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International Association for Plant Taxonomy 2021 Stebbins Medal

Luke T. Dunning, Jill K. Olofsson, Christian Parisod, Rimjhim R. Choudhury, Jose J. Moreno-Villena, Yang Yang, Jacqueline Dionora, W. Paul Quick, Minkyu Park, Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, Guillaume Besnard, Patrik Nosil, Colin P. Osborne & Pascal-Antoine Christin. 2019. Lateral transfers of large DNA fragments spread functional genes among grasses. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116(10): 4416–4425. https://www.pnas.org/content/116/10/4416.short The Stebbins Medal was first awarded in 2003 in honour of the American botanist and geneticist George Ledyard Stebbins (1906–2000), one of the world's leading plant evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. The medal is awarded biennially by IAPT for an outstanding paper in phylogenetic systematics and evolution of plants. The 2021 award considered papers published in 2018 and 2019. In their paper, Dunning & al. presented the most thorough and far-reaching study to date that convincingly demonstrates extensive lateral gene transfer (LGT) in plants. By comparing genomes of many grasses, they showed that large blocks of DNA containing functional genes are laterally passed among species that are distantly related across the grass phylogeny. Through stringent phylogenomic analyses, they discovered 59 LGTs clustered on 23 laterally acquired genomic fragments that are up to 170 kb long in the genome of the grass Alloteropsis semialata (R.Br.) Hitchc., involving at least nine different donor species. They also showed that some of these laterally transferred genes have added functions to the recipient species genomes. This suggests that LGT represents a potent evolutionary force capable of spreading functional genes among distantly related lineages of grasses. Luke Dunning (Fig. 1), the first author of the 2021 Stebbins Medal paper, studied for his Bachelor's Degree at Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom and his Ph.D. at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Since October 2020, he holds a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Independent Research Fellowship in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield, U.K. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Pascal-Antoine Christin, the senior author of the winning paper, also at the University of Sheffield. Luke's work focuses on the genomics of rapid adaptation in grasses and combines cutting-edge genomic techniques, comparative analyses and experimental approaches to understand how organisms adapt to their environment (https://dunning-lab.group.shef.ac.uk). Many congratulations to Luke Dunning and colleagues! The Stebbins Award committee comprises Paula Rudall (U.K.), Loren Rieseberg (Canada) and Colin Hughes, Chair (Switzerland). The IAPT Council is grateful to the committee for their hard work in making this outstanding selection.

Editorial

This issue (5.1) of Transactions of AESOP brings together a selection of papers submitted to recent rounds of the Best AESOP Congress Paper Award and an invited paper by Tuna Taşan-Kok the Chair of the AESOP Congress Paper Award Committee. They provide original and insightful contributions addressing key themes in contemporary planning research and practice.

Biochemical Society 2022 Award winners

Biochemical Society 2022 Award winners

George Bereday Award for 2020

Previous articleNext article FreeAwardGeorge Bereday Award for 2020PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreEach year the George Bereday Award Committee selects the most outstanding Comparative Education Review (CER) article for the George Bereday Award. The selection committee includes scholars who are chosen for their breadth of methodological skills and intellectual rigor. This year’s committee was chaired by Jeremy Rappleye (Kyoto University, Japan), and included Inés Dussel (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Mexico), Guorui Fan (East China Normal University, China), Padma Sarangapani (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India), Miki Sugimura (Sophia University, Japan), and Stephen Carney (Roskilde University, Denmark). From 26 research articles published in volume 64 (2020) of CER (themselves selected from almost 200 annual submissions), the George Bereday Committee awarded the honor to Lisa Yiu for her article “Educational Injustice in a High-Stakes Testing Context: A Mixed Methods Study on Rural Migrant Children’s Academic Experiences in Shanghai Public Schools,” published in July. The committee reported the following: “The article utilized an impressive mixed methods approach to suggest that ‘successful’ teaching practices can only be understood within the diminished integrity of teaching in high-stakes testing contexts. It brings into rich focus the ways that the essentially moral act of teaching comes to be distorted under various national and global assessments, whilst artfully linking the teaching-learning experience to the larger social, political and economic landscape, including the hukou system and PISA. The committee noted the piece emerged from the author’s own experiences, multiyear relations with Shanghai teachers, and linguistic abilities, and felt the article had potential to open new lines of critical research.” The CER editors congratulate Lisa Yiu on this honor.The committee also noted the high quality of other articles and in particular offered an honorable mention to two articles: Manuel Enrique Cardoso, “Policy Evidence by Design: International Large-Scale Assessment and Grade Repetition,” published in November, and Nigel O. M. Brissett, “Teaching Like a Subaltern: Postcoloniality, Positionality, and Pedagogy in International Development and Education,” also published in November.George Zygmunt Fijalkowski Bereday, born in Warsaw in 1920, was both the founding editor of the CER and a cofounder of the Comparative Education Society, along with his close colleague William Brickman. A graduate of London and Oxford (while also serving in the British army during World War II), Professor Bereday subsequently arrived in the United States for PhD studies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Later he received a JD from Columbia Law School, where he studied while teaching comparative education, sociology, and juvenile law at Columbia Teachers College from 1955 until his untimely death in 1983. William Brickman (writing in the fall of that year in Western European Education) called Bereday an extraordinarily talented and gifted personality: “A polyglot, he read, spoke, comprehended, and lectured in several Slavic, Germanic, and Romance languages … and he attained a practical ability in the use of Japanese. Brickman also enthused that “Professor Bereday represented a rare blend of the classical and the modern, of Eastern and Western European education and scholarship, and of the Occidental and Oriental cultures” and that he “exhibited endless evidence of humanism toward other cultures and humanitarianism toward persons of all ethnic, racial, and national backgrounds.” The composition of this year’s George Bereday Award Committee underscores that legacy. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Comparative Education Review Volume 65, Number 2May 2021 Sponsored by the Comparative and International Education Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/713788 © 2021 by the Comparative and International Education Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

ESGE news and upcoming events May 2021

The ESGE Medtronic Research Award supports Artificial Intelligence (AI) research in the field of colonoscopy and we would like to encourage people to apply for our second application round. Winners will receive GI Genius systems, the number determined by the Award Committee on review of the successful award application plus direct costs will be covered up to a maximum total value of € 8,000 to the successful applicants’ institutions.

National Conference of Black Political Scientists Presidential Address

National Conference of Black Political Scientists Presidential Address

2020 STAFLEU MEDAL

IAPT is pleased to announce the 2020 Stafleu Medal for an outstanding publication on historical, bibliographic, and/or nomenclatural aspects of systematics and taxonomy. For this award, the Stafleu Award Committee considered papers published in 2017–2018. The 2020 Stafleu Medal is awarded to: Kathryn Mauz for her 2018 book, C. G. Pringle: Botanist, Traveler, and the “Flora of the Pacific Slope” (1881–1884). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 120, Heritage Series 3. New York: The New York Botanical Garden Press. This magnificent hardcover volume (Fig. 1) covers in detail a less well-documented period in the life of Cyrus Guernsey Pringle, a well-known botanist, plant collector, and photographer whose collections and travels are important even today for their documentation of plant occurrences in areas of the southwestern United States that are now much changed. Pringle is better known for his later work in Mexico. This well-written volume represents a high level of botanical scholarship. Dr. Mauz worked at and consulted with 24 herbaria to locate all of Pringle's collections, and she verified or updated the determinations for all of them. Pringle left no field books or diaries from this period, so his itinerary was recreated from his personal papers, correspondence with other botanists, and the 2700+ specimens, which are detailed in some of the appendices. The book also sheds light on an era when paid plant collectors explored many parts of North America, ensuring the careers of their prominent botanical patrons in universities and botanical gardens in the United States. Kathryn Mauz is an independent scholar, but her passion is botanical history. She has held Research Associate positions at the herbaria of the University of Arizona and the University of Vermont. She lives in Colorado, U.S.A., where she assisted with seed collections for restoration and ex-situ conservation projects, as well as botanical inventories. Kathryn received her Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of Arizona. Her doctoral research involved historical changes in plant diversity of the Tucson, Arizona, area stemming from changes in hydrology and ecology as the city developed into an agricultural and urban center, starting from the first scientific historical accounts in the mid-19th century. This research resulted in her first book, An Agreeable Landscape: Historical Botany and Plant Biodiversity of a Sonoran Desert Bottomland, 1855–1920, which was published in 2011 by BRIT Press. During her herbarium investigations toward her dissertation, Mauz became interested in collections made in Arizona by Cyrus Pringle. The realization that this period in Pringle's life was not well known gave rise to the present volume. Congratulations to Kathryn Mauz! The IAPT Council is grateful to the Stafleu Award Committee for their hard work in making this selection. The Stafleu Award Committee consisted of George Yatskievych (U.S.A.), Nicholas Hind (U.K.), Vinita Gowda (India), and Jefferson Prado, Chair (Brazil).

Smith Family Recollections of Joseph Smith’s First Vision

Research Article| April 01 2021 Smith Family Recollections of Joseph Smith’s First Vision Kyle R. Walker Kyle R. Walker KYLE R. WALKER is a faculty member at Brigham Young University-Idaho, where he works in the Counseling Center. He is the author and editor of two volumes on the Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith family. His most recent biography, entitled William B. Smith: In the Shadow of a Prophet (2015), won the best biography award from the John Whitmer Historical Association. He has served as a board member for the John Whitmer Historical Association and on the book awards committee for MHA. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Mormon History (2021) 47 (2): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.5406/jmormhist.47.2.0001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kyle R. Walker; Smith Family Recollections of Joseph Smith’s First Vision. Journal of Mormon History 1 April 2021; 47 (2): 1–22. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jmormhist.47.2.0001 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of Mormon History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2021 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2021 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Preface

The 8th International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technology Innovation 2019(IMETI2019) scheduled from November 15-19, 2019 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan is an expansion of the International Conferences on Engineering and Technology Innovation (ICETI2011, ICETI2012, ICETI2014), and International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technology Innovation (IMETI2015, IMETI2016, IMETI2017, IMETI2018).The conference is mainly organized by Taiwan Association of Engineering and Technology Innovation. The theme of the conference is set as “Recent Advances on Intelligent Technology Innovation”. IMETI2019 consists of two sub-conferences (ICBEI2019and ICECEI2019), 15 regular sessions, and 29 special sessions. This is a great opportunity for the engineering and technology community to present their new research results, exchange ideas and become familiar with new trends and directions in the fields of Science and Engineering Innovation. In addition, it is also a unique opportunity for us to form an international collaboration framework for promoting engineering and technology innovation.We have with us today participants from research funding organizations, universities, as well as other research agencies. I hope that this five-day conference - a platform for thought-leaders, academics and researchers to share their ideas and views on common engineering and technology innovation issues - will challenge all participants, in particular the heads of institutions, to think more about the technology challenges and responses in engineering innovation which may in turn inspire new and practicable standards in the field.The papers submitted from 8 countries on various topics are presented in various parallel oral and poster sessions in the conference. To all members of the Technical and Organizing Committees, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of them for their tremendous efforts to organize this conference successfully.The organizing committee of the conference thanks all the participants for their fruitful work and personal contribution to the development of these conference proceedings.List of titles Committees, Program Chairman, Program Co-Chairman, Technical Committee Chairman, Program Committee, International Scientific Committee, Advisory Committee, Award Committee and Technical Committee are available in this pdf.

Announcing the 2019–2020 Alan C. Purves Award Recipients: Inspiring Transformative Literacy Pedagogies: The 2020 Alan C. Purves Award Committee

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The Origins of Centenary Collegiate Institute: A Story of Industrialization, Wealth, and Natural Resources

The Paul A. Stellhorn Undergraduate Paper in New Jersey History Award was established in 2004 to honor Paul A. Stellhorn (1947-2001), a distinguished historian and public servant who worked for the New Jersey Historical Commission, the New Jersey Committee (now Council) for the Humanities, and the Newark Public Library. The Stellhorn Awards consist of a framed certificate and a modest cash award, presented at the New Jersey Historical Commission’s Annual Conference. The Award’s sponsors are the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance; the New Jersey Historical Commission, New Jersey Department of State; Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries; and the New Jersey Caucus, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference. The Stellhorn Award Committee members are Richard Waldron (chair), Mark Lender, and Peter Mickulas. The advisory committee consists of Ron Becker, Karl Niederer, Elsalyn Palmisano, and Fred Pachman. Click here for more information. The following paper was one of two 2020 winners.

Springwood Avenue Rising: Race, Leisure, and Decline in the 1970 Asbury Park Uprising

The Paul A. Stellhorn Undergraduate Paper in New Jersey History Award was established in 2004 to honor Paul A. Stellhorn (1947-2001), a distinguished historian and public servant who worked for the New Jersey Historical Commission, the New Jersey Committee (now Council) for the Humanities, and the Newark Public Library. The Stellhorn Awards consist of a framed certificate and a modest cash award, presented at the New Jersey Historical Commission’s Annual Conference. The Award’s sponsors are the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance; the New Jersey Historical Commission, New Jersey Department of State; Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries; and the New Jersey Caucus, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference. The Stellhorn Award Committee members are Richard Waldron (chair), Mark Lender, and Peter Mickulas. The advisory committee consists of Ron Becker, Karl Niederer, Elsalyn Palmisano, and Fred Pachman. Click here for more information. The following paper was one of two 2020 winners.

Voices in the Library: Curating New Zealand Children’s Literature

ABSTRACT Children’s literature is one of the most important ways that children learn about each other and themselves, and has often been linked to nation- building. Studies by Daly have shown the importance children’s books are perceived to have with regard to developing national identity by parents reading to their children, and how picturebooks can impart new cultural knowledge to readers. However, children’s literature has historically privileged the voices of white middle class authors and characters. Thus, understanding how national collections of children’s literature are curated is important knowledge in order to ascertain whether and how diversity is being achieved in these collections. This research presents thematic findings from the analysis of interviews with eight New Zealand curators of children’s literature for New Zealand children (librarians, publishers and award committee members) to explore how collections of children’s literature are curated for New Zealand children. Findings show that in their decision making around choosing books for their collections, many curators make links to the educational curriculum, and also value books which allow children to understand themselves and others. They value diversity in their collections, in particular in relation to languages, but are clear about avoiding tokenism.

Statement from the Award Committee

Statement from the Award Committee

The 2014-2017 George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper Award [Society News

Presents the recipients of the George N. Sardis Best Transactions Paper Award for 2014-2017. In 2015, the Board of Governors of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society approved the proposal to name the Best Paper Award in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems as the George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper Award (Figure S1). After nearly five years of preparation and planning and almost one year of hard and concentrated effort by the Award Committee, we are pleased to announce the 2014–2017 George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper Award for articles published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

2020 Frederick J. Streng Award for Excellence in Buddhist-Christian Studies

2020 Frederick J. Streng Award for Excellence in Buddhist-Christian Studies Leo Lefebure Click for larger view View full resolution The SBCS would like to congratulate Perry Schmidt-Leukel's work Buddha Mind Christ Mind: A Christian Commentary on the Bodhicaryāvatāra, with a new translation by Ernst Steinkellner and Cynthia Peck-Kubaczek (Leuven: Peeters, 2019), as this year's recipient of the Streng Book Award. The Book Award Committee commented: Perry Schmidt-Leukel's work Buddha-Mind, Christ Mind is directly relevant to the core work of the SBCS because of its nuanced comparison of core religious teachings, practices, and commitments, all centered in their particular historical contexts. Anyone interested in Buddhist-Christian dialogue should have Buddha-Mind, Christ Mind in their libraries. [End Page 309] Leo Lefebure SBCS President Copyright © 2021 University of Hawai'i Press

The 2020 Annual Report of the JSLIS Award committee

The 2020 Annual Report of the JSLIS Award committee

A journey through psychiatry - A personal perspective.

A journey through psychiatry - A personal perspective.

Chaos as opportunity

Chaos as opportunity

In memory of Komarov Fyodor Ivanovich (on the occasion of his centenary)

Abstract. Fyodor Ivanovich Komarov (08/26/1920 01/25/2020) was a participant in the Great Patriotic War, a prominent domestic therapist, an outstanding figure in military medicine, a Hero of Socialist Labor, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a laureate of the State Prize of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, an honorary doctor of the S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy, a professor and a retired colonel-general of the medical military service. F.I. Komarovs scientific heritage is huge. Over 600 scientific works, including 33 monographs, were published by him personally and in co-authorship. Due to his comprehensive clinical background and deep knowledge of physiology and biochemistry, urgent problems of gastroenterology, cardiology, pulmonology, chronobiorhythmology and military professional pathology could be successfully solved. He made a great contribution to improve and reform the military medical service. Twenty six doctors and sixty candidates of medical sciences were educated under his leadership. Being a military doctor and holding high leadership positions, he was constantly engaged in the improvement of military medicine and military field therapy. He was also the head of medical support for the troops during the hostilities in Afghanistan, during the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and following the consequences of the earthquake in Armenia. He was elected chairman of the All-Union Society of Physicians several times. He was also a member of the Lenin and State Prize Awarding Committee under the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, chairman of the expert council of the Supreme Attestation Commission of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and editor-in-chief of the journal Clinical Medicine and an honorary member of a number of foreign academies. In 1999, he was awarded the title Man of the XX century, became a laureate of four personal prizes: M.P. Konchalovsky (1979), S.P. Botkin (1985), N.I. Leporsky (1992), V. Kh. Vasilenko (2001). For his merits to the Fatherland, F.I. Komarov was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor (1980) in addition to forty five orders and medals.