Award Acceptance Speech Research Articles

IEEE Control Systems Technical Field Award Acceptance Speech [Awards

Presents the acceptance speech for the recipient of the CS Society IEEE Field Award in Control.

Introduction to the 2014 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address

Introduction to the 2014 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address

2014 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address

2014 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address

IEEE Control Systems Award Acceptance Speech [People in Control

IEEE Control Systems Award Acceptance Speech [People in Control

Facts and Fiction, Biography and Interpretation

Mark Thompson’s Birth Certificate is the first biography of Danilo Kis in English, preceded only by Viktoria Radics’s Danilo Kis: palyarajzes breviarium, published in the original Hungarian in 2002 and in SerboCroat translation in 2005. Perhaps the most interesting feature of this book about this much translated and internationally famous writer is the author’s idea to structure it around a document, Danilo Kis’s brief ‘autobiography’. It is quite a Kisean device, and recalls Kis’s best novel Hourglass (1972), developed around his father’s unsent letter. It also promises a biography, or a ‘life and works’ overview, a genre which went out of fashion long ago, but which can still appeal to both a wider and specialist readership. However, after the opening pages of the book — an account of Kis’s family history and earliest childhood — this biographical determination disappears from Birth Certificate. Kis’s ‘Birth certificate’ is a brief and ironical award acceptance speech, in which the author fictionalizes and self-exoticizes himself, and should not be taken literally. Thompson’s Birth Certificate, however, takes it as a sujet, and comments extensively on things mentioned there only in passing. Hence an extended history of the Roman province of Pannonia, or of Jovan Cvijic’s and Vladimir Dvornikovic’s ideas — introduced by Kis’s mention of ‘ethnographic rarity’ — the relevance of which is not quite clear. On the other hand, Kis sums up in only two sentences the decades in which his books were written and, as a

The Art of Nursing Leadership

There are a few memorable times in our lives when we are asked to reflect upon and define what it means to be something. Whether it is for an academic paper, a personal journal, or a professional development workshop, these moments of ontological self-reflection help us to transform into both more of who we already are and who we aspire to be. As a recent recipient of an organizational nursing leadership award, I have had such an opportunity to examine what it means to be a nursing leader in preparation for the award's acceptance speech.

Introduction to the 2012 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address

Introduction to the 2012 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address

2012 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address

2012 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address

2012 Prescott Lecture: The nonpharmacologic basis of therapeutics: To get to the next level in interprofessional patient care, pharmacists need to recognize the social and interpersonal aspects of medical decision making

I'd like to start off by saying I'm very honored to receive the Albert B. Prescott award for this year. To be recognized among the other distinguished recipients is very humbling. I've given a lot of presentations, but never an award acceptance speech like this. So I tried to apply the principles I've learned in giving other presentations. First, know your audience. What do they know? What are they expecting coming into the talk? What level of knowledge do they already possess? It's much harder to pin down this group than, say, third-year student pharmacists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) or even clinicians attending an infectious diseases conference. But I can imagine that you're going to want to hear about leadership, or education, or both, since this award is given by the Pharmacy Leadership & Education Institute. Second, be prepared. So I read all of the Prescott acceptance speeches for the last few years. There were many visionary speeches about the future of pharmacy or what it takes to be a leader. Well, I've never been too good about predictions. In college, we had to turn in an assignment over e-mail and I thought, “This will never last.” Now e-mail runs my life. And I've never really considered myself to be a leader in the traditional sense. So I'll adapt a third piece of advice often given to writers—“write what you know”—and talk a little bit about the challenges I see in my daily work as a clinician in infectious diseases and a teacher of student pharmacists, and from there perhaps draw out some broader implications for the future of pharmacy education and practice. Wait, didn't I say I wouldn't talk about the future of pharmacy? Well, I guess it's just too tempting to give your opinion on such things when given such a platform! About the Prescott Award Albert B. Prescott was a maverick in the late 1800s because of his advocacy of an academic basis for pharmaceutical education. Founder and dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan, Prescott nurtured his idea for nearly 40 years before the rest of the profession caught up with his vision. In 1900, Prescott was the first president of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. This chemist, educator, and leader of pharmacists was also instrumental in founding Phi Delta Chi Pharmacy Fraternity at the University of Michigan in 1883, and he was the advisor to the Alpha Chapter and the first Honorary Brother of the fraternity. The Albert. B Prescott Leadership Award was established by Phi Delta Chi in 1987 to honor young pharmacists who lead their field. Now administered by the Pharmacy Leadership & Education Institute, this annual award is bestowed on a pharmacist who is no more than 10 years into his or her career and who has demonstrated exemplary leadership qualities as a student and young pharmacist. The recipient delivers a scholarly lecture on issues such as pharmacy as a profession, leadership, or future trends in pharmacy practice or education. About the Prescott Award Albert B. Prescott was a maverick in the late 1800s because of his advocacy of an academic basis for pharmaceutical education. Founder and dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan, Prescott nurtured his idea for nearly 40 years before the rest of the profession caught up with his vision. In 1900, Prescott was the first president of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. This chemist, educator, and leader of pharmacists was also instrumental in founding Phi Delta Chi Pharmacy Fraternity at the University of Michigan in 1883, and he was the advisor to the Alpha Chapter and the first Honorary Brother of the fraternity. The Albert. B Prescott Leadership Award was established by Phi Delta Chi in 1987 to honor young pharmacists who lead their field. Now administered by the Pharmacy Leadership & Education Institute, this annual award is bestowed on a pharmacist who is no more than 10 years into his or her career and who has demonstrated exemplary leadership qualities as a student and young pharmacist. The recipient delivers a scholarly lecture on issues such as pharmacy as a profession, leadership, or future trends in pharmacy practice or education.

Fuhr's challenge

In his 2012 Salton Award acceptance speech, Norbert Fuhr challenged the IR research community to develop IR into an engineering science. In this note, I elaborate on the implications of this challenge, which I interpret as a call for more conceptualization in IR research. The stakes are high, because failing this transition, IR research may never be able to produce generalizable, long--term performance gains, and IR risks losing its significance as a research field.

The pipeline runs dry (2011 Golden Omega Award acceptance speech)

Includes: K.D. Srivastava Receives the First Masoud Farzaneh Award

Medical physics graduate programs should adjust enrollment to achieve equilibrium between graduates and residents

Medical physics graduate programs should adjust enrollment to achieve equilibrium between graduates and residents

2010 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address

2010 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address

Introduction to the 2010 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address

Introduction to the 2010 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address

A time for reflection: Looking back and moving forward

A time for reflection: Looking back and moving forward

Introduction to the 2006 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address

Introduction to the 2006 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address

2006 Job Lewis Smith Award Acceptance Address: Is There an OWA (Other Weird Arrangement) in Your Future?

I am greatly honored to stand before you as the recipient of this award. To stand in the line of men and women who have been here before me and to stand before you, my colleagues, teachers and friends, is astonishing and gratifying, a truly wondrous moment. Please allow me to use this occasion to reconnect with our history and to look ahead at what lies before us. I am particularly concerned about OWAs [other weird arrangements]. We have had many OWAs come and go. Like many attractive ideas, they have their day, then fade, with traces taken up by the next fad, the next iteration of the core idea. Here are a few: We have had our share of OWAs in community pediatrics: In addition, several themes have entered the lexicon of community pediatrics: But, I believe community pediatrics as a concept and as a discipline has a lot more durability than most OWAs because of its rich lineage, substantial content, and profound relevance to today's environment of pediatric practice. We owe much to the work and legacies of many who have labored in the field of community pediatrics. To name a few who have influenced me, and by no means constituting an exhaustive list: Martin Cherkasky, Victor Sidel, and Harold Wise made Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine [both in Bronx, NY] a fount of innovations in what was then called social medicine; from prepaid group practice to neighborhood health centers to community outreach, … Address correspondence to Stanley I. Fisch, MD, FAAP, Harlingen Pediatrics Associates, 321 S 21st St, Harlingen, TX 78550. E-mail: sfisch{at}rgv.rr.com

Sidney Hook Memorial Award acceptance address: Reform is nigh

l rt is a great pleasure to receive an award from the National Association of Schol~ars---our nation's engine of reform in higher education. The pleasure is doubled by the fact that the award the NAS has elected to confer upon me is named for the late Sidney Hook---one of the twentieth century's most dedicated, eloquent, and courageous defenders of ordered liberty and free and responsible inquiry. And pleasure is transformed into joy by the privilege of receiving this award at a celebration in which individuals I greatly admire--Donald Downs and Candace de Russy--are being honored with awards named for two of the great founders of our movement, Peter Shaw and my friend Barry Gross. And make no mistake, we are a movement. We are no mere mutual support society. We are not huddled together in a catacomb. We do not merely ask to be left unmolested to carry out our private scholarly researches, publish our articles and books, and meet our classes, as the academic world--and the wider intellectual culture--abandons standards, compromises scholarly integrity, and crumbles around us. We demand more than freedom for ourselves and others who dissent from campus orthodoxies, though we certainly demand that. We aim to reform, renew, and revitalize the academy. And we intend to make it happen--indeed, we are making it happen--by introducing into the discussion ideas and arguments that our colleagues need to understand and confront, and that our students have a right to hear and consider. It is time for campus monologues to end and true intellectual engagement to begin. What we offer to our institutions is something that every true lover of learning will prize: serious, civil, and vibrant discussion and debate. In the midst of the fight, our progress seems slow, I admit. Vast swaths of academia remain untouched by reform. Our movement has not penetrated very deeply, if at all, into certain disciplines or subdisciplines, and there are institutions at which our influence has so far scarcely been felt. But we must not be demoralized. Like the woman demanding justice before the unjust judge in the Gospel parable, we must be doggedly persistent. We may, from time to time, retreat to regroup or re-evaluate strategic options; but we must never regard a defeat in any area as permanent. There are no unreformable disciplines or institutions. There are merely disciplines and institutions awaiting reform. For now, it is worth pausing to consider what our movement has accomplished. Exemplary programs designed in the spirit of reform have been built at Duke, Brown,

The Barry Gross Memorial Award acceptance address: Shades of Leo the Great and Ajax

The Barry Gross Memorial Award acceptance address: Shades of Leo the Great and Ajax

The Peter Shaw Memorial Award acceptance address: Constructive mischief at U-wisconsin

The Peter Shaw Memorial Award acceptance address: Constructive mischief at U-wisconsin