Honors & Awards
Colwell Honored with the 2010 Stockholm Water Prize PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 12 August 2010 05:20

 

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Rita R. Colwell * ,"one of this century’s most influential voices in science, technology, and policy associated with water and health," has been recognized for her "exceptional contributions to control the spread of cholera, a waterborne pathogen that infects 3 to 5 million people and leads to an estimated 120,000 deaths each year." The "utmost global importance" and predictive value of Colwell's holistic perspective on pathogenesis is broadly recognized. Rita Colwell became the first woman to serve as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1998 to 2004. In addition to her important roles in the U.S. government, in non-profit science-policy organizations, and within private foundations, Colwell has had influential positions in the international scientific research community.

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* ISSNAF founding member and Distinguished Professor from the University of Maryland
and Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States.


The Award to Rita R. Colwell is an honor to ISSNAF

 

 
To Andrew Viterbi the IIC Lifetime Achievement Award PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 11 August 2010 02:56

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The Viterbi Museum at the University of Southern California Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering  "is a hidden jewel." The murals realized by Sandro Chia for the walls of the museum evoke memorable moments from Viterbi's public and private lives.

On August 18, 2010, Andrew J. Viterbi * will receive the IIC Lifetime Achievement Award by the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles -- a tribute and a ceremony under the auspices of the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles, in collaboration with the department of cultural affairs of the City of Los Angeles, and ISSNAF.

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* Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UCSD
and a founding member of ISSNAF

 
The Future Prize To Federico Capasso* -- Laser Luminary PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 21 July 2010 00:00
federico.capassoThe 2010 Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis (the future prize), an international award for excellent research on the application or generation of laser light, recognizes Federico Capasso's contributions “to laser technology with [his] research on the quantum cascade laser." Federico Capasso has also been recognized as Laser Luminary by SPIE, an international society advancing light-based research, as part of LASERFEST, a year long celebration for the 50th anniversary of the first laser's demonstration by Theodore Maiman in 1960.

Capasso's adventure with Quantum cascade (QC) lasers began at Bell Labs in 1994 and continued since 2003 at Harvard University. Here for more than a decade Capasso's group has  achieved "major milestones" in QCL research whose broad range of applications span from pollution monitoring, to medical diagnostics such as breath analysis, and homeland security. The Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis for research in applied laser technology-prize was presented to Capasso in Ditingen, on July 9, with a laudatory address by Theodor W. Hänsch, a co-winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics -- from luminary to luminary.

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* ISSNAF founding member and professor at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

 

ISSNAF proudly congratulates Professor Federico Capasso on his achievements which also honor ISSNAF and the  entire Italian scientific community.

 

 

 
The Highest IEEE Award to Andrew Viterbi PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 10 May 2010 13:17

Viterbi_algorithmAndrew J. Viterbi * receives  the 2010 IEEE Medal of Honor. A profile of the "quiet engineer" who  "enabled 3G cell phones, Wi-Fi, and a host of other technologies"  thanks to an algorithm now bearing his name is in Spectrum, the IEEE 's magazine.

ISSNAF congratulates Prof. Viterbi and adds another medal to its members' medal collection.


* Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UCSD
and a founding member of ISSNAF
 
Reasons to be Happy! From Obama's Handshake To Napolitano's Knightwood PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 09 April 2010 01:29
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In the same year, Marisa Roberto has received the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on early career scientists - the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award -- and the Knightwood of Merit, the highest ranking honour of the Republic, by the President of the Italian Republic -- ISSNAF congratulates Marisa Roberto!

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