Six reporters reach the 'pinnacle of excellence'
... Television Renata Simone of WGBH/Frontline/World won the television award from AAAS for her piece titled, "Chasing the Virus" (June 12, 2003), which investigated the SARS health crisis in Hong Kong. "I try to make science accessible to the general audience by interweaving it with stories of people's ex......eceived for 2004, the following eleven researchers won the Leibniz Prize: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Allgwer (41), Control Engineering, University of Stuttgart (1.55 million euros) Frank Allgwer is a specialist in nonlinear system and control theory. His work focuses on the control of technical systems, wh...CSIRO scientist wins highest global award for fisheries research
An Australian scientist has won the highest accolade in the world for ecological research, the prestigious Japan Prize. Dr Keith Sainsbury, a CSIRO marine ecologist and mathematical modeller received the Prize for his international efforts to conserve fisheries and marine ecosyste...Hebrew University young researcher award goes to Dr. Nayef Jarrous
...ient of the Kahanoff Foundation fellowship and has won research grants from, among others, the Israel Science Foundation, the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation and the Abisch-Frenkel Foundation of Switzerland. Dr. Jarrous is married to Dr. Ghada Jarrous, also a molecular biologist, who earned he...AGI announces the winners of Earth Science Week 2003 contests
...r Earth." Jessica Taylor of Cary, North Carolina, won the essay contest for her composition "Who is a vo...t do they do?". The lesson-plan design contest was won by Mary Ball of Jefferson City, Tennessee. Her lesson plan, "Monitoring our Changing World: the USGS...New Georgia Tech Biosciences Center assists life-science startup companies
...in R&D mode, the company is making strides and has won two grants from GRA as well as a grant from the federal government's Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. Besides enabling him to juggle multiple roles, Bao says that ATDC has helped Vivonetics by significantly reducing its startup cos...NAFTA arbitrators in environmental case agree to formal public input, a first for trade hearings
...al Institute for Sustainable Development. IISD has won a 3 year battle to take part in NAFTA hearings this year into claims by Methanex Corporation that California violated guarantees of investors' rights when it banned a polluting gasoline additive manufactured in Canada. Methanex, of British Columbia,...MIT student dances with robots
...ng the results of Gentry's human-robot experiments won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2003 IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Conference. Understanding the effectiveness of haptic communication in swing dancing could lead to broad applications in human-robot collaboration, says Gentry. "This is a res...Scientists making advances in cancer prevention, detection and treatment to receive awards
...iversity School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md., has won the 28th AACR-Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award. The Rosenthal Foundation, built on the belief that those who reap unusual benefits from society have an obligation to repay the debt with creative and energetic contributions to human progres...Founder of UCSD bioengineering program honored with lifetime achievement award
...d include Leo Esaki and Samuel Chao-Chung Ting who won the Nobel Prize in Physics, respectively, in 1973 and 1976, as well as Chang-Lin Tien, former Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley. More than a dozen organizations sponsored the event, and nearly 800 distinguished guests, honorees, ...Rice bioengineer wins international design contest
...Liebschner, assistant professor of bioengineering, won the contest for designing the OsteoSonic TM , a non-invasive damage detection system that will help doctors better diagnose bone fractures and bone loss that results from osteoporosis. As the grand prize winner, Liebschner wins either $20,000 cash or...Sarah Staples and Daniel Grossman win 2004 AIBS media awards
...weekly show, Living on Earth. Raloff's writing has won awards from several organizations, including the National Association of Science Writers. MICHAEL STROH Michael Stroh is a science writer at the Baltimore Sun newspaper and a regular contributor to Popular Science magazine. Before joining the Sun ...UC San Diego places in top tier of institutions awarded 2004 Sloan Research Fellowships
...lar biology in 2002. Twenty-six Sloan Fellows have won Nobel Prizes later in their careers, and hundreds have received other honors....AACR awards scholarships to minority and underrepresented scientists
...fic Islanders. The 65 early-career scientists who won the awards this year were selected on the basis of their qualifications, references from mentors, and an estimation of the potential professional benefit to the awardees. They are entitled to apply for support to attend an AACR Special Conference, a...'Protein-only' prions confirmed in FSU yeast study
...instructions to living cells. Even after Prusiner won a Nobel Prize for Medicine for his ground-breaking prion work in 1997, many scientists were still skeptical that his "protein-only" theory -- that prions could act as agents of heredity all on their own without the benefit of DNA -- would hold up. ...The biological clock: What really makes us tick
...eneticist, joining the UH faculty in 1995. He has won a number of awards for his research, among them the Aschoff-Honma Prize that he received this September in Japan. The award is presented every two years to a scientist working in the field of biological rhythms and currently carries a monetary award...Scripps research scientist wins 2004 Koch Prize
...utler, M.D., of The Scripps Research Institute has won the 2004 Robert Koch Award together with Professor...ps Research professor of immunology. "I have never won such a prestigious award before, and I am honored to be included with two people who are so complete...UGA professor Jeffrey Bennetzen named to National Academy of Sciences
...lications in peer-reviewed journals, Bennetzen has won numerous awards, including a Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Fulbright Award and the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Professorship at the University of Hyderabad in 2002. He is co-editor of The Plant Cell and has served on the editorial bo...Andres Vazquez-Torres honored with 2004 Merck Irving S. Sigal Memorial Award
...C. Since joining the UCHSC faculty in 2001, he has won an award for Excellence in Teaching and has received a prestigious Schweppe Foundation Career Development Award. The Merck Irving S. Sigal Memorial Awards will be presented at the 104th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (AS......ity of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, has won the 2004 Eli Lilly and Company Research Award. Proudly supported by Eli Lilly and Company since 1936, the award is the oldest and most prestigious prize presented by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). It honors remarkable originality, accom...