Recognizing Excellence through Research

Recognizing individual excellence helps us all

A mong the many ACM activities supported by your membership is the awards program. ACM announces about a dozen awards plus its newly inducted Fellows early in the year, and we hold a special banquet in June to honor the winners. Our most prestigious technical award is the ACM A.M. Turing Award, given annually since 1966. To qualify for this award, an individual’s contributions to the computing ...

Recognizing excellence in care at the end of life.

Dr. Muller is the Executive Director, National Association For Continence (NAFC). The NAFC is a national, private, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of people with incontinence. The NAFC’s purpose is to be the leading source for public education and advocacy about the causes, prevention, diagnosis, treatments, and management alternatives for incontinence. This ar...

Spotlight on Excellence in Research

Awards spur excellence in research.

Background: Many patients experience difficulties in following treatment recommendations. This study's objective is to identify nonadherence risk profiles regarding medication (antidepressants, antihypertensives, and oral hypoglycemics) from a combination of patients' socio-demographic characteristics, morbidity presented within general practice and medication characteristics. An additional obj...

Rewarding excellence in biomedical research

Every year since 1986, the Louis Jeantet Foundation has distinguished excellence in biomedical research in Europe by awarding a Prize to exceptional Scientists whose innovative research has advanced medicine. Rather than marking past achievements, the Louis Jeantet Prize aims to encourage and support innovative ongoing research projects. Over the years, many exceptional researchers have receive...