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3 February 2021
by: Adam D. Cohen
Gary May has founded numerous programs that support underrepresented minority STEM students and mentored more than 100 Ph.D. candidates. | Neil Orman/AAAS
Gary S. May, chancellor of the University of California, Davis, will receive the 2021 Lifetime Mentor Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award honors researchers who, for 25 years or more, have positively impacted the atmosphere of a department or institution by mentoring students who are underrepresented in STEM fields, such as women, African American, Native American and Hispanic men, and people with disabilities. Over a three-decade career as a professor of computer engineering and university administrator, May has founded numerous programs that support underrepresented minority STEM students and mentored more than 100 Ph.D. candidates. Many of May’s mentees are now mentors in their own right, with high-ranking positions in academia
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The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology category has gone in this thirteenth edition to ecologists Sandra Díaz (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, and Argentine National Research Council, CONICET), Sandra Lavorel (Laboratoire d Ecologie Alpine [LECA], Grenoble, France, and Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand) and Mark Westoby (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia), for expanding the concept of biodiversity, through their pioneering work to discover, describe and coordinate the measurement of plant functional traits.
Independently and collaboratively, the awardees focused their research on arranging each plant s ecosystem function along dimensions of measurable physical traits, such as height, leaf type or seed size, enabling them to locate patterns in the functional diversity of species at a global level. The catalogue of these functional traits has now become a vast database,
Hosted by Paul Holdengräber,
The Quarantine Tapes chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.
On Episode 156 of
The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Ayad Akhtar. They talk about Ayad’s most recent novel,
Homeland Elegies, and how Ayad thinks the book’s reception has been shaped by the ongoing pandemic. Paul and Ayad have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on issues of debt, American individualism, a writer’s relationship to ideology. Then, Paul asks Ayad about some of his influences. They discuss Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and the year that Ayad spent with Jerzy Grotowski.
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