EurekAlert! - Awards

Public Release: 16-May-2013
MARC Travel Awards announced for the ENDO 2013 95th Annual Meeting
FASEB MARC Program has announced the travel award recipients for The Endocrine Society 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA from June 15-18, 2013.

Public Release: 16-May-2013
MARC Travel Awards announced for the 2013 60th Annual ACSM Meeting & 4th World Congress
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: 16-May-2013
Art of Science exhibit celebrates the 'unpredictability of beauty'
The Princeton University Art of Science 2013 exhibit can now be viewed in a new online gallery. The gallery features aesthetically intriguing images produced during the course of scientific research.

Princeton University

Public Release: 16-May-2013
Mathematicians analyze social divisions using cell phone data
Human society fractures along lines defined by politics, religion, ethnicity, and perhaps most fundamentally, language. Although these differences contribute to the great variety of human lives, the partitions they create can lead to conflict and strife, impeding efforts toward social justice and economic development. David Meyer, a mathematician at UC San Diego, has developed a new way of understanding how characteristics like ethnicity and religion coincide to define communities and ultimately influence our actions.

Office of Naval Research, US Department of Defense, Army Research Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Science Foundation

Public Release: 16-May-2013
David Byrne receives national 2013 Carroll R. Miller Award for peach research
Dr. David Byrne, Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist in College Station, has received the Carroll R. Miller Award from the National Peach Council.

Public Release: 15-May-2013
Cameroon researcher wins prestigious 'Green Oscar'
Ekwoge Enang Abwe, a conservationist working in Cameroon has just been awarded the prestigious Whitley award. The Whitley award is an international competition that is often called "The Green Oscars" because it celebrates the extraordinary achievements of some of the world's leading conservationists working in developing countries. Abwe was selected for the award due to his efforts to learn about and preserve Cameroon's Ebo Forest and its wildlife inhabitants.

San Diego Zoo Global

Public Release: 15-May-2013
James Cameron to be publicly honored with Scripps Nierenberg Prize
Ocean frontier explorer and world-renowned filmmaker James Cameron has been named by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego as the recipient of the 2013 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. Also, Scripps's capacity to probe the deep sea has been considerably boosted with a key gift of technology from Cameron, who has donated an extreme-depth unmanned undersea exploration system known as a "lander" to Scripps for future deep-sea exploration endeavors.

The Nierenberg Family

Public Release: 15-May-2013
Interim provost Paula Myrick Short named Fulbright Specialist
Paula Myrick Short, interim senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Houston, was selected as a Fulbright Specialist. She is one of 98 academics and professionals in the disciplines of humanities, social sciences and natural sciences who will join a Roster of Specialists for a five-year term. The Fulbright Specialist Program promotes linkages between US academics and professionals and their counterparts at overseas universities or institutions with education-focused programming.

Fulbright Scholar Program

Public Release: 15-May-2013
Gladstone's Lennart Mucke wins MetLife Foundation award
Lennart Mucke, M.D., who directs neurological research at the Gladstone Institutes, today received the MetLife Foundation's 2013 Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease at a scientific briefing and awards ceremony in New York.

Public Release: 15-May-2013
2 leading Alzheimer's disease researchers recognized with MetLife Foundation awards
MetLife Foundation today announced the recipients of its 2013 Awards for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease: Yueming Li, Ph.D., member and professor, Sloan-Kettering Institute and director and professor, Graduate Program in Pharmacology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and Lennart Mucke, M.D., director, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, Joseph B. Martin Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco.

MetLife Foundation

Public Release: 14-May-2013
Carnegie Mellon to present Leslie Ungerleider with Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University will award the first Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences to Leslie G. Ungerleider, chief of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at the National Institute of Mental Health. The prize, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as part of its centennial celebration, recognizes trailblazers in the mind and brain sciences whose research has helped advance the field and its applications.

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Public Release: 14-May-2013
'Practicing Sustainability' chosen for a silver Nautilus Book Award
Practicing Sustainability, published by Springer, has been selected as a silver-award winner of the 2013 Nautilus Book Awards, in the "Green Living / Sustainability" category. The award program honors and promotes books that "inspire and connect our lives as individuals, communities and global citizens." Previous winners of the Nautilus Awards include His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra and Barbara Kingsolver.

Public Release: 14-May-2013
Center for Clinical and Translational Science awards new pilot grants
The University of Illinois at Chicago's Center for Clinical and Translational Science has selected six research projects to receive pilot grants in 2013. The $30,000 per year pilot grants, designed to give researchers a chance to test new ideas, have been given by the center since 2006.

University of Illinois at Chicago/Center for Clinical and Translational Science

Public Release: 14-May-2013
Vijay Tiwari awarded the Bruno Speck Award 2013
Dr Vijay Tiwari, a Group Leader at the Institute of Molecular Biology in Mainz, has been awarded the Bruno Speck Award by the Swiss Foundation of Haematological Research. The award recognizes outstanding work by young scientists in the fields of haematology and stem cell research.

Public Release: 13-May-2013
Beaumont cardiologist Kavitha Chinnaiyan, M.D., receives excellence in research award
Kavitha Chinnaiyan, M.D., director of Advanced Cardiac Imaging Education at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, has received the Frank J. McDevitt, D.O., Award for Excellence in Health Policy Research for Physicians.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Michigan

Public Release: 13-May-2013
Making a greener lawnmower
Inspired by two of their fathers, who work cutting lawns and driving a truck, a team of University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering students have created a device that attaches to a lawnmower and significantly cuts its harmful emissions.

Public Release: 12-May-2013
Electronics innovation wins Global Award
A revolutionary circuit board, which will provide a clean alternative to existing highly toxic technology, has won a Global Innovation Award.

Public Release: 9-May-2013
2 UCLA faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
UCLA professors Edward De Robertis and Ernest Wright have been elected by their peers to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Public Release: 9-May-2013
Chuan He named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute on May 9 announced the selection of Chuan He, professor in chemistry and the current director of the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics at the University of Chicago, as a new HHMI investigator who will receive the flexible support necessary to move his research in creative new directions.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Public Release: 9-May-2013
The Scripps Research Institute's Ardem Patapoutian named HHMI Investigator
Ardem Patapoutian, professor in the Dorris Neuroscience Center at the Scripps Research Institute, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, based on demonstrated potential to contribute significantly to biomedical science.

Public Release: 9-May-2013
NYU Langone Medical Center researcher named Howard Hughes Investigator
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has announced the appointment of Evgeny Nudler, Ph.D., to the 2013 class of HHMI Investigators.The appointment ranks as one of the highest honors that can be bestowed on a biomedical research scientist.

Public Release: 9-May-2013
St. Jude scientist named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
Michael Dyer, Ph.D., a scientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, has been selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Public Release: 9-May-2013
Australian statistician elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researcher Professor Terry Speed has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, the UK's national academy promoting excellence in science.

Public Release: 9-May-2013
Fred Hutch evolutionary geneticist Harmit Malik selected as an HHMI investigator
Harmit Singh Malik, Ph.D., an evolutionary geneticist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who studies genetic conflict -- the competition between genes and proteins with opposing functions that drives evolutionary change -- has been selected to become a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. He is among 27 of the nation's top biomedical scientists to receive the honor this year out of a pool of more than 1,100 applicants.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Public Release: 9-May-2013
UMass medical school professor named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
A leader in the study of glial cells, the brain's most abundant and overlooked cell type, Marc R. Freeman, Ph.D., associate professor of neurobiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, is among 27 new Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators named today from 19 institutions across the United States.


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