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LIVERMORE, Calif., March 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation proudly announces that 1999 Hertz Fellow, Mung Chiang, has won the highest National Science Foundation (NSF) honor for young researchers: the $1 million Alan T. Waterman Award. Chiang, Princeton University Professor of Electrical Engineering, uses innovative mathematical analysis to simplify and strengthen the design of wireless networks. Stating that he is "deeply humbled by this prestigious...
-- Boyden's application of ChR2, enabled breakthrough in neuroscience LIVERMORE, Calif., March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation applauds Hertz Fellow, Edward S. Boyden III, Associate Professor in the MIT Media Lab and at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Boyden is among six eminent scientists who will share the 1 million-euro prize, awarded for their development of optogenetics, a technology that makes it possible to control brain...
LIVERMORE, Calif., Nov. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Prize Committee has named John Stockton, PhD as recipient of the 2012 Peter Strauss Award. The $5000 award is given to an in-school or recently graduated Hertz Fellow who has demonstrated exceptional leadership in his or her entrepreneurial endeavors. Criteria used for the Award include major patents awarded, significant licensing agreements established, new company formation and national...
LIVERMORE, Calif., Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announces the 2012 Thesis Prize, given to a Hertz Fellow for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation. The Thesis Prize includes an honorarium of $5000 for each winner, and up to $1000 to acknowledge the graduate and undergraduate advisors and mentors designated by the Fellows as playing a significant role in their careers. Each year, new graduates submit dissertations completed during the...
LIVERMORE, Calif., Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation is pleased to announce that Hertz Fellow, Zachary D. Wissner-Gross and his partner, John Lee are named as winners of the $25,000 Inaugural Grant of the Newman Entrepreneurial Fund. School Yourself, the company Lee and Wissner-Gross founded earlier this year, was chosen in a highly competitive process that attracted proposals from a wide range of disciplines and entrepreneurs within the Hertz Fellows...
LIVERMORE, Calif., Sept. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation today announced that Grant I. Gillary, a second year graduate student in neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, has received the Hertz Foundation-George Lerman Fellowship valued at $50,000 annually. Gillary is a 2011 Hertz Fellow. "We are pleased to announce this Fellowship," stated Dr. Jay Davis, president of the Hertz Foundation, "and we are deeply grateful to David and Louis Lerman for...
LIVERMORE, Calif., Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Three Fellows of the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, including Erez Lieberman-Aiden, Cindy Regal and Joseph Subotnik, were named in the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. The three are among 96 researchers receiving the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. The Awards underscore the high...
LIVERMORE, Calif., March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation today announced its 2012 Hertz Fellows. From over 600 applicants, 15 were selected to receive the Hertz Fellowship, considered to be the nation's most generous support for graduate education in the applied physical, biological and engineering sciences. The Hertz Fellowship is valued at more than $250,000 per student, with support lasting up to five years. Fellows have the freedom to innovate in...
LIVERMORE, Calif., Dec. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Christopher Loose is the inaugural recipient of the Peter Strauss Award. The award is given to a recently graduated or current Hertz Fellow who has demonstrated exceptional leadership in his or her entrepreneurial endeavors. Criteria include major patents awarded, significant licensing agreements established, new company formation and national recognition for...
LIVERMORE, Calif., Dec. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has announced its annual, 2011 Thesis Prize, given this year to three Hertz Fellows for most outstanding doctoral dissertations. The Thesis Prize includes honorariums of $5000 for each Hertz Fellow and $1000 for each of the Fellows' graduate and undergraduate advisors. Winners include: Anna Bershteyn, PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT. Thesis: "Lipid-coated micro- and nanoparticles as...
