Exciting New Directions in Electrochemistry: Honoring 2008 Wolf Prize Recipient Allen J. Bard

Exciting new directions in the intersection of functionalized sol–gel materials with electrochemistry

The implications of organically-modified silica-based materials in electrochemical science is reviewed along with some selected recent trends in the field of functionalized and sol–gel silica electrochemistry. These recent trends include the electro-assisted generation of organosilica films on solid electrode surfaces, the preparation and applications of sol–gel derived composite (carbon, gold,...

Casida Receives International Wolf Prize

Approximately 5% of all cancers develop in the mucosa of the head and neck area (Boyle et al., 1990). A substantial number of these patients present at a moment that curative treatment is possible, due to the fact that many head and neck cancers cause complaints in an early stage. The prognosis of TINO and T2NO glottic laryngeal cancer, for instance, is in the order of 90 and 70% 5 year surviva...

Outstanding paper prize 2008.

A Festschrift honoring Dr. John J. Curtis.

O n April 17, 2009, the Division of Nephrology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) hosted a festschrift for a distinguished member, Dr. John J. Curtis. Our goal was to acknowledge Dr. Curtis’s achievements on the occasion of his retirement from the faculty at UAB after 30 yr of service. To anyone even remotely familiar with the study of hypertension and the history of transplant ne...

Automatica Prize Paper Awards 2008

IFAC Automatica Prize Paper Awards have been given since 1981, for outstanding contributions to the theory and/or practice of control engineering or control sciences, documented in a paper published in Automatica. Triennially three papers are selected for the award, in the categories of Survey, Theory/Methodology, and Applications. The funds for the three prizes are provided by the publisher of...