Women in the News for September 15, 2008

BBSRC-funded scientist to receive prestigious honour for work on deadly disease: Professor Mandy MacLean, a BBSRC-funded scientist at the University of Glasgow, is the first woman and the first scientist working on research to understand basic mechanisms to receive the prestigious Estelle Grover Lecture Award from the American Thoracic Society for her research into the life-threatening condition, pulmonary arterial hypertension ( PAH ).

First Hei-Jin Woo Award for Achievement in the Water Profession Presented to Professor Joan Rose (link no longer available; original article could be previously found at maximsnews.com): The IWA Hei-jin Woo Award is dedicated to the memory of Hei-jin Woo, a leading Korean female engineer and scientist who worked in the water field. Dr. Joan B. Rose works in a field known as water pollution microbiology or public health microbiology.

Israeli Professor Receives Life's Work Prize for Women in Science (link no longer available; original article could be previously found at shiurtimes.com): Ada Yonath, a professor of structural biology and the director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly at the Weizmann Institute, became the first Israeli to receive the $100,000 Life's Work Prize for women in science from L'Oreal and UNESCO.

Kenyan scientist's relentless crusade against hunger wins her top award: Dr Florence Wambugu's work in combating hunger in Africa has been recognised globally for many years and she was recently recognized for this as a joint winner of the 2008 Yara Prize. Her work has not been without controversy but the determined biotechnologist has ploughed on with her mission; to ensure there is food on the table for the poorest of the poor.