Awards

The Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society announces that Lin X. Chen has received the 2020 Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry. The award recognizes Chen for "fundamental contributions to the elucidation of excited state structures, dynamics and energetics of light harvesting systems.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded its 2019 Newcomb Cleveland Prize to University of Maryland entomologists Raymond St. Leger, Brian Lovett and their seven West African collaborators for their study describing the development and testing of a genetically engineered fungus to fight mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue & Zika.

Two University of Delaware faculty, professor Rudolf (Rudi) Eigenmann and Engineering Alumni Professor Dennis Prather, have been named Fellows of IEEE (formerly formerly as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).

A team of nine researchers based in the United States and Burkina Faso will receive the 2019 Newcomb Cleveland Prize, presented by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for the development of a promising tool in the global fight against malaria and other diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, including dengue and Zika.

The Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) is pleased to announce Anna Penn, MD, Ph.D., as the recipient of the 2020 Thomas A. Hazinski Distinguished Service Award.

Chad Mirkin, director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University, is the winner of the 2020 Philip Hauge Abelson Prize, which is presented by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to a scientist or public servant who has contributed significantly to the advancement of science in the United States.

The Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) is pleased to announce Dani Dumitriu, MD, PhD, as the recipient of the SPR's 2020 New Member Outstanding Science Award. As the awardee, Dr. Dumitriu will give a presentation entitled 'Understanding and harnessing the neurobiology of resilience as a novel strategy in primary prevention' on May 4, 2020 during the SPR Presidential Scientific Plenary and Member Awards Luncheon at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2020 Meeting in Philadelphia.

The National Academy of Sciences will honor 15 individuals with awards in recognition of their extraordinary scientific achievements in a wide range of fields spanning the physical, biological, and medical sciences.

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine has gone in this twelfth edition to US researchers Michael Hall and David Sabatini, for discovering the cellular mechanism that is 'the major regulator of growth in animal cells, and plays a central role in physiology, metabolism, ageing and cancer,' in the words of the committee.

University of Arizona professor Wolfgang Fink was selected as a 2020 Fellow of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers 'for achievements in vision science for the blind and tele-ophthalmic healthcare worldwide.'