EurekAlert! - Awards

Public Release: 12-Nov-2012
Plan to turn farm waste into paper earns students $15,000
Johns Hopkins engineering students won $15,000 in a national competition for adapting a traditional Korean paper-making technique into a low-tech method that impoverished villagers can use to make paper for their children's underequipped schools.

Odebrecht Organization

Public Release: 12-Nov-2012
Enterprise Research Centre launches
Warwick and Aston Universities have been chosen to host a new Enterprise Research Centre that will help develop understanding of the factors affecting business investment, performance and growth. The center launches on 1 January 2013 and will become a national and international focal point for research, knowledge and expertise on small and medium-sized businesses.

Economic and Social Research Council

Public Release: 12-Nov-2012

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 61st Annual Meeting
$3 million awarded to find biomarkers for potential test of cure for chagas disease
Today at the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative announces a new $3 million Strategic Translation Award from the Wellcome Trust to identify new biological markers for the evaluation of treatment efficacy in Chagas disease, a potentially fatal neglected tropical disease.

Public Release: 12-Nov-2012

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 61st Annual Meeting
PATH's Kent Campbell honored for lifetime achievement in the fight against malaria
Kent Campbell, PATH's Malaria Control Program director, received the distinguished Joseph Augustin LePrince Medal in recognition of outstanding work in the field of malariology at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's award ceremony.

Public Release: 9-Nov-2012

Eye Bank Association of America/Cornea Society Fall Educational Symposium
Dr. Jonathan Lass to be honored by Eye Bank Association of America
The Eye Bank Association of America, the nation's oldest transplant association, has chosen Jonathan Lass, M.D., for the 2012 R. Townley Paton Award for his work on corneal preservation and his 30-plus-year career as an ophthalmologist and medical educator.

Public Release: 9-Nov-2012
LA BioMed celebrates 60 years of medical achievements at the Gift of Tomorrow Gala
The Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center will celebrate six decades of achievements in turning innovative science into breakthrough medicine for patients in need at its Gift of Tomorrow Gala, on Thursday, Dec. 6, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. During the evening, three champions of LA BioMed will be honored with the LA BioMed Spirit of Excellence Award.

Public Release: 9-Nov-2012

33 Annual Meeting - Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
SETAC announces Chris Lee Award for metals research winner, Kevin Brix
The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry will present the SETAC/ICA Chris Lee Award to Kevin Brix at the its 33rd Annual Meeting next week. Brix recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of Miami and has already made exceptional contributions to the understanding of fate and effects of metals in the environment, to the mechanistic environmental toxicology of metals, and to the improvement of environmental regulations for metals.

SETAC/International Copper Association

Public Release: 9-Nov-2012
2 Scripps Research Institute scientists honored by American Chemical Society
Two chemists from the Florida campus of the Scripps Research Institute have been selected by the American Chemical Society to receive a pair of prestigious awards honoring early-career research in biological and enzyme chemistry. Associate Professors Matthew Disney, Ph.D., and Kate Carroll, Ph.D., will be recognized at the fall 2013 ACS symposium, to be held in Indianapolis.

Public Release: 8-Nov-2012
UC Riverside postdoctoral scholar receives high honor at CERN
Sudan Paramesvaran, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Riverside, has won the Compact Muon Solenoid achievement award for the Hadron Calorimeter subdetector at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland.

Public Release: 8-Nov-2012
Noted scientists named for Kavli lectures at American Chemical Society meetings
Two noted scientists who are developing sustainable energy sources for the 21st century will deliver the next two lectures in the prestigious "Kavli Foundation Innovations in Chemistry Lecture" series at upcoming meetings of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.

Public Release: 7-Nov-2012

American Society of Human Genetics 2012 Annual Meeting
CeGaT and Genomatix finalists of Boston Children's Hospital's CLARITY challenge
CeGaT GmbH, the Department of Prostate Cancer Research at the University Hospital Bonn and Genomatix Software GmbH were announced as finalist of the CLARITY challenge today. CeGaT and Genomatix will now offer their complete genetic analysis service to another six families (six trios or 18 exomes) for free. Genomatix also announced the pre-release of GeneGrid, a tool designed to help medical researchers identifying pathogenic genomic variations in humans.

Public Release: 7-Nov-2012

Annual Meetings of the American College of Dentists and the International College of Dentists
14 US Army dentists recognized for outstanding achievement
At the annual meetings of the American College of Dentists and the International College of Dentists, 14 US Army dentists were inducted as new Fellows of these honorary dental organizations, in recognition of their professional achievement and service to the dental profession.

Public Release: 7-Nov-2012
Digital agenda for Europe: Expert appointed for Luxembourg
Prof. Dr. Bj�rn Ottersten, Director of Luxembourg University's Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, has been appointed 'Digital Champion of Luxembourg' by Fran�ois Biltgen, Minister for Higher Education and Research. As digital champion, Mr. Ottersten has been charged with advising Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission, on ways in which to promote a digital society.

Public Release: 7-Nov-2012

American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Disease of the Young
Children's National's David Wessel receives AHA Meritorious Achievement Award
Dr. Wessel is honored for his pioneering career in the field of pediatric cardiac critical care.

Public Release: 6-Nov-2012
SF State Dean of Science & Engineering Sheldon Axler named American Mathematical Society Fellow
San Francisco State University Dean of Science & Engineering has been named an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society for his contributions to the field of mathematics.

Public Release: 6-Nov-2012
National Academies' Keck Conference picks NYU-Poly citizen science researcher
Polytechnic Institute of New York University Assistant Professor Oded Nov, whose research focuses on technology-mediated social participation, has been selected for the prestigious 2012 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative conference. Attendees will work to find solutions in neuroscience, including how a digitally connected world will impact learning processes, social behavior, memory, attention and decision-making. NAKFI is a program of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine.

Keck Foundation, National Science Foundation

Public Release: 6-Nov-2012
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council Member
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council Member Kerry J. Ressler, M.D., Ph.D., was elected to Institute of Medicine.

Public Release: 5-Nov-2012

Society of Foresters National Convention
Louisiana Tech University professor earns national honor from Society of American Foresters
The Society of American Foresters has named Louisiana Tech University School of Forestry Associate Professor and Associate Director A. Gordon Holley as its 2012 Carl Alwin Schenck Award winner.

Public Release: 5-Nov-2012
Loyola names Junior and Senior Scientists of the Year
Katherine L. Knight, PhD, one of the nation's leading immune system researchers, has been named 2012 Senior Scientist of the Year at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, has been named 2012 Junior Scientist of the Year. Knight and Sadayappan were honored during Loyola's St. Albert's Day, an annual campuswide celebration of research.

Public Release: 5-Nov-2012
Fraunhofer honored for its winning satellite navigation ideas
Fraunhofer institutes took home a total of four awards from this year's European Satellite Navigation Competition. At the awards ceremony held on the 25th of Ocotber in Munich, the Bavarian Regional Prize went to the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, while the Project Center of the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML in Prien was awarded the HPI Special Prize.

Public Release: 5-Nov-2012
Once in a lifetime experience for theSkyNet citizen scientist
Last week the top contributor to citizen science initiative theSkyNet traveled to the heart of the West Australian outback to visit the future site of the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope. Mr Kim Hawtin, top contributor to the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research project, was awarded this rare opportunity as part of theSkyNet's first anniversary celebrations in September.

Public Release: 4-Nov-2012

American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2012
Penn Medicine's Daniel J. Rader, M.D., receives AHA's Clinical Research Prize
Daniel J. Rader, M.D., professor of Medicine and chief, Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics, at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded the American Heart Association's Clinical Research Prize for developing new methods to identify factors regulating the metabolism of fat particles in the bloodstream and testing their impact on the development of atherosclerosis.

Public Release: 3-Nov-2012

American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2012
Penn Medicine expert wins AHA's Lifetime Achievement Award in Cardiac Resuscitation Science
Lance Becker, M.D., a professor of emergency medicine and director of the Center for Resuscitation Science at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, will receive the American Heart Association's 2012 Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cardiac Resuscitation Science during the organization's annual Scientific Sessions.

Public Release: 2-Nov-2012

Biophysical Society 57th Annual Meeting
Biophysical Society names 5 2013 award recipients
The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce the recipients of four of its 2013 Society awards. These individuals will be honored at the Awards Symposium at the Society's 57th Annual Meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 5, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. In addition to receiving their awards at that time, each will give a presentation.

Public Release: 2-Nov-2012

Biophysical Society 57th Annual Meeting
Biophysical Society names 2013 Distinguished Service, Emily M. Gray, and Founders awardees
The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2013 Distinguished Service Award, the Emily M. Gray Award, and the Founders Award. These Society members will be honored at the National Lecture on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, in Philadelphia, Pa. The Emily M. Gray Awardee will also give a presentation at the Undergraduate Student Symposium on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013.


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