October 17, 2011
William E. Bunney, M.D., is receiving the 2011 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize for his groundbreaking research in depression and schizophrenia.
10th Anniversary of Award Recognizes Individuals, Families with Exceptional and Sustained Records of Giving
October 14, 2011 – Carnegie Corporation of New York
The recipients of the 2011 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, which recognizes philanthropists who, like Andrew Carnegie, believe in dedicating their private wealth to the public good, were announced today by Carnegie Corporation of New York. They are: the Crown Family; the Danforth Family; Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller; Li Ka-shing; Fred Kavli; the Lauder Family: Evelyn and Leonard Lauder, Jo Carole and Ronald Lauder; Pamela and Pierre Omidyar; the Pew Family; and the Pritzker Family.
It is with great sadness that on June 6th, 2011 UC Davis and the greater neuroscience community lost Dr. Edward G. (Ted) Jones, who passed away while attending a conference in Los Angeles.
May 4, 2011
Huda Akil, Ph.D., Co-Director of the University of Michigan’s Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute and Gardner C. Quarton Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences in the Department of Psychiatry at the U-M Medical School, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors attainable by an American scientist.