The Arthur P. Dempster Fund “will support and recognize promising graduate students within the Department of Statistics, in particular those who have made significant contributions to theoretical or foundational research in statistics.” It will be an annual award with a prize minimum of $2000. The expectation is to award one per year, though the faculty reserves the right to award two or none i...

Fifty seven children with impaired hearing aged 4-12 years were evaluated with speech perception and language measures as the first stage of a longitudinal study. The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF) and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) were used to evaluate the children’s spoken language. Regression analyses indicated that scores on both tests were significantly correl...

and Professor Murray Leibbrandt from the University of Cape Town. I thank them for their input but take sole responsibility for this paper and any errors it may contain. I would also like to thank TIPS for providing financial support for this research.

Cells has instituted a “Best Paper” award to recognize the most outstanding papers in the area of cell biology, molecular biology, and biophysics, published in Cells. We are pleased to announce the first “Cells Best Paper Award” for 2015. The winners were chosen by the Editor-in-Chief and selected Editorial Board Members from all the research papers published in 2013 and 2014. We are pleased to...

a subset of abstracts are further judged during oral presentation at the meeting. Award winners are announced at the annual Renal Dinner held in conjunction with the meeting. Students are strongly urged to participate in the award process. Email or mail the submitted abstract and complete APS Award Certificate Form to: Heddwen L Brooks, Chair, APS Awards 431 The Physiologist Vol. 47, No. 5, 2004

James E. Bingham Award, established by members of the law firm of Bingham Summers Welsh & Spilman, in memory of James E. Bingham, Class of 1911, given each year to one or more distinguished seniors who will enroll in an A.B.A.-accredited law school for the next academic year. The cash award is presented at the Peck Award Banquet each spring with a member of Mr. Bingham’s law firm participating ...

The ASBMB is not in favor of such an award. Economic incentives typically benefit the group receiving the direct investment. Thus, emeritus awards will benefit eligible senior scientists; however, even with the stipulation that the award focus on mentoring, its effects, if any, on junior faculty members will be difficult to discern. Moreover, as discussed in point 6, such an award mechanism may...

• The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and the Investment Company Institute (ICI) have collaborated to develop the EBRI/ICI 401(k) Accumulation Projection Model. This model examines how 401(k) assets might contribute to retirement income for future retirees based on decisions workers make throughout their careers and finds that the median replacement rate from 401(k) accumulations dep...