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Wednesday, 17 March 2021, 6:31 am The major winners in the 2021 Canterbury/North Otago Dairy Industry Awards aim to continue to grow their farming business while protecting the environment through sustainable farming. Dinuka and Nadeeka Gamage were announced winners of the region’s Share Farmer of the Year category in the Canterbury/North Otago Dairy Industry Awards held at the Airforce Museum of New Zealand in Wigram on Tuesday evening. Other major winners were Maria Alvarez, who was named ...

Press Release – NZ Dairy Industry Awards The major winners in the 2021 Canterbury/North Otago Dairy Industry Awards aim to continue to grow their farming business while protecting the environment through sustainable farming. Dinuka and Nadeeka Gamage were announced winners of the regions … The major winners in the 2021 Canterbury/North Otago Dairy Industry Awards aim to continue to grow their farming business while protecting the environment through sustainable farming. Dinuka and Nadeeka ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Ben Bernanke, Mark Gertler, Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, and John Moore, winners of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics. view more  Credit: BBVA FOUNDATION The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Economics, Finance and Management category has gone in this thirteenth edition to Ben Bernanke (The Brookings Institution, Washington DC), Mark Gertler (University of New York), Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Princeton University) and John Moore (University ...

After 40 years at UC Berkeley, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Paul Alivisatos will be returning to his alma mater, the University of Chicago, or UChicago, as its next president. Alivisatos, who also serves as the Samsung Distinguished Professor in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research in the campus department of chemistry, will enter his role at UChicago on Sept. 1. He was elected president by the board after “an extensive international search” and a unanimous recommendation from t...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Michael Grätzel, winner of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences. view more  Credit: BBVA FOUNDATION The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category has gone in this thirteenth edition to Paul Alivisatos (University of California, Berkeley, United States) and Michael Grätzel (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) for their fundamental contributions to the development of new nanomaterials a...

Just like the dairy industry itself, New Yorks annual Dairy Princess Pageant found a way to persevere even in the midst of a pandemic. We couldnt come to the pageant, so the American Dairy Association North East brought the pageant to us through a livestream on their Facebook page. The 58th annual pageant was held over a two day period at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Syracuse Destiny USA. Chenango County Dairy Princess, Shelby Benjamin was crowned the 2021-2022 New York State Dairy Princess. ...

By Tom Abate John Hennessy, Stanford president emeritus and the James F. and Mary Lynn Gibbons Professor in the School of Engineering, will share the 2020 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies for his role in creating the approach to central processing unit (CPU) design used in 99 percent of the microprocessors in the world today, and for co-authoring the textbook on computer systems architecture that, three decades and five revisions after i...

JOHN HENNESSY, Stanford president emeritus and the James F. and Mary Lynn Gibbons Professor in the School of Engineering, will share the 2020 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies for his role in creating the approach to central processing unit (CPU) design used in 99 percent of the microprocessors in… Read more

 E-Mail Credit: BBVA FOUNDATION 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 dEcologie Alpine [LECA], Grenoble, France, and Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand) and Mark Westoby (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia), for "expanding the concept of bi...

Follow Jan. 31, 2021 The personal story of Jacob Ziv, 89, is woven into the fabric of Israeli high-tech’s history. You’ve probably never heard of him, but you have certainly used technology based on his mathematical inventions - most famously lossless compression of data which enables us to use files like PDF, GIF, MP3 and countless others. Ziv was one of the first Israeli scientists who completed their doctoral studies abroad and returned to teach at the Technion – Israel Institute of Te...