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Public Release: 16-Nov-2018

Geochemist E. Bruce Watson recognized for eminence in mineralogical research

The Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) has recognized E. Bruce Watson, a geochemist and Institute Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with its highest honor, the Roebling Medal, bestowed for scientific eminence in the broad field of mineralogical science.

Public Release: 16-Nov-2018

Newton Prize winners to use Mathematics to restore power to the people

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

UK and Chilean scientists are working on a project that will strengthen energy infrastructure to withstand extreme weather and natural disasters.

Public Release: 15-Nov-2018

Argonne's Min Si receives early career award from IEEE Computer Society

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne's Min Si wins Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing through the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Funder: US Department of Energy, Advanced Scientific Computing Research

Public Release: 15-Nov-2018

UTIA projects named as two of top three for SRMEC in 2018

University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture

The Southern Risk Management Education Center has announced its top three Projects of Excellence for 2018, and two of the three programs are led by University of Tennessee Extension specialists.

Funder: USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Public Release: 15-Nov-2018

College of Medicine at NEOMED takes first place at Directors of Clinical Skills Conference

Northeast Ohio Medical University

Northeast Ohio Medical University earned top honors for its poster presentation, 'Teaching and Fostering Empathetic Touch and Eye Gaze,' at the Directors of Clinical Skills (DOCS) Annual Meeting held in Austin, Texas, Nov. 2, 2018. The poster was presented by Paul Lecat, M.D., professor and internal medicine clerkship clinical experience director, who led a team of University representatives in the study, which gives credence to the importance of touch as a means of showing empathy.

Meeting: Directors of Clinical Skills Conference

Public Release: 15-Nov-2018

Two teams honored for using supercomputers to combat opioid addiction, understand climate change

Association for Computing Machinery

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has announced that two teams will share the 2018 ACM Gordon Bell Prize. A seven-member team affiliated with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is recognized for their paper "Attacking the Opioid Epidemic: Determining the Epistatic and Pleiotropic Genetic Architectures for Chronic Pain and Opioid Addiction," and a 12-member team affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is recognized for their paper "Exascale Deep Learning for Climate Analytics."

Meeting: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC18)

Public Release: 15-Nov-2018

Robert W. Graves selected as 2019 Joyner Lecturer

Seismological Society of America

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the Seismological Society of America (SSA) are pleased to announce that US Geological Survey research geophysicist Robert W. Graves is the 2019 recipient of the William B. Joyner Lecture Award.

Public Release: 15-Nov-2018

SwRI's Scott Bolton honored by Smithsonian Magazine

Southwest Research Institute

Dr. Scott Bolton, associate vice president of Southwest Research Institute's Space Science and Engineering Division, is being honored with a 2018 American Ingenuity Award from Smithsonian Magazine. Deemed the 'Golden Globes of Intellect,' these awards honor individuals in nine wide-ranging categories.

Meeting: 2018 American Ingenuity Award from Smithsonian Magazine

Public Release: 15-Nov-2018

Professor Adrian Hilton awarded prestigious IET Achievement Meda

University of Surrey

The Institute of the Engineering and Technology (IET) has awarded Professor Adrian Hilton from the University of Surrey one of its highest honours, the IET Achievement Medal -- one of five awarded in the UK in 2018.

Funder: Institution of Engineering and Technology

Public Release: 15-Nov-2018

American Pediatric Society honors Dr. David K. Stevenson with 2019 APS John Howland Award

Pediatric Academic Societies

David K. Stevenson, M.D. is the recipient of the 2019 APS John Howland Award, presented by the American Pediatric Society.

Meeting: 2019 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting

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