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NAI Scientist Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
James Farquhar from NAI’s Carnegie Institution of Washington Team is a recipient of the prestigious 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships are extremely competitive and are given to advanced professionals in many fields. Please join NAI in congratulating James!!!
With the support of his Guggenheim Fellowship, James will be taking sabbatical leave to work with Don Canfield (University of Southern Denmark). Farquhar and Canfield will be extending their research on understanding the ways that...
June 25, 2008 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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NAI Ames Team Scientists Receive Honors
Three of our distinguished colleagues have just become even more so! Please join NAI in congratulating Dave Des Marais, Jack Lissauer, and Lou Allamandola on their continued achievements!
David Des Marais has been elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in recognition of his contributions to biogeochemistry and astrobiology. This designation (election as Fellow) is conferred upon not more than 0.1 percent of all AGU members in any given year. The recently-elected fellows will be...
June 4, 2008 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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NAI Member Receives Sagan Medal
G. Jeffrey Taylor from NAI’s University of Hawai’i Team is the recipient of the 2008 Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science. The Sagan Medal, presented by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) on an (almost) annual basis, was established by AAS’s Division for Planetary Sciences to recognize and honor outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist to the general public. Recipients are scientists...May 27, 2008 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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Chris Impey receives ASP Richard H. Emmons Award
University of Arizona researcher and educator Chris Impey has received the 2008 ASP Richard H. Emmons award, which recognizes and celebrates outstanding achievement in the teaching of college-level introductory astronomy for non-science majors. The award citation states that “Innovation is certainly a hallmark of Chris’s approach to teaching astronomy. He is ever thought provoking and engaging; students benefit from his refreshing methods that use interactive techniques and a blend of online and classroom teaching.”
May 12, 2008 / Written by: Wendy Dolci
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Jim Kasting elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Geochemical Society
Jim Kasting was recently elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jim is a member of the NAI’s Pennsylvania State University and Virtual Planetary Laboratory @ UW teams, and a PI in the Exobiology program. The American Academy of Arts & Sciences is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. Jim has also been named a Fellow of the Geochemical Society. The honorary title...
May 12, 2008 / Written by: Wendy Dolci
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NAI Student Poster Competition at AbSciCon 2008
The competition was fierce! Of 37 posters representing the full gamut of astrobiology research areas, six finalists moved into second round judging, and four awards were made. Please join NAI in thanking our judges and congratulating this year’s winners:
First place, $2,000, and the Frank Drake Award goes to Tsubasa Otake of Pennsylvania State University for his poster “Theoretical investigations of equilibrium and surface adsorption effects on mass-dependent fractionation in multiple sulfur isotope systems.”
Second place, and $1,250 goes to Pamela...
April 30, 2008 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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New Round of Exo-Evo Grants Awarded
NASA’s Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology Program has made 35 new grant awards for research into the origin and early evolution of life, the potential of life to adapt to different environments, and implications for life elsewhere. Areas of research emphasis in the Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology Program, one of four elements of the Astrobiology Program, are planetary conditions for life, prebiotic evolution, early evolution of life and the biosphere, and evolution of advanced life.
Planetary conditions for life will be...
April 27, 2008 / Written by: Linda Billings
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Stanley L. Miller Award
In recognition to the pioneering role Stanley L. Miller played in our understanding of the origins of life and the creation or our society, ISSOL the International Astrobiology Society shall present at each triennial meeting a Stanley L. Miller Award for outstanding contributions by a young scientist (under the age of 37) to origins of life research. The award is based on scientific merit without regard to nationality. The recipient will be honored at the awards banquet at...
March 11, 2008 / Posted by: Shige Abe -
Astrobiology Researchers Earn Kudos
Four researchers whose work is supported by NASA’s Astrobiology Program were singled out for recognition by their scientific peers last year. Norman R. Pace, Mitchell L. Sogin, John P. Grotzinger, and Nora Noffke all received awards in 2007 for their contributions to science.
Norman Pace, professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at the University of Colorado in Boulder, earned the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2007 Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to...
January 31, 2008 / Posted by: Wendy Dolci
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Procaryotes Are so Over: Pace Makes the Case
Norman R. Pace, a leading scientist in the field of astrobiology, makes his case for the end of the prokaryote in the January 2008 issue of Microbe, the monthly magazine of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
“Put simply, the concept of prokaryote is obsolete,” Pace asserts in his article, “The molecular tree of life changes how we see, teach microbial diversity.”
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a prokaryote is “an organism of the kingdom Monera (or Prokaryotae), comprising...
January 31, 2008 / Posted by: Wendy Dolci
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NAI Publication Receives Jubilee Award
A recent publication by members of the NAI’s Carnegie Institution of Washington Team was honored this week with the Jubilee Award from the Geological Society of South Africa. The team’s research, published in the South African Journal of Geology, concerned sulfur isotopes in ancient rocks in South Africa. Congratulations CIW!
June 20, 2007 / Posted by: Shige Abe
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NAI Scientist Receives Award from L'Oréal
Julie Huber from NAI’s Marine Biological Laboratory Team received a 2007 L’Oréal USA Fellowship for Women in Science. Now in its fourth year, the highly selective L’Oréal USA Fellowships annually recognize and reward five up-and-coming female scientists who are conducting innovative and groundbreaking research. Please join NAI in congratulating Dr. Huber!
June 17, 2007 / Posted by: Shige Abe
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NAI Scientist Receives Presidential Award
Please join NAI in congratulating Lou Allamandola of the NASA Ames Research Center Team who was recently bestowed the ‘Presidential Rank of Meritorious Senior Professional’ in a ceremony held at Ames on June 5th. Congratulations Lou!
June 5, 2007 / Posted by: Shige Abe
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NASA Astrobiologists Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Congratulations are due to astrobiologists Donald E. Canfield and Paul G. Falkowski for their election to the distinguished ranks of membership in the National Academy of Sciences.
May 1, 2007 / Posted by: Shige Abe
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NAI Scientist Receives Hazel Barnes Prize
Margaret Tolbert from NAI’s University of Colorado, Boulder Team, is receiving the 2007 UC-Boulder Hazel Barnes Prize. This prize is the University’s most prestigious faculty award. Tolbert has earned it, UC-Boulder has announced, “for her contributions to understanding the chemistry and climate of planetary atmospheres, including past and present,” and “for her teaching and research efforts with undergraduates and graduate students, 15 of whom have won prestigious NASA and Environmental Protection Agency fellowships in recent years.” Congratulations Margaret!
April 12, 2007 / Posted by: Shige Abe
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NAI Scientists Honored by American Society for Microbiology
The American Society for Microbiology recently announced its 2007 General Meeting Award Laureates, and two NAI scientists have received honors. Mitch Sogin, PI of NAI’s Marine Biological Laboratory Team, is presented with the USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award for his research in environmental microbial diversity. Norm Pace, from NAI’s University of Colorado, Boulder Team, is presented with the Abbott/ASM Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions and research in the field of microbial ecology. Congratulations Norm and...
March 25, 2007 / Posted by: Shige Abe
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Carl Woese and New Perspectives on Evolution
Scientists are proud when they discover a new species or genus of life, but one molecular biologist, Carl Woese, has the unique honor or discovering an entire domain of life, the archaea.
December 9, 2003 / Posted by: Shige Abe
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NAI Lead Team Member Awarded Donath Medal
Dr. Ariel Anbar receives the 2002 Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal) from the Geological Society of America.
October 23, 2002 / Posted by: Shige Abe
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NAI Congratulates and Welcomes Another Nobel Prize Winner
Dr. Sydney Brenner was awarded the The 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
October 8, 2002 / Posted by: Shige Abe
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