UCSB professor and director receives two national awards
(Portland, Ore.) Two national awards are being presented this summer to Jim Reichman, director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), based at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is also a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution...American Society of Mammalogists honors CI president Russell Mittermeier with Aldo Leopold award
...role was as vice president for Science. His other awards include the Order of the Golden Ark from His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (1995), the Grand Order of the Southern Cross from the President of Brazil (1997), and the Grand Sash and Order of the Yellow Star from the President of Su...Brookhaven lab biophysicist F. William Studier wins R&D 100 award
... transform basic science into useful products. The awards will be presented in Chicago on October 14. Studier's new method simplifies the production of many proteins in parallel. Proteins do most of the work in biological systems. They digest food for energy; build biological structures, such as muscles an...NSF awards $10 million in grants to ocean sites for long-term ecological research
...Henry Gholz, director of NSF's LTER program. "The awards ensure that high biodiversity and productivity ecosystems in most of the world's major biomes, both on land and in the oceans, are represented." Moorea Coral Reef LTER Site The new Moorea Coral Reef LTER site will be located at the site of the Un...Colleagues to recognize research leadership in cancer detection, prevention and treatment
...e at www.aacr.org . The fields and corresponding awards represented are: Basic cancer research: AACRG.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award, in honor of a founding member of the AACR and a research director at the Eli Lilly Company Clinical cancer research: AACRJoseph H. Burchenal Clinical Research Award, esta...Workforce achievements celebrated at NASA Marshall Center Awards ceremony
... individuals who had previously received top-level awards at a NASA Headquarters ceremony. Lott W. Brantley ... this year at a ceremony in Washington. Additional awards presented at the Marshall event were seven NASA Outstanding Leadership Medals, given for notably out...Research to Prevent Blindness awards $4.8 million
...ll award additional grants in December. The latest awards were given to 29 medical institutions, including u...ents of ophthalmology at 22 medical schools and 22 awards to individual scientists. The recently-approved grant projects include: a clinical trial of cyc...APS recognizes Intel high school finalists for experiments in physiology
...e American Physiological Society presented special awards for outstanding projects in physiology, including cellular physiology, animal physiology, and neurophysiology, to four finalists at the 55th Annual International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), sponsored by Intel Corp. Allison Jaye Landstrom, a...... be continuing include: student and faculty travel awards for the ESA Annual Meeting; a SEEDS undergraduate ...udents, and 20 faculty members will receive travel awards to attend the Society's scientific conference in Portland, Oregon this August. Students will be tea...ORNL adds three R&D 100s to DOE lab-leading total
... their national lab-leading total to 119 since the awards began in 1963. The awards are presented annually by R&D Magazine in recognition of the year's most significant technological i...Chemical Society announces EPA awards for environmentally friendly technology
...the world's largest scientific society judges the awards on behalf of stakeholders from government, industry, academia and the nonprofit sector. The 2004 awards go to: Charles A. Eckert, Ph.D., and Charles L. Liotta, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology (Atl...Scientist honored for studies of genetic influence on chemotherapy, tumor development
...es, beginning July 1, 2004. Of the several awards given by the AACR the world's oldest and largest professional society representing cancer scientists from the United States and more than 60 other countries the AACR-NFCR professorship honors and fosters world class accomplishments among scientists...NAS requests nominations for outstanding scientists
...he National Academy of Sciences presents several awards to recognize outstanding achievements in science. Fields of presentation in 2005 include: Chemistry, cosmology, solar physics/solar-terrestrial relationships, astrophysics, materials science, geophysics, aeronautical engineering, microbiology, psyc...Professor and student among tops in technology at UH
...eived one of the "Top Houston Women in Technology" awards for 2004, and Mehnaz Bhayani, a computer science senior, was awarded a $7,000 Kathi Bowles Scholarship. "This was a big night for UH with two prestigious honors bestowed on both the faculty and student levels," said John Bear, dean of UH's Co...Fox Chase Cancer Center's Alfred Knudson Jr. named 2004 Kyoto Prize winner
...yoto Prize is considered among the world's leading awards for lifetime achievement and is given to those who have "contributed significantly to mankind's betterment." Knudson will receive a cash gift of about $450,000 (50 million yen), the 20 karat gold Kyoto Prize Medal and a diploma at the Kyoto Prize Ce...Scientists receive awards, give lectures at the ASBMB/IUBMB meeting
...ernational leaders in their fields - will be given awards during the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)/ International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) in Boston June 12-16. As part of the individual award ceremonies, each of the scientis...2004 BP Conservation Programme winners pave the way for protecting wildlife
...rts at a series of practical workshops. The annual awards aim to address global conservation priorities at a...l leaders of the future. Three top 'Consolidation' awards of $75,000 each are being given to the best continuing conservation projects that the Programme has ...Margaret Foti to be honored for significant contributions to cancer care
... contributions to the field of cancer, and several awards from the AACR for advancing progress against cancer. Previous recipients of the ASCO Special Recognition Award include Nancy Brinker, founder of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation; Ellen Sigal, president of the Friends of Cancer Research; Do...Beware cancer, insomnia and liver disease UH students are taking aim
...isorders, three University of Houston students won awards at a recent symposium for research in liver diseas... research competition, taking home half of the six awards handed out in that category. Each received a medal to recognize their achievements and a cash award......ican Association of Arts and Sciences, Hood's many awards and honors include the Lasker Award in 1987 for studies on the mechanism of immune diversity, the Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology in 2002, and the Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention and Innovation in 2003. Hood has maintained a life-long commitment...