Awards

'Pressure consolidation' technology developed and commercialized by Argonne has received a Federal Laboratories Consortium Midwest Regional Excellence in Technology Transfer Award.

For his outstanding contributions in the field of astrophysics, Luciano Rezzolla, Professor for Astrophysics at Goethe University, will be appointed Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College in Dublin. Previously combined with the leadership of the Irish Dunsink Observatory, today the title is a prestigious honorary chair. The appointment of Luciano Rezzolla represents the first time the professorship will be given to a non-Irish person.

One of Kent State University's most prolific and renowned researchers has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences. Quan Li, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow in Kent State's Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, joins the prestigious Brussels-based organization that has about 660 members from 45 nations, including 65 Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners.

The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Maryland Sea Grant have been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help grow the number and diversity of students in STEM fields as part of a $10 million, 8-institution SEAS Islands Alliance to engage underrepresented minority students from the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam in marine and environmental sciences.

The Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family at Boston Medical Center has been chosen to participate in Advancing Integrated Models -- AIM, a multi-site demonstration promoting innovative, person-centered strategies to improve care for adults and children with complex health and social needs.

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Oncotarget Editorial Board Members William G. Kaelin Jr. and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.

Masashi Watanabe, associate professor of materials science and engineering at Lehigh University's P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, has been recognized by the Microanalysis Society as a member of its inaugural class of Fellows. Watanabe was honored for outstanding leadership in analytical electron microscopy and the pioneering development of zeta-factor technique for quantitative STEM-XEDS microanalysis. Others elected into the inaugural class include professor emeritus Charles Lyman and alum Joseph R. Michael.

The Biomedical Engineering Society has named Weiqiang Chen, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and of biomedical engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, a 2019 Young Innovator of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. He is one of only 12 researchers to receive this honor.