Awards

The Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) is pleased to announce 130 new members.

Six social and behavioral scientists were recently awarded the 2019 Impact in Action Writing Prize for their submissions detailing how their research makes a valuable difference beyond academia. Four submissions received the top prize from Social Science Space, an online social network sponsored by SAGE Publishing; two focus on education, one on immigration, and one on autism.

University of Oklahoma researcher Si Wu has been selected as a winner of the Robert J. Cotter New Investigator Award, presented by the US Human Proteome Organization.

IEEE, a professional society dedicated to advancing innovation and technological excellence for the benefit of humanity, has elevated University of Arizona professor of electrical and computer engineering Ivan Djordjevic to IEEE Fellow.

The Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) is pleased to announce Sallie Permar, MD, PhD, as the recipient of the 2020 SPR Award in honor of E. Mead Johnson, the most prestigious honor bestowed by the society.

Bruce Bursten, a chemistry and biochemistry professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has been named by the American Chemical Society to receive the 2020 ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry. The annual award recognizes Bursten for distinguished contributions as a researcher in inorganic electronic structure and bonding, teacher, author and forward-thinking leader. He will be honored in March at a national ACS meeting in Philadelphia.

Tomohiro Nishijima, M.D., was awarded The Oncologist's 2nd Annual Young Investigator Award for his research on how the chemotherapy toxicity risk score may assist doctors in making treatment decisions for older patients.

Two-dimensional semiconductors, particularly those made of a class of material known as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), hold exciting potential for a range of current and future technologies, like solar cells, LED lights, and quantum computing. A recently awarded National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grant will allow a chemical engineer from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to -- along with his team -- explore novel uses of TMDCs in an optoelectronic device, which uses light to create electricity.

Researcher Daniel J. Drucker has been awarded the Endocrine Society's John D. Baxter Prize for Entrepreneurship for his contributions to diabetes treatment, the Society announced today.