Accolades

Awards

Singer (Photo by C.D. Macaulay)

J. David Singer, professor emeritus of political science, received the Susan Strange Award Feb. 27 at the International Studies Association (ISA) annual meeting in Portland, Ore. According to ISA, the award recognizes a person whose singular intellect, assertiveness and insight most challenged conventional wisdom and intellectual and organizational complacency in the international studies community during the previous year.

R. Yang (Photo courtesy Ralph Yang)

Ralph Yang, professor of chemical engineering, will receive the American Chemical Society's 2003 Award in Separations Science and Technology March 25 at the organization's annual meeting in New Orleans. The award is $5,000.

V. Yang (Photo by Andy Oberdick)

The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) board of directors has selected Victor Yang, the Albert B. Prescott Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, as the recipient of the 2003 AACP Paul Dawson Biotechnology Award. The award, which includes a $10,000 cash prize, will be presented to Yang July 22 at the AACP annual meeting in Minneapolis.

Feng Shao, a graduate student research assistant in the Department of Biological Chemistry, is the recipient of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. One of only 16 graduate students nationwide to receive the award, he has identified a family of proteins in pathogenic bacteria which help them infect animals and plants.

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