BioMed Central announces winners of first open access research awards
... of BioMed Central's journals. Award winners and honorable mentions will be officially celebrated at BioMed Central's Open Access Colloquium being held today at The Royal College of Physicians in Regents Park, London. The colloquium, entitled "Open Access: How Can We Achieve Quality and Quantity?" will bring...Wiley wins 2 2006 PSP Awards and 3 honorable mentions
...e that it is the recipient of two awards and three honorable mentions in the 2006 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) Annual Awards Program of the Association of American Publishers. Each year, the PSP recognizes excellence and innovation in professional, scholarly, and reference publishing by pre...Saving the planet, from a mathematical perspective
... 2005 from the Inamori Foundation of Japan for his honorable contributions to environmental science. The 50 million yen award (approximately $460,000) is given in recognition of lifetime achievement in the categories of basic science, advanced technology and arts and philosophy. "In proposing many methods of ......heoretical physics. In addition, AIBS has given an honorable mention in print media to Michael Balter for his work with Science on "Are Humans Still Evolving?"....A distinguished program training the next generation of conservation scientists
...nnovation in support of conservation science. Four honorable mentions were also selected by the international review panel convened by the AAAS. "We are enthused and energized to welcome this new group of outstanding young scientists to the program," said Dr. Gary Machlis, Canon Scholars program coordinator an...Three ORNL technologies earn technology transfer excellence awards
...organization's first Partnership Award. Earning an honorable mention in for Excellence in Technology Transfer was the SensArray Integrated Wafer Wireless Microchip Fabrication Monitor. The awards were presented Sept. 15 during the Southeast Region organization's awards ceremony in Savannah, Ga. The awards rec...German Scholars Organization announces conference & career fair for US midwest region
...irector of the Deutscher Hochschulverband, and the honorable Katherina Reiche (CDU), Member of the German Bundestag and Chair of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Working Group on Education and Research. The workshop and symposium entail an up-to-date assessment and briefing of the comparative career prospects for sci...Winners of AIBS Media Awards announced
...of the world's largest humanitarian aid groups. An honorable mention for print journalism was awarded to ELIZABETH PENNISI, for "The Secret Life of Fungi," which appeared in Science on June 11, 2004. The judges called it "a great story, an original idea. It shows that a skilled journalist and writer can take t...ORNL project earns top honor from Southeast tech transfer group
...Dean Hafeman and Killian Dill. Earning honorable mention for excellence in technology transfer were the MicroTrap MS microscale ion-trap mass spectrometer and the miniature californium-252 neutron source for cancer therapy. The microtrap mass spectrometer is a microscale ion trap device...