Awards

St. Jude nurse leader Belinda N. Mandrell, PhD, RN, named to the 2020 Class of Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing

Dr Tomas Ryan of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience has been awarded the highly prestigious 2020 Lister Institute Research Prize. He is the first scientist in a higher institution in Ireland to receive the fellowship. Dr Ryan will use the prize to pursue research into memory "engrams" to better understand if - and how - we may retrieve misplaced infant memories in adults.

The Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) has named Katherine Hornbostel, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, as a Fellow for Scialog: Negative Emissions Science.

Korean researchers practically swept the board in the global challenge on AI-based image and video compression. Two teams from Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) won 1st and 2nd places at the Challenge on Learned Image Compression (CLIC), a global AI video compression competition hosted by renowned computer vision society, Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR).

Neil Hayes, MD, MS, MPH, division chief of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is among recipients of the 2020 Team Science Awards from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) for his contributions to developing The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a groundbreaking multisite project to understand cancer at its molecular level through genome sequencing and extensive data analysis.

From shy ferns to idle meerkats and bathing king eiders, the Seventh BMC Ecology Image Competition has produced an eclectic array of images that showcase the beauty and diversity of life on our planet, as well as its intricate relationships and risks. All images are open access and available for use under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Karabi Bezboruah has won the 2020 United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) International Excellence in Teaching/Training Award. Bezboruah, an associate professor in the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs (CAPPA), said the award is an honor for The University of Texas at Arlington because it is recognized globally.

Neville Sanjana, Ph.D., Core Faculty Member at the New York Genome Center, Assistant Professor of Biology, New York University, and Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU School of Medicine, is the recipient of a 2020 Technology Impact Award from the Cancer Research Institute (CRI). Dr. Sanjana received this award to support his research study utilizing a new, high-throughput approach to overcome T-cell immunosuppression in pancreatic cancer.

A radical proposal to use the laws of physics before, not after, machine learning computations are performed has won a DOE Early Career award for a Sandia researcher.