Elsevier Foundation Award

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2016 award winners

The OWSD - Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World[1] is awarded annually to early-career women scientists in selected developing countries in four regions: Latin America and the Caribbean, East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Central and South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.[2]

The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD), the Elsevier Foundation, and The World Academy of Sciences have partnered to recognize achievements of early-career women scientists in developing countries since the award was launched in 2011 as the Elsevier Foundation-OWSD Awards for Young Women Scientists from the Developing World.[3][2] The award program is open to female scientists who live and work in one of 81 developing countries.[2] Nominations are generally submitted within ten years of the nominee earning a PhD.[4][5]

The maximum number of recipients is currently restricted to five per year: one from each of the four OWSD-recognized regions, plus one additional outstanding candidate, and the awards are granted with a rotating theme annually among three general fields: biological sciences (agriculture, biology and medicine), engineering/innovation & technology, and physical sciences (including chemistry, mathematics and physics).[6][2]

As of 2014, the award includes an honorarium of US$5,000, one year of access to Elsevier's ScienceDirect publication database, and an expense-paid trip to the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where an awarding ceremony is held.[4]

Recipients[]

Recipients have included:[4]

2011[]

The 2011 awards recognized eleven contributors to biology, physics, and chemistry.[7]

  • , biologist, Bangladesh
  • , physicist, India
  • , chemist, Pakistan
  • , physicist, Nigeria
  • , chemist, Nigeria
  • , biologist, South Africa
  • , chemist, Egypt
  • , biologist, Jordan
  • María Magdalena González Sánchez, astrophysicist, Mexico
  • , biologist, Cuba
  • , chemist, Argentina

2013[]

The 2013 awards were focused on medical science and public health.[5]

  • , pharmacologist, Nigeria
  • Nasima Akhter, medical scientist, Bangladesh
  • Dionicia Gamboa, molecular biologist, Peru
  • , biochemist, Mongolia
  • , community health researcher, Yemen

2014[]

The 2014 awards were focused on chemistry.[8]

2015[]

In 2015, the awards were focused on physics and mathematics.[8]

  • Nashwa Eassa, nano-particle physicist, Sudan
  • , computational mathematician, Thailand
  • , atmospheric physicist, Nigeria
  • , radiation physicist, Nigeria
  • Rabia Salihu Sa'id, environmental physicist, Nigeria

2016[]

The 2016 awards focused on medical science and public health.[9]

2017[]

The 2017 awards were focused on engineering and technology.[10]

  • Tanzima Hashem, computer scientist, Bangladesh
  • , environmentalist, Ecuador
  • , environmental energy specialist, Indonesia
  • , environmental resource management, Ghana
  • , scientific project coordinator, Sudan

2018[]

The 2018 awards focused on mathematics, chemistry, and physics.

  • Hasibun Naher, applied mathematician, Bangladesh
  • , physicist, Cameroon
  • , computational chemist, Ecuador
  • , environmental chemist, Guyana
  • , organometallic chemist, Indonesia

2019[]

The 2019 awards focused on medical science and public health.[2]

  • Narel Paniagua-Zambrana, ethnobotonist, Bolivia
  • , health services, Nigeria
  • , environmental biotechnologist, Bangladesh
  • , public health researcher, Palestine
  • , chemist, Nepal

References[]

  1. ^ "Awards | OWSD". owsd.net. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World". Elsevier. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Elsevier Foundation Awards 2012 Grants to Champion Libraries in Developing Countries and Women in Science". Elsevier. 11 December 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Elsevier Foundation award". Elsevier. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "The Elsevier Foundation, OWSD and TWAS call for nominations for 2014 Awards". The World Academy of Sciences. 10 April 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  6. ^ "The OWSD–Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World". Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  7. ^ "Eleven Women Scientists Announced as Winners of Elsevier Foundation OWSD Awards". Elsevier. 29 September 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b Schemm, Ylann; Bert, Alison (18 February 2014). "Women chemists from developing countries honored for research of natural medicinal compounds". Elsevier. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  9. ^ Bert, Alison (10 March 2016). "Translating life into science – 5 women tell their stories". Elsevier. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  10. ^ Schmitz, Laura (16 February 2017). "Women engineers to receive awards for innovative research in developing countries". Elsevier. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
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