Whale bubble nets, saxophone sounds, ultrasonic laser
...known leaders in the field (including Leo Beranek, winner of the 2003 President's National Medal of Science) will gather for the first-ever scientific colloquium on the subject of international privacy laws and speech privacy. The event will end with a dinner featuring a keynote speech on the topic (for mor...2006 Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award winner announced
PHILADELPHIA The winner of the 2006 Wistar Institute Science Journalism Aw...nce writer for The Dallas Morning News (and a 2004 winner of the Wistar Award); Jon Palfreman, independent documentary film producer; Charles Petit, freelance...Stowers Institute scientist named Searle Scholar
...doctoral research since 1999 with Dr. Eric Kandel, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dr. Si's laboratory concentrates on how information is acquired via learning and stored over time as memories in the brain. He devotes special attention to the role of synapses in memory. "Competiti...Celgene founder Sol J. Barer to receive 2006 Winthrop-Sears Award
... A. Sorgenti, and Alejandro Zaffaroni. Last year's winner was Herbert Boyer, cofounder of Genentech. "The innovation Sol Barer demonstrated in creating and growing Celgene should serve as an inspiration to all of us in science-related industries," said Joel W. Jones, president of The Chemists' Club. "The wo...Friedemann Schrenk receives the 2006 Communicator Award
...the award panel selected Friedemann Schrenk as the winner of the 2006 Communicator Award. Friedemann Schrenk was born in Stuttgart in 1956 and studied geology, zoology and palaeontology at the Technical University of Darmstadt and at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. After receiving his doctor...New investigators in the spotlight
...ute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) announced the winner of the 2006 New Investigator Award at the 2006 AIUM Annual Convention in Washington, DC. The winner was Elisa Konofagou, PhD, for her research project, "Feasibility of Treatment of Neurodegenerative D...Salk scientist Ron Evans wins 2006 Gairdner Award for his discovery of hormone sensors
...tute for Biological Studies, has been named a 2006 winner of the prestigious Gairdner Award for his pioneering research into nuclear hormone receptors. The Gairdner, Canada's highest scientific honor, recognizes medical science leaders whose accomplishments have advanced the frontiers of knowledge. The Gair...Another gene rearrangement involved in prostate cancer identified
...ld at Experimental Biology, and Mr. Tomlins is the winner of the 2006 ASIP Experimental Pathologist-in-Training Award. The ETV4 gene is a member of the same family as the two other genes, ETV1 and ERG, reported earlier. All three are ETS genes, a group of approximately 30 genes that encode related transcri...Media Invite: Dinner to award prize for Progress in Cancer Research
...d for the annual prize by his or her peers and the winner is selected by a prize committee of academic, scientific, business and non-profit leaders highly qualified to review and select the Prize winner. The inaugural prize committee consisted of: Daniel Von Hoff, M.D. TGen; Sujuan Ba, Ph.D., NFCR; Stanley...Tom Siegfried wins AGU's Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism
... editor of the Dallas Morning News, has been named winner of the Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achieve... medicine. One of them, Alexandra Witze (herself a winner of AGU's Sullivan Award), concentrated on Earth and space science news. She regularly covered Fall M...Prestigious European prize for NIOZ researcher
...March in Barcelona. Gerhard J. Herndl is the first winner of this honourable Roland Wollast prize. Professor Gerhard Herndl is a microbiologist and head of the Department of Biological Oceanography at NIOZ. The EUR-OCEANS Committee praises his considerable achievements in the area of integrating physics, c...Penn clinical chemist wins prestigious Ullman Award
...the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the winner of the 2006 Edwin F. Ullman Award. The award recognizes an individual (or individuals) for contributions that advance the technology of clinical laboratory sciences through the creation of new technologies and analytical methods. In July, Dr. Kricka ...Royal Museum to host 'improbable' science event
...nd Peter Simmons, Ben Wilson, and collaborators of winner Theo Gray, Max Whitby and Fiona Barclay. It will include "The Great Intelligence Debate" in which members of the audience will have a chance to prove they are most intelligent person on the planet or at least in the room and music will be provided...California researcher to receive prestigious award in biodiversity informatics
...e GBIF Governing Board. The selection of the Prize winner is conducted by the GBIF Science Committee, which in making its announcement noted, "John Wieczorek has a long and very good track record as an amazingly creative force for biodiversity informatics." Letters in support of Wieczorek's nomination for t...Ironman study redefines fine-tuned: Balance training time with blood pressure variability
...ned Austrian, was the Olympic triathlon gold medal winner in 2:04.43. (Compared with an Ironman, the Olympic triathlon comprises a mere 1-mile swim, 25-mile bike ride and 10K run (6.2 miles). The "average" Kona Ironman athlete trains for seven months (Oct. 14 this year, still plenty of time, if you've regis...Turkish scientist's discovery of how proteins work
...oteins work within cells, Ahmet Yildiz, a regional winner from North America and the Grand Prize winner, tod...is delighted to name Ahmet Yildiz as a Grand Prize winner in the 2006 Young Scientist Award competition," said Donald Kennedy, editor-in-chief of Science . ...Major new awards program honors cancer researcher
... that night to honor achievement in the arts. The winner of the Vilcek Prize in the arts and humanities will be announced in the next few weeks....Carl and Ruth Shapiro family donates $25 million for new science center at Brandeis University
...er of Roderick MacKinnon '78, the 2003 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, and five members of the faculty are Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators. "I have always believed in Brandeis and its commitment to improving the human condition through scientific research," Carl Shapiro said. "Brandeis is do...Yale environment dean wins book award for nonfiction
...chool of Forestry & Environmental Studies , is the winner of the 2005 Connecticut Book Award for nonfiction. Speth took the prize for "Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment," in which he argues that the international community must take urgent action to address global-scale en......ion of the topic, and other relevant factors. Each winner receives $300 cash. Winning entries and other finalists are posted on the Earth Science Week Web site at www.earthsciweek.org . The contests represent an important part of Earth Science Week, which took place October 9-15, 2005. With active partici...