Awards
Science Spectrum magazine announces 2006 Emerald Honors
By SS
May 11, 2006, 12:15

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release    
May 10, 2006     
Contact:  Marsha Jews
(410) 244-7101, ext. 133
E-mail: marshajews@ccgmag.com
Web site: www.ccgmag.com/emerald

TOP MINORITIES IN SCIENCE HERALDED AT EMERALD HONORS CEREMONY

Baltimore, Md. – Science Spectrum magazine announces the 2006 Emerald Honors award winners.  Considered the grand finale of the three-day Minorities in Research Science Conference, the prestigious Emerald Honors awards ceremony and gala will be held on Saturday, September 16, 2006, at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland, where exceptionally talented minorities from many science fields are recognized for their achievements.

The Emerald Honors are the premier awards for African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans working in the research sciences.  In addition to being recognized at the ceremony, this year’s award recipients will also be featured in Science Spectrum magazine. 

“Multicultural communities are where the action is in finding, preparing, and recruiting a new generation of science researchers in the U.S.,” says Tyrone D. Taborn, editor-in-chief of Science Spectrum magazine and CEO of Career Communications Group Inc. (CCG), the company that produces the Minorities in Research Science Conference and publishes Science Spectrum magazine.

Taborn continues, “Clearly, if we are to bring on a new cohort of science talent, we will have to engage the interests and dreams of people in the multicultural communities.  To do that, we will have to be innovative..” 

In addition to the Emerald Honors ceremony, the conference offers career fairs, networking sessions, and professional development training seminars for which attendees can earn continuing education credits.  Professional development seminars, corporate career counseling breakfast roundtables, and the 100 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business Dinner are other highlights of the conference.

Focused on recognizing and promoting minorities in research and development and the sciences, the Emerald Honors awards ceremony and the Minorities in Research Science conference provide that visibility. 

To register or receive more details, go to www.ccgmag.com/emerald or call (410) 244-7101.

For over 20 years, Career Communications Group has been a global leader in producing conferences and outreach programs such as The Black Engineer of the Year Awards, National Women of Color Technology Awards, Minorities in Research and Science Conference, Black Family Technology Awareness Week, La Familia Technology  Week and the Native American Technology Journey. CCG is also the publisher of US Black Engineer & Information Technology, Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology, Women of Color and Science Spectrum magazines.

2006 Emerald Honor Recipients

Scientist of the Year
Abhijit Mahalanobis, Ph.D.
Lockheed Martin Fellow
Lockheed Martin Corporation

Affirmative Action
Alicia Thomas
Associate Director - Sensory Sciences
Kraft Foods

Career Achievement - Government
Jonathan Ransom, Ph.D.
Branch Head
NASA Langley Research Center

Ashok Kumar, Ph.D.
Program Manager
Office of Technical Directors
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Career Achievement - Industry
Wendy Reed Williams, Ph.D.
Director, Research Education
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Joanne Killinger, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Drug Safety & Metabolism
Wyeth Research

Community Service
Rube Williams Jr., Ph.D.
Technical Staff Member
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Educational Leadership
Ronald Blanton, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

Robert Shepard, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Science & Engineering Alliance, Inc. (SEA)

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lifetime Achievement
Donald Wilson, M.D, M.A.C.P.
Dean
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Lifetime Achievement - Diversity
Antony Santiago
Vice President, Global Strategic Sourcing
Bristol-Myers Squibb

Most Promising Scientist
Malika Jeffries-El, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Iowa State University

Justin Baba, Ph.D.
Research and Development Staff
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

President's Award
Wayne Greaves, MD
Senior Director, Clinical Research
Schering Plough Corporation

Tamara Combs Turner
Vice President of Professional Development BAM
Microsoft Corporation

Professional Achievement - Government
John Abrefah, Ph.D.
Staff Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory operated by Battelle Memorial Institute

Arthur Davis, D.V.M.
Laboratory Dirirector, Pathobiology Laboratory
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture - National Veterinary Services Laboratory

Professional Achievement - Industry
Sharon Haynie, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Biochemical Sciences & Engineering
E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.

Silvia King
Senior Principal Scientist
McCormick & Co. Inc.

Senior Investigator
Venkatesh Krishnan, Ph.D.
Research Advisor, Musculoskeletal
Eli Lilly & Co.

Michael Smith
Director, Edgewood  R&D Operations
ITT Industries Inc.

Senior Technology Fellow
Jack Roberts, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Herren Wu, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Antibody Discovery
MedImmune Inc.

Student Leadership
Jonathan Abraham
Student Trainee
National Institutes of Health

Rejanah Steward
IGERT Research Fellow
The University of Tennessee

Special Recognition
Erica Doczy
Associate Biomedical Engineer
Air Force Research Laboratory

Dharmendra Jani
Senior Principal Scientist
Bausch & Lomb

Sujanto Widjaja, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Corning Inc.

JoAnn Edlow
Director, Quality Systems
Dade Behring Inc.

Anil Duggal, Ph.D.
Advanced Technology Leader
GE Global Research Center

Alfonzo Jordan, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development

Ke Liu, Ph.D.
Project Leader
GE Global Research Ctr.

Jorge Bouzas, Ph.D.
Senior Director,
International Product Development
The Hershey Company

Ruth Cheng, Ph.D.
Research Computer Scientist
U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center

Daphne Mobley, D.V.M.
Vice President, Corporate Diversity
Wyeth Research