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Public Release: 26-Apr-2013
Rutgers physicist elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences Rutgers University physicist Karin Rabe has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research. Her research focuses on theoretical analysis and prediction of the structure and properties of materials, and applying these methods to the design of new materials that could be used in future electronic and magnetic data storage devices. Contact: Carl Blesch
Public Release: 25-Apr-2013
Earth Week: American U. launches William K. Reilly Fund for Environmental Governance & Leadership American University's Center for Environmental Policy launched the William K Reilly Fund for Environmental Governance and Leadership during Earth Week. The launch also included the awarding of the Reilly Award for Environmental Leadership and the William K. Reilly Scholarships. Contact: J. Paul Johnson
Public Release: 25-Apr-2013
MilkyWay@Home co-founder and Rensselaer professor Heidi Newberg named Fellow of American Physical Society Galactic astronomer Heidi Newberg, a professor of physics, applied physics, and astronomy in the School of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been selected as a fellow of the American Physical Society. Election to fellowship in the APS is limited to no more than one-half of one percent of membership. Contact: Mary Martialay
Public Release: 25-Apr-2013
CWRU's Beall elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences Case Western Reserve University's Cynthia Beall has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Beall, an anthropology professor, has pioneered and repeatedly changed the course of research in high-altitude human biology. Contact: Kevin Mayhood
Public Release: 25-Apr-2013
Monell alum Dr. Larry Clark named Center's 2013 Kerry-Manheimer awardee Larry Clark, Ph.D., Director of the United States Department of Agriculture National Wildlife Research Center, is the 2013 recipient of the Monell Center's Kerry-Manheimer Award. In celebration of Monell's 45th anniversary, Clark will receive the 2013 Award at a special alumni-oriented Kerry-Manheimer Award event. Contact: Leslie Stein
Public Release: 25-Apr-2013
INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations ResearchINFORMS awards 2013 UPS George D. Smith to the Naval Postgraduate School The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences has awarded its prestigious UPS George D. Smith Prize to the Naval Post Graduate School. Contact: Barry List
Public Release: 25-Apr-2013
Tel Aviv University researcher honored for work on gauge and gravity theories Prof. Shimon Yankielowcz of Tel Aviv University has been awarded the 2013 Weizmann Prize in Exact Sciences for his contributions to quantum gauge and super-symmetric field theories. The Weizmann Prize, which encourages and stimulates research in the natural sciences, is awarded yearly by Tel Aviv in memory of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, former president of the World Zionist Organization and the first president of Israel. Contact: George Hunka
Public Release: 25-Apr-2013
Allegany College's forestry department honored for environmental stewardship In honor of outstanding contributions to environmental education in Western Maryland, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Appalachian Laboratory has selected the Forestry Technology Program at Allegany College as recipient of its 2013 Richard A. Johnson Environmental Education Award. Beginning with eight students in 1968, the program has grown to produce 580 graduates who are helping to manage our natural resources, as well as making contributions to the health of our urban forests. Contact: Amy Pelsinsky
Public Release: 25-Apr-2013
Science magazine prize goes to high-school engineering course A classroom approach that helps high school seniors analyze engineering disasters as though the students were professional investigators has been selected to win the Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction. Contact: Natasha Pinol
Public Release: 24-Apr-2013
Mendelsohn elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences John Mendelsohn, M.D., director of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center's Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy and former president of MD Anderson, has been elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Contact: Scott Merville
Public Release: 24-Apr-2013
AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting5 honored with AcademyHealth Presidential Scholarship for New Health Services Researchers AcademyHealth announced today the 2013 recipients of its Presidential Scholarship for New Health Services Researchers, which provides early career researchers with financial support to attend the organization's Annual Research Meeting and offers exclusive networking and mentoring opportunities with AcademyHealth leadership and staff, and distinguished leaders in the field. Contact: Kristin Rosengren
Public Release: 24-Apr-2013
Metin Tolan wins 2013 Communicator Award A Dortmund researcher is honored for innovative science communication in physics. Contact: Marco Finetti
Public Release: 23-Apr-2013
International Association for Great Lakes Research Annual ConferenceAWRI researcher honored for Lake Michigan outreach efforts Janet Vail, associate research scientist at Grand Valley State University's Annis Water Resources Institute in Muskegon, will be given the prestigious 2013 Jack Vallentyne Award by the International Association for Great Lakes Research. Contact: Nate Hoekstra
Public Release: 23-Apr-2013
Dr. Anne Gershon receives 2013 Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal Award Today, the Sabin Vaccine Institute presented its annual Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal Award to Dr. Anne Gershon, of Columbia University, for her outstanding research and public health efforts to combat the varicella zoster virus. Dr. Gershon's research was critical to the widespread adoption of the varicella vaccine, which prevents chickenpox. Contact: Johanna Harvey
Public Release: 23-Apr-2013
Hand-held device cheaply, quickly diagnosis malaria A Case Western Reserve University student-led startup aimed at saving lives through faster, better and cheaper malaria diagnosis won the 2013 LaunchTown Entrepreneurship Business Idea Competition at the University of Akron and took ninth-place -- out of 1,200 entries -- at the Rice Business Plan Competition, in the last two week. The team's product, based on common items, is a hand-held device that detects a magnetic substance that malaria parasites release when digesting red blood cells. Contact: Kevin Mayhood
Public Release: 23-Apr-2013
Experimental Biology 2013Penn State Hass avocado research poster wins American Society For Nutrition Annual Awards The scientific poster session, Interventions for the Treatment and Prevention of Nutrition-Related Diseases, included the poster that won first prize in two American Society for Nutrition Scientific Sessions at Experimental Biology contests -- the Student Interest Group Travel Award competition and the Aging and Chronic Disease Research Interest Section Graduate Student Poster competition. 
Hass Avocado Board
Contact: Alyson Campbell
Public Release: 22-Apr-2013
BioMed Central announces winner of 7th Annual Research Awards Open access publisher BioMed Central is proud to reveal the winner of the 7th Annual Research Awards. A presentation was made last night, at the Seaport Hotel in Boston, USA. The awards honour the very best research published in one of BioMed Central's 250 plus open access journals in 2012. Contact: Rebecca Fairbairn
Public Release: 21-Apr-2013
Experimental Biology 2013Indiana University associate professor earns APS's Henry Pickering Bowditch Award Heart disease has been the No. 1 killer in the US for several decades. Diabetes is now the seventh most common cause of death here. Obesity is a risk factor for both conditions and estimates now show that nearly 70 percent of obese, Type-2 diabetics will die of cardiovascular disease. Contact: Donna Krupa
Public Release: 20-Apr-2013
Experimental Biology 2013Mayo Clinic anesthesiologist earns APS's Walter B. Cannon Award In the early 1990s, biomedical researchers interested in finding the causes and cures for diseases, were rapidly narrowing their focus from the broad interconnected regulatory networks of the human body to genes. For many years, these small snippets of genetic information seemed to hold the key toward vastly improving human health. Contact: Donna Krupa
Public Release: 19-Apr-2013
Sickle cell project named among 'Top 10' Clinical Research Achievements for 2012 Pioneering research led by Johns Hopkins scientists on the use of partially matched bone marrow transplants to wipe out sickle cell disease has been selected as one of the Top 10 Clinical Research Achievements of 2012 by the Clinical Research Forum. Contact: Vanessa Wasta
Public Release: 19-Apr-2013
Penn receives prestigious national award for breakthrough in gene therapy A gene therapy study focused on finding a cure for a rare congenital blinding disease has been recognized as one of the ten most outstanding clinical research projects of the year by the Clinical Research Forum. The research team has been presented with the Distinguished Clinical Research Achievement Award, the second highest given in the CRF's Annual Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards. Contact: Katie Delach
Public Release: 18-Apr-2013
2014 Ocean Sciences MeetingProfessor Jack Barth selected as a Fellow of the Oceanography Society The Oceanography Society would like to congratulate professor Jack Barth of the Oregon State University on being selected as the newest TOS Fellow. The citation on Dr. Barth's certificate recognizes his contributions and sustained leadership in all aspects of continental shelf oceanography, and for his commitment to community service. Dr. Barth will be formally recognized during the Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb. 23-28, 2014, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Contact: Jenny Ramarui
Public Release: 18-Apr-2013
Terrence 'Rock' Salt to receive Reitmeister-Abess Center Environmental Stewardship Award The Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy at the University of Miami announced that Terrence "Rock" Salt, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, Civil Works, has been awarded the 2013 Reitmeister-Abess Center Environmental Stewardship Award. The ceremony will take place on Monday, April 22, 2013. The event will also include the inaugural presentation of the Orion Herbs Fieldwork Grant to Karlisa Callwood, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Environmental Science and Policy program who is studying Bahamian spiny lobsters.
Abess Center of Ecosystem Science and Policy, Reitmeister Foundation, Orion Herb Co.
Contact: Barbra Gonzalez
Public Release: 18-Apr-2013
Regenstrief announces winner of People's Choice for Healthcare Delivery contest Are researchers asking the right questions? What are healthcare consumers saying? A proposed computer application that will translate what happens during a visit to the doctor's office into a customized, printable summary of actionable items that a patient can take home or have e-mailed to designated recipients has won the Regenstrief Institute's People's Choice for Healthcare Delivery contest.
Regenstrief Institute
Contact: Cindy Fox Aisen
Public Release: 18-Apr-2013
Clinical Research Forum 2013 Annual Meeting3 Mass. General researchers among recipients of Clinical Research Achievement awards Three projects led by Massachusetts General Hospital investigators have been named among the Clinical Research Forum's Top 10 Clinical Research Achievements of 2012. Contact: Sue McGreevey
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