Biggest physics meeting of the year
...dred Years of Light Quanta" will feature all three winners of the most recent physics prize (Ted Haensch, John Hall, Roy Glauber) and at least one talk (Serge Haroche, K1.5) will describe how the prizewinning work still manifests itself in modern experiments. Not all the sessions are technical in nature. ...Tomorrow's cancer researchers to attend the 97th Annual Meeting
... Science Education Awards. The students include 10 winners from 2006-2007, along with 11 winners from 2005-2006 who also attended last years Annual Meeting in Anaheim. To qualify for the award, ca...Copernicus Award to be conferred by the DFG for the first time
...ndacja na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej) in 2006. The award winners are the pharmacologists Professor Eberhard Schlick...in German-Polish scientific cooperation. The award winners were selected by a German-Polish award committee from 49 nominees from all disciplines. The prize wi...Scientists making advances in cancer to receive international awards
...xciting time in cancerresearch, and the AACR award winners are among the leaders in this new era of discovery...eagues nominate the award candidates. This year's winners are: Carlo M. Croce, M.D., The John Wolfe Professor for Cancer Research, Chairman, Department of M...Wetland banking yields low return on urban interests
...ood control. "Completely different populations are winners and losers in terms of locally delivered wetland ecosystem services," Ruhl said. Ruhl and James Salzman, a professor at the Duke University School of Law and the Nicholas School of the Environment, conducted the first comprehensive empirical study of...Two Yale biologists win 2006 Gairdner Awards for medical research
...ork of medical researchers, each October, Gairdner winners visit universities across Canada and present academic lectures on their area of expertise. In 2004, a Gairdner Award went to another member of the Yale faculty, Arthur L. Horwich, M.D., Higgins Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics, and Investigator H...AIUM announced EER grant recipients
...ute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) announced the winners of its 2006 Endowment for Education and Research (...ting-edge research in the field of ultrasound. The winners of the 2006 AIUM EER grants are posted on the AIUM website at www.aium.org ....Biotechnology Study Center honors Jean-Pierre Changeux, Charles Weissmann and Eric Kandel
...e received awards in previous years. The previous winners are listed below. 2001 For Basic Biotechnology: CELERA GENOMICS (J. Craig Venter) For Applied Biotechnology: ALEXION (Leonard Bell) NYU Alumnus Biotechnology Award: STEVEN SHAK (Genentech) 2002 For Basic Biotechnology: DAVID BALTIMORE (Cal. Inst. Te...Young researchers recognised for scientific achievements
...s with it prize money of 16,000 euros. This year's winners were selected by the panel for their outstanding achievements in the fields of neuroscience, theoretical physics, classical philology, neuro-oncology, polymer chemistry and biophysics. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundat...DNA sequencing contributes to sequence of honors for UH
...e Inter-Continental Houston Hotel. Prior UH award winners were Suncica Canic, a mathematics professor, and Susan Hardin, an adjunct professor of biology and biochemistry, who brought home this honor for UH in 2005 and 2004, respectively. Gao has been with UH since 1992....NJIT students take top awards at a national design contest
...November in Chicago. The team will compete against winners from 13 other ASME regions. The third-place team included Eric Jakubik, of Bayonne, and Eric Shapiro, of Fair Lawn, both seniors, who won a plaque and a $100 prize. For the fifth consecutive year, NJIT also won the prestigious Ingersoll-Rand Contest,...Einstein's Susan Band Horwitz, PhD wins Bristol-Myers Squibb Cancer Research Award
...tive medallion. Eighteen previous grant and award winners have also won Nobel Prizes. While paclitaxel, found in the bark of the Pacific yew tree, was first identified in the early 1970's as a compound with a unique chemical structure and anti-tumor activity, it was not until Dr. Horwitz and her colleagues ...APS research awards go to undergrads at Colorado State, Michigan State, Oberlin, Williams
...e in undergraduate research. Judges chose the four winners from among 12 finalists who presented their resear...onference earlier this month in San Francisco. The winners receive $500 and a certificate. The 2006 Bruce award winners are as follows: Manasi Bhate - Oberli...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announces 2006 winners of Leonard M. Rieser Fellowship
... of the Atomic Scientists today announced the 2006 winners of the annual Leonard M. Rieser Fellowship in Science, Technology, and Global Security. The Rieser Fellowship supports undergraduate students who want to pursue projects that explore issues at the intersection of science, global security, and public ...Research into salt, oil, ice and fossils
...vailable in German . The research fields of the winners of the 2005 Bernd Rendel Prize cover various areas of geoscience. Salt structures, the processes affecting oil deposits, glacial runoff, and the vision of fossil vertebrates these are the research areas of the four young scientists who were awarded ...Art of Science exhibit opens at Princeton
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The top three prize winners of Princeton University's second annual "Art of Sc...to be answered by the viewer." The three top prize winners are: Qiangfei Xia, a graduate student in electrical engineering at Princeton, who won third place ...Mary-Claire King to receive the 2006 Weizmann Women & Science Award
...age the next generation of women scientists. Past winners are Joan Argetsinger Steitz (biophysics), Vera Rubin (astronomy), Jacqueline K. Barton (chemistry), Carla J. Shatz (neurobiology), Susan Solomon (aeronomy), and May Berenbaum (entomology). Ms. Schupf conceived of the Award to address what she saw a...ENERGY STAR: Government rewards businesses and utilities with Market Transformation Awards
...cently recognized by the Government of Canada. The winners of the ENERGY STAR Market Transformation Awards fo...mony in Toronto. "I would like to congratulate the winners for their leadership and achievement in encouraging Canadians to select the most energy-efficient pr...Australian of the Year wins top American honour
...chievements in basic and tumour immunology. Award winners are chosen by The Academy of Cancer Immunology -- a select group of 45 medical specialists, including five Nobel prize-winners, from 11 countries. CRI supported the first early clinical trials of Dr Frazer's vaccine, which was created in 1991. The ...Device that aids people with muscular dystrophy wins inaugural WPI Entrepreneurship Award
... help the team further develop the technology. The winners are Allen Hoffman, professor of mechanical engineering and co-founder of WPI's Assistive Technology Resource Center, Michael Scarsella '05 of Sterling, Mass., and Steven Toddes '05 of Gettysburg, Pa. Scarsella and Toddes are both currently graduate s...