'Dutch Nobel Prize' for 4 top Dutch researchers
...g, pioneering and inspiring scientific work. The winners of the NWO Spinoza prize 2007 are: Prof. D.M. (Deirdre) Curtin, lawyer at Utrecht University. Curtin has made outstanding contributions to the development and promotion of international and European law and has developed groundbreaking visions fo...Major study predicts grim future for Europe's seas
...mponents of the ecosystem were identified that are winners or losers as a result of human activity. This situation will severely compromise future options for economic use of the sea and for the conservation of its biodiversity. The team explored the reason for these changes and the prognosis for the futur...Ossur's PROPRIO FOOT takes the Gold 2007 Medical Design Excellence Award
...d advances in the design of medical products. Past winners include: Stryker, GE Healthcare, Medtronic, 3M, Baxter Healthcare, Siemens Medical Solutions and Phonak. Entries are evaluated on the basis of their design and engineering features, including innovative use of materials, user-related functions that i...Science earns top honor from Spain's Crown Prince
...is year in October. Previous Communication Award winners have included Umberto Eco, George Steiner, Jean Da...Society. Within other award categories, previous winners have included Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorvachev, Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat, Mario Soares, Joan Ma...5 OHSU faculty members singled out for honors
...ollaboration and leadership missions. They are the winners of the 2007 OHSU Faculty Senate Awards. The awards...ecord of meritorious academic accomplishments. The winners each of whom has received $3,500 from the OHSU Foundation are: Research: Michael V.Danilchik, P...Philadelphia ecologist receives top Mongolia honor
...ld of research in Mongolia. Other Friendship Medal winners include Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union. Gouldens relationship with Mongolia stems back to 1966 when he visited Lake Baikal, the worlds largest lake (in volume), as part of a cultural exchange prog...Conservation Leadership Program announces 2007 awardees
...eadership Programme (CLP) is proud to announce the winners of the 2007 Conservation Leadership Awards. This year, the Programme awarded 26 awards to research teams in 19 different countries with support totalling $502,500. CLP, formerly known as the BP Conservation Programme, supports the vital work of a n...2007 EURYI: 20 young researchers to receive Nobel Prize-sized awards for breakthrough ideas
...o the Nobel Prize. The average age of this years winners is 33.1, making it the youngest group in EURYIs history. (The average age of last years winners is 35.4.) Six of the awardees are women, making it the highest number of female winners in any year....ESA announces 2007 award recipients
...f America (ESA) is proud to announce the following winners for ecological achievement. Awards will be presented during a ceremony at the ESA-Society for Ecological Restoration joint meeting in San Jose, California on Monday, August 6, 2007. E. Lucy Braun Award Daniel Laughlin The E. Lucy Braun Award ...Argonne wins three R&D 100 awards for innovative technologies
... R&D magazine. Argonne scientists are consistent winners of the R&D 100 awards, having garnered 98 of the p...appens every day at Argonne, he said. This years winners from Argonne are: Access Grid, a piece of open-source teleconferencing software. A passive...