Awards

A brace of awards: as before, in 2016, the Rectorate of the University of Münster has again awarded two Transfer Prizes this year. One went to biotechnologist Professor Dirk Prüfer, and the other was awarded to business information specialist Professor Jörg Becker.

Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering was selected as the awardee of the 2018 P.V. Danckwerts Memorial Lecture.

Benjamin A.Garcia, Ph.D., an expert in quantitative proteomics has been awarded the Biemann Medal by the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS). The early-career award recognizes significant achievement in basic or applied mass spectrometry.

The Diabetes Emergency Relief Coalition, composed of the Endocrine Society and seven other leading diabetes care and research organizations, received an American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) 2018 Gold Power of A Award for helping to provide critical diabetes supplies to regions impacted by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the Society announced today.

For the second year in a row, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute earthquake engineering experts Ricardo Dobry and Tarek Abdoun have been selected by the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to receive the Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award.

Cardiologists from Berlin and Wrocaw are to receive the award from the DFG and the Foundation for Polish Science.

Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., a Stanford University professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, will receive the 2018 Kyoto Prize for advanced technology.

SAGE Publishing is pleased to announce that eight SAGE authors will receive awards from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) at their annual conference on Friday, June 15.

The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust announced today the 2018 class of Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research.

The Pew Charitable Trusts named 22 early-career researchers today as the 2018 class of Pew scholars in the biomedical sciences. The scholars will receive four-year grants to advance their explorations of biological mechanisms underpinning human health and disease.