Petit receives Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism: Citation

SQUIRES RECEIVES OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR STEWARDSHIP

Dr. Victor R. Squires of Adelaide, Australia received the Outstanding Achievement Award for Stewardship at the Society for Range Management’s 68th Annual Meeting held in Sacramento, California earlier this month. The Outstanding Achievement Award is presented by the Society for Range Management for outstanding achievement to members and other qualified individuals and groups working with rangel...

Pioneering geneticist Mary-Claire King receives the 2014 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science.

The 2014 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science has been awarded to Dr. Mary-Claire King, a pioneer in human genetics (Figure 1). Dr. King discovered the BRCA1 gene locus that underlies hereditary breast cancer; additionally, she has been instrumental in utilizing DNA sequencing to identify missing persons. In her address to the American Society for Human Genetics in 2012,...

AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award winners named.

362 27 JANUARY 2017 • VOL 355 ISSUE 6323 sciencemag.org SCIENCE Consequential stories on important issues in medical research are among the winners of the 2016 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards, including a Swedish documentary that raised disturbing questions about the research conduct of a surgeon at the famed Karolinska Institute, a series in a small weekly newspaper that challenged claims...

Franz Edelman Award for Management Science Achievement

I t was my pleasure to serve as chairman of the 26th annual competition for the Franz Edelman Award for Management Science Achievement. The competition is sponsored jointly by INFORMS and its practice section, the College for the Practice of the Management Sciences (CPMS). The primary purpose of the competition is to recognize outstanding accomplishments in the practice of our profession. The p...

Speech in Honor of Robert C . Merton 1999 Mathematical Finance Day Lifetime Achievement Award