Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I am standing here, grateful, excited, and proud. I see so many friends, my colleagues, students, and many more researchers in this room. I see that the work we started 50 years ago is now flourishing and is embedded in people’s everyday lives. I see for the first time that the ACL conference is held here in Beijing, China. And I am deeply honored to be awa...

Bio BIO Andrea Goldsmith is the Stephen Harris professor in the School of Engineering and professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She also co-founded and served as Chief Technical Officer of Plume WiFi and of Quantenna (QTNA), and she currently serves on the corporate or technical advisory boards of Crown Castle Inc. (CCI), Interdigital Corp. (IDCC), Sequans (SQNS), Quantenn...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that comprehensive efforts to reduce a workforce's health and safety risks can be associated with a company's stock market performance. METHODS Stock market performance of Corporate Health Achievement Award winners was tracked under four different scenarios using simulation and past market performance. RESULTS A portfolio of companies recognized as award win...

The Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement is the highest scientific award of the American Diabetes Association (ADA). Given in memory of Sir Frederick Banting, one of the key investigators in the discovery of insulin, the Banting Medal is awarded annually for scientific excellence, recognizing significant long-term contributions to the understanding, treatment, or prevention of diabetes. Dan...

Edwin Meléndez is a Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College. He was appointed as the Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies in 2008. An economist by training, he has conducted considerable research in the areas of Puerto Rican and Latino studies, economic development, labor markets, and poverty. In addition to numerous scientific papers and other publications, he is t...

Each year, the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB; http:// www.iscb.org) makes awards for exceptional achievement to two scientists. The ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award honours career achievement in recognition of distinguished contributions over many years in research, teaching, service, or any combination of the three. In 2012 this award is going to Gunnar v...

The Bioelectromagnetics Society is pleased to announce the award for this year's Most Influential Journal Paper by citation from among primary research articles published between January 2015 and December 2019. authors of paper are Eun-Cheol Kim, Richard Leesungbok, Suk-Won Lee, Hyeon-Woo Sang Hyuk Park, Su-Jung Mah, Su-Jin Ahn. entitled, “Effects moderate intensity static magnetic fields on hu...

Dave Nicewicz was born and raised in the United States Central New Jersey, before moving to North Carolina, where he completed his Bachelor’s (2000) Master’s (2001) degrees Chemistry at University of Carolina (USA) Charlotte with Professor Craig A. Ogle. He then moved Chapel Hill Ph.D. Jeffrey S. Johnson. Dave’s studies were focused on development acyl anion equivalents generated via 1,2-Brook ...

This meta-analysis extends a previous review of the achievement effects of comprehensive school reform (CSR) programs (Borman, Hewes, Overman, & Brown, 2003). That meta-analysis observed significant effects of well endowed and well-researched programs, but it did not account for race/ethnicity. This article synthesizes 34 cohort or quasi-experimental outcomes of studies that incorporated the po...