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The article announces several student paper awards presented during the 74th annual meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers in San Francisco, California in October 2011 including that of Aquila Flower of University of Oregon, Shasta Ferranto of the University of California in Berkeley, and Emma J. Harrison of the Arizona State University.

Presents news briefs related to systems research and behavioral science in the U.S. as of May 1, 2004. Preview of the 48th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), to be held at the Asilomar Conference Center in California from July 4 to 9, 2004; Publication of the ISSS 48th Annual Meeting on a CD-ROM format; Information on the Vickers Award for best student paper on systems research and behavioral science.

The article offers various announcements related to the U.S.-based learned society American Genetic Association (AGA) in 2014 including the Stephen J. O'Brien Award to be granted to the journal's best student paper, the meeting of AGA on June 28-29 and the introduction of the Special Events Awards.

The article announces meeting, awards, nominations and call for papers for the Western Political Science Association (WPSA) in the U.S. The March 2008 meeting of the WPSA will be held at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Diego, California. Several awards were presented by the association at the 2007 Annual Meeting held in Las Vegas, Nevada. The WPSA Committee on Nominations requests that nominations be submitted for various WPSA officer positions. Meanwhile, the deadline for the submission of paper proposals/program participation forms for the 2008 WPSA Convention is on September 10, 2007.

The article reports on the two new awards that will be presented at the 2006 International Leadership conference by the Paper Industry Management Association in Orlando, Florida. The Technologist of the Year Award recognizes technology members from a paper company who has demonstrated outstanding leadership, management and organizational skills. The Information Technology (IT) Award recognizes IT affiliate/supplier's contribution to the pulp and paper industry.

Presents updates on the field of gastroenterology in the U.S. as of January 1969. Schedule of meetings of the American College of Gastroenterology; Recipients of awards given by the college; Information on a postgraduate course sponsored by the American Gastroenterological Association.

The article offers news briefs related to mineralogy in the U.S. The Friends of Mineralogy named Shawn M. Carlson, George W. Robinson, and Mark J. Elder as winners of the Best Paper in Rocks & Minerals Award for 2007. Sixth-grade students from Wyland, Michigan are going on a trip to the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis. The 30th mineralogical symposium held in conjuction with the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society will be on February 14, 2009.

This section offers news briefs on fisheries in the U.S. as of January 2010. The American Fisheries Society (AFS) has collaborated with The Wildlife Society (TWS) to co-host a symposium on species introductions and re-introductions to be held at Mississippi State University in Starkeville from April 8 to 9. The W. F. Thompson Award was given to AFS member Shannon K. Brewer for the best student paper, published in the "North American Journal of Fisheries Management" in 2007, by the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists (AIFRB).

The article offers news briefs related to the textile industry in the U.S. Julia Lynn Thames has received the George L. Drake Jr. Memorial Award from the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists' (AATCC) Gulf Coast Section. The AATCC will conduct its meeting on environmental issues from March 11-12, 1993. The AATCC's Northern New England Section will have eight meetings in 1994.

The article presents information on developments related to the field of biosciences and the people associated with it, in the U.S. Parithychery R. Srinivasan was recently appointed as president of the New York Academy of Sciences for 1980. Ruth Patrick has been elected chairman of the Section of Population Biology, Evolution and Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences. Andrei D. Sakharov has received the Presidential Award of the New York Academy of Sciences for outstanding accomplishments in science. Plans for a Science and Technology Magnet School are underway by the Dallas, Texas, Independent School District. The American Fisheries Society has issued a call for papers for its 110th annual meeting, to be held at Kentucky from September 21-24, 1980.

Reports several developments related to medicine in the United States as of January 2001. Establishment of the J. Worth Estes award; Conduction of visiting research fellowships by the Bakken Library and Museum in Minneapolis; Eighth National Convention of the Society of Civil War Surgeons.

The Distance Library Services Conference was founded in 1982 by the librarians of the Off-Campus Library Services department at Central Michigan University. From its inception through its 18th conference in 2018, Central Michigan University planned and administered this conference for the benefit of librarians serving distance learners and faculty at their institutions. This article discusses the founding of the Distance Library Services Conference and its role as the library profession's preeminent forum for the exchange of ideas on the topic of distance librarianship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents history of science-related news briefs on topics including the History of Science Society Annual Meeting which was held in 2018, Science History Institute Haas Postdoctoral Fellow Ingrid Ockert's receipt of the 2018 2018 HSS/NASA Fellowship in Aerospace History. It states that historian Owen Hyman's won the Ronald Rainger Prize for his essay "Anxieties of the Plastic Age: Cotton Culture, White Supremacy, and Tenant Forestry in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, 1935–1953."

The article presents information related to the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). It reports that the 2004 Classic Paper Award was given to the author of the most influential paper from the Fourth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1984 in Austin, Texas. The Awards Committee selected Hector J. Levesque of the University of Toronto, to receive the award for his paper, "A Logic of Implicit and Explicit Belief." The article also presents the financial statement of the AAAI as of December 31, 2003 and related statements of activities, changes in net assets and cash flow for the year that ended. The financial statements are presented on the actual basis of accounting. As required by Financial Accounting Standards No. 124 investments are stated at fair market value and realized and unrealized gains and losses are combined on the statement of activities. AAAI is exempt from income taxes on its earning from investments and its exempt function operations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and Section 23 701(d) of the California Revenue and Taxation Code. Federal and California taxes were paid during 2003 on earnings from sales of mailing lists and advertising.

The article presents news briefs on labor unions in the U.S. as of January 1953. The Industrial Relations Section of the Department of Economics and Social Institutions at Princeton University celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. Cornell University New York State School of Industrial Relations held several conferences from June to November 1952. The Research Council for Economic Security have appointed several technical and administrative experts to be its advisors. The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues called for papers to enter its Industrial Relations Award for the year.

This article presents information on the 17th annual convention of American Association of University Instructors in Accounting which was held in Cincinnati, Ohio from December 28-29, 1932. Various topics discussed at the convention were recent Developments in accounting methods, problems of accounting teaching, accounting and law and problems of accounting research. The article also presents a list of professors who had read papers on these topics during the convention. The annual dinner was held on December 28, at 7:00 p.m. After introductions in which each member in turn arose, announced his name and his connection, professor F.W. Woodbridge announced the name of the winner of the scroll awarded by Beta Alpha Psi, the national accounting fraternity in the U.S., for the most notable contribution to accounting literature during the year ended April 30, 1932. The scroll was awarded to A.P. Richardson, editor of "Journal of Accountancy," for his book "The Ethics of a Profession." Following the announcement of the award, J.L. Carey, secretary of the American Institute of Accountants was introduced and he spoke briefly.

The article offers news briefs. The oldest textile club in America, Textile Club in Boston celebrates its 100th anniversary. The American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC) will conduct a carpet dyeing symposium on May 29-30, at Dalton College in Dalton, Georgia and a carpet testing workshop on May 31, 1991. Vice president Leander B. Ricard of Central Atlantic Region of AATCC, has presented The Jack Epelberg Award for meritorious service and outstanding contributions.

This article presents proceedings of the 108th annual meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA) held in San Francisco, California from January 5-7, 1996. The John Bates Clark Medal for 1995 is awarded to the economist David Card in recognition of these impressive achievements. Card has largely defined and developed the currently dominant methodology in applied labor economics. This approach sets out a testable hypothesis, searches for exogenous variation in the key determinants, and leads to the labor and time-intensive development of an appropriate data base. He has successfully applied this methodology to the most important issues in labor economics, and his research papers have achieved the status of standard references in many areas. The one hundred and eighth annual meeting of AEA was called to order by President Victor Fuchs on January 6, 1996. The first item on the agenda to be considered was minutes of the previous annual meeting as published in Papers and Proceedings issue of the journal "The American Economic Review."

The article offers information on the 122nd Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association, Inc. in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 3-6, 2022.

This article reports that the Young Investigators Award will be presented at the Forty-Third Annual World Assembly of the American College of Angiology. An award will be given to individuals whose research reflects new and relevant work in either the basic or clinical sciences of vascular diseases. The purpose of this award is to foster young physicians and research fellows in the field of vascular medicine and surgery and to promote interest in research and the management of vascular diseases. Applicants must submit a 4 to 8 page scientific paper along with 6 copies and their abstract.

The article discusses the highlights of the 2014 ACC Educational Conference and Research Agenda Conference (ACC-RAC) of the Association of Chiropractic Colleges (ACC) held on March 20-24, 2014 in Orlando, Florida. Topics discussed include working groups having been held on March 20, 2015 and the plenary session starting with a keynote address on servant leadership by author Jim Hunter. Also mentioned is the panel presentation on leading effective change moderated by Doctor Claire Johnson.

The article presents various announcements of several societies in the U.S. The 10th national meeting of the Operations Research Society of America will be held in San Francisco, California on November 15-16, 1956. The Johns Hopkins University will award the third annual Lanchester Prize of $1000 for the best operations-research paper published in calendar year 1956. The council of the Operations Research Society of America has agreed to underwrite the publication of a series of independent bound volumes called Operations-Research Monographs.

The article discusses the highlights of an annual meeting held by the Tennessee Chapter of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) at Montgomery Bell State Park in Tennessee from March 3 to 4, 2009. The meeting featured a total of 16 presentations. The officers elected included Jim Habera as president elect and Jason Heneger as secretary treasurer. Awards were given, including Jack Swearingen with the Outstanding Fisheries Scientist Award, Amy Wales with a Service Award, Johnathan Davis with the Best Student Paper Award.

This section offers news briefs on issues related to biology. The "Conservation Genetics Symposium" sponsored by the Third American Genetic Association (AGA) will be held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. A cash prize will be included in the Stephen J. O'Brien Award for best student paper to be given at the annual meeting of the AGA. AGA president Michael Lynch will host the 2007 meeting of the society titled "Mechanisms of Genome Evolution" in Indiana.

The article provides information on events related to heredity to be held in the U.S. in 2007. The Conservation Genetics Symposium will be held in New York on September 27-30. The Stephen J. O'Brien Award for the best student paper published in the "Journal of Heredity" in 2006 will be given at the annual meeting of the American Genetic Association (AGA). AGA president-elect Michael Lynch will host the meeting of the association at Indiana University in Bloomington on July 11-13.

The article offers updates related to mineral industry in the U.S. The annual Rochester Mineralogical Symposium held in Rochester, New York was the recipient of the Carnegie Mineralogical Award for 2010. BlueCap Productions is the sole U.S. distributor of the November/December 2010 issue of the book "The Mineral Art of Hildegard Könighofer." The first-ever Mindat International Mineralogical Conference will be held in Lower Silesia, Poland from July 10-17, 2011.

The article presents news items related to the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR). These include the awarding of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for History to SHEAR member Annette Gordon-Reed, a call for papers for the 2010 SHEAR annual conference, and the announcement of the winners of the 2009-2010 SHEAR fellowships.

The article presents information about IEEE Education Society Awards and Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference Awards. THE IEEE Education Society and the FIE Conference annually recognize many outstanding engineering education. The conferences to provide these awards were held in Colorado and Georgia. Some of the recipients included in this list are: Warren B. Boast for 1978; Edwin C. Jones for 1980; Lyle D. Feisel for 1981; Roy H. Mattson for 1982 etc.

The article reports on the announcement concerning the continuation of the nominations of two 2008 special awards in the U.S. The two special awards that are currently searching nominations includes the 2008 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Classic Paper Award and the 2008 (AAAI) Distinguished Service Award. The 2008 AAAI Classic Paper Award will recognize the author of the most influential papers from the Eighth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Accordingly, the 2008 AAAI Distinguished Service Award will acknowledge one individual for extraordinary service to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. Moreover, the complete nomination information is available at the web sites provided.

Presents news briefs relating to biologists and biology. Dedication of an addition to the U.S. National Clonal Repository System in Hilo, Hawaii, which houses the nation's germplasm for tropical, Pacific Basin crops such as acerola, cherry, breadfruit, and guava; Meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences during which awards were presented to James F. Gusella, Frank H. Ruddle, Saul Krugman, and Barbara A. Baird; Creation of the Association of Ecosystem Research Centers; Richard C. Atkinson, chancellor of the University of California at San Diego, who has been named president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The article offers information on awards, grants and conferences related to dispute management in the U.S. The International Arbitration Conference is scheduled to be held during September 21-22, 1990 in San Francisco, California. Chairman of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution, Nancy H. Rogers, received the Whitney North Seymour Award from the American Arbitration Association.