Elizabeth Blackburn and Janet Rowley awarded
...ar from April 16-20 in Anaheim, Calif. This year's winners are: Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D., Morris Herzstei...igious recognition and to join other distinguished winners who have received this award in the past," said Dr. Rowley. "I am especially pleased because this aw...Energy efficiency: Canadians honoured
...ment for Ottawa West-Nepean, presented this year's winners of Canada's Energy Efficiency Awards during a cere...r ways to save energy," said Ms. Catterall. "These winners possess exactly the kind of Canadian expertise and imagination we will need to achieve those goals a...Drezek wins Beckman Young Investigator Award
...n Young Investigator award while at Rice. Previous winners are Vicki Colvin, professor of chemistry and of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Jason Hafner, assistant professor of physics and astronomy and of chemistry....Scientists making advances receive international awards
...citing time in cancer research, and the AACR award winners are among the leaders in this new era of discovery...eagues nominate the award candidates. This year's winners represent institutions in Boston, Mass.; Cold Spring Harbor and New York City, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Ca...Gladstone investigator Steve Finkbeiner wins prestigious Lieberman Award
...f the Huntington's disease gene. The list of prior winners includes Huntington's disease research luminaries Gillian Bates, PhD, Guy's Hospital, London; David Lovinger, PhD, Vanderbilt University; Russell Margolis, MD, Johns Hopkins University; Lynn Raymond, PhD, University of British Columbia; Leslie Thomps...Winners of AIBS Media Awards announced
The winners of the 2005 AIBS Media Awards are: Print Journalism: TOM MEERSMAN, environment and natural resources reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, for "Invaded Waters," which appeared in the Star Tribune from June 13 to 15, 2004. The judges noted that...Announcement of new fishing gear that reduce the accidental death of marine life
...ospheric Administration (tentative) The following winners will also be available at the press conference: Dr. Norm Holy (chemist), Atlantic Gillnet Supply, Inc. (PA), Dr. Ed Trippel (biologist), Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Don King (fisherman), Homeward Bound, Inc. (MA), and Dr. M. R. Boopendranath, princi...Solutions that reduce death of marine life reeled in by International Smart Gear Competition
...obal problem. WWF and its partners will assist the winners with making their ideas commercially viable....'Scientists@work' gives over 1800 Flemish students the chance to work in a biotech lab
...ork competition. On 11 May, a jury is to select 3 winners from the 10 finalist masterworks. Minister Frank Vandenbroucke (Flemish Minister of Education) will present the prizes to the proud winners. A unique project Science in school is often limited to a theoretical explanation. However, a major part of...Scripps Nierenberg Prize awarded to nature filmmaker Sir David Attenborough
...n for his work in low-energy nuclear physics. Past winners of the Nierenberg Prize are naturalist E. O. Wilson (2001), newsman Walter Cronkite (2002), marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco (2003) and primatologist Dame Jane Goodall (2004)....Masters' students in pharmacology do exciting research testing equipment and purifying DNA
...emical engineering department, also at NJIT, among winners of the society's annual research competition. Karwa's work focused on purifying DNA. Bai showed possible problems associated with the current drug testing apparatus and procedure prescribed by the US Pharmacopeial Convention Inc (USP). "I am ...Carnegie Mellon computational biologist wins PECASE Award
...ific interfaces." Schwartz is one of the 20 PECASE winners selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) ...ence, and a Ph.D. in computer science. Past PECASE winners who are also Carnegie Mellon faculty include Yoky Matsuoka, assistant professor of computer science ...NWO/Spinoza prize to cancer research, cognitive sciences, physics and mathematics
...ng, pioneering and inspiring scientific work. The winners of the NWO/Spinoza prize 2005 are: Prof. R. (Ren) Bernards, molecular biologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital and Utrecht University. He has developed three innovative genetic technologies to study the proce...Chemical Society announces EPA awards for environmentally friendly technologies
...w promise for improving the environment. The award winners include scientists at Metabolix, Inc., BASF Corp., Archer Daniels Midland Company, Merck & Co., Inc., the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and Novozymes North America, Inc. Since 1996, the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards have annual...BP Conservation programme marks 15th anniversary
...ats to nesting leatherback turtles in Gabon. Award winners will be recognized at a ceremony held tonight at t...t 5 years alone, BP Conservation Programme's award winners have described approximately 25 species new to science, rediscovered 3 bird species thought extinct,...Rutgers entomologist honored by Chinese Academy of Sciences
...f Sciences (CAS) President Lu Yongxiang. The award winners are invited to visit the CAS, give academic lectures in their respective fields and to host postdoctoral-level researchers as part of an academic exchange. "Randy has long been recognized as a leader in his field, so it is highly gratifying to see hi...Researchers gain support from Merck Sharp & Dohme for novel area of diabetes research
... More awards will be made next year. The current winners represent a number of European countries with grants being awarded to outstanding and vital medical research from Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium and France (see back page for more details). In a tight competition, proposals from many researcher...'The Great Influenza' wins 2005 Best Book Award from The National Academies
...cademies have given the three $20,000 prizes. The winners will be honored during a ceremony on Nov. 10 at th...rsue new lines of cross-disciplinary research. The winners of the communication awards were selected by a committee of nine judges: Barbara J. Culliton (comm...UQ researchers honoured for research excellence
...Research) Professor David Siddle congratulated the winners and commended the diversity of their research. Pro...on of quality researchers," he said. "This year's winners were part of a strongly contested field. The quality and diversity of their research augurs well for...Comments, experts and background on the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
... chemists to follow in the footsteps of this years winners to sustain the growth of our economy and continue ...understood at the time. Diligent work by the Nobel winners and other chemists has formed a deeper understanding of these reactions and led to their role as eff...