Medal Award Research Articles

George Hevesy medal award 2025: call for nominations

George Hevesy medal award 2025: call for nominations

Call for nominations: 2024 Pauling Medal Award

Call for nominations: 2024 Pauling Medal Award

RADM Anne M. Swap, FACHE, 2024 Recipient of the ACHE Gold Medal Award.

RADM Anne M. Swap, FACHE, 2024 Recipient of the ACHE Gold Medal Award.

Joseph S. Francisco receives 2023 Theodore William Richards Medal Award

Joseph S. Francisco receives 2023 Theodore William Richards Medal Award

Laudation for Prof. Dr. Melissa A. DENECKE: 2023 Hevesy Medal Award recipient

Laudation for Prof. Dr. Melissa A. DENECKE: 2023 Hevesy Medal Award recipient

APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Jennifer Joy Freyd.

The APF Gold Medal for Impact in Psychology recognizes Jennifer Joy Freyd for her trailblazing research and advocacy, which has reshaped the understanding of trauma, betrayal, and responses to sexual violence. Her theory of betrayal trauma challenged prevailing assumptions, particularly regarding survivors of child sexual abuse. Dr. Freyd's resilience and commitment to justice have inspired countless individuals worldwide and influenced therapeutic approaches, policy reforms, and societal attitudes toward trauma and gender-based violence. Dr. Freyd has also served as a prominent figure in significant social movements that empower victims, such as #MeToo. Through initiatives like the Center for Institutional Courage, she continues to advocate for survivors' rights and promote ethical research practices, aiming for a more equitable society where survivors find validation and healing. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

A taste of ambrosia: Do Olympic medalists live longer than Olympic losers?

To investigate the longevity of a large sample of Olympic Games participants, considering the interaction between different types of sports and medal awards. Data scraping from Wikipedia and Wikidata allowed us to collect a sample of 102,993 famous athletes. We selected 20 of the most populated disciplines to make the groups comparable. We conducted a comparison of life duration on a subset of 17,194 elite athletes, predominantly male, dead at the time of analysis. Olympic medalists' lifespan was shorter than non-medalists. Athletes in such disciplines as boxing, weightlifting, ice hockey, cycling, football, swimming, and wrestling lived significantly shorter lives than the mean of the group of athletes. In contrast, the duration of life in athletes involved in athletics, rowing, fencing, artistic gymnastics, shooting, cross-country skiing, sailing, and equestrian sports was highest compared with the mean of the group. Disciplines classified as engaging mostly power were linked to shorter lifespans, whereas those involving predominantly skill were associated with longer life durations. The interaction of being a medalist and sport was found to be significant. Medalists in the disciplines of athletics, basketball, boxing, equestrian sports, wrestling, and water polo had significantly shorter lives (the final item was insignificant after correction for multiple comparisons). Olympic achievement was linked to length of life in mainly individual, not team, sports.

Da Vinci Medal Address: Material Political Economy.

On the occasion of the award of the author's da Vinci Medal in 2022, this article sketches a perspective, material political economy, employed by the author, explaining it by drawing on Marc Bloch's classic account of the dispute in European feudalism between milling grain on watermills or windmills controlled by feudal superiors, who could exact fees, and common people's use of hand mills. It considers the material political economy aspects of two modern technologies. The first is automated high-frequency trading in finance, where there are typically conflicts with incumbents and material efforts to favor "market-making" over "aggressive" algorithms. The second is the automated auctioning of digital display advertising opportunities, showing tension between two forms of these auctions' material organization: centralized auctioning via Google's systems and decentralized "header bidding."

2023 Prentice Medal Award lecture: Ocular surface-related symptoms of discomfort and other stories.

I have been fortunate to spend portions of my career in each of private practice, industry, and academia. At some times, these occupations have dictated the research direction, whereas, at others, curiosity has been allowed to dominate. This has resulted in multiple avenues of inquiry (some might say, too many), along which I have traveled with a rich and varied cast of collaborators, who have all taught me a great deal. The privilege of being awarded the Charles F. Prentice medal provides me an opportunity to summarize some of these activities. Beginning with an attempt to use contact lenses to solve a problem for those affected by albinism, the story shifts to addressing some of the wider deficiencies of contact lenses, in particular the consequences of their oxygen permeability and tendency to induce discomfort toward the end of the day. After briefly considering some aspects of meibomian gland function, the narrative concludes with the latest investigations of neurological links between the cornea and migraine.

Deutsch-dänische Kunstbeziehungen 1820 bis 1920

Deutsch-dänische Kunstbeziehungen 1820 bis 1920

On the awarding of medals of the Russian Academy of Sciences with bonuses for young scientists and for students within educational programs of higher education based on the results of the 2022 competition

A number of young scientists were awarded medals of the Russian Academy of Sciences with bonuses of 50 000 rubles each; university students were awarded medals of the Russian Academy of Sciences with bonuses of 25 000 rubles each.

Athlete Activism, Human Rights, and the 2020 Olympic Games: A Twitter Analysis of Raven Saunders' Activism

The study considers Raven Saunders' protest at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics (creating an X with raised arms on the podium of the medal award ceremony as a symbol of support for oppressed people, hereby violating the International Olympic Committee's [IOC's] Rule 50.2 Guidelines) and assesses Twitter users' reactions. The authors used a single case study approach and applied the general inductive approach to analyze 3,460 tweets. About 28.7% (15.2%) of users responded positively (negatively) to the athlete's activism. Discrete emotions often accompanied beliefs that relied on dispositional (but not situational) motive attributions, leading to favorable or unfavorable attitudes. About 48.1% made neutral posts. Important to event management, the IOC as the regulator of athlete's freedom of speech was mostly perceived critically (i. e., the IOC should 1) listen rather than speak, 2) prioritize better, 3) increase their competency, and 4) the IOC's investigation is wrong), while some users demanded further investigation.

George Hevesy Medal Award 2024: call for nominations

George Hevesy Medal Award 2024: call for nominations

APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Mark L. Hatzenbuehler.

The APF Gold Medal for Impact in Psychology recognizes Mark L. Hatzenbuehler for his paradigm-shifting approach to understanding and attenuating mental health disparities. Mark L. Hatzenbuehler has worked to position structural stigma as a fundamental cause of population disparities in psychiatric morbidity and other health outcomes and to identify the mechanisms through which stigma compromises health from a theoretically driven multimethod research program focused on biopsychosocial mechanisms. His research has explored the impact of stigma and discrimination on minority communities, specifically lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations. More than any other person in the field, Dr. Hatzenbuehler has given life to so-called structural stigma by creatively deploying data about contexts to show how they affect the mental health, suicide risk, and even longevity of gay and lesbian individuals. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Lenore E. Walker.

The APF Gold Medal for Impact in Psychology recognizes Lenore E. Walker for her groundbreaking work with a particularly vulnerable population, those with a syndrome she named Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS). Lenore E. Walker's work has had a transformational impact in psychology, in the courts, in public policy, and in the lives of countless women over a period of more than 40 years. BWS is accepted as a criminal defense in federal court and all state courts and may be raised as 'state of mind' for damages in personal injury cases and in family courts. The central tenet of Dr. Walker's contributions is that the victims of trauma from familial and intimate partner violence, abuse, and degradation all share experiencing common trauma symptoms that may need effective trauma-specific assessment and treatment. Her work has impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of abused women and their families and continues to be used and expanded upon today. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Joseph P. Gone.

The APF Gold Medal for Impact in Psychology recognizes Joseph P. Gone for his dedication to making psychological services more fully accessible, culturally appropriate, and demonstrably effective for alleviating disabling distress among Indigenous peoples and individuals of other diverse backgrounds. Dr. Joseph Gone has cultivated a distinctive and impactful scholarly vision that is anchored in psychology while remaining robustly interdisciplinary and committed to advancing the well-being of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples. Dr. Gone is the leading expert on Native American psychology, and his work is cited in one in four of all publications that exist in psychology on Native groups. His participation in the communities he studies has made his work particularly impactful and allowed for collaborative interventions that otherwise would not be possible. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Jillian C. Shipherd.

The APF Gold Medal for Impact in Psychology recognizes Jillian C. Shipherd for her extensive work to improve the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ+) veterans. Jillian Shipherd has pioneered national training programs for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on all facets of transgender health care to support policy changes and improvements, positioning clinicians to evaluate and treat this previously ignored and stigmatized group of veterans. Her research has received wide attention in the media and in senior management within the VA. Dr. Shipherd has taken her research findings and applied them to make groundbreaking change throughout the VA spanning education and policy. Her trailblazing work has had a transformational impact on the lives of LGBTQ+ veterans and will continue to affect access to care for generations to come. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

Fifty years of operational research: 1972–2022

In July 2022, I received the EURO Gold medal at the 32nd EURO Conference held in Espoo, Finland. This paper is based on the presentation I made at the medal award ceremony. It covers 10 topics on which I have worked throughout my career. These are the seriation problem, rotating work schedules, deterministic vehicle routing, stochastic vehicle routing, examination timetabling, districting, waste management, metro network design, green transportation, and humanitarian logistics.

Measuring nepotism and sexism in artistic recognition: the awarding of medals at the Paris Salon, 1850–1880

Measuring nepotism and sexism in artistic recognition: the awarding of medals at the Paris Salon, 1850–1880

Interview with the 2023 Hooke medal winner Andrew Carter

ABSTRACT Andrew Carter studied biochemistry at the University of Oxford, where he discovered his love for structural biology, which prompted him to join Venki Ramakrishnan's lab at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) for his PhD. Here, he used X-ray crystallography to study the ribosome and its interactions with antibiotics. He then spent a year as a postdoc at Clare College, Cambridge, before moving to Ron Vale's lab at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA, where he first began his work on dyneins. Andrew has since devoted his research career to studying dynein, and in 2010 set up his own lab back at the MRC LMB, where his research has contributed significantly to the dynein and motor protein fields. In recognition of this work, Andrew was recently awarded the British Society of Cell Biology (BSCB) Hooke Medal award for 2023 and we caught up with him to ask about this award, his research and his career.