Awards

The Arizona Bioindustry Association (AZBio) today announced that Martha A. Brumfield, PhD, Special Advisor to the CEO and past President and CEO at the Critical Path Institute (C-Path) has been named Jon W. McGarity Arizona Bioscience Leader of the Year.

The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) announced the ten participants of the organization's inaugural Equity Fellowship, made possible in partnership with Microsoft Corp. and Pluralsight One.

A researcher from the University of Bristol Medical School has received a prestigious international award in recognition of her outstanding research into suicide prevention in low- and middle-income countries.

Dedication to inventing solutions for social and economic advancement in the developing world has earned Cody Friesen, associate professor of materials science and engineering at Arizona State University and founder of Zero Mass Water, the 2019 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for invention. The award honors outstanding inventors who translate their ideas into technological inventions that have been adopted and bring significant value to society.

Florence Haseltine will receive the PCOS Challenge Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Association on September 20, 2019. The award 'recognizes individuals who, during their lifetimes, have made contributions of outstanding significance to the advancement of women's health through service, education or research.'

The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine and the leadership of the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals, announce the recipient of this year's Ernest Bors, MD Award for Scientific Development. Kristin L. Garlanger, DO, of the Mayo Clinic, is the primary author of the winning article: 'Functional outcomes in patients with co-occurring traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury from an inpatient rehabilitation facility's perspective.'

Associate Professor Doris Luft Baker, director of Simmons' Master of Bilingual Education program, and co-director of the school's Ph.D. program, has been selected for a Fulbright award to conduct research in Chile. She will set up a norming study to provide researchers and practitioners with a better understanding of reading trajectories in beginning reading.

McLean Hospital's Amy C. Janes, PhD, has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

This past weekend, Tel Aviv University conferred its highest honor -- the degree of Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa -- upon legendary entrepreneur and Israel supporter Mr. Morton L. Mandel.

University of Minnesota Medical School Student Anna Wojcicki has been selected by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) as one of 22 medical students to participate in the 2019 ASH Minority Medical Student Award Program (MMSAP).