of which recognizes researchers who have made significant contributions to the fields of health services research and health policy.

Public Release: 21-Jun-2013
MARC travel awards announced for the June 2013 FASEB science research conferences
The FASEB MARC (Maximizing Access to Research Careers) Program has announced the travel award recipient for the FASEB Science Research Conferences held in June 2013. These awards are meant to promote the entry of underrepresented minority students, postdoctorates and scientists into the mainstream of the basic science community and to encourage the participation of young scientists at the FASEB Science Research Conferences. This year MARC conferred five awards totaling $8,000.

NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Public Release: 21-Jun-2013
IEEE honors NYU-Poly professor for research to speed mobile data transfer
Elza Erkip, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, has received the 2013 IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication for her paper on cooperative wireless communication. The award recognizes an outstanding paper that appeared in any IEEE Communications Society publication in the previous 15 calendar years, a time frame that ensures that the winning piece has had a vital and long-lasting impact.

Public Release: 20-Jun-2013
Goddard helps set 2 Guinness World Records
Setting two world records in two consecutive months, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., helped share some of NASA's amazing accomplishments. The awards highlight the tremendous amount of work by many of the center's engineers, scientists and communicators.

NASA

Public Release: 20-Jun-2013

ASM's 53rd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
The American Society for Microbiology honors Ken Cadwell
Ken Cadwell, Ph.D., New York University School of Medicine, has been given a 2013 ICAAC Young Investigator Award for his exceptional work in the fields of infectious diseases and pathogenesis. His nominator, Heran Darwin, notes that Cadwell's findings have already had a "profound impact on the fields of infectious disease and immunity."

Public Release: 20-Jun-2013

ASM's 53rd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
The American Society for Microbiology honors George L. Drusano
The winner of the esteemed Cubist-ICAAC Award is George L. Drusano, M.D., Institute for Therapeutic Innovation of the University of Florida, for his application of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling to antiviral and antimicrobial drug development. According to his nominator, Michael Dudley, Rempex Pharmaceuticals, "Drusano and his colleagues have published groundbreaking work using pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics to simulate and then validate dosing regimens to maximize the safety and efficacy of antibiotics. The breadth and importance of his work is remarkable."

Public Release: 20-Jun-2013

ASM's 53rd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
The American Society for Microbiology honors Baligh Yehia
Baligh Yehia, M.D., M.P.P., M.S.H.P., Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, has received a 2013 ICAAC Young Investigator Award for his innovative work and leadership in the field of HIV health services and quality research. His teaching and scholarship focus on health outcomes of individuals living with chronic viral diseases and policies that affect those outcomes.


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