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An engineering team at the University of Florida won a prestigious federal competition. A university policy — created after the team racked up an earlier win — states that the money belongs to the institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several 2016 academic awards, fellowships, and calls for papers are presented, including for nominations for the 2016 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, the American Parkinson Disease Association's Dr. George C. Cotzias Memorial Fellowships, and grant awards by the organization Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.

The article announces fellowships and awards for academics, offered by the University of Birmingham, England, including the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Programme, the Fulbright Distinguished Chair fellowship, and the Birmingham Fellows award.

Presents an update on higher education in the U.S. as of January 1984. Challenges faced by novelist Washington Irving during the publication of his book "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentn" cited during the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association; Academic scientists who won the Hammer Prize for Cancer Research; Research on the center of the Milky Way galaxy conducted by California Institute of Technology scientists Kwok Y. Lo and Mark J. Claussen in Pasadena.

The article announces several research awards granted in 2012, including the Rockefeller University Pearl Meister Greengard Prize which was awarded to Joan A. Steitz of Yale University, the Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education to Salman Khan of the Khan Academy, and the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award to Michael P. Sheetz of Columbia University.

The article announces the winners of the 17th First Annual Ig Nobel Prizes. The author states that the science and humor journal the "Annals of Improbable Research" has made its awards for 2007. The author states that awards have gone to various people and research, including professors Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan and Enrique Cerda Villablanca for their paper, "Wrinkling of an Elastic Sheet Under Tension" and a United States Air Force Research Laboratory for prompting research into a bomb that would make enemy soldiers develop same-sex attractions.

Reports on the recipients of Ig Nobel Prizes in 2004. Reaction of researcher Ben Wilson to the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology he received; Objective of the Ig Nobel Prize; Association between listening to country music and committing suicide, according to a research that received the Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine.

Lists the 220 academic scientists and engineers who will receive Presidential Young Investigator Awards from the National Science Foundation. Each recipient will receive up to $100,000 a year for five years; Includes name, institutional affiliation and field of study.

The article reports on two awards presented by the National Science Foundation. Peter G. Schultz, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley, was named winner of the Alan T. Waterman Award by the National Science Foundation. The award is given to outstanding young researchers in science, mathematics, or engineering. Glenn T. Seaborg, a 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner and professor at Berkeley, was named the winner of the Vannevar Bush Award. Schultz was cited for his work in demonstrating that certain types of chemical reactions can be speeded up using antibodies.

The article presents a list of several college students who received the Markey Scholar Awards in Biomedical Science from the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust in the U.S. in 1988.

The article comments on several issues relevant to higher education that were featured in different periodicals in the U.S. in 1987. Key issues discussed include efforts by educators to modify educational programs in accordance with workforce changes and the award won by Vicki Thon for her sponsored research on a vaccine for whooping cough.

The article features the winners of the 1986 Albert Lasker Awards for Medical Research and Public Service. They include AIDS researchers Robert C. Gallo of the National Cancer Institute, Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in France, and Myron Essex of Harvard School of Public Health. Other awardees are biochemistry professor Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini of the Institute for Cell Biology in Italy, and George Hatem, the American senior adviser to the Public Health Ministry in China.

The article announces that biochemist Mark Ptashne and embryologists Donald D. Brown of Carnegie Institution of Washington have won the 1985 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for research in biology or biochemistry. They shared the $22,000 prize after the award committee cited them for research that has provided insights into the structure of genes.

The article reports on the creation of a $1,500 annual award by the American College Testing Program and the American Educational Research Association for outstanding research on the growth and development of college students in the U.S. in 1971.