Purpose: Professional achievement awards are an important factor in recruitment, promotion, and faculty review within academic institutions. Studies have shown that subconscious, gender-based assumptions of individuals their work traditionally male-dominated fields lead to more positive evaluations men than women, a phenomenon present among scientific medical award committees. This study examin...

The American Psychological Foundation (APF) Gold Medal Awards recognize distinguished and enduring records of accomplishment in four areas of psychology: the application of psychology, the practice of psychology, psychology in the public interest, and the science of psychology. The 2014 recipient of the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in Psychology in the Public Interest is Bonnie R. Stri...

Each year colleges, universities, corporations, and private organizations award scholarships recognizing students who demonstrate outstanding academic achievement, leadership ability, a commitment of service to others, exceptional talents, and involvement in extracurricular activities. Some scholarships provide important incentives for young people to pursue their careers and interests while ot...

Author(s): Venu Nagali, Jerry Hwang, David Sanghera, Matt Gaskins, Mark Pridgen, Tim Thurston, Patty Mackenroth, Dwight Branvold, Patrick Scholler and Greg Shoemaker Source: Interfaces, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2007 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences (Jan. Feb., 2008), pp. 51-60 Published by: INFORMS Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25062969 . A...

This year's Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science is conferred on Sir David Weatherall for his 50 years of dedication to biomedical research, his groundbreaking discoveries about genetic blood diseases, and his life-long passion for bringing improved medical care to the developing world.

* Associate Professor, University of Missouri. J.D., University of Virginia; S.M. & S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author wishes to acknowledge the generous financial support of the Forrest L. Thompson Faculty Achievement Award. Copyright © 2014 Royce de R. Barondes. All rights reserved. A number of cases discussed below are included in the excellent casebook, RICHARD T. MCDER...

David McClay is the Arthur S. Pearse Professor of Biology at Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University, North Carolina. His lab works on the transcriptional control of morphogenesis in the sea urchin embryo. We caught up with David at the 2016 Society for Developmental Biology - International Society of Differentiation joint meeting in Boston, where he received the Lifetime Achievem...